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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12763-9
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- Fondation Maladies rares
- Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris (APHP)
- INSERM
- Investissements d'Avenir programme [ANR-10-IAIHU-06]
- University Duisburg-Essen
- University Hospital Essen
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program [GNT1054618]
- NHMRC [GNT1102971]
- Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program
- NHMRC Independent Research Institute Infrastructure Support Scheme (IRIISS)
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Familial Adult Myoclonic Epilepsy (FAME) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by cortical tremor and seizures. Intronic TTTTA/TTTCA repeat expansions in SAMD12 (FAME1) are the main cause of FAME in Asia. Using genome sequencing and repeat-primed PCR, we identify another site of this repeat expansion, in MARCH6 (FAME3) in four European families. Analysis of single DNA molecules with nanopore sequencing and molecular combing show that expansions range from 3.3 to 14 kb on average. However, we observe considerable variability in expansion length and structure, supporting the existence of multiple expansion configurations in blood cells and fibroblasts of the same individual. Moreover, the largest expansions are associated with micro-rearrangements occurring near the expansion in 20% of cells. This study provides further evidence that FAME is caused by intronic TTTTA/TTTCA expansions in distinct genes and reveals that expansions exhibit an unexpectedly high somatic instability that can ultimately result in genomic rearrangements.
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