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GENOME RESEARCH
卷 28, 期 12, 页码 1779-1790出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.239186.118
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资金
- Wellcome multiuser grant [99148]
- Wellcome Trust [091182, 102731, 105361]
- Simons Foundation [332759]
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Programme
- Wellcome program grant
- EU-FP7 project BLUEPRINT [282510]
- Medical Research Council (MRC) through the WIMM Strategic Alliance [G0902418, MC_UU_12025]
- Wellcome grant [090532]
- MRC [MR/L003120/1, G0902418] Funding Source: UKRI
Mosaic mutations present in the germline have important implications for reproductive risk and disease transmission. We previously demonstrated a phenomenon occurring in the male germline, whereby specific mutations arising spontaneously in stem cells (spermatogonia) lead to clonal expansion, resulting in elevated mutation levels in sperm over time. This process, termed selfish spermatogonial selection, explains the high spontaneous birth prevalence and strong paternal age-effect of disorders such as achondroplasia and Apert, Noonan and Costello syndromes, with direct experimental evidence currently available for specific positions of six genes (FGFR2, FGFR3, RET, PTPNII, HRAS, and IRAs). We present a discovery screen to identify novel mutations and genes showing evidence of positive selection in the male germline, by performing massively parallel simplex PCR using RainDance technology to interrogate mutational hotspots in 67 genes (51.5 kb in total) in 276 biopsies of testes from five men (median age, 83 yr). Following ultradeep sequencing (about 16,000x), development of a low-frequency variant prioritization strategy, and targeted validation, we identified 61 distinct variants present at frequencies as low as 0.06%, including 54 variants not previously directly associated with selfish selection. The majority (80%) of variants identified have previously been implicated in developmental disorders and/or oncogenesis and include mutations in six newly associated genes (BRAF, CBL, MAP2K1, MAP2K2, RAFT, and SOS1), all of which encode components of the RASMAPK pathway and activate signaling. Our findings extend the link between mutations dysregulating the RAS-MAPK pathway and selfish selection, and show that the aging male germline is a repository for such deleterious mutations.
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