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Chen J, Zhang Y, Zhang M. Prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling of a paternally inherited microduplication 18q11.1 to 18q11.2 in a chinese family. Mol Cytogenet 2022; 15:38. [PMID: 36050713 PMCID: PMC9434864 DOI: 10.1186/s13039-022-00617-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Copy number variants are a substantial source of pathogenic or normal genome variations. Chromosomal imbalances of several megabasepair are normally harmful for the affected person. Still, rarely reported are so-called “unbalanced chromosome abnormalities” (UBCAs), which are either losses or gains or equally large genomic regions, but the carrier is only minimally clinically affected even no clinically affected. The knowledge of such UBCAs is imperative also in noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) or chromosomal microarray analysis. Case presentation A paternally inherited dup(18)(q11.1q11.2) was identified in a over two generations in a Chinese family. The affected region encompasses 25 genes, among which GATA6 is expressed in fetal endothelial cells and mesodermal cells. GATA6 duplications and /or mutations have been seen in cases with congenital heart disease but also non-affected individuals, suggesting incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity. Conclusions Duplications in the region of chromosome 18q11 have been rare reported previously in clinically healthy persons. Here a further family with an UBCA in 18q11 is added to the literature, suggesting a careful genetic counselling in prenatal diagnosis.
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- Juan Chen
- Reproductive Medicine Center, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Clinical Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Biomedical Engineering College, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Prenatal Diagnosis Center, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Clinical Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Biomedical Engineering College, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wuhan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.
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Two familial intrachromosomal insertions with maternal dup(6)(p22.3p25.3) or dup(2)(q24.2q32.1) in recombinant offspring. Clin Dysmorphol 2017; 26:209-216. [PMID: 28737552 DOI: 10.1097/mcd.0000000000000191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In this study, we describe two patients with a recombinant chromosome secondary to a maternal intrachromosomal insertion. Patient 1 was a girl with dup(6)(p22.3p25.3). Patient 2 was a boy with dup(2)(q24.2q32.1). Both familial rearrangements were characterized by means of GTG-bands, fluorescence in-situ hybridization, and comparative genomic hybridization microarray analyses. Patient 1 had an ∼23 Mb gain that involved the bands 6p22.3-6p25.3. Patient 2 had an ∼23 Mb gain (cytobands 2q24.2-2q32.1) and a further ∼1.9 Mb gain of 2p16.2-p16.3. The phenotype of each patient was in agreement with the typical 6p duplication or 2q24.2q32.1 duplication syndrome. The compound macular lesion in patient 1 suggests that retinal anomalies may be a part of the 6p trisomy phenotype. Among the 70 intrachromosomal insertions compiled here (including 68 from the literature), four were submicroscopic unbalanced insertions inherited from a balanced carrier and 66 were detectable on banded chromosomes (with or without array comparative genomic hybridization or other high-resolution assessment) and therefore spanned at least 5 Mb. Pericentric insertions are found in most chromosomes, whereas the paracentric ones are mainly observed in large and medium chromosome arms. That the former outnumber the latter in almost a 2 : 1 ratio appears to be related to the technique of diagnosis, size of the insertion, and size of the involved chromosome. Regardless of the apparent excess of carrier mothers, carriers of an intrachromosomal insertion beget almost twice as many children with a duplication than with a deletion.
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Mendez-Rosado LA, Lantigua A, Galarza J, Hamid Al-Rikabi AB, Ziegler M, Liehr T. Unusual de novo Partial Trisomy 17p12p11.2 due to Unbalanced Insertion into 5p13.1 in a Severely Affected Boy. J Pediatr Genet 2017; 6:165-168. [PMID: 28794908 DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1599195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/18/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Gain of copy numbers can be due to different chromosomal rearrangements such as direct or indirect duplications, translocations, small supernumerary marker chromosomes, or insertions. In a 3-year-old boy with dysmorphic features and developmental delay, chromosome analyses revealed a derivative chromosome 5. Microdissection and reverse fluorescence in situ hybridization identified the in 5p13.1 inserted part as 17p12-p11.2 material. Thus the patient suffered from a rare combination of genomic disorder, that is, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A and Potocki-Lupski syndrome. Parental studies indicated that the abnormality was de novo in origin. As the question how this rearrangement arose cannot be answered conclusively, formal genetic counseling is warranted, which includes a discussion regarding the possibility of gonadal mosaicism. In conclusion, this case highlights that chromosome 17p is genetically relatively instable, and thus it can lead to rare chromosomal conditions.
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- Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Human Genetics, Jena, Germany
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- Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Human Genetics, Jena, Germany
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- Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Human Genetics, Jena, Germany
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Manolakos E, Vetro A, Papadopoulou E, Kefalas K, Lagou M, Thomaidis L, Peitsidis P, Sifakis S, Divane A, Ziegler M, Liehr T, Zuffardi O, Papoulidis I. Partial trisomy 2p and partial monosomy 2q arising from a paternal intrachromosomal 2q-into-2p between-arm insertion and paracentric inversion: molecular cytogenetic characterization of a four-break rearrangement. Cytogenet Genome Res 2013; 140:12-20. [PMID: 23652918 DOI: 10.1159/000350868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We report on a 26-month-old boy with an interstitial duplication of 2p22.3p22.2 and an interstitial deletion of 2q14.1q21.2. The abnormality was derived from his father having a balanced paracentric inversion and pericentric insertion. The deletion in the child was identified by cytogenetic analysis and characterized in more detail by molecular cytogenetics and array comparative genomic hybridization. The latter revealed a 20-Mb deletion in the long arm and a 5.6-Mb duplication in the short arm of chromosome 2. Fluorescence in situ hybridization in paternal chromosomes characterized an intrachromosomal insertion of 2q14.1q21.2 into 2p23; additionally a paracentric inversion of 2p13p23 was observed. The boy with the unbalanced karyotype suffered from severe psychomotor retardation, thrombophilia due to protein C deficiency, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and also had phenotypic abnormalities. Most of these features have previously been described in individuals with interstitial deletion of 2q14.1.
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- E Manolakos
- Eurogenetica S.A., Laboratory of Genetics, Athens-Thessaloniki, Greece.
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van der Veken LT, Dieleman MM, Douben H, van de Brug JC, van de Graaf R, Hoogeboom AJM, Poddighe PJ, de Klein A. Low grade mosaic for a complex supernumerary ring chromosome 18 in an adult patient with multiple congenital anomalies. Mol Cytogenet 2010; 3:13. [PMID: 20618949 PMCID: PMC2909946 DOI: 10.1186/1755-8166-3-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2010] [Accepted: 07/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Several cases have been reported of patients with a ring chromosome 18 replacing one of the normal chromosomes 18. Less common are patients with a supernumerary ring chromosomes 18. High resolution whole genome examination in patients with multiple congenital abnormalities might reveal cytogenetic abnormalities of an unexpected complexity. Results We report a 24 years old male patient with lower spinal anomalies, hypospadia, bifid scrotum, cryptorchism, anal atresia, kidney stones, urethra anomalies, radial dysplasia, and a hypoplastic thumb. Some of the anomalies overlap with the VACTERL association. Chromosome analysis of cultured peripheral blood lymphocytes revealed an additional ring chromosome in 13% of the metaphases. Both parents had a normal karyotype, demonstrating the de novo origin of this ring chromosome. FISH analysis using whole chromosome paints showed that the additional chromosomal material was derived from chromosome 18. Chromosome analysis of cultured fibroblasts revealed only one cell with the supernumerary ring chromosome in the 400 analyzed. To characterize the ring chromosome in more detail peripheral blood derived DNA was analyzed using SNP-arrays. The array results indicated a 5 Mb gain of the pericentromeric region of chromosome 18q10-q11.2. FISH analysis using BAC-probes located in the region indicated the presence of 6 signals on the r(18) chromosome. In addition, microsatellite analysis demonstrated that the unique supernumerary ring chromosome was paternally derived and both normal copies showed biparental disomy. Conclusions We report on an adult patient with multiple congenital abnormalities who had in 13% of his cells a unique supernumerary ring chromosome 18 that was composed of 6 copies of the 5 Mb gene rich region of 18q11.
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- Lars T van der Veken
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Wang JC, Dang L, Fisker T. Chromosome 6 between-arm intrachromosomal insertion with intrasegmental double inversion: a four-break model. Am J Med Genet A 2010; 152A:209-11. [PMID: 20034066 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Jia-Chi Wang
- Cytogenetics Laboratory, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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In total, 200 families were reviewed with directly transmitted, cytogenetically visible unbalanced chromosome abnormalities (UBCAs) or euchromatic variants (EVs). Both the 130 UBCA and 70 EV families were divided into three groups depending on the presence or absence of an abnormal phenotype in parents and offspring. No detectable phenotypic effect was evident in 23/130 (18%) UBCA families ascertained mostly through prenatal diagnosis (group 1). In 30/130 (23%) families, the affected proband had the same UBCA as other phenotypically normal family members (group 2). In the remaining 77/130 (59%) families, UBCAs had consistently mild consequences (group 3). In the 70 families with established EVs of 8p23.1, 9p12, 9q12, 15q11.2, and 16p11.2, no phenotypic effect was apparent in 38/70 (54%). The same EV was found in affected probands and phenotypically normal family members in 30/70 families (43%) (group 2), and an EV co-segregated with mild phenotypic anomalies in only 2/70 (3%) families (group 3). Recent evidence indicates that EVs involve copy number variation of common paralogous gene and pseudogene sequences that are polymorphic in the normal population and only become visible at the cytogenetic level when copy number is high. The average size of the deletions and duplications in all three groups of UBCAs was close to 10 Mb, and these UBCAs and EVs form the "Chromosome Anomaly Collection" at http://www.ngrl.org.uk/Wessex/collection. The continuum of severity associated with UBCAs and the variability of the genome at the sub-cytogenetic level make further close collaboration between medical and laboratory staff essential to distinguish clinically silent variation from pathogenic rearrangement.
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- J C K Barber
- Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8BJ, UK.
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Ardalan A, Prieur M, Choiset A, Turleau C, Goutieres F, Girard-Orgeolet S. Intrachromosomal insertion mimicking a pericentric inversion: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of a three break rearrangement of chromosome 20. Am J Med Genet A 2005; 138A:288-93. [PMID: 16158442 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Intrachromosomal insertions are uncommon rearrangements, in which a chromosomal segment is intercalated into another part of the same chromosome. The insertion may occur in the same arm (paracentric) or in the other arm (pericentric). The cytogenetic recognition of these structurally rearranged chromosomes can be difficult, and intrachromosomal insertions can be easily mistaken for inversions. We describe a case of a familial pericentric insertion of chromosome 20, initially misdiagnosed as a pericentric inversion in the healthy carrier and then reinterpreted as insertion in an abnormal child with a recombinant chromosome. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) allowed us to confirm the mechanism of recombinant formation and to locate the three breakpoints precisely. Our cytogenetically unbalanced epileptic patient carried a 20q deletion and 20p duplication, and the genes, CHRNA4 and KCNQ2 that have been implicated in autosomal dominant epilepsy, were deleted. The haplo-insufficiency of these two genes may contribute to the cause of epilepsy in patients with ring chromosome 20.
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- Azarnouche Ardalan
- Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, France
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Grasshoff U, Singer S, Liehr T, Starke H, Fode B, Schöning M, Dufke A. A complex chromosomal rearrangement with a translocation 4;10;14 in a fertile male carrier: ascertainment through an offspring with partial trisomy 14q13-->q24.1 and partial monosomy 4q27-->q28 [corrected]. Cytogenet Genome Res 2004; 103:17-23. [PMID: 15004458 DOI: 10.1159/000076282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2003] [Accepted: 10/13/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Complex chromosomal rearrangements (CCRs) are usually associated with infertility or subfertility in male carriers. If fertility is maintained, there is a high risk of abnormal pregnancy outcome. Few male carriers have been identified by children presenting with mental retardation/congenital malformations (MR/CM) or by spontaneous abortions of the spouses. We report a de novo CCR with five breakpoints involving chromosomes 4, 10 and 14 in a male carrier who was ascertained through a son presenting with MR/CM due to an unbalanced karyotype with partial trisomy 14 and partial monosomy 4. The child has a healthy elder brother. In the family history no abortions were reported. No fertility treatment was necessary. Cytogenetic analysis from the affected son showed a reciprocal translocation t(4;10) with additional chromosomal material inserted between the translocation junctions in the derivative chromosome 10. The father showed the same derivative chromosome 10 but had additionally one aberrant chromosome 14. Further molecular cytogenetic analyses determined the inserted material in the aberrant chromosome 10 as derived from chromosome 14 and revealed a small translocation with material of chromosome 4 inserted into the derivative chromosome 14. Thus the phenotype of the son is supposed to be associated with a partial duplication 14q13-->q24.1 and a partial monosomy 4q27-->q28. Including our case we are aware of eleven CCR cases with fertile male carriers. In eight of these families normal offspring have been reported. We propose that exceptional CCRs in fertile male carriers might form comparatively simple pachytene configurations increasing the chance of healthy offspring.
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- U Grasshoff
- Department of Medical Genetics, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen Medical School, Tübingen, Germany
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Weise A, Rittinger O, Starke H, Ziegler M, Claussen U, Liehr T. De novo 9-break-event in one chromosome 21 combined with a microdeletion in 21q22.11 in a mentally retarded boy with short stature. Cytogenet Genome Res 2004; 103:14-6. [PMID: 15004457 DOI: 10.1159/000076284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2003] [Accepted: 09/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We report on a moderately mentally retarded 12-year-old boy of short stature showing the most complex chromosomal rearrangement (CCR) within a single chromosome ever described. A de novo derivative chromosome 21 was recognized in GTG-banding shortly after birth. However, the nature of the rearrangement remained obscure up to the application of the chromosome 21-specific centromere-near multicolor-FISH (subcenM-FISH) probe set and of six selected locus-specific probes along chromosome 21. An unbalanced 9-break-event was uncovered with breakpoints in 21p13, 21p13-->12, 21q11.2, 21q21.1, 21q22.11, 21q22.11, 21q22.12, 21q22.22 and 21q22.3. A deletion of 21q22.11 was detected by application of the BAC probe bk249H10. The karyotype can be described as 46,XY,der(21)(:p13-->p1213::q22.3-->q22.22:: q11.2-->p1213::q11.2-->q21.1::q22.11-->q21.1::q22.12--> q22.22::p13-->p13). The clinical signs can either be due to gene inactivation in connection with structural changes at the break and fusion regions, to the building of new fusion genes within the CCR and/or to the deletion of genes in 21q22.11.
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- A Weise
- Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Jena, Germany
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Seidel J, Heller A, Senger G, Starke H, Chudoba I, Kelbova C, Tönnies H, Neitzel H, Haase C, Beensen V, Zintl F, Claussen U, Liehr T. A multiple translocation event in a patient with hexadactyly, facial dysmorphism, mental retardation and behaviour disorder characterised comprehensively by molecular cytogenetics. Case report and review of the literature. Eur J Pediatr 2003; 162:582-8. [PMID: 12819962 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-003-1254-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2002] [Revised: 04/14/2003] [Accepted: 04/22/2003] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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UNLABELLED We report a 13-year-old female patient with multiple congenital abnormalities (microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, anteverted dysplastic ears and postaxial hexadactyly), mental retardation, and adipose-gigantism. Ultrasonography revealed no signs of a heart defect or renal abnormalities. She showed no speech development and suffered from a behavioural disorder. CNS abnormalities were excluded by cerebral MRI. Initial cytogenetic studies by Giemsa banding revealed an aberrant karyotype involving three chromosomes, t(2;4;11). By high resolution banding and multicolour fluoresence in-situ hybridisation (M-FISH, MCB), chromosome 1 was also found to be involved in the complex chromosomal aberrations, confirming the karyotype 46,XX,t(2;11;4).ish t(1;4;2;11)(q43;q21.1;p12-p13.1;p14.1). To the best of our knowledge no patient has been previously described with such a complex translocation involving 4 chromosomes. This case demonstrates that conventional chromosome banding techniques such as Giemsa banding are not always sufficient to characterise complex chromosomal abnormalities. Only by the additional utilisation of molecular cytogenetic techniques could the complexity of the present chromosomal rearrangements and the origin of the involved chromosomal material be detected. Further molecular genetic studies will be performed to clarify the chromosomal breakpoints potentially responsible for the observed clinical symptoms. CONCLUSION This report demonstrates that multicolour-fluorescence in-situ hybridisation studies should be performed in patients with congenital abnormalities and suspected aberrant karyotypes in addition to conventional Giemsa banding.
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- Jörg Seidel
- Department of Paediatrics, Friedrich-Schiller University, Kochstrasse 2, 07740 Jena, Germany.
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