Screening for exonic copy number mutations at MSH2 and MLH1 by MAPH

Akrami, Seyed Mohammad, Dunlop, Malcolm G., Farrington, Susan M., Frayling, Ian Martin, MacDonald, Fiona, Harvey, John F. and Armour, John A. L. 2005. Screening for exonic copy number mutations at MSH2 and MLH1 by MAPH. Familial Cancer 4 (2) , pp. 145-149. 10.1007/s10689-004-6131-3

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Abstract

Background: Exonic deletions in MSH2 and MLH1 are significant contributors to the mutation spectrum in HNPCC, and heterozygous changes in exon copy number are not detected by conventional mutation screening methods. Aims: We aimed to develop methods for screening copy number changes in all the exons of the MLH1 and MSH2 genes using a single multiplex amplifiable probe hybridisation (MAPH) assay. Methods: We developed a probe set consisting of probes from the 19 exons of MLH1 and 16 exons of MSH2, and 3 control probes, and applied it to screening for deletions and duplications using fluorescent detection of amplified fragments. Results: We tested 73 DNA samples from controls and 50 from HNPCC patients in whom no point mutations had been found, and detected 10 copy number changes among the patient samples. A deletion of about 1.4 kb including exon 3 of MSH2 was confirmed by amplification of a junction fragment, and was shown to be the result of an unequal recombination between intronic Alu elements. Conclusions: MAPH can detect exonic copy number changes in MLH1 and MSH2 in DNA from HNPCC patients. Since finding an exonic deletion or duplication makes full sequence analysis unnecessary, it may be most cost-effective to pre-screen samples by MAPH or MLPA before screening for point mutations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	colorectal cancer; copy number; HNPCC; MAPH; MLPA
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1389-9600
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 07:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/70107

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