期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 18, 期 2, 页码 227-232出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.162
关键词
array-CGH; overgrowth disorders; oncogenes; chromosome imbalance; tumor-suppressor genes
资金
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- GIS-Maladies Rares
- Agence de Biomedecine
Overgrowth syndromes are a heterogeneous group of conditions including endocrine hormone disorders, several genetic syndromes and other disorders with unknown etiopathogenesis. Among genetic causes, chromosomal deletions and duplications such as dup(4)(p16.3), dup(15)(q26qter), del(9)(q22.32q22.33), del(22)(q13) and del(5)(q35) have been identified in patients with overgrowth. Most of them, however, remain undetectable using banding karyotype analysis. In this study, we report on the analysis using a 1-Mb resolution array-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) of 93 patients with either a recognizable overgrowth condition (ie, Sotos syndrome or Weaver syndrome) or an unclassified overgrowth syndrome. Five clinically relevant imbalances ( three duplications and two deletions) were identified and the pathogenicity of two additional anomalies ( one duplication and one deletion) is discussed. Altered segments ranged in size from 0.32 to 18.2 Mb, and no recurrent abnormality was identified. These results show that array-CGH provides a high diagnostic yield in patients with overgrowth syndromes and point to novel chromosomal regions associated with these conditions. Although chromosomal deletions are usually associated with growth retardation, we found that the majority of the imbalances detected in our patients are duplications. Besides their importance for diagnosis and genetic counseling, our results may allow to delineate new contiguous gene syndromes associated with overgrowth, pointing to new genes, the deregulation of which may be responsible for growth defect. European Journal of Human Genetics ( 2010) 18, 227-232; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.162; published online 21 October 2009
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