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Starosta RT, Jensen N, Couteranis S, Slaugh R, Easterlin D, Tate V, Sams EI, Valle K, Akinwe T, Hou YCC, Turner TN, Cole FS, Milbrandt J, Dickson P. Using a new analytic approach for genotyping and phenotyping chromosome 9p deletion syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet 2024:10.1038/s41431-024-01667-y. [PMID: 38972963 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-024-01667-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Revised: 05/16/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Using a new analytic method ("unique non-overlapping region" (UNOR) analysis), we characterized the genotypes and phenotypes of a large cohort of individuals diagnosed with chromosome 9p deletion syndrome (9PMS) and defined critical genomic regions. We extracted phenotypic information from 48 individuals with 9PMS from medical records and used a guided interview with caregivers to clarify ambiguities. Using high-resolution whole-genome sequencing for breakpoint definition, we aligned deletions and drew virtual breakpoints to obtain UNORs associated with phenotypic characteristics. We next extracted genotype and phenotype data for 57 individuals identified from a systematic review of the 9PMS literature and analyzed these as above. Common phenotypic features included developmental delay/intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, genital defects in XY individuals, psychiatric diagnoses, chronic constipation, atopic disease, vision problems, autism spectrum disorder, gastroesophageal reflux disease, trigonocephaly, congenital heart disease, and neonatal hypoglycemia. Our approach confirmed previous literature reports of an association of FREM1 with trigonocephaly and suggested a possible modifier element for this phenotype. In conclusion, the UNOR approach delineated phenotypic characteristics for 9PMS and confirmed the critical role of FREM1 and a possible long-distance regulatory element in pathogenesis of trigonocephaly that will need to be replicated in future studies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta
- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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Ozyavuz Cubuk P. New candidate region for mirror hand movements: two patients with terminal 9p deletion and 20p duplication. Mol Biol Rep 2024; 51:243. [PMID: 38300327 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-023-09192-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
Abstract
The 9p deletion syndrome, which was defined in a detailed way in the previous studies, was characterized by various clinical features such as psychomotor retardation, dysmorphic features and genital anomalies. In contrast to 9p deletion syndrome, 20p duplication was rarely reported in the literature with only a few case reports. Regarding the combination of 9p deletion syndrome and 20p duplication, we found that it was reported in only four patients. In the current study, we aimed to investigate a rare chromosomal rearrangement, partial monosomy 9p and trisomy 20p which was observed in two patients with mirror hand movements. The mirror hand movements was influenced by the combination of genetic and environmental factors. While some cases have been associated with mutations in the DCC, NTN1, RAD51, and DNAL4, there were many cases where the genetic basis of mirror hand movements remained unexplained. There was no alteration detected in genes that were previously known as a cause of mirror hand movement in our patients. This new finding could potentially be attributed to the dosage effect of genes within the 9p deletion or 20p duplication regions or to the genes disrupted within the breakpoint region. Future research focusing on the genes within this genomic locus may hold the potential to uncover novel etiologic reasons for mirror hand movements.
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- Pelin Ozyavuz Cubuk
- Department of Medical Genetics, Haseki Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Sams EI, Ng JK, Tate V, Claire Hou YC, Cao Y, Antonacci-Fulton L, Belhassan K, Neidich J, Mitra RD, Cole FS, Dickson P, Milbrandt J, Turner TN. From karyotypes to precision genomics in 9p deletion and duplication syndromes. HGG ADVANCES 2022; 3:100081. [PMID: 35047865 PMCID: PMC8756500 DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2021.100081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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While 9p deletion and duplication syndromes have been studied for several years, small sample sizes and minimal high-resolution data have limited a comprehensive delineation of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. In this study, we examined genetic data from 719 individuals in the worldwide 9p Network Cohort: a cohort seven to nine times larger than any previous study of 9p. Most breakpoints occur in bands 9p22 and 9p24, accounting for 35% and 38% of all breakpoints, respectively. Bands 9p11 and 9p12 have the fewest breakpoints, with each accounting for 0.6% of all breakpoints. The most common phenotype in 9p deletion and duplication syndromes is developmental delay, and we identified eight known neurodevelopmental disorder genes in 9p22 and 9p24. Since it has been previously reported that some individuals have a secondary structural variant related to the 9p variant, we examined our cohort for these variants and found 97 events. The top secondary variant involved 9q in 14 individuals (1.9%), including ring chromosomes and inversions. We identified a gender bias with significant enrichment for females (p = 0.0006) that may arise from a sex reversal in some individuals with 9p deletions. Genes on 9p were characterized regarding function, constraint metrics, and protein-protein interactions, resulting in a prioritized set of genes for further study. Finally, we achieved precision genomics in one child with a complex 9p structural variation using modern genomic technologies, demonstrating that long-read sequencing will be integral for some cases. Our study is the largest ever on 9p-related syndromes and provides key insights into genetic factors involved in these syndromes.
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- Eleanor I. Sams
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Needleman Center for Neurometabolism and Axonal Therapeutics, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Mohamed AM, Kamel AK, Eid MM, Eid OM, Mekkawy M, Hussein SH, Zaki MS, Esmail S, Afifi HH, El-Kamah GY, Otaify GA, El-Awady HA, Elaidy A, Essa MY, El-Ruby M, Ashaat EA, Hammad SA, Mazen I, Abdel-Salam GMH, Aglan M, Temtamy S. Chromosome 9p terminal deletion in nine Egyptian patients and narrowing of the critical region for trigonocephaly. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2021; 9:e1829. [PMID: 34609792 PMCID: PMC8606205 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.1829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Revised: 05/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Background This study aimed to delineate the clinical phenotype of patients with 9p deletions, pinpoint the chromosomal breakpoints, and identify the critical region for trigonocephaly, which is a frequent finding in 9p terminal deletion. Methods We investigated a cohort of nine patients with chromosome 9p terminal deletions who all displayed developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, and dysmorphic features. Of them, eight had trigonocephaly, seven had brain anomalies, seven had autistic manifestations, seven had fair hair, and six had a congenital heart defect (CHD). Results Karyotyping revealed 9p terminal deletion in all patients, and patients 8 and 9 had additional duplication of other chromosomal segments. We used six bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones that could identify the breakpoints at 17–20 Mb from the 9p terminus. Array CGH identified the precise extent of the deletion in six patients; the deleted regions ranged from 16 to 18.8 Mb in four patients, patient 8 had an 11.58 Mb deletion and patient 9 had a 2.3 Mb deletion. Conclusion The gene deletion in the 9p24 region was insufficient to cause ambiguous genitalia because six of the nine patients had normal genitalia. We suggest that the critical region for trigonocephaly lies between 11,575 and 11,587 Mb from the chromosome 9p terminus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the minimal critical region reported for trigonocephaly in 9p deletion syndrome, and it warrants further delineation.
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- Amal M Mohamed
- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Human Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, Department of Clinical Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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