Abstract
Familial apparently balanced translocations (ABTs) are usually not associated with a phenotype; however, rarely, ABTs segregate with discordant phenotypes in family members carrying identical rearrangements. The current study was a follow-up investigation of four familial ABTs, where whole exome sequencing (WES) was implemented as a diagnostic tool to identify the underlying genetic aetiology of the patients’ phenotypes. Data were analysed using an in-house bioinformatics pipeline alongside VarSome Clinical. WES findings were validated with Sanger sequencing, while the impact of splicing and missense variants was assessed by reverse-transcription PCR and in silico tools, respectively. Novel candidate variants were identified in three families. In family 1, it was shown that the de novo pathogenic STXBP1 variant (NM_003165.6:c.1110+2T>G) affected splicing and segregated with the patient’s phenotype. In family 2, a likely pathogenic TUBA1A variant (NM_006009.4:c.875C>T, NP_006000.2:p.(Thr292Ile)) could explain the patient’s symptoms. In family 3, an SCN1A variant of uncertain significance (NM_006920.6:c.5060A>G, NP_008851.3:p.(Glu1687Gly)) required additional evidence to sufficiently support causality. This first report of WES application in familial ABT carriers with discordant phenotypes supported our previous findings describing such rearrangements as coincidental. Thus, WES can be recommended as a complementary test to find the monogenic cause of aberrant phenotypes in familial ABT carriers.
Funder
Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development of the Republic of Cyprus
Cy-Tera Project
Subject
Genetics (clinical),Genetics
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