Characterization of the c9orf72 GC-rich low complexity sequence in two cohorts of Italian and Turkish ALS cases

Lucia Corrado, Cinzia Tiloca, Clarissa Locci, Alessandra Bagarotti, Hamid Hamzeiy, Claudia Colombrita, Fabiola De marchi, Nadia Barizzone, Diego Cotella, Nicola Ticozzi, Letizia Mazzini, A. Y.S.E. Nazli Basak, Antonia Ratti, Vincenzo Silani, Sandra D’alfonso

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Abstract

Large expansions of a noncoding GGGGCC repeat in the C9orf72 gene are the main cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The GGGGCC repeat is contiguous with another GC-rich region. Recent studies reported a significantly higher frequency of insertions/deletions within the GC-rich region in patients carrying the GGGGCC expansion. A GTGGT motif comprised within the GC-rich region, which joins two 100% GC sequences, was frequently deleted, supporting the hypothesis that these deletions could make the region more prone to slippage and pathological expansion. To confirm this hypothesis, we sequenced the GC-rich region adjacent the GGGGCC repeat in ALS patients, 116 C9orf72 expansion carriers, 219 non-carriers, and 223 healthy controls, from Italian and Turkish cohorts. Deletions were significantly more frequent in C9orf72 expansion carriers (6%) compared to non-carrier ALS patients (0.46%, OR =14.00, 95% CI =1.71–306.59, p = 0.003), to controls (0%, OR =16.29, 95% CI =2.12–725.99, p = 4.86 × 10−4) and to the whole cohort of non-carriers (0.2%, OR =28.51, 95% CI =3.47–618.91, p = 9.58 × 10−5). Among expansion carriers, deletions with or without the GTGGT motif were equally distributed (4 vs. 3). The frequency of insertions was not statistically different between C9orf72 expansion carriers and any other group including the whole cohort of non-carriers (p = 0.439, Fisher’s exact test). Our data confirmed the association between deletions within GC-rich region and the GGGGCC expansion in Italian and Turkish cases, although we did not confirm a role of the GTGGT element deletion. Further studies will be therefore necessary to assess the causal relationships between contiguous deletions of the GC-rich region and the GGGGCC expansion.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)426-431
Numero di pagine6
RivistaAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration
Volume19
Numero di pubblicazione5-6
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 3 lug 2018

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