Adaptive Long-Read Sequencing Reveals GGC Repeat Expansion in ZFHX3 Associated with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 4

© 2024 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society..

BACKGROUND: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4) is an autosomal dominant ataxia with invariable sensory neuropathy originally described in a family with Swedish ancestry residing in Utah more than 25 years ago. Despite tight linkage to the 16q22 region, the molecular diagnosis has since remained elusive.

OBJECTIVES: Inspired by pathogenic structural variation implicated in other 16q-ataxias with linkage to the same locus, we revisited the index SCA4 cases from the Utah family using novel technologies to investigate structural variation within the candidate region.

METHODS: We adopted a targeted long-read sequencing approach with adaptive sampling on the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platform that enables the detection of segregating structural variants within a genomic region without a priori assumptions about any variant features.

RESULTS: Using this approach, we found a heterozygous (GGC)n repeat expansion in the last coding exon of the zinc finger homeobox 3 (ZFHX3) gene that segregates with disease, ranging between 48 and 57 GGC repeats in affected probands. This finding was replicated in a separate family with SCA4. Furthermore, the estimation of this GGC repeat size in short-read whole genome sequencing (WGS) data of 21,836 individuals recruited to the 100,000 Genomes Project in the UK and our in-house dataset of 11,258 exomes did not reveal any pathogenic repeats, indicating that the variant is ultrarare.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the utility of adaptive long-read sequencing as a powerful tool to decipher causative structural variation in unsolved cases of inherited neurological disease. © 2024 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

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Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 39(2024), 3 vom: 25. März, Seite 486-497

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Zhongbo [VerfasserIn]
Gustavsson, Emil K [VerfasserIn]
Macpherson, Hannah [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Clarkson, Chris [VerfasserIn]
Rocca, Clarissa [VerfasserIn]
Self, Eleanor [VerfasserIn]
Alvarez Jerez, Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Scardamaglia, Annarita [VerfasserIn]
Pellerin, David [VerfasserIn]
Montgomery, Kylie [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jasmaine [VerfasserIn]
Gagliardi, Delia [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Huihui [VerfasserIn]
Genomics England Research Consortium [VerfasserIn]
Hardy, John [VerfasserIn]
Polke, James [VerfasserIn]
Singleton, Andrew B [VerfasserIn]
Blauwendraat, Cornelis [VerfasserIn]
Mathews, Katherine D [VerfasserIn]
Tucci, Arianna [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Ying-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Houlden, Henry [VerfasserIn]
Ryten, Mina [VerfasserIn]
Ptáček, Louis J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

143258-00-8
Ataxia
Homeodomain Proteins
Journal Article
Long‐read sequencing
Repeat expansion disorder
ZFHX3 protein, human

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Date Completed 26.03.2024

Date Revised 26.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/mds.29704

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NLM366877313