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The clinical benefit of array-based comparative genomic hybridization for detection of copy number variants in Czech children with intellectual disability and developmental delay

Authors

WAYHELOVÁ Markéta SMETANA Jan VALLOVÁ Vladimíra HLADÍLKOVÁ Eva FILKOVÁ Hana HANÁKOVÁ Marta VILÉMOVÁ Marcela NIKOLOVÁ Petra GROMESOVÁ Barbora GAILLYOVÁ Renata KUGLÍK Petr

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source BMC MEDICAL GENOMICS
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-019-0559-7
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12920-019-0559-7
Keywords intellectual disability; developmental delay; microdeletion; microduplication; CNV; array CGH
Description Chromosomal microarray analysis has been shown to be a valuable and cost effective assay for elucidating copy number variants (CNVs) in children with intellectual disability and developmental delay (ID/DD). In our study, we performed array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) analysis using oligonucleotide-based platforms in 542 Czech patients with ID/DD, autism spectrum disorders and multiple congenital abnormalities. Prior to the array-CGH analysis, all the patients were first examined karyotypically using G-banding. The presence of CNVs and their putative derivation was confirmed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) and predominantly relative quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). In total, 5.9% (32/542) patients were positive for karyotypic abnormalities. Pathogenic/likely pathogenic CNVs were identified in 17.7% of them (96/542), variants of uncertain significance (VOUS) were detected in 4.8% (26/542) and likely benign CNVs in 9.2% of cases (50/542). We identified 6.6% (36/542) patients with known recurrent microdeletion (24 cases) and microduplication (12 cases) syndromes, as well as 4.8% (26/542) patients with non-recurrent rare microdeletions (21 cases) and microduplications (5 cases). In the group of patients with submicroscopic pathogenic/likely pathogenic CNVs (13.3%; 68/510) we identified 91.2% (62/68) patients with one CNV, 5.9% (4/68) patients with two likely independent CNVs and 2.9% (2/68) patients with two CNVs resulting from cryptic unbalanced translocations. Of all detected CNVs, 21% (31/147) had a de novo origin, 51% (75/147) were inherited and 28% (41/147) of unknown origin. Our results confirm the benefit of array-CGH in the current clinical genetic diagnostics leading to identification of the genetic cause of ID/DD in affected children.
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