Gene Constraint and Genotype-phenotype Correlations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Genet Dev

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2020 Jun 30

PMID 32599522

Citations 6

Authors

Catalina Betancur

Joseph D Buxbaum

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Abstract

With the advent and widespread adoption of high-throughput DNA sequencing, genetic discoveries in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are advancing very rapidly. The identification of novel NDD genes and of rare, highly penetrant pathogenic variants is leading to improved understanding of genotype-phenotype correlations. Here we emphasize the importance of large-scale, reference databases such as gnomAD to determine gene and variant level constraints and facilitate gene discovery, variant interpretation, and genotype-phenotype correlations. While the majority of dominant NDD genes are highly intolerant to variation, some apparent exceptions in reference databases are related to the presence of variants in transcripts that are not brain expressed and/or genes that show acquired somatic mosaicism in blood. Multiple NDD genes are being identified where varying phenotypes depend on the mode of inheritance (e.g., dominant or recessive), the nature (e.g., missense or truncating), or location of the mutation. Ongoing genome-wide analyses and targeted functional studies provide enhancements to the annotation of genes, gene products and variants, which will continue to facilitate gene and variant discovery and variant interpretation.

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