RESUMO
O estudo citogenético convencional em uma menina com aniridia esporádica resultou em uma aparente translocaçäo balanceada t(11;13)(p13;q33) de novo. Entretanto, o estudo citogenético pela hibridaçäo in situ fluorescente (FISH) detectou a presença de uma deleçäo críptica 11p13p14, incluindo a regiäo WAGR e envolvendo aproximadamente 7.5 Mb de DNA, deletando os genes PAX6 e WT1. Estes resultados correlacionam-se com o quadro clínico da paciente e a coloca em alto risco de desenvolver tumor de Wilms. A ausência de retardo mental na paciente indica que a posiçäo distal do ponto de quebra poderá refinar o mapeamento do locus retardo mental na síndrome de genes contíguos WAGR (Wilms, aniridia, anomalias genitais e retardo mental).
Assuntos
Humanos , Feminino , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Aniridia/genética , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Deleção Cromossômica , Síndrome WAGR/genéticaRESUMO
A de novo complex chromosome rearrangement (CCR) involving chromosomes 1, 6, 7, 15 and Y was detected in a boy with mental retardation, short stature, and microcephaly. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) with whole chromosome painting libraries, band-specific cosmids and telomeric probes was essential for the characterisation of the rearrangement. The CCR was shown to be the result of at least nine chromosomal breaks and involved the alternating insertion of two segments of the short arm of chromosome 1 and two segments of the long arm of chromosome 6 into a novel derived chromosome 7. A non-reciprocal translocation between the distal short arm of the same chromosome 7 and the distal long arm of the Y chromosome was also found, together with a paracentric inversion of the long arm of chromosome 15. The only detectable imbalance was a deletion of the heterochromatic Yq telomeric region. FISH investigations in this case have revealed an additional complexity in this CCR, which has implications for reproductive risk assessment and genetic counselling.
