Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel; Medical Genetics Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem 9103102, Israel; Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel.
Department of Human Genetics and Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen 6525 GA, the Netherlands.
Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Apr 1;108(4):608-619. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.03.004. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
The number and distribution of recessive alleles in the population for various diseases are not known at genome-wide-scale. Based on 6,447 exome sequences of healthy, genetically unrelated Europeans of two distinct ancestries, we estimate that every individual is a carrier of at least 2 pathogenic variants in currently known autosomal-recessive (AR) genes and that 0.8%-1% of European couples are at risk of having a child affected with a severe AR genetic disorder. This risk is 16.5-fold higher for first cousins but is significantly more increased for skeletal disorders and intellectual disabilities due to their distinct genetic architecture.
目前,人们还不知道在全基因组范围内,各种疾病的隐性等位基因的数量和分布情况。基于来自两个不同祖先的 6447 个健康的、遗传上无关的欧洲个体的外显子组序列,我们估计每个人至少携带目前已知的常染色体隐性(AR)基因中的 2 个致病性变异,并且 0.8%-1%的欧洲夫妇有生育患有严重 AR 遗传疾病的孩子的风险。这种风险对于表亲来说要高 16.5 倍,但由于其独特的遗传结构,对于骨骼疾病和智力残疾的风险则显著增加。