Investigation of Copy Number Variations on Chromosome 21 Detected by Comparative Genomic Hybridization
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Li et al. Molecular Cytogenetics (2018) 11:42 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13039-018-0391-3 RESEARCH Open Access Investigation of copy number variations on chromosome 21 detected by comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) microarray in patients with congenital anomalies Wenfu Li, Xianfu Wang and Shibo Li* Abstract Background: The clinical features of Down syndrome vary among individuals, with those most common being congenital heart disease, intellectual disability, developmental abnormity and dysmorphic features. Complex combination of Down syndrome phenotype could be produced by partially copy number variations (CNVs) on chromosome 21 as well. By comparing individual with partial CNVs of chromosome 21 with other patients of known CNVs and clinical phenotypes, we hope to provide a better understanding of the genotype-phenotype correlation of chromosome 21. Methods: A total of 2768 pediatric patients sample collected at the Genetics Laboratory at Oklahoma University Health Science Center were screened using CGH Microarray for CNVs on chromosome 21. Results: We report comprehensive clinical and molecular descriptions of six patients with microduplication and seven patients with microdeletion on the long arm of chromosome 21. Patients with microduplication have varied clinical features including developmental delay, microcephaly, facial dysmorphic features, pulmonary stenosis, autism, preauricular skin tag, eye pterygium, speech delay and pain insensitivity. We found that patients with microdeletion presented with developmental delay, microcephaly, intrauterine fetal demise, epilepsia partialis continua, congenital coronary anomaly and seizures. Conclusion: Three patients from our study combine with four patients in public database suggests an association between 21q21.1 microduplication of CXADR gene and patients with developmental delay. One patient with 21q22.13 microdeletion of DYRK1A shows association with microcephaly and scoliosis. Our findings helped pinpoint critical genes in the genotype-phenotype association with a high resolution of 0.1 Mb and expanded the clinical features observed in patients with CNVs on the long arm of chromosome 21. Keywords: Chromosome 21, Microarray, CNV, Genotype-phenotype association, CXADR, DYRK1A Background Despite the fact that DS is mainly caused by trisomy 21, Down Syndrome (DS) is the most prevalent genetic dis- the genotype-phenotype association of typical DS fea- order resulting in intellectual disability, which is usually tures is yet to be determined. caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. It is esti- Down Syndrome Critical Region (DSCR) hypothesis mated that 1 in 700 newborn babies in United States are failed to provide solid evidence on the proposed theory diagnosed with DS [1]. The phenotypes of DS frequently of minimum gene responsible for all major DS pheno- include congenital heart disease, intellectual disability, types caused by a gene dosage effect [3–6]. Meanwhile, developmental abnormity and dysmorphic features [2]. under limited circumstances partial monosomy 21 and partial trisomy 21 have been found to provide better * Correspondence: [email protected] understanding on the genotype-phenotype association of Genetics Laboratory, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1122 NE chromosome 21 [7–10]. Phenotypes with partial 13th Street, Suite 1400, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Li et al. Molecular Cytogenetics (2018) 11:42 Page 2 of 8 duplication or deletion of chromosome 21q are found to CGH microarray be highly variable among patients For instance, a child Fresh blood samples were collected for this study and with Intellectual disability and dysmorphologic features genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral white of DS but without congenital heart disease was found to blood cells according to our standard operating using have a 2.78-Mb duplication on chromosome 21q22.11 Nucleic Acid Isolation System (QuickGene-610 L, FUJI- [11]. Partial deletion of 21q21.1 are found to be associ- FILM Corporation, Tokyo, Japan). Patient D1’s CGH ated with intellectual disability while deletion of microarray was performed on a 385-K oligonucleotide 21q22.11 are considered associated with neurobehavioral chip and all other samples were performed on a CGH disorder [8]. Despite the efforts to link DS clinical fea- 720 K Whole-Genome Tiling v3.0 array (Roche Nimble- tures with genes and regions, the association map reso- Gen, Inc., Madison, WI) according to the manufacturer’s lution is low and details still remain incomplete. protocol with minor modifications. As an internal Instead of trying to find a DSCR, our study focused on hybridization control for each experiment, an opposite finding specific genotype-phenotype associations by in- sex DNA came from normal population individuals vestigating rare patients which involved a partial CNV pooled use as reference DNA (Promega Corporation, on chromosome 21. Advancements in technology in Madison, WI). Both the patients’ DNA and reference comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) microarray DNA were labeled with either Cyanine 3 (Cy-3) or enable laboratory to identify copy number variations Cyanine 5 (Cy-5) by random priming (Trilink Biotech- (CNVs) on chromosome 21 as small as 10 k base pairs. nologies, San Diego, CA) and then hybridized to the From 2008 to 2018, 2768 samples were collected at the chip via incubation in the MAUI hybridization system Genetics Laboratory at University of Oklahoma Health (Biomicro Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT). After 18 h Sciences Center (OUHSC). During this period, we iden- of hybridization at 42 °C, slides were washed and tified six patients with partial duplication and seven pa- scanned using an MS200 (Roche NimbleGen, Inc.). Nim- tients with partial deletion of chromosome 21. Among bleScan version 2.4 and the SignalMap version 1.9 were 13 patients with CNVs, two patients are related while applied for data analysis (NimbleGen System Inc., Madi- others are independent. In this study, we report the mo- son, WI). CGH microarray results were analyzed refer- lecular and clinical relationship of chromosomal imbal- ring to University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) ance on chromosome 21 and compare our results with Genome Browser (GRCh37/hg19) (http://genome.ucsc. current public data and literature to provide new way to edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway). Frequently affected regions that naming patient with certain phenotypes. were recently identified as copy number polymorphisms were excluded from data analysis according to the Methods Chromosome Number Variation (CNV) database in our Patients lab and genomic variants in human genome (Build 37). The study was approved by the Institutional Review Variants of interest were compared to disease-causing Board (IRB) of the University of Oklahoma. IRB number genes in DECIPHER v8.7 (Database of Chromosomal was 5938 and the reference number was 670,840. Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Retrospectively, 2768 pediatric patients sample were col- Resources) (decipher.sanger.ac.uk/index), DGV (Database lected from 2008 to 2018 at the Genetics Laboratory at of Genomic Variants) (dgv.tcag.ca/dgv/app/home), OUHSC. In-house software was developed to extract ClinVar (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar)andOMIM CNVs based on the following criteria: (www.omim.org). The patient’s clinical phenotype and var- iants of interest were compared with available information 1. CNVs only on chromosome 21, exclude whole from published reports. chromosome 21 duplication/deletion and concurrent CNVs on other chromosomes. Results 2. CNV length larger than 100 kb. Duplications 3. CNV mean log2 ratio absolute value larger than 0.3. Six patients (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6) were identified 4. CNV not overlap with common CNVs and with duplication on chromosome 21. The size of segmental duplication regions. chromosome 21 duplications ranged from 0.1 Mb to 1.2 Mb (Table 1, Fig. 1, and Additional file 1: Figure S1). After filtration, CNVs were manually curated to elim- Among the duplications, one CNV at 21q21.1 was ma- inate false positive cases based on background signal ternally inherited by patient S3 from patient S4 and pre- noise. A total of 13 samples were identified, six samples sented in another unrelated patient (S1) that includes displayed partial duplication and seven samples showed the CXADR gene (Figs. 1 and 2). These three patients partial deletion. The clinical information of the patients share the phenotype of developmental delay while pa- is summarized in Table 1. tient S3 also demonstrated pulmonary stenosis and Li et al. Molecular Cytogenetics (2018) 11:42 Page 3 of 8 Table 1 Molecular profile of patients Patient # Sex Age at study Chr21 location (hg19) Gain/Loss Size of CNVs (Mb) Clinical features DECIPHER280573 F 14y 18,582,895-18,983,265 Gain 0.4 DD, Intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly, alopecia S4 F 32 y 18,776,205-19,072,251 Gain 0.3 DD, Mother of S3 S1 M 2 y 18,781,100-18,885,813