Genome Sequencing and Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis of 465 Families with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Abstract Purpose Despite significant progress in unravelling the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), a substantial proportion of individuals with NDDs remain without a genetic diagnosis following 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 NDD participants from the NIHR BioResource project.Methods 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, complex SVs, or required distal variant phasing.Results Causal variants were identified in 36% affected individuals (177/489) and a further 26% (129/489) had a variant of uncertain significance, after multiple rounds of re-analysis. Among all reported variants, 88% (333/380) were SNVs/indels, and the remainder were structural variants (SVs), non-coding, and mitochondrial variants. Furthermore, long-read GS facilitated resolution of challenging SVs and invalidated variants of difficult interpretation from short-read GS.Conclusion This study demonstrates the value of short-read GS, complemented with long-reads, to investigate the genetic causes of NDDs. GS provides a comprehensive and unbiased method to identify all types of variants throughout the nuclear and mitochondrial genome in NDD individuals..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sanchis-Juan, Alba [VerfasserIn]
Megy, Karyn [VerfasserIn]
Stephens, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Ricaurte, Camila Armirola [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]
Raymond, F Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Carss, Keren J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.03.01.23285719

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XBI038895005