Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD)and Becker muscular dystrophy(BMD)are caused by mutations in the DMD gene.The aim of this study is to identify pathogenic DMD variants in probands and reduce the risk of recurrence of t...Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD)and Becker muscular dystrophy(BMD)are caused by mutations in the DMD gene.The aim of this study is to identify pathogenic DMD variants in probands and reduce the risk of recurrence of the disease in affected families.Variations in 100 unrelated DMD/BMD patients were detected by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification(MLPA)and next-generation sequencing(NGS).Pathogenic variants in DMD were successfully identified in all cases,and 11 of them were novel.The most common mutations were intragenic deletions(69%),with two hotspots located in the 5'end(exons 2–19)and the central of the DMD gene(exons 45–55),while point mutations were observed in 22%patients.Further,c.1149+1G>A and c.1150?2A>G were confirmed by hybrid minigene splicing assay(HMSA).This two splice site mutations would lead to two aberrant DMD isoforms which give rise to severely truncated protein.Therefore,the clinical use of MLPA,NGS,and HMSA is an effective strategy to identify variants.Importantly,eight embryos were terminated pregnancies according to prenatal diagnosis and a healthy boy was successfully delivered by preimplantation genetic diagnosis(PGD).Early and accurate genetic diagnosis is essential for prenatal diagnosis/PGD to reduce the risk of recurrence of DMD in affected families.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFC1000703)the Medicine and Health Science and Technology Plan Projects in Zhejiang Province(No.2014KYA246)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81801441 and 81300532)
文摘Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD)and Becker muscular dystrophy(BMD)are caused by mutations in the DMD gene.The aim of this study is to identify pathogenic DMD variants in probands and reduce the risk of recurrence of the disease in affected families.Variations in 100 unrelated DMD/BMD patients were detected by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification(MLPA)and next-generation sequencing(NGS).Pathogenic variants in DMD were successfully identified in all cases,and 11 of them were novel.The most common mutations were intragenic deletions(69%),with two hotspots located in the 5'end(exons 2–19)and the central of the DMD gene(exons 45–55),while point mutations were observed in 22%patients.Further,c.1149+1G>A and c.1150?2A>G were confirmed by hybrid minigene splicing assay(HMSA).This two splice site mutations would lead to two aberrant DMD isoforms which give rise to severely truncated protein.Therefore,the clinical use of MLPA,NGS,and HMSA is an effective strategy to identify variants.Importantly,eight embryos were terminated pregnancies according to prenatal diagnosis and a healthy boy was successfully delivered by preimplantation genetic diagnosis(PGD).Early and accurate genetic diagnosis is essential for prenatal diagnosis/PGD to reduce the risk of recurrence of DMD in affected families.
