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Whole Exome Sequencing of 23 Multigeneration Idiopathic Scoliosis Families Reveals Enrichments in Cytoskeletal Variants, Suggests Highly Polygenic Disease.

Elizabeth A Terhune, Cambria I Wethey, Melissa T Cuevas, Anna M Monley, Erin E Baschal, Morgan R Bland, Robin Baschal, G Devon Trahan, Matthew R G Taylor, Kenneth L Jones and 1 more

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Article in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth A TerhuneDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Cambria I WetheyDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Melissa T CuevasDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Anna M MonleyDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1287-6275
Erin E BaschalDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8936-434X
Morgan R BlandDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Robin BaschalDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
G Devon TrahanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Matthew R G TaylorDepartment of Medicine, Adult Medical Genetics Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9043-0810
Kenneth L JonesDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Nancy Hadley MillerDepartment of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · USChildren's Hospital Colorado · USUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · US

Funding

Familial idiopathic scoliosis: gene discovery and functional studiesR01AR068292 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI HADLEY-MILLER, NANCY · 2015 to 2019
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NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR068292NIH HHS R01AR068292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a lateral spinal curvature >10° with rotation that affects 2-3% of healthy children across populations. AIS is known to have a significant genetic component, and despite a handful of risk loci identified in unrelated individuals by GWAS and next-generation sequencing methods, the underlying etiology of the condition remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed exome sequencing of affected individuals within 23 multigenerational families, with the hypothesis that the occurrence of rare, low frequency, disease-causing variants will co-occur in distantly related, affected individuals. Bioinformatic filtering of uncommon, potentially damaging variants shared by all sequenced family members revealed 1448 variants in 1160 genes across the 23 families, with 132 genes shared by two or more families. Ten genes were shared by >4 families, and no genes were shared by all. Gene enrichment analysis showed an enrichment of variants in cytoskeletal and extracellular matrix related processes. These data support a model that AIS is a highly polygenic disease, with few variant-containing genes shared between affected individuals across different family lineages. This work presents a novel resource for further exploration in familial AIS genetic research.

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Multifactorial InheritancePolymorphism, GeneticCytoskeletonExome SequencingExtracellular MatrixHumansPedigreeQuantitative Trait LociScoliosiscytoskeletonexome sequencingextracellular matrixidiopathic scoliosismusculoskeletal diseasepolygenicspinevariants

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PMID34208743
PMCPMC8235452
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