Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness.
Whole exome sequencing provides unprecedented opportunities to identify causative DNA variants in rare Mendelian disorders. Finding the responsible mutation via traditional methods in families with hearing loss is difficult due to a high degree of genetic heterogeneity. In this study we combined aut...
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| author | Asli Sirmaci Yvonne J K Edwards Hatice Akay Mustafa Tekin |
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| description | Whole exome sequencing provides unprecedented opportunities to identify causative DNA variants in rare Mendelian disorders. Finding the responsible mutation via traditional methods in families with hearing loss is difficult due to a high degree of genetic heterogeneity. In this study we combined autozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing in a family with 3 affected children having nonsyndromic hearing loss born to consanguineous parents. Two novel missense homozygous variants, c.508C>A (p.H170N) in GIPC3 and c.1328C>T (p.T443M) in ZNF57, were identified in the same ∼6 Mb autozygous region on chromosome 19 in affected members of the family. Both variants co-segregated with the phenotype and were absent in 335 ethnicity-matched controls. Biallelic GIPC3 mutations have recently been reported to cause autosomal recessive nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss. Thus we conclude that the hearing loss in the family described in this report is caused by a novel missense mutation in GIPC3. Identified variant in GIPC3 had a low read depth, which was initially filtered out during the analysis leaving ZNF57 as the only potential causative gene. This study highlights some of the challenges in the analyses of whole exome data in the bid to establish the true causative variant in Mendelian disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f5ae1afe24e47039241c7fde351b0112022-12-21T20:25:46ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0172e3200010.1371/journal.pone.0032000Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness.Asli SirmaciYvonne J K EdwardsHatice AkayMustafa TekinWhole exome sequencing provides unprecedented opportunities to identify causative DNA variants in rare Mendelian disorders. Finding the responsible mutation via traditional methods in families with hearing loss is difficult due to a high degree of genetic heterogeneity. In this study we combined autozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing in a family with 3 affected children having nonsyndromic hearing loss born to consanguineous parents. Two novel missense homozygous variants, c.508C>A (p.H170N) in GIPC3 and c.1328C>T (p.T443M) in ZNF57, were identified in the same ∼6 Mb autozygous region on chromosome 19 in affected members of the family. Both variants co-segregated with the phenotype and were absent in 335 ethnicity-matched controls. Biallelic GIPC3 mutations have recently been reported to cause autosomal recessive nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss. Thus we conclude that the hearing loss in the family described in this report is caused by a novel missense mutation in GIPC3. Identified variant in GIPC3 had a low read depth, which was initially filtered out during the analysis leaving ZNF57 as the only potential causative gene. This study highlights some of the challenges in the analyses of whole exome data in the bid to establish the true causative variant in Mendelian disease.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3283682?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Asli Sirmaci Yvonne J K Edwards Hatice Akay Mustafa Tekin Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. PLoS ONE |
| title | Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. |
| title_full | Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. |
| title_fullStr | Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. |
| title_short | Challenges in whole exome sequencing: an example from hereditary deafness. |
| title_sort | challenges in whole exome sequencing an example from hereditary deafness |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3283682?pdf=render |
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