| Literature DB >> 29850152 |
Kálmán Benke1,2, Bence Ágg1,2,3, Janine Meienberg4, Anna M Kopps4, Nathalie Fattorini4, Roland Stengl1,2, Noémi Daradics1,2, Miklós Pólos1,2, András Bors5, Tamás Radovits1, Béla Merkely1, Julie De Backer6, Zoltán Szabolcs1,2, Gábor Mátyás4,7.
Abstract
Copy number variations (CNVs) comprise about 10% of reported disease-causing mutations in Mendelian disorders. Nevertheless, pathogenic CNVs may have been under-detected due to the lack or insufficient use of appropriate detection methods. In this report, on the example of the diagnostic odyssey of a patient with Marfan syndrome (MFS) harboring a hitherto unreported 32-kb FBN1 deletion, we highlight the need for and the feasibility of testing for CNVs (>1 kb) in Mendelian disorders in the current next-generation sequencing (NGS) era.Entities:
Keywords: Copy number variations (CNVs); FBN1 gene; Marfan syndrome (MFS); genetic testing; whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
Year: 2018 PMID: 29850152 PMCID: PMC5949468 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.40
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Dis ISSN: 2072-1439 Impact factor: 2.895