Integration of targeted sequencing and NIPT into clinical practice in a Chinese family with maple syrup urine disease.
Genet Med
; 16(8): 594-600, 2014 Aug.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24603436
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
This article demonstrates a prominent noninvasive prenatal approach to assist the clinical diagnosis of a single-gene disorder disease, maple syrup urine disease, using targeted sequencing knowledge from the affected family.METHODS:
The method reported here combines novel mutant discovery in known genes by targeted massively parallel sequencing with noninvasive prenatal testing.RESULTS:
By applying this new strategy, we successfully revealed novel mutations in the gene BCKDHA (Ex2_4dup and c.392A>G) in this Chinese family and developed a prenatal haplotype-assisted approach to noninvasively detect the genotype of the fetus (transmitted from both parents).CONCLUSION:
This is the first report of integration of targeted sequencing and noninvasive prenatal testing into clinical practice. Our study has demonstrated that this massively parallel sequencing-based strategy can potentially be used for single-gene disorder diagnosis in the future.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Prenatal Diagnosis
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Amino Acids, Branched-Chain
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
Language:
En
Journal:
Genet Med
Journal subject:
GENETICA MEDICA
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China