• J. Med. Genet. · Sep 2017

    Heterogeneous contribution of microdeletions in the development of common generalised and focal epilepsies.

    • Eduardo Pérez-Palma, Ingo Helbig, Karl Martin Klein, Verneri Anttila, Heiko Horn, Eva Maria Reinthaler, Padhraig Gormley, Andrea Ganna, Andrea Byrnes, Katharina Pernhorst, Mohammad R Toliat, Elmo Saarentaus, Daniel P Howrigan, Per Hoffman, Juan Francisco Miquel, Giancarlo V De Ferrari, Peter Nürnberg, Holger Lerche, Fritz Zimprich, Bern A Neubauer, Albert J Becker, Felix Rosenow, Emilio Perucca, Federico Zara, Yvonne G Weber, and Dennis Lal.
    • Faculty of Biological Sciences and Medicine, Center for Biomedical Research, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
    • J. Med. Genet. 2017 Sep 1; 54 (9): 598-606.

    BackgroundMicrodeletions are known to confer risk to epilepsy, particularly at genomic rearrangement 'hotspot' loci. However, microdeletion burden not overlapping these regions or within different epilepsy subtypes has not been ascertained.ObjectiveTo decipher the role of microdeletions outside hotspots loci and risk assessment by epilepsy subtype.MethodsWe assessed the burden, frequency and genomic content of rare, large microdeletions found in a previously published cohort of 1366 patients with genetic generalised epilepsy (GGE) in addition to two sets of additional unpublished genome-wide microdeletions found in 281 patients with rolandic epilepsy (RE) and 807 patients with adult focal epilepsy (AFE), totalling 2454 cases. Microdeletions were assessed in a combined and subtype-specific approaches against 6746 controls.ResultsWhen hotspots are considered, we detected an enrichment of microdeletions in the combined epilepsy analysis (adjusted p=1.06×10-6,OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.51 to 2.35). Epilepsy subtype-specific analyses showed that hotspot microdeletions in the GGE subgroup contribute most of the overall signal (adjusted p=9.79×10-12, OR 7.45, 95% CI 4.20-13.5). Outside hotspots , microdeletions were enriched in the GGE cohort for neurodevelopmental genes (adjusted p=9.13×10-3,OR 2.85, 95% CI 1.62-4.94). No additional signal was observed for RE and AFE. Still, gene-content analysis identified known (NRXN1, RBFOX1 and PCDH7) and novel (LOC102723362) candidate genes across epilepsy subtypes that were not deleted in controls.ConclusionsOur results show a heterogeneous effect of recurrent and non-recurrent microdeletions as part of the genetic architecture of GGE and a minor contribution in the aetiology of RE and AFE.© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

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