A germline chromothripsis event stably segregating in 11 individuals through three generations

Birgitte Bertelsen, Lusine Nazaryan, Wei Sun, Mana M Mehrjouy, Gangcai Xie, Wei Chen, Lena E Hjermind, Peter E M Taschner, Zeynep Tümer

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Abstract

PURPOSE: Parentally transmitted germ-line chromothripsis (G-CTH) has been identified in only a few cases. Most of these rearrangements were stably transmitted, in an unbalanced form, from a healthy mother to her child with congenital abnormalities probably caused by de novo copy-number changes of dosage sensitive genes. We describe a G-CTH transmitted through three generations in 11 healthy carriers.

METHODS: Conventional cytogenetic analysis, mate-pair sequencing, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were used to identify the chromosome rearrangement and characterize the breakpoints in all three generations.

RESULTS: We identified an apparently balanced translocation t(3;5), later shown to be a G-CTH, in all individuals of a three-generation family. The G-CTH stably segregated without occurrence of additional rearrangements; however, several spontaneous abortions were reported, possibly due to unbalanced transmission. Although seven protein-coding genes are interrupted, no clinical features can be definitively attributed to the affected genes. However, it can be speculated that truncation of one of these genes, encoding ataxia-telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein kinase (ATR), a key component of the DNA damage response, may be related to G-CTH formation.

CONCLUSION: G-CTH rearrangements are not always associated with abnormal phenotypes and may be misinterpreted as balanced two-way translocations, suggesting that G-CTH is an underdiagnosed phenomenon.Genet Med advance online publication 27 August 2015Genetics in Medicine (2015); doi:10.1038/gim.2015.112.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftGenetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics
Udgave nummer18
Sider (fra-til)494–500
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2016

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