皮质发育不良
外显子组测序
生殖系
体细胞
生物
外显子组
遗传学
深度测序
癫痫
种系突变
基因
表型
基因组
神经科学
突变
作者
Yan Xu,Rui Zhao,Min Wang,Xinhua Wang,Yi Wang,Hao Li,Yangyang Ma,Bingbing Wu,Yuanfeng Zhou
摘要
Focal cortical dysplasia type 2 (FCD2) is a malformation of cortical development that constitutes a common cause of pediatric focal epilepsy. Germline or somatic variants in the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway genes are the pathogenesis of FCD2.In this study, whole-exome deep sequencing was performed on dysplastic cortex from focal epilepsy in children to explore genetic characteristics in FCD2.Resected core lesions of FCD2 were confirmed by pathology, and peripheral blood was collected from 11 patients. Deep whole-exome sequencing (>500X) was performed on derived genomic DNA, germline, or somatic variants in brain-specific genes were analyzed and identified.In 11 patients, a heterozygous likely pathogenic germline variant of DEPDC5 was identified in one case, while somatic variants were found in four brain samples. The frequencies of the somatic variant allele were 2.52%-5.12%. Somatic variants in AKT3, TSC2, and MTOR (mTOR signaling pathway genes) were found in three samples. Besides, one somatic variant was detected in MED12 which has not been reported to associate with FCD2.Our study expanded the variant spectrum in the mTOR-GATOR pathway, and also detected a somatic variant in MED12 which was potentially associated with FCD 2.
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