Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 35, Issue 12, Pages 1469-1475Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22692
Keywords
neurofibromatosis type 1; NF1 microdeletions; nonallelic homologous recombination; mutational mechanism; microduplication
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KE/12-1, KE/7-2]
- Children's Tumor Foundation
- UAB Medical Genomics Laboratory
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Approximately 5% of all patients with neurofibromatosis type-1 (NF1) exhibit large deletions of the NF1 gene region. To date, only nine unrelated cases of large NF1 duplications have been reported, with none of the affected patients exhibiting multiple cafe au lait spots (CALS), Lisch nodules, freckling, or neurofibromas, the hallmark signs of NF1. Here, we have characterized two novel NF1 duplications, one sporadic and one familial. Both index patients with NF1 duplications exhibited learning disabilities and atypical CALS. Additionally, patient R609021 had Lisch nodules, whereas patient R653070 exhibited two inguinal freckles. The mother and sister of patient R609021 also harbored the NF1 duplication and exhibited cognitive dysfunction but no CALS. The breakpoints of the nine NF1 duplications reported previously have not been identified and hence their underlying generative mechanisms have remained unclear. In this study, we performed high-resolution breakpoint analysis that indicated that the two duplications studied were mediated by nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR) and that the duplication breakpoints were located within the NAHR hotspot paralogous recombination site 2 (PRS2), which also harbors the type-1 NF1 deletion breakpoints. Hence, our study indicates for the first time that NF1 duplications are reciprocal to type-1 NF1 deletions and originate from the same NAHR events.
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