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Case Reports
. 2013 Aug;27(2):176-83.
doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.04.011. Epub 2013 May 4.

Successful PGD for late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis achieved by combined chromosome and TPP1 gene analysis

Jiandong Shen  1 , David Stephen Cram, Wei Wu, Lingbo Cai, Xiaoyu Yang, Xueping Sun, Yugui Cui, Jiayin Liu
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Successful PGD for late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis achieved by combined chromosome and TPP1 gene analysis

Jiandong Shen et al. Reprod Biomed Online. 2013 Aug.

Abstract

Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL-2) is a severe debilitating autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in TPP1. There are no effective treatments, resulting in early childhood death. A couple with two affected children presented for reproductive genetic counselling and chose to undertake IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to avoid the possibility of another affected child. However, DNA testing revealed only one mutation in the proband inherited from mother. Linkage analysis identified five informative linked short tandem repeat markers to aid the genetic diagnosis. Following IVF, five cleavage-stage embryos were biopsied and blastomeres were first subjected to whole-genome amplification, then a series of down-stream molecular genetic analyses to diagnose TPP1 genotype and finally array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to assess the chromosomal ploidy of each embryo. Two unaffected euploid embryos were identified for transfer. One was transferred on day 5 resulting in an ongoing pregnancy. Confirmatory prenatal diagnosis by amniocentesis showed concordance of the embryo and fetal diagnosis. As far as is known, this is the first successful report of PGD for NCL-2 using double-factor PGD with simultaneous single-gene testing and array CGH to identify an unaffected and chromosomally normal embryo for transfer.

Keywords: aneuploid screening; array comparative genomic hybridization; fluorescent PCR; late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis; preimplantation genetic diagnosis; whole-genome amplification.

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