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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 52, Issue 11, Pages 1145-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0707-1
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- NIH [GM121317-13, HD042601, DK072301, R35GM127131, R01MH101244, U01HG00908, R01 HG004037]
- GENCODE Wellcome Trust [U41 HG007234]
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The influence of genetic background on driver mutations is well established; however, the mechanisms by which the background interacts with Mendelian loci remain unclear. We performed a systematic secondary-variant burden analysis of two independent cohorts of patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) with known recessive biallelic pathogenic mutations in one of 17 BBS genes for each individual. We observed a significant enrichment oftrans-acting rare nonsynonymous secondary variants in patients with BBS compared with either population controls or a cohort of individuals with a non-BBS diagnosis and recessive variants in the same gene set. Strikingly, we found a significant over-representation of secondary alleles in chaperonin-encoding genes-a finding corroborated by the observation of epistatic interactions involving this complex in vivo. These data indicate a complex genetic architecture for BBS that informs the biological properties of disease modules and presents a model for secondary-variant burden analysis in recessive disorders. Analysis of two independent cohorts of patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) with known recessive biallelic pathogenic mutations in one of 17 BBS genes shows an enrichment of rare nonsynonymous secondary variants in the same gene set, with significant over-representation of secondary alleles in chaperonin-encoding genes.
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