Ranieri Annaluisa, La Monica Ilaria, Di Iorio Maria Rosaria, Lombardo Barbara, Pastore Lucio
CEINGE-Biotecnologie Avanzate Franco Salvatore, via G. Salvatore 486, 80145 Naples, Italy.
Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Sergio Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Genes (Basel). 2024 Mar 28;15(4):427. doi: 10.3390/genes15040427.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of complex multifactorial disorders characterized by cognitive impairment, communication deficits, abnormal behaviour, and/or motor skills resulting from abnormal neural development. Copy number variants (CNVs) are genetic alterations often associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. We evaluated the diagnostic efficacy of the array-comparative genomic hybridization (a-CGH) method and its relevance as a routine diagnostic test in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders for the identification of the molecular alterations underlying or contributing to the clinical manifestations. In the present study, we analysed 1800 subjects with neurodevelopmental disorders using a CGH microarray. We identified 208 (7%) pathogenetic CNVs, 2202 (78%) variants of uncertain significance (VOUS), and 504 (18%) benign CNVs in the 1800 patients analysed. Some alterations contain genes potentially related to neurodevelopmental disorders including , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . The identification of interesting significant genes related to neurological disorders with a-CGH is therefore an essential step in the diagnostic procedure, allowing a better understanding of both the pathophysiology of these disorders and the mechanisms underlying their clinical manifestations.
神经发育障碍是一组复杂的多因素疾病,其特征是由于神经发育异常导致认知障碍、沟通缺陷、行为异常和/或运动技能异常。拷贝数变异(CNV)是常与神经发育障碍相关的基因改变。我们评估了阵列比较基因组杂交(a-CGH)方法的诊断效能及其作为神经发育障碍患者常规诊断测试的相关性,以识别潜在的或导致临床表现的分子改变。在本研究中,我们使用CGH微阵列分析了1800名神经发育障碍患者。在分析的1800名患者中,我们鉴定出208个(7%)致病性CNV、2202个(78%)意义未明的变异(VOUS)和504个(18%)良性CNV。一些改变包含可能与神经发育障碍相关的基因,包括 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 和 。因此,用a-CGH鉴定与神经疾病相关的有趣的重要基因是诊断过程中的关键一步,有助于更好地理解这些疾病的病理生理学及其临床表现的潜在机制。