Diagnosis of patients with Prader-Willi and Angelman Syndromes: the importance of an overall investigation

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Monica Castro Varela¹  Cintia Fridman¹  Célia Priszkulnik Koiffmann¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências Departamento de BiologiaSão Paulo SP ,Brasil

关键词: Angelman syndrome;    Prader-Willi syndrome;    diagnosis;    15q deletion;    uniparental disomy;    genomic imprinting;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1415-47572002000100003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Seventy-two patients with clinical diagnoses of Prader-Willi (PWS; n = 28 patients) or Angelman syndromes (AS; n = 44 patients) were submitted to chromosome analysis, SNRPN-SNURF exon 1 methylation assay, and microsatellite genotyping. Analysis of the methylation pattern confirmed the PWS diagnosis in 18 out of 28 patients and the AS diagnosis in 20 out of 44 patients. FISH and microsatellite analysis detected a deletion in 30 patients (14 PWS and 16 AS). Eight patients had normal FISH results (4 PWS and 4 AS); microsatellite markers showed that these patients had a uniparental disomy (UPD). Based on this study, we propose a strategy for the routine diagnosis of these syndromes that consists of the following steps: 1) methylation analysis, which does not require parental samples; 2) microsatellite genotyping of patient and parents to differentiate deletions, UPD and imprinting mutations; and 3) FISH for otherwise uninformative cases, and whenever parental samples are not available. Of the 34 patients whose PWS or AS diagnoses were not confirmed by laboratory tests, five presented a small extra marker chromosome, identified in three of them as an inv dup(15). One AS patient carried a balanced t(15;15) translocation associated with paternal UPD. Therefore G-banded chromosome analysis should be performed on all such patients, to detect possible structural rearrangements.

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