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Published on: February 21, 2015
[Application of SNP-array technology in the genetic analysis of pediatric patients with growth retardation]
Shiyu Luo1, Chunyun Fu, Shujie Zhang
1Central Laboratory for Genetic and Metabolic Diseases, Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Institute of Birth Defect Control and Prevention of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi 530012, China. chenshaoke123@163.com.
Objective:
To explore the value of single nucleotide polymorphism array (SNP-array) for the analysis of pediatric patients with growth retardation.
Methods:
One hundred eighty one children with growth retardation were enrolled. DNA was extracted from peripheral samples from the patients, and whole genome copy number variations (CNVs) were detected using Illumina Human Cyto SNP-12. All identified CNVs were further analyzed with reference to databases including ClinGen, ClinVar, DECIPHER, OMIM and DGV as well as comprehensive review of literature from PubMed to determine their pathogenicity.
Results:
Forty seven patients (26%) with abnormal CNVs were detected, which included 12 known microdeletions/microduplications syndrome (26%), 10 pathogenic non-syndromic CNVs (21%), 3 numerical chromosome aberrations (6%), 3 unbalanced translocations (6%), 4 pathogenic mosaicisms (9%) and 15 cases with unknown clinical significance (32%). After excluding obvious numerical and/or structural chromosomal abnormalities, this study has detected 15 pathogenic microdeletions/microduplications sized 5 Mb or less, which may be missed by routine chromosomal karyotyping. In addition, there were 3 cases with loss of heterozygoisty (LOH) containing known or predicted imprinting genes as well as 2 cases with suspected parental consanguinity.
Conclusion:
SNP-array technology is a powerful tool for the genetic diagnosis of children with growth disorders with advantages of high resolution and improved accuracy.
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