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Genetic Alterations in Gorlin Syndrome
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Morita, Kei-ichi Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tanimoto, Kousuke Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Yasukawa, Chisato Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Oikawa, Yu Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Inazawa, Johji Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Omura, Ken Tokyo Medical and Dental University|Tokyo General Hospital
Harada, Hiroyuki Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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Journal Article
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Gorlin syndrome (GS) is an autosomal dominant disorder that predisposes affected individuals to developmental defects and tumorigenesis, and caused mainly by heterozygous germline PTCH1 mutations. Despite exhaustive analysis, PTCH1 mutations are often unidentifiable in some patients; the failure to detect mutations is presumably because of mutations occurred in other causative genes or outside of analyzed regions of PTCH1, or copy number alterations (CNAs). In this study, we subjected a cohort of GS-affected individuals from six unrelated families to next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis for the combined screening of causative alterations in Hedgehog signaling pathway-related genes. Specific single nucleotide variations (SNVs) of PTCH1 causing inferred amino acid changes were identified in four families (seven affected individuals), whereas CNAs within or around PTCH1 were found in two families in whom possible causative SNVs were not detected. Through a targeted resequencing of all coding exons, as well as simultaneous evaluation of copy number status using the alignment map files obtained via NGS, we found that GS phenotypes could be explained by PTCH1 mutations or deletions in all affected patients. Because it is advisable to evaluate CNAs of candidate causative genes in point mutation-negative cases, NGS methodology appears to be useful for improving molecular diagnosis through the simultaneous detection of both SNVs and CNAs in the targeted genes/regions.
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PLOS ONE
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19326203
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PLOS
Volume
10
Issue
11
Start Page
e0140480
Published Date
2015-11-06
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© 2015 Morita et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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