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Name of saved search:
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type="text"
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Search terms:
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<label class="action-panel-label">
Email:
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Frequency:
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Which day?
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Your RSS Feed
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Create RSS
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data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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Previous studies have shown that approximately 55% of patients with familial pulmonary arterial hypertension (FPAH) have BMPR2 coding sequence mutations. However, direct sequencing does not detect other types of heterozygous mutations, such as exonic deletions/duplications.
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To estimate the frequency of BMPR2 exonic deletions/duplications in FPAH.
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BMPR2 mRNA from lymphoblastoid cell lines of 30 families with PAH and 14 patients with idiopathic PAH (IPAH) was subjected to reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and sequencing. Sequencing of genomic DNA was used to identify point mutations in splice donor/acceptor sites. Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) was used to detect exonic deletions/duplications with verification by real-time PCR.
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Eleven (37%) patients with FPAH had abnormally sized RT-PCR products. Four of the 11 patients were found to have splice-site mutations resulting in aberrant splicing, and exonic deletions/duplications were detected in the remaining seven patients. MLPA identified three deletions/duplications that were not detectable by RT-PCR. Coding sequence point mutations were identified in 11 of 30 (37%) patients. Mutations were identified in 21 of 30 (70%) patients with FPAH, with 10 of 21 mutations (48%) being exonic deletions/duplications. Two of 14 (14%) patients with IPAH exhibited BMPR2 point mutations, whereas none showed exonic deletions/duplications.
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Our study indicates that BMPR2 exonic deletions/duplications in patients with FPAH account for a significant proportion of mutations (48%) that until now have not been screened for. Because the complementary approach used in this study is rapid and cost effective, screening for BMPR2 deletions/duplications by MLPA and real-time PCR should accompany direct sequencing in all PAH testing.
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><i>BMPR2</i> cDNA sequence and multiplex ligation-dependent amplification (MLPA) analysis of Family 12 showing deletion of exon 2. (<i>A</i>) The absence of exon 2 in the mutant allele with splicing of exon 1 directly to exon 3 detected by sequencing of the gel-purified mutant reverse transcriptasepolymerase chain reaction product. (<i>B</i>) MLPA tracing for an affected individual from Family 12 (<i>top tracing</i>) demonstrating a reduction in the exon 2 peak (<i>asterisk</i>) as compared with a normal control (<i>bottom tracing</i>). This approximate 50% reduction in peak intensity is indicative of a heterozygous deletion of exon 2 at the genomic DNA level.</div>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents">Splicing mutations in Family 68 and Family 76 resulting in partial deletions of exon 2 due to use of cryptic donor sites. (<i>A</i>) Heterozygous G-to-T substitution at the 6th position of intron 2 (247+6T &gt; G) detected in the genomic DNA of an affected individual of Family 68. (<i>B</i>) Heterozygous deletion of the 2nd base of intron 2 (247+1delC) detected in Family 76. (<i>C</i>) The sequence of exon 2 (<i>uppercase</i>) and a portion of the sequence of IVS2 (<i>lowercase</i>). The normal IVS2 splice donor site (gc) is indicated by the <i>green arrow</i>. The positions of the IVS2 donor splice-site mutations are <i>boxed</i> for Families 68 (+6T &gt; G) and 76 (+2delC). The exon 2 cryptic donor splice sites used as a result of the splice donor mutations are marked by <i>red arrows</i> and <i>blue arrows</i>. There is a cryptic donor site with a score of 0.85 (<i>blue arrow</i>) that seems to be used over the mutated donor splice site. A second cryptic donor site upstream of the first with a score of 0.65 (<i>red arrow</i>) also seems to be used, though to a lesser extent. Cryptic GT splice sites were scored using NNSPLICE (<ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html">www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html</ext-link>).</div>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><i>BMPR2</i> cDNA (<i>A</i>) and genomic DNA sequence (<i>B</i>) of Family 67. As seen in <i>A</i>, cDNA sequencing identified a mutant transcript lacking exons 8 and 9. Genomic DNA sequencing (<i>B</i>) revealed a heterozygous G &gt; T substitution at the first base of intron 8 (1128+1G &gt; T), causing the aberrant splicing.</div>
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