Friedman J M, Baross Agnes, Delaney Allen D, Ally Adrian, Arbour Laura, Armstrong Linlea, Asano Jennifer, Bailey Dione K, Barber Sarah, Birch Patricia, Brown-John Mabel, Cao Manqiu, Chan Susanna, Charest David L, Farnoud Noushin, Fernandes Nicole, Flibotte Stephane, Go Anne, Gibson William T, Holt Robert A, Jones Steven J M, Kennedy Giulia C, Krzywinski Martin, Langlois Sylvie, Li Haiyan I, McGillivray Barbara C, Nayar Tarun, Pugh Trevor J, Rajcan-Separovic Evica, Schein Jacqueline E, Schnerch Angelique, Siddiqui Asim, Van Allen Margot I, Wilson Gary, Yong Siu-Li, Zahir Farah, Eydoux Patrice, Marra Marco A
Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Am J Hum Genet. 2006 Sep;79(3):500-13. doi: 10.1086/507471. Epub 2006 Jul 25.
The cause of mental retardation in one-third to one-half of all affected individuals is unknown. Microscopically detectable chromosomal abnormalities are the most frequently recognized cause, but gain or loss of chromosomal segments that are too small to be seen by conventional cytogenetic analysis has been found to be another important cause. Array-based methods offer a practical means of performing a high-resolution survey of the entire genome for submicroscopic copy-number variants. We studied 100 children with idiopathic mental retardation and normal results of standard chromosomal analysis, by use of whole-genome sampling analysis with Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 100K arrays. We found de novo deletions as small as 178 kb in eight cases, de novo duplications as small as 1.1 Mb in two cases, and unsuspected mosaic trisomy 9 in another case. This technology can detect at least twice as many potentially pathogenic de novo copy-number variants as conventional cytogenetic analysis can in people with mental retardation.
在所有受影响个体中,三分之一至二分之一的智力迟钝病因不明。显微镜下可检测到的染色体异常是最常见的已知病因,但已发现常规细胞遗传学分析无法检测到的过小染色体片段的增减是另一个重要病因。基于芯片的方法为对整个基因组进行亚显微拷贝数变异的高分辨率检测提供了一种实用手段。我们使用Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 100K芯片通过全基因组抽样分析研究了100名患有特发性智力迟钝且标准染色体分析结果正常的儿童。我们在8例中发现了小至178 kb的新生缺失,在2例中发现了小至1.1 Mb的新生重复,在另一例中发现了意外的9号染色体嵌合三体。这项技术在智力迟钝患者中检测到的潜在致病性新生拷贝数变异至少是传统细胞遗传学分析的两倍。