title: Duplication of 11p14.3-p15.1 in a mentally retarded proband and his mother detected by G-banding and confirmed by high-resolution CGH and BAC FISH.
abstract: A 10-year-old African-American male has been followed since 2 years of age due to his mental retardation, severe behavioral problems, and dysmorphism. Conventional cytogenetic analysis, chromosome painting, high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization (HR-CGH), and bacterial artificial chromosome fluorescent in situ hybridization (BAC FISH) revealed an apparent duplication in the short arm of a chromosome 11, dup(11)(p14.3p15.1), seen also in his mentally retarded mother. The proband had moderate to severe mental retardation, a history of IUGR, infantile hypotonia, FTT, exotropia, inguinal hernia repair, and several dysmorphic features. His mother had mild mental retardation, a history of impulsivity, assaultive outbursts, and similar dysmorphism. Although G-banding and FISH indicated a duplication, HR-CGH confined the localization of material to bands 11p14-11p15 and aided the selection of locus-specific BAC clones to more precisely characterize the duplicated region. To our knowledge, the results represent the first example of a familial, cytogenetically visible duplication of euchromatin in 11p that excludes the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome critical region. It is possible that one or more genes had been disrupted at the breakpoints of the above structural chromosomal rearrangement giving rise to the present phenotype.
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. hwyandt@bu.edu
authors.forename: Herman E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Wyandt
authors.forename: Sung Han
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Shim
authors.forename: Hon Fong L
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Mark
authors.forename: Xin Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jeff M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Milunsky
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding / Q000379:methods; D025063:Chromosome Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 / Q000235:genetics*; D020732:Cytogenetic Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D020440:Gene Duplication; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization / Q000379:methods; D010375:Pedigree