在1000名瑞典个体中进行了可转移元素插入
Kristine Bilgrav Saether1,2, Daniel Nilsson1,2,3, Håkan Thonberg1,3
1Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
PloS one
|July 28, 2023
概括
可移植元素 (TE) 是理解罕见遗传疾病的关键. 鉴定TE插入的特征通过识别患者中以前未知的致病变体来改善罕见疾病的诊断.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 人类遗传学 人类遗传学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 大多数罕见疾病都有遗传起源,但尽管有先进的基因组测序,但60%的患者仍未被诊断出来.
- 关于可移植元素 (TE) 的功能和分布存在重大知识差距,可移植元素 (TE) 占人类基因组的50%.
- 了解TE对于改善罕见疾病调查的诊断产量至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在不同种群中描述可移植元素插入的特征.
- 建立特定人群的TE插入数据库.
- 通过结合TE分析,提高临床基因组测序对罕见疾病的诊断效用.
主要方法:
- 在1000名瑞典个人 (SweGen) 和2504名个人 (1000个基因组项目) 中 TE插入的表征.
- 创建七个特定的人口的TE插入数据库.
- 为临床病例开发和应用TE插入识别工作流程.
主要成果:
- 发现TE插入在种群中大致保持不变,在1000个基因组项目数据库中存在66%的SweGen插入.
- 发现了罕见的TE插入,约有0.7%影响蛋白质编码基因,少于0.1%影响已知的致病基因.
- 在TE插入识别工作流中,在两个临床罕见疾病病例中成功验证了致病性TE插入.
结论:
- 可移植元件插入检测对于推进罕见疾病诊断至关重要.
- 开发的TE插入数据库和工作流程可以显著提高临床基因组测序中的诊断产量.
- 这项研究强调了TE在诊断罕见遗传疾病方面的临床影响.
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