IMR Press / JIN / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.31083/j.jin2002039
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Identification of genetic variants in a pedigree associated with epilepsy by using whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing
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1 Department of Neurology, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, 475000 Kaifeng, Henan, China
2 School of Pharmacy, Henan University, 475000 Kaifeng, Henan, China
3 Translational Medicine Center, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, 475000 Kaifeng, Henan, China
*Correspondence: lxh80726@126.com (Xu-Hong Lin); hndxal@163.com (Lei An)
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2021, 20(2), 393–397; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin2002039
Submitted: 10 September 2020 | Revised: 21 December 2020 | Accepted: 23 February 2021 | Published: 30 June 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract

Epilepsy is a common heterogeneous group of neurological disorders including electroencephalographic and brain imaging. We used whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing to identify variants in a pedigree associated with epilepsy. Cranium CT scan showed that the lateral right parietal lobe was hyperdense, and there were no clear boundaries with brain tissue in affected cases. Using WES, one exclusive nonsynonymous mutant in gene TSC2 (Chr16:2138307; c.5240 T > G; p.Ile1747Ser) was involved in this disease. Further analysis showed that de novo variant in TSC2 was high conserved across different species. Moreover, the two affected sisters and their father had the same compound heterozygous variants in TSC2, while the father had no epilepsy but depigmentation. These variants demonstrated that variant in TSC2 may result in epilepsy with incomplete penetrance in humans, and the CNV and SV variants we identified probably be involved in this disease.

Keywords
Epilepsy
Variant
TSC2
Sequencing
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