Ciaccio Claudia, Tucci Arianna, Scuvera Giulietta, Estienne Margherita, Esposito Susanna, Milani Donatella
Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Commenda 9, 20122, Milan, Italy.
Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Commenda 9, 20122, Milan, Italy.
Eur J Med Genet. 2017 Mar;60(3):159-162. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2016.12.006. Epub 2016 Dec 20.
The short arm of chromosome 16 is one of the less stable regions of our genome, as over 10% of the euchromatic region of 16p is composed of highly complex low copy repeats that are known to be predisposed to rearrangements mediated by non-allelic homologous recombination. The 16p13.3p13.13 molecular region has been defined as the 16p duplication hotspot, and duplications of chromosome 16p13 have recently been confirmed to cause a recognizable syndrome, with CREBBP being the main phenotype-causing gene. To date, only one case report is present in the literature with a 16p13 duplication without CREBBP involvement; we describe here a second analogous case with a not previously reported 16p13.2p13.13 microduplication. This paper allows us to better delineate the clinical features of 16p13 microduplications that do not encompass CREBBP and, concurrently, to narrow the molecular region responsible for congenital heart defects in 16p duplications as well as to propose GRIN2A as a candidate gene for epilepsy.
16号染色体的短臂是我们基因组中较不稳定的区域之一,因为16p常染色质区域超过10%由高度复杂的低拷贝重复序列组成,已知这些序列易发生由非等位基因同源重组介导的重排。16p13.3p13.13分子区域已被定义为16p重复热点,最近已证实16号染色体p13区域的重复会导致一种可识别的综合征,其中CREBBP是主要的表型致病基因。迄今为止,文献中仅有一例关于不涉及CREBBP的16p13重复的病例报告;我们在此描述第二例类似病例,其为既往未报道的16p13.2p13.13微重复。本文使我们能够更好地描述不包含CREBBP的16p13微重复的临床特征,同时缩小16p重复中导致先天性心脏病的分子区域,并提出GRIN2A作为癫痫的候选基因。