Simultaneous Screening of the FRAXA and FRAXE Loci for Rapid Detection of FMR1 CGG and/or AFF2 CCG Repeat Expansions by Triplet-Primed PCR.

The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics : JMD
Timing LiuSamuel S Chong

Abstract

Moderate to hyper-expansion of trinucleotide repeats at the FRAXA and FRAXE fragile sites, with or without concurrent hypermethylation, has been associated with intellectual disability and other conditions. Unlike molecular diagnosis of FMR1 CGG repeat expansions in FRAXA, current detection of AFF2 CCG repeat expansions in FRAXE relies on low-throughput and otherwise inefficient techniques combining Southern blot analysis and PCR. A novel triplet-primed PCR assay was developed for simultaneous screening for trinucleotide repeat expansions at the FRAXA and FRAXE fragile sites, and was validated using archived clinical samples of known FMR1 and AFF2 genotypes. Population samples and FRAXE-affected samples were sequenced for the evaluation of variations in the AFF2 CCG repeat structure. The duplex assay accurately identified expansions at the FMR1 and AFF2 trinucleotide repeat loci. On Sanger sequencing of the AFF2 CCG repeat, the single-nucleotide polymorphism variant rs868914124(C) that effectively adds two CCG repeats at the 5'-end, was enriched in the Malay population and with short repeats (<11 CCGs), and was present in all six expanded AFF2 alleles of this study. All expanded AFF2 alleles contained multiple non-CCG interrupt...Continue Reading

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