Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models.
Rare copy number variants (CNVs) are frequently associated with common neurological disorders such as mental retardation (MR; learning disability), autism, and schizophrenia. CNV screening in clinical practice is limited because pathological CNVs cannot be distinguished routinely from benign CNVs, a...
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| author | Caleb Webber Jayne Y Hehir-Kwa Duc-Quang Nguyen Bert B A de Vries Joris A Veltman Chris P Ponting |
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| description | Rare copy number variants (CNVs) are frequently associated with common neurological disorders such as mental retardation (MR; learning disability), autism, and schizophrenia. CNV screening in clinical practice is limited because pathological CNVs cannot be distinguished routinely from benign CNVs, and because genes underlying patients' phenotypes remain largely unknown. Here, we present a novel, statistically robust approach that forges links between 148 MR-associated CNVs and phenotypes from approximately 5,000 mouse gene knockout experiments. These CNVs were found to be significantly enriched in two classes of genes, those whose mouse orthologues, when disrupted, result in either abnormal axon or dopaminergic neuron morphologies. Additional enrichments highlighted correspondences between relevant mouse phenotypes and secondary presentations such as brain abnormality, cleft palate, and seizures. The strength of these phenotype enrichments (>100% increases) greatly exceeded molecular annotations (<30% increases) and allowed the identification of 78 genes that may contribute to MR and associated phenotypes. This study is the first to demonstrate how the power of mouse knockout data can be systematically exploited to better understand genetically heterogeneous neurological disorders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c718760a2b8d411d96b15c1d69e302b52022-12-21T22:20:36ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Genetics1553-73901553-74042009-06-0156e100053110.1371/journal.pgen.1000531Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models.Caleb WebberJayne Y Hehir-KwaDuc-Quang NguyenBert B A de VriesJoris A VeltmanChris P PontingRare copy number variants (CNVs) are frequently associated with common neurological disorders such as mental retardation (MR; learning disability), autism, and schizophrenia. CNV screening in clinical practice is limited because pathological CNVs cannot be distinguished routinely from benign CNVs, and because genes underlying patients' phenotypes remain largely unknown. Here, we present a novel, statistically robust approach that forges links between 148 MR-associated CNVs and phenotypes from approximately 5,000 mouse gene knockout experiments. These CNVs were found to be significantly enriched in two classes of genes, those whose mouse orthologues, when disrupted, result in either abnormal axon or dopaminergic neuron morphologies. Additional enrichments highlighted correspondences between relevant mouse phenotypes and secondary presentations such as brain abnormality, cleft palate, and seizures. The strength of these phenotype enrichments (>100% increases) greatly exceeded molecular annotations (<30% increases) and allowed the identification of 78 genes that may contribute to MR and associated phenotypes. This study is the first to demonstrate how the power of mouse knockout data can be systematically exploited to better understand genetically heterogeneous neurological disorders.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2694283?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Caleb Webber Jayne Y Hehir-Kwa Duc-Quang Nguyen Bert B A de Vries Joris A Veltman Chris P Ponting Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. PLoS Genetics |
| title | Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. |
| title_full | Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. |
| title_fullStr | Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. |
| title_short | Forging links between human mental retardation-associated CNVs and mouse gene knockout models. |
| title_sort | forging links between human mental retardation associated cnvs and mouse gene knockout models |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2694283?pdf=render |
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