scholarly journals Contribution of Rare Germline Copy Number Variants and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms to Familial Colorectal Cancer

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. iv166
Author(s):  
R.A. Rios Villacis ◽  
E.M. Santos ◽  
B.M. Rossi ◽  
D.M. Carraro ◽  
L.P. Kowalski ◽  
...  
BMC Genomics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie E Fowler ◽  
Ricardo Pong-Wong ◽  
Julien Bauer ◽  
Emily J Clemente ◽  
Christopher P Reitter ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venuja Sriretnakumar ◽  
Clement C. Zai ◽  
Syed Wasim ◽  
Brianna Barsanti-Innes ◽  
James L. Kennedy ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia (SCZ) remain unclear. SCZ genetic studies thus far have only identified numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms with small effect sizes and a handful of copy number variants (CNVs). This study investigates the prevalence of well-characterized CNV syndromes and candidate CNVs within a cohort of 348 SCZ patients, and explores correlations to their phenotypic findings. There was an enrichment of syndromic CNVs in the cohort, as well as brain-related and immune pathway genes within the detected CNVs. SCZ patients with brain-related CNVs had increased CNV burden, neurodevelopmental features, and types of hallucinations. Based on these results, we propose a CNV-SCZ model wherein specific phenotypic profiles should be prioritized for CNV screening within the SCZ patient population.


2020 ◽  
pp. 218-235
Author(s):  
Paweł Stankiewicz ◽  
James R. Lupski

The first phase of the studies on genetic variation in humans has been focused on single nucleotide polymorphisms and common variation. The large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms identified has enabled successful genome-wide association studies for disease susceptibility risk of complex traits (e.g. diabetes and cancer), but for the most part has had limited practical applications in clinical medicine. This chapter examines the recent technological developments which have enabled a higher-resolution analysis of the human genome and its extensive submicroscopic structural variation, including copy-number variants. Copy-number variants involving dosage-sensitive genes result in several diseases and contribute to human diversity and evolution. An emerging group of genetic diseases have been described that result from DNA rearrangements (e.g. copy-number variants and other structural variations including copy-number neutral inversions and translocations), rather than from single nucleotide changes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1381-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Frank ◽  
M. Hoffmeister ◽  
N. Klopp ◽  
T. Illig ◽  
J. Chang-Claude ◽  
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