[Clinical features and genetics analysis of a Chinese pedigree affected with developmental and epileptic
Ya'nan Zhi1, Tao Wang, Pingping Zhang
1Department of Reproductive and Fenetics, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050051, China. lyl8703@sina.com.
Objective:
To analyze the clinical and genetic characteristics of a Chinese pedigree affected with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 9.
Methods:
N048: epilepsy full version gene detection panel-V2 and genome wide copy number variation analysis were carried out on the genomic DNA extracted from the peripheral blood samples. Amniotic fluid was also sampled for single nucleoticle polymorphism array (SNP-array) analysis.
Results:
Both the mother and her daughter were found to have loss of heterozygosity at Xq21.31q22.1, with which exons of protocadherin 19 (PCDH19) gene was deleted. SNP-array showed the fetus to be a female and had arr[hg19]Xq21.31q22.1 (89 558 626-99 701 006)x1. The mother, daughter and fetus of this family all had developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 9.
Conclusion:
Variant of the PCDH19 gene probably underlay the Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 9 in this pedigree.
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