与俄罗斯青少年过早卵巢缺陷相关的新型变异
Polina Tsabai1, Zaira Kumykova1, Victoria Averkova1
1National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I.Kulakov of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.
Frontiers in endocrinology
|December 15, 2025
概括
使用全外因组测序 (WES) 的基因测试在23.8%的青少年女性中确定了早产卵巢缺陷 (POI) 的单一原因. 这项研究强调了WES作为诊断特异性POI和发现新基因关联的关键工具.
科学领域:
- 遗传学和基因组学 遗传学和基因组学
- 生殖生物学 生殖生物学
- 分子医学是分子医学.
背景情况:
- 单一性疾病解释了不到一半的异常早期卵巢缺陷 (POI) 病例,这些病例发生在具有46,XX型的青少年女性中.
- 跨不同人群的基因调查对于了解POI的病因至关重要.
- 现有的基因检测方法可能无法捕获POI的所有致病变体.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究 46,XX karyotype 的俄罗斯青少年女性早产卵巢缺陷 (POI) 的遗传基础.
- 评估整体外体序列 (WES) 和副本数变异 (CNV) 分析在确定POI的单一性原因的诊断产量.
- 为了确定POI的新型基因疾病关联.
主要方法:
- 招募63名在18岁之前被诊断患有46,XX POI的俄罗斯患者.
- 综合基因分析,包括FMR1前基因突变测试,全外因组测序 (WES) 和副本数变异 (CNV) 分析.
- 用Sanger测序对可用家庭成员进行分离研究.
主要成果:
- 在38%的队列中,在15个基因中发现了基因变异,其中13个确定的致病基因和2个候选基因.
- 整体外体测序 (WES) 在17.5%的患者中检测到致病单核酸变异 (SNV),将诊断产量与CNV分析相结合时提高到23.8%.
- 副本数变异 (CNV) 分析确定了微删除和外因子删除,有助于整体诊断率,并揭示了新的致病变体.
结论:
- 整体外体测序 (WES) 是早期卵巢缺陷 (POI) 的青少年的有效诊断工具,应与型和FMR1测试一起纳入常规临床实践.
- 该研究确定了已知的POI相关基因中的几种新型变异,并提出了新的基因与疾病的关联.
- 需要进一步调查在FSHR,LMNA,NOBOX,SPIDR和LATS1等基因中发现的未知意义的变异.
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