Genome sequencing and comprehensive rare-variant analysis of 465 families with neurodevelopmental disorders

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Despite significant progress in unraveling the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), a substantial proportion of individuals with NDDs remain without a genetic diagnosis after microarray and/or exome sequencing. Here, we aimed to assess the power of short-read genome sequencing (GS), complemented with long-read GS, to identify causal variants in participants with NDD from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource project. Short-read GS was conducted on 692 individuals (489 affected and 203 unaffected relatives) from 465 families. Additionally, long-read GS was performed on five affected individuals who had structural variants (SVs) in technically challenging regions, had complex SVs, or required distal variant phasing. Causal variants were identified in 36% of affected individuals (177/489), and a further 23% (112/489) had a variant of uncertain significance after multiple rounds of re-analysis. Among all reported variants, 88% (333/380) were coding nuclear SNVs or insertions and deletions (indels), and the remainder were SVs, non-coding variants, and mitochondrial variants. Furthermore, long-read GS facilitated the resolution of challenging SVs and invalidated variants of difficult interpretation from short-read GS. This study demonstrates the value of short-read GS, complemented with long-read GS, in investigating the genetic causes of NDDs. GS provides a comprehensive and unbiased method of identifying all types of variants throughout the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in individuals with NDD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:110

Enthalten in:

American journal of human genetics - 110(2023), 8 vom: 03. Aug., Seite 1343-1355

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sanchis-Juan, Alba [VerfasserIn]
Megy, Karyn [VerfasserIn]
Stephens, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Armirola Ricaurte, Camila [VerfasserIn]
Dewhurst, Eleanor [VerfasserIn]
Low, Kayyi [VerfasserIn]
French, Courtney E [VerfasserIn]
Grozeva, Detelina [VerfasserIn]
Stirrups, Kathleen [VerfasserIn]
Erwood, Marie [VerfasserIn]
McTague, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Penkett, Christopher J [VerfasserIn]
Shamardina, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Tuna, Salih [VerfasserIn]
Daugherty, Louise C [VerfasserIn]
Gleadall, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Duarte, Sofia T [VerfasserIn]
Hedrera-Fernández, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Vogt, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Ambegaonkar, Gautam [VerfasserIn]
Chitre, Manali [VerfasserIn]
Josifova, Dragana [VerfasserIn]
Kurian, Manju A [VerfasserIn]
Parker, Alasdair [VerfasserIn]
Rankin, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Reid, Evan [VerfasserIn]
Wakeling, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Wassmer, Evangeline [VerfasserIn]
Woods, C Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
NIHR BioResource [VerfasserIn]
Raymond, F Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Carss, Keren J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Long-read sequencing
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Structural variants
Whole-genome sequencing

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Date Completed 07.08.2023

Date Revised 04.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.07.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36040877X