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Quantifying the contribution of recessive coding variation to developmental disorders

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Martin, Hilary C., Jones, Wendy D., McIntyre, Rebecca, Sanchez-Andrade, Gabriela, Sanderson, Mark, Stephenson, James D., Jones, Carla P., Handsaker, Juliet +32 more·2018·Science

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Genetic architecture of developmental disorders: The genetics of developmental disorders (DDs) is complex. Martin et al. wanted to determine the degree of recessive inheritance of DDs in protein-coding genes. They examined the exomes of more than 6000 families in populations with high and low proportions of consanguineous marriages. They found that 3.6% of DDs in individuals of European ancestry involved recessive coding disorders, less than a tenth of the levels previously estimated. Furthermore, among South Asians with high parental relatedness, rather than most of the disorders arising from inherited variants, fewer than half had a recessive coding diagnosis. Science , this issue p. 1161

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  • Recessive variants account for up to 30% of cases in consanguineous families.

    “Recessive variants account for a small fraction of idiopathic ASD (Gamsiz et al., 2013) and developmental delay, but they account for a larger proportion (up to 30%) of cases in consanguineous families (Martin et al., 2018).”

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  • About 42-48% of patients with severe developmental disorder have a pathogenic de novo mutation in a protein-coding gene.

    “It has previously been estimated that ~42-48% of patients with a severe developmental disorder (DD) have a pathogenic de novo mutation (DNM) in a protein coding gene1,2.”
  • Known developmental-disorder-associated genes explain only a minority of the observed excess of de novo mutations.

    “However, known DD-associated genes only account for a minority of the observed excess of such DNMs1,2.”

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Martin, H. C., Jones, W. D., McIntyre, R., Sanchez-Andrade, G., Sanderson, M., Stephenson, J. D., Jones, C. P., Handsaker, J., Gallone, G., Bruntraeger, M., McRae, J. F., Prigmore, E., Short, P., Niemi, M., Kaplanis, J., Radford, E. J., Akawi, N., Balasubramanian, M., Dean, J., Horton, R., Hulbert, A., Johnson, D. S., Johnson, K., Kumar, D., Lynch, S. A., Mehta, S. G., Morton, J., Parker, M. J., Splitt, M., Turnpenny, P. D., Vasudevan, P. C., Wright, M., Bassett, A., Gerety, S. S., Wright, C. F., FitzPatrick, D. R., Firth, H. V., Hurles, M. E., Barrett, J. C., & Study, O. B. O. T. D. D. D.
Affiliations
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • National Health Service (GB)
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Northern General Hospital (GB)
  • Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (GB)
  • Princess Anne Hospital (GB)
  • Liverpool Women's Hospital (GB)
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
  • University Hospital of Wales (GB)
  • Temple Street Children's University Hospital (IE)
  • Birmingham Women's Hospital (GB)
  • Sheffield Children's Hospital (GB)
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • Leicester Royal Infirmary (GB)
  • University of Exeter (GB)
  • Western General Hospital (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Martin, Hilary C.
  • Barrett, Jeffrey C.
Venue
Science
Published
2018-12-07
Volume
362
Issue
6419
Pages
1161-1164
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2762779950
Cited by
201
References
91
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by-nd
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  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nd)
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  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (acceptedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Royal Devon and Exeter Research Repository (Royal Devon and Exeter) (submittedVersion)
  • Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (WT098051)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Keywords
developmental disorders, recessive inheritance, consanguinity, genetic architecture, exome sequencing, European ancestry, South Asian populations, heritability
MeSH terms
Animals, Developmental Disabilities, Disease Models, Animal, Europe, Genes, Recessive, Genetic Code, Humans, Nuclear Proteins, Pakistan, Phylogeny, Repressor Proteins, Genetic Variation, Penetrance, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3, Mice, Genome-Wide Association Study, Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases

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