Abstract
Copy number variants have been associated with intellectual disability, multiple congenital anomalies and craniofacial disorders. It has been reported that microduplication of 15q13.3 is associated with autism, cognitive impairment, seizures, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Here, the author identified microduplications in the 15q13.3 region in 4 cases from 3 Chinese families using chromosomal microarray analysis-single nucleotide polymorphism array (CMA-SNP). These 4 cases include 2 fetuses from 2 unrelated families and a father and a daughter from a third family. The identified microduplications of 15q13.3 are approximately 400 kb in size, encompassing just 1 gene, cholinergic receptor, neuronal nicotinic, alpha polypeptide 7 (CHRNA7). Three-fourths of the probands exhibit oral clefts, which has not been previously reported in cases with this duplication genotype. Therefore, in this study, the author describes for the first time the common feature of oral clefts in patients carrying a microduplication of 15q13.3 encompassing the CHRNA7 gene, which sheds light on the correlation between CHRNA7 and cleft palate.
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