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CLINICAL GENETICS
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 443-460Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cge.14398
Keywords
Bardet-Biedl syndrome; India; next generation sequencing; oligogenic inheritance; variation spectrum
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In this study, the genetic profile of 108 BBS patients from India was investigated. Higher frequencies of BBS10 and BBS1 gene variations were observed, along with the identification of a potentially novel gene, TSPOAP1. This study contributes to the understanding of BBS genetics in the Indian population and highlights the importance of molecular testing in affected patients.
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a rare primary form of ciliopathy, with heterogeneous clinical and genetic presentation is characterized by rod cone dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, urogenital abnormalities, and cognitive impairment. Here, we delineate the genetic profile in a cohort of 108 BBS patients from India by targeted gene sequencing-based approach for a panel of ciliopathy (including BBS) and other inherited retinal disease genes. We report here a higher frequency of BBS10 and BBS1 gene variations. A different spectrum of variations including a putatively novel gene TSPOAP1, for BBS was identified. Increased percentage frequency of digenic variants (36%) in the disease cohort, role of modifiers in familial cases are some of the salient observations in this work. This study appends the knowledge of BBS genetics pertaining to patients from India. We observed a different molecular epidemiology of BBS patients in this study cohort compared to other reports, which emphasizes the need for molecular testing in affected patients.
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