ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2016
Copy-Number Variation Contributes to the Mutational Load of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.
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- SCAPER localizes to primary cilia and its mutation affects cilia length, causing Bardet-Biedl syndrome.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2019Trial
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- Ciliary Defects in Inherited Retinal Diseases.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Review
- CEP76 impairment at the centrosome-cilium interface contributes to a spectrum of ciliopathies.Science advances · 2025Article
- Hyperphagia in Bardet-Biedl syndrome: Pathophysiology, burden, and management.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Human asthenozoospermia: Update on genetic causes, patient management, and clinical strategies.Andrology · 2025Review
- Defective IFT57 underlies a novel cause of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.Human molecular genetics · 2025Article
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- The expanding landscape of genetic causes of obesity.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Characterizing Homozygous Variants in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome-Associated Genes Within Iranian Families: Unveiling a Founder Variant in BBS2, c.471G>A.Biochemical genetics · 2025Article
- Genome-Based Advances in Modeling Renal Ciliopathies and Enhancing Patient Care.Kidney & blood pressure research · 2025Review
- Intraflagellar transport: A critical player in photoreceptor development and the pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Review
- Spermatocytes have the capacity to segregate chromosomes despite centriole duplication failure.EMBO reports · 2024Article
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- Defective airway intraflagellar transport underlies a combined motile and primary ciliopathy syndrome caused by IFT74 mutations.Human molecular genetics · 2023Article
- Exome sequencing in a Romanian Bardet-Biedl syndrome cohort revealed an overabundance of causal BBS12 variants.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a defining ciliopathy, notable for extensive allelic and genetic heterogeneity, almost all of which has been identified through sequencing. Recent data have suggested that copy-number variants (CNVs) also contribute to BBS. We used a custom oligonucleotide array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) covering 20 genes that encode intraflagellar transport (IFT) components and 74 ciliopathy loci to screen 92 unrelated individuals with BBS, irrespective of their known mutational burden. We identified 17 individuals with exon-disruptive CNVs (18.5%), including 13 different deletions in eight BBS genes (BBS1, BBS2, ARL6/BBS3, BBS4, BBS5, BBS7, BBS9, and NPHP1) and a deletion and a duplication in other ciliopathy-associated genes (ALMS1 and NPHP4, respectively). By contrast, we found a single heterozygous exon-disruptive event in a BBS-associated gene (BBS9) in 229 control subjects. Superimposing these data with resequencing revealed CNVs to (1) be sufficient to cause disease, (2) Mendelize heterozygous deleterious alleles, and (3) contribute oligogenic alleles by combining point mutations and exonic CNVs in multiple genes. Finally, we report a deletion and a splice site mutation in IFT74, inherited under a recessive paradigm, defining a candidate BBS locus. Our data suggest that CNVs contribute pathogenic alleles to a substantial fraction of BBS-affected individuals and highlight how either deletions or point mutations in discrete splice isoforms can induce hypomorphic mutations in genes otherwise intolerant to deleterious variation. Our data also suggest that CNV analyses and resequencing studies unbiased for previous mutational burden is necessary to delineate the complexity of disease architecture.
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