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Case Reports
. 2019 Oct;179(10):2119-2123.
doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61302. Epub 2019 Aug 1.

Parental gonadal but not somatic mosaicism leading to de novo NFIX variants shared by two brothers with Malan syndrome

Miroslava Hancarova  1 , Marketa Havlovicova  1 , Martina Putzova  2 , Jan Vseticka  3 , Darina Prchalova  1 , Viktor Stranecky  4 , Zdenek Sedlacek  1
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Parental gonadal but not somatic mosaicism leading to de novo NFIX variants shared by two brothers with Malan syndrome

Miroslava Hancarova et al. Am J Med Genet A. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

The importance of gonadal mosaicism in families with apparently de novo mutations is being increasingly recognized. We report on two affected brothers initially suggestive of X-linked or autosomal recessive inheritance. Malan syndrome due to shared NFIX variants was diagnosed in the brothers using exome sequencing. The boys shared the same paternal but not maternal haplotype around NFIX, and deep amplicon sequencing showed ~7% of the variant in paternal sperm but not in paternal blood and saliva. We performed review of previous cases of gonadal mosaicism, which suggests that the phenomenon is not uncommon. Gonadal mosaicism is often not accompanied by somatic mosaicism in tissues routinely used for testing, and if both types of mosaicism are present, the frequency of the variant in sperm is often higher than in somatic cells. In families with shared apparently de novo variants without evidence of parental somatic mosaicism, the transmitting parent may be determined through haplotyping of exome variants. Gonadal mosaicism has important consequences for recurrence risks and should be considered in genetic counseling in families with de novo variants.

Keywords: NFIX; Malan syndrome; de novo recurrence; gonadal mosaicism; somatic mosaicism.

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