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Rapid Genetic Diagnosis for Okinawan Patients with Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Using Single-Stranded Tag Hybridization Chromatographic Printed-Array Strip

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11041099

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Pendred syndrome; enlarged vestibular aqueduct; rapid diagnosis; Okinawan patients

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Both Pendred syndrome and nonsyndromic hearing loss with an enlarged vestibular aqueduct are caused by SLC26A4 pathogenic variants. The study found that the spectrum of SLC26A4 pathogenic variants varies with the ethnic background. A novel genotyping method using STH-PAS technology was able to accurately identify the most common pathogenic variants in EVA patients in Okinawa, providing a rapid genetic diagnosis with high diagnostic rate.
Both Pendred syndrome (PS) and nonsyndromic hearing loss with an enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) are autosomal recessive disorders caused by SLC26A4 pathogenic variants. The spectrum of SLC26A4 pathogenic variants varies with the ethnic background. Among the patients with EVA in Okinawa, 94% had some combination of NM_000441.2(SLC26A4):c.1707+5G>A and NM_000441.2(SLC26A4):c.2168A>G(p.His723Arg), the two SLC26A4 pathogenic variants that are the most common in this population. We identified these two pathogenic variants using a novel genotyping method that employed an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from a gDNA and single-stranded tag hybridization chromatographic printed-array strip (STH-PAS) in DNA samples obtained from 48 samples in Okinawa, including 34 patients with EVA and 14 carriers of c.1707+5G>A or c.2168A>G. In addition, whole blood and saliva samples were used for analysis in this genotyping method with direct PCR. The results of STH-PAS genotyping were consistent with those obtained using standard Sanger sequencing for all samples. The accuracy of the STH-PAS method is 100% under the optimized conditions. STH-PAS genotyping provided a diagnosis in 30 out of 34 patients (88%) in Okinawan patients with EVA in under 3 h. The turn-around time for STH-PAS genotyping used with direct PCR was 2 h as a result of the omission of the DNA extraction and purification steps. Using information about the ethnic distribution of pathogenic variants in the SLC26A4 gene, STH-PAS genotyping performs a rapid genetic diagnosis that is simple and has a considerably improved efficiency.

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