Identification of Uncommon Recurrent Potocki-Lupski Syndrome
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Please cite this article in press as: Zhang et al., Identification of Uncommon Recurrent Potocki-Lupski Syndrome-Associated Duplications and the Distribution of Rearrangement Types and Mechanisms in..., The American Journal of Human Genetics (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.02.001 REPORT Identification of Uncommon Recurrent Potocki-Lupski Syndrome-Associated Duplications and the Distribution of Rearrangement Types and Mechanisms in PTLS Feng Zhang,1,8 Lorraine Potocki,1,3 Jacinda B. Sampson,4 Pengfei Liu,1 Amarilis Sanchez-Valle,1 Patricia Robbins-Furman,1 Alicia Delicado Navarro,5 Patricia G. Wheeler,6 J. Edward Spence,7 Campbell K. Brasington,7 Marjorie A. Withers,1 and James R. Lupski1,2,3,* Nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR) can mediate recurrent rearrangements in the human genome and cause genomic disor- ders. Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) and Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS) are genomic disorders associated with a 3.7 Mb deletion and its reciprocal duplication in 17p11.2, respectively. In addition to these common recurrent rearrangements, an uncommon recurrent 5 Mb SMS-associated deletion has been identified. However, its reciprocal duplication predicted by the NAHR mechanism had not been identified. Here we report the molecular assays on 74 subjects with PTLS-associated duplications, 35 of whom are newly investi- gated. By both oligonucleotide-based comparative genomic hybridization and recombination hot spot analyses, we identified two cases of the predicted 5 Mb uncommon recurrent PTLS-associated duplication. Interestingly, the crossovers occur in proximity to a recently delineated allelic homologous recombination (AHR) hot spot-associated sequence motif, further documenting the common hot spot features shared between NAHR and AHR. An additional eight subjects with nonrecurrent PTLS duplications were identified. The smallest region of overlap (SRO) for all of the 74 PTLS duplications examined is narrowed to a 125 kb interval containing only RAI1, a gene recently further implicated in autism. Sequence complexities consistent with DNA replication-based mechanisms were identified in four of eight (50%) newly identified nonrecurrent PTLS duplications. Our findings of the uncommon recurrent PTLS-associated dupli- cation at a relative prevalence reflecting the de novo mutation rate and the distribution of 17p11.2 duplication types in PTLS reveal insights into both the contributions of new mutations and the different underlying mechanisms that generate genomic rearrangements causing genomic disorders. Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS [MIM 610883]) is a of the human chromosome 17 (17p), rendering 17p recently recognized, 17p11.2 duplication-associated con- susceptible to genomic instability and genomic rearrange- dition with clinical features including infantile hypotonia, ments.10 In addition to the common deletion and duplica- failure to thrive, mental retardation, autism, behavioral tion rearrangements associated with SMS and PTLS, respec- abnormalities, sleep apnea, and structural cardiovascular tively, another recurrent 17p deletion that occurs less anomalies.1,2 The 3.7 Mb common type of PTLS-associated frequently than the common SMS deletion, i.e., an duplication is reciprocal to a common 17p11.2 deletion uncommon recurrent SMS deletion, has been observed to observed in association with Smith-Magenis syndrome result from NAHR utilizing alternative LCR substrates (SMS [MIM 182290]).3 Our previous molecular studies LCR17pA and LCR17pD (Figure 1).11,12 The NAHR mecha- demonstrated that these common duplication and deletion nism predicts a reciprocal duplication to this uncommon rearrangements are caused by the nonallelic homologous recurrent SMS deletion. Interestingly, evidence from recombination (NAHR) between the paralogous sequence sperm-based assays has revealed that this uncommon repeats, distal and proximal SMS-REPs (Figure 1).4–6 These recurrent 17p duplication occurs de novo at a frequency long (>200 kb) repeat sequences with high similarity of 8.74 3 10À7 in male gametes,13 suggesting its potential (>97%), i.e., low-copy repeats (LCRs) or segmental duplica- existence in live-born individuals. However, this specific tions (SDs), are vulnerable to NAHR.7–9 NAHR between duplication type, which is uncommon but predicted to direct LCRs or SDs can lead to reciprocal deletion and dupli- be recurrent, has never been detected in the PTLS subjects cation, whereas inversion of a genomic segment can occur of our previous investigations or in those of other groups. when flanking inverted LCRs act as substrates.7,8 NAHR- In this study we report two subjects with the uncommon associated events can result in recurrent rearrangements recurrent PTLS duplication, demonstrate the anticipated with a common size and clustered breakpoints.8 NAHR mechanism, show the proximity of the specific Serial segmental duplications during primate evolution strand exchanges to a recently described homologous led to the complex genomic architecture of the short arm recombination (HR) ‘‘hot spot’’ motif, determine the size 1Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; 2Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medi- cine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; 3Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA; 4Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA; 5Seccio´n de Gene´tica Me´dica, Hospital Universitario La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain; 6Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Nemours Children’s Clinic, Orlando, FL 32806, USA; 7Clinical Genetics, Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC 28232, USA; 8State Key Labo- ratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China *Correspondence: [email protected] DOI 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.02.001. ª2010 by The American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved. The American Journal of Human Genetics 86, 1–9, March 12, 2010 1 AJHG 582 Please cite this article in press as: Zhang et al., Identification of Uncommon Recurrent Potocki-Lupski Syndrome-Associated Duplications and the Distribution of Rearrangement Types and Mechanisms in..., The American Journal of Human Genetics (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.02.001 Figure 1. Identification of Two 5 Mb Uncommon +2 Recurrent PTLS-Associated Duplications uncommon +1 High-resolution oligonucleotide aCGH analyses re- SMS del 0 vealed the recurrent SMS- and PTLS-associated rear- ~5 Mb -1 rangements mediated by NAHR between the LCRs -2 on 17p. The following abbreviations are used: dele- tion, del; duplication, dup. The green (loss), black +2 (no change), and red (gain) dots show the relative common +1 intensities in log2ratio (deviation from horizontal SMS del 0 line of zero) and genomic locations of the oligonu- ~3.7 Mb -1 cleotide probes employed in our aCGH assay. -2 The regions that lack unique probes correspond to 15.0 Mb 16.0 Mb 17.1 Mb 18.2 Mb 19.2 Mb 20.3 Mb 21.4 Mb the LCRs. The 3.7 Mb common rearrangements are didistal t l SMSSMS-REP REP middleiddl SMSSMS-REP REP proximal i l SMSSMS-REP REP 17p mediated by the distal and proximal SMS-REPs de- LCR17pA RAI1 LCR17pD picted on the horizontal black lines representing proximal chromosome 17p, whereas the recombina- +2 +1 tions between LCR17pA and LCR17pD lead to the common PTLS dup 0 5 Mb uncommon recurrent rearrangements. The regions with copy number gains are indicated with ~3.737Mb Mb -1 red horizontal bars, and the losses are shown in -2 green. The known copy number polymorphisms uncommon +2 are indicated by arrows. PTLS dup ~5 Mb +1 BAB 2808 0 -1 -2 identified two subjects (2808 and 2959) with +2 copy number gain of the 5 Mb region located +1 BAB 2959 0 between LCR17pA and LCR17pD. These find- -1 ings are consistent with the predicted -2 uncommon recurrent 17p duplication (Fig- ure 1). This duplicated region includes the RAI1 (retinoic acid inducible 1 [MIM 607642]) distribution and type of PTLS-associated duplications, and gene that is responsible for SMS, as evidenced by deletion furthermore glean insights into the contribution of de mapping,15 and loss-of-function point mutations in non- novo mutations and different rearrangement mechanisms deletion patients.16 RAI1 is also considered to be the prime to genomic disorders. candidate dosage-sensitive gene causing PTLS, based upon mouse experiments that rescue the majority of the duplica- Identification of 5 Mb Uncommon Recurrent tion-associated phenotype by restoring this gene to PTLS-Associated Duplication disomic (n ¼ 2) copy number in the segmental trisomy To investigate the hypothesis that the reciprocal duplica- model.17 This interval also encompasses the entire tion to the uncommon recurrent SMS deletion can also 3.7 Mb region of the common PTLS duplication (Figure 1). lead to PTLS and to study the size distribution of the PTLS-associated duplications in 17p, we designed a high- NAHR Hot Spot Analyses of Uncommon Recurrent density oligonucleotide-based microarray for comparative PTLS-Associated Duplication genomic hybridization (CGH) assay to finely examine Recurrent deletion and duplication rearrangements result the location, size, genomic content, and breakpoint from NAHR between LCR substrate pairs.7,8 Notably, NAHR interval of the PTLS-associated 17p rearrangements. This strand exchanges are not randomly distributed across the array is based on the Agilent 4 3 44K format. Approxi- homologous LCR regions but occur predominantly within