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ArticleGenetics research international2014

Clinical Presentation and Microarray Analysis of Peruvian Children with Atypical Development and/or Aberrant Behavior.

Merlin G Butler, Kelly Usrey, Jennifer L Roberts, Stephen R Schroeder, Ann M Manzardo

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Article in Genetics research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Merlin G ButlerDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS 4015, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA ; Kansas University Center on Development Disabilities, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Institute, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Kelly UsreyDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS 4015, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Jennifer L RobertsDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS 4015, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Stephen R SchroederDepartment of Pediatrics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Ann M ManzardoDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS 4015, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9283-7809
University of Kansas Medical Center · USUniversity of Kansas · US

Funding

Research Design and Analysis Core (RDAC)P30HD002528 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE · PI FOWLER, STEPHEN CLETIUS · 1985 to 2015
$22.1M
Early Prevention of Aberrant Behavior in Neurodevelopmental Disorders in PeruR21HD060500 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE · PI SCHROEDER, STEPHEN ROBERT · 2010 to 2011
$261k
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD002528NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD060500
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report our experience with high resolution microarray analysis in infants and young children with developmental disability and/or aberrant behavior enrolled at the Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru in Lima, Peru, a low income country. Buccal cells were collected with cotton swabs from 233 participants for later DNA isolation and identification of copy number variation (deletions/duplications) and regions of homozygosity (ROH) for estimating consanguinity status in 15 infants and young children (12 males, 3 females; mean age ± SD = 28.1 m ±  7.9 m; age range 14 m-41 m) randomly selected for microarray analysis. An adequate DNA yield was found in about one-half of the enrolled participants. Ten participants showed deletions or duplications containing candidate genes reported to impact behavior or cognitive development. Five children had ROHs which could have harbored recessive gene alleles contributing to their clinical presentation. The coefficient of inbreeding was calculated and three participants showed first-second cousin relationships, indicating consanguinity. Our preliminary study showed that DNA isolated from buccal cells using cotton swabs was suboptimal, but yet in a subset of participants the yield was adequate for high resolution microarray analysis and several genes were found that impact development and behavior and ROHs identified to determine consanguinity status.

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PMID25400949
PMCPMC4221906
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