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ArticleHuman mutation2022

Short amplicon reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction detects aberrant splicing in genes with low expression in blood missed by ribonucleic acid sequencing analysis for clinical diagnosis.

Htoo A Wai, Matthew Constable, Cosima Drewes, Ian C Davies, Eliska Svobodova, Esther Dempsey, Anand Saggar, Tessa Homfray, Sahar Mansour, Sofia Douzgou and 5 more

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Article in Human mutation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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15 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Htoo A WaiHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3560-6980
Matthew ConstableHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Cosima DrewesHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Ian C DaviesHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Eliska SvobodovaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Esther DempseyDepartment of Clinical Genetics, St George's University of London, London, UK.
Anand SaggarDepartment of Clinical Genetics, St George's University of London, London, UK.
Tessa HomfrayDepartment of Clinical Genetics, St George's University of London, London, UK.
Sahar MansourDepartment of Clinical Genetics, St George's University of London, London, UK.
Sofia DouzgouManchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Health Innovation Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Kate BarrBristol Regional Clinical Genetics Service, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol, UK.
Catherine MercerDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
David HuntHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Andrew G L DouglasHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Diana BaralleHuman Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3217-4833
Southampton General Hospital · GBSt George's, University of London · GBMasaryk University · CZManchester Academic Health Science Centre · GBSt Michael's Hospital · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/18/79/33932
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Use of blood RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) as a splicing analysis tool for clinical interpretation of variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) found via whole-genome and exome sequencing can be difficult for genes that have low expression in the blood due to insufficient read count coverage aligned to specific genes of interest. Here, we present a short amplicon reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) for the detection of genes with low blood expression. Short amplicon RT-PCR, is designed to span three exons where an exon harboring a variant is flanked by one upstream and one downstream exon. We tested short amplicon RT-PCRs for genes that have median transcripts per million (TPM) values less than one according to the genotype-tissue expression database. Median TPM values of genes analyzed in this study are SYN1 = 0.8549, COL1A1 = 0.6275, TCF4 = 0.4009, DSP = .2894, TTN = 0.2851, COL5A2 = 0.1036, TERT = 0.04452, NTRK2 = 0.0344, ABCA4 = 0.00744, PRPH = 0, and WT1 = 0. All these genes show insufficient exon-spanning read coverage in our RNA-seq data to allow splicing analysis. We successfully detected all genes tested except PRPH and WT1. Aberrant splicing was detected in SYN1, TCF4, NTRK2, TTN, and TERT VUSs. Therefore, our results show short amplicon RT-PCR is a useful alternative for the analysis of splicing events in genes with low TPM in blood RNA for clinical diagnostics.

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Alternative SplicingRNAATP-Binding Cassette TransportersHumansReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse TranscriptionRNA SplicingABCA4 protein, humanATP-Binding Cassette TransportersRNAaberrant splicingblood RNARNA-seqRT-PCRVUS

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PMID35476365
PMCPMC9325405
OpenAlexW4225005232

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