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Complex rearrangements in patients with duplications of MECP2 can occur by fork stalling and template switching
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2009Registro en:
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS, v.18, n.12, p.2188-2203, 2009
0964-6906
10.1093/hmg/ddp151
Autor
CARVALHO, Claudia M. B.
ZHANG, Feng
LIU, Pengfei
PATEL, Ankita
SAHOO, Trilochan
BACINO, Carlos A.
SHAW, Chad
PEACOCK, Sandra
PURSLEY, Amber
TAVYEV, Y. Jane
RAMOCKI, Melissa B.
NAWARA, Magdalena
OBERSZTYN, Ewa
VIANNA-MORGANTE, Angela M.
STANKIEWICZ, Pawel
ZOGHBI, Huda Y.
CHEUNG, Sau Wai
LUPSKI, James R.
Institución
Resumen
Duplication at the Xq28 band including the MECP2 gene is one of the most common genomic rearrangements identified in neurodevelopmentally delayed males. Such duplications are non-recurrent and can be generated by a non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) mechanism. We investigated the potential mechanisms for MECP2 duplication and examined whether genomic architectural features may play a role in their origin using a custom designed 4-Mb tiling-path oligonucleotide array CGH assay. Each of the 30 patients analyzed showed a unique duplication varying in size from similar to 250 kb to similar to 2.6 Mb. Interestingly, in 77% of these non-recurrent duplications, the distal breakpoints grouped within a 215 kb genomic interval, located 47 kb telomeric to the MECP2 gene. The genomic architecture of this region contains both direct and inverted low-copy repeat (LCR) sequences; this same region undergoes polymorphic structural variation in the general population. Array CGH revealed complex rearrangements in eight patients; in six patients the duplication contained an embedded triplicated segment, and in the other two, stretches of non-duplicated sequences occurred within the duplicated region. Breakpoint junction sequencing was achieved in four duplications and identified an inversion in one patient, demonstrating further complexity. We propose that the presence of LCRs in the vicinity of the MECP2 gene may generate an unstable DNA structure that can induce DNA strand lesions, such as a collapsed fork, and facilitate a Fork Stalling and Template Switching event producing the complex rearrangements involving MECP2.