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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 40, Issue 12, Pages 1466-1471Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.279
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL091771-01, R01 HL091771, R01 HL091771-02] Funding Source: Medline
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Chromosome region 1q21.1 contains extensive and complex low-copy repeats, and copy number variants (CNVs) in this region have recently been reported in association with congenital heart defects(1), developmental delay(2,3), schizophrenia and related psychoses(4,5). We describe 21 probands with the 1q21.1 microdeletion and 15 probands with the 1q21.1 microduplication. These CNVs were inherited in most of the cases in which parental studies were available. Consistent and statistically significant features of microcephaly and macrocephaly were found in individuals with microdeletion and microduplication, respectively. Notably, a paralog of the HYDIN gene located on 16q22.2 and implicated in autosomal recessive hydrocephalus(6) was inserted into the 1q21.1 region during the evolution of Homo sapiens(7); we found this locus to be deleted or duplicated in the individuals we studied, making it a probable candidate for the head size abnormalities observed. We propose that recurrent reciprocal microdeletions and microduplications within 1q21.1 represent previously unknown genomic disorders characterized by abnormal head size along with a spectrum of developmental delay, neuropsychiatric abnormalities, dysmorphic features and congenital anomalies. These phenotypes are subject to incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity.
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