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Dealing with the incidental finding of secondary variants by the example of SRNS patients undergoing targeted next-generation sequencing.
Pediatric Nephrology 2016 January
BACKGROUND: Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) is a severe cause of progressive renal disease. Genetic forms of SRNS can present with autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant inheritance. Recent studies have identified mutations in multiple podocyte genes responsible for SRNS. Improved sequencing methods (next-generation sequencing, NGS) now promise rapid mutational testing of SRNS genes.
METHODS: In the present study, a simultaneous screening of ten SRNS genes in 37 SRNS patients was performed by NGS.
RESULTS: In 38 % of the patients, causative mutations in one SRNS gene were found. In 22 % of the patients, in addition to these mutations, a secondary variant in a different gene was identified.
CONCLUSIONS: This high incidence of accumulating sequence variants was unexpected but, although they might have modifier effects, the pathogenic potential of these additional sequence variants seems unclear so far. The example of molecular diagnostics by NGS in SRNS patients shows that these new sequencing technologies might provide further insight into molecular pathogenicity in genetic disorders but will also generate results, which will be difficult to interpret and complicate genetic counseling. Although NGS promises more frequent identification of disease-causing mutations, the identification of causative mutations, the interpretation of incidental findings and possible pitfalls might pose problems, which hopefully will decrease by further experience and elucidation of molecular interactions.
METHODS: In the present study, a simultaneous screening of ten SRNS genes in 37 SRNS patients was performed by NGS.
RESULTS: In 38 % of the patients, causative mutations in one SRNS gene were found. In 22 % of the patients, in addition to these mutations, a secondary variant in a different gene was identified.
CONCLUSIONS: This high incidence of accumulating sequence variants was unexpected but, although they might have modifier effects, the pathogenic potential of these additional sequence variants seems unclear so far. The example of molecular diagnostics by NGS in SRNS patients shows that these new sequencing technologies might provide further insight into molecular pathogenicity in genetic disorders but will also generate results, which will be difficult to interpret and complicate genetic counseling. Although NGS promises more frequent identification of disease-causing mutations, the identification of causative mutations, the interpretation of incidental findings and possible pitfalls might pose problems, which hopefully will decrease by further experience and elucidation of molecular interactions.
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