Shortfall of exome analysis for diagnosis of Shwachman‐Diamond syndrome: Mismapping due to the pseudogene SBDSP1
- 15 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
- Vol. 182 (7), 1631-1636
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.61598
Abstract
Shwachman‐Diamond syndrome characterized by metaphyseal dysplasia, pancreatic insufficiency, and pancytopenia is caused by biallelic mutations in SBDS. Gene conversion between SBDS and its pseudogene SBDSP1 is the major cause. Here, we report two unrelated patients with Shwachman‐Diamond syndrome who were shown to be compound heterozygotes for relatively frequent pathogenic alleles (the 258+2T>C allele and another allele composed of 183‐184TA>CT and 201A>G) using an established polymerase chain reaction sequencing assay with SBDS‐specific primers. Exome analysis of the patients showed discrepant results: 258+2T>C with variant allele frequency around 0.85, and no variants detected for the 183‐184TA>CT allele. Parental exome analysis of the two families further supported this notion. Confronted with two patients with an unexpected segregation pattern, we performed a transcriptome analysis of peripheral blood‐derived mRNA to demonstrate that the results were compatible with those obtained using SBDS‐specific PCR primers. Both alleles could be accounted for by gene conversion events. The diagnostic discrepancy can be accounted for by a decreased efficiency in the computational mapping of the reads with 183‐184TA>CT and 201A>G to the reference sequence of the SBDS locus during exome analysis. This report highlights the pitfall of exome analysis for genes with pseudogenes, such as SBDS and the alternative use of RNA‐seq is recommended to circumvent this problem.Keywords
Funding Information
- Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists by JSPS KAKENHI (JP19K17342)
- Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (JP17ek0109151)
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