In the course of chromosome studies of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima using the trypsin-G-banding and Q-banding methods, a 40-year-old male was found to have an abnormal banding pattern in the long arm of a chromosome 7, although no such abnormality was detected by ordinary staining method. Since all other chromosomes apparently had normal banding patterns, the abnormality was determined to be a paracentric inversion of a chromosome 7, which is described as 46, XY, inv (7) (q22q31). This is the first demonstration of a possible paracentric inversion in man.
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BMC Pediatr
January 2025
Department of Prenatal Diagnosis, Women's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Women and Children's Healthcare Hospital, 123 Tianfei Alley, Nanjing, 210004, People's Republic of China.
Background: Chromosomal inversions are underappreciated causes of rare diseases given their detection, resolution, and clinical interpretation remain challenging. Heterozygous mutations in the MEIS2 gene cause an autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by intellectual disability, cleft palate, congenital heart defect, and facial dysmorphism at variable severity and penetrance.
Case Presentation: Herein, we report a Chinese girl with intellectual disability, developmental delay, and congenital heart defect, in whom G-banded karyotype analysis identified a de novo paracentric inversion 46,XX, inv(15)(q15q26.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
Inversions are balanced structural variants that often remain undetected in genetic diagnostics. We present a female proband with a de novo Chromosome 15 paracentric inversion, disrupting MEIS2 and NUSAP1. The inversion was detected by short-read genome sequencing and confirmed with adaptive long-read sequencing.
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January 2025
School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia.
Chromosomal inversions can preserve combinations of favorable alleles by suppressing recombination. Simultaneously, they reduce the effectiveness of purifying selection enabling deleterious alleles to accumulate. This study explores how areas of low recombination, including centromeric regions and chromosomal inversions, contribute to the accumulation of deleterious and favorable loci in 225 Mangifera indica genomes from the Australian Mango Breeding Program.
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September 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Background: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked disorder caused by mutations in the DMD gene, with large deletions being the most common type of mutation. Inversions involving the DMD gene are a less frequent cause of the disorder, largely because they often evade detection by standard diagnostic methods such as multiplex ligation probe amplification (MLPA) and whole exome sequencing (WES).
Case Presentation: Our research identified two intrachromosomal inversions involving the dystrophin gene in two unrelated families through Long-read sequencing (LRS).
Cytogenet Genome Res
October 2024
Departamento de Biología Molecular y Genómica, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Introduction: Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are diverse and can be explained by either genomic aberrations or single nucleotide variants. Most likely due to methodological approaches and/or disadvantages, the concurrence of both genetic events in a single patient has hardly been reported and even more rarely the pathogenic variant has been regarded as the cause of the phenotype when a chromosomal alteration is initially identified.
Case Presentation: Here, we describe a NDD patient with a 6p nonpathogenic paracentric inversion paternally transmitted and a de novo pathogenic variant in the GRIN2B gene.
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