Array comparative genomic hybridization identifies a heterozygous deletion of exon 3 of the RYR2 gen Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=iups20 Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences ISSN: 0300-9734 (Print) 2000-1967 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/iups20 Array comparative genomic hybridization identifies a heterozygous deletion of exon 3 of the RYR2 gene Ivone U. S. Leong, Jennifer Sucich, Debra O. Prosser, Jonathan R. Skinner, Jackie R. Crawford, Colleen Higgins & Donald R. Love To cite this article: Ivone U. S. Leong, Jennifer Sucich, Debra O. Prosser, Jonathan R. Skinner, Jackie R. Crawford, Colleen Higgins & Donald R. 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S. LEONG1, JENNIFER SUCICH1, DEBRA O. PROSSER1, JONATHAN R. SKINNER2,3,4, JACKIE R. CRAWFORD2,3, COLLEEN HIGGINS5 & DONALD R. LOVE1,3 1Diagnostic Genetics, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital, PO Box 110031, Auckland 1142, New Zealand, 2Greenlane Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Service, Starship Children’s Hospital, Grafton Auckland, Private Bag 92024, New Zealand, 3Cardiac Inherited Disease Group, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, 4Department of Child Health, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand, and 5School of Applied Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland, New Zealand Abstract Background. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a heritable cardiac disorder characterized by life-threatening ventricular tachycardia caused by exercise or acute emotional stress. The standard diagnostic screening involves Sanger-based sequencing of 45 of the 105 translated exons of the RYR2 gene, and copy number changes of a limited number of exons that are detected using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA). Methods. In the current study, a previously validated bespoke array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) technique was used to detect copy number changes in the RYR2 gene in a 43-year-old woman clinically diagnosed with CPVT. Results. The CGH array detected a 1.1 kb deletion encompassing exon 3 of the RYR2 gene. This is the first report using the aCGH technique to screen for mutations causing CPVT. Conclusions. The aCGH method offers significant advantages over MLPA in genetic screening for heritable cardiac disorders. Key words: aCGH, array comparative genomic hybridization, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, CPVT, ryanodine receptor 2 gene, RYR2 Introduction Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycar- dia (CPVT) is an inherited cardiac disorder charac- terized by life-threatening arrhythmias during adrenergic stimulation, such as during exercise or acute emotional stress (1). Those affected by CPVT have structurally normal hearts, and symptoms present at an early age (2); if left untreated the mortality rate of CPVT is between 30%–50% by 35 years of age (2). There are two main forms of the disease: CPVT1 and CPVT2. CPVT1 is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in the RYR2 gene, which encodes for the cardiac Ca2+ release channel (Ryanodine receptor isoform 2) (3,4). CPVT2 is an autosomal recessive form of the disease, which is caused by mutations in the CASQ2 gene that encodes for a Ca2+ binding protein (Calsequestrin 2) (5,6). Both proteins are located in the cell’s sarco- plasmic reticulum. Mutations in the RYR2 and CASQ2 genes account for 50% and 3%–5%, respec- tively, of all CPVT cases (1,7). A third (and minor) form of CPVT is caused by mutations in the KCNJ2 gene (8). Correspondence: Donald R. Love, Diagnostic Genetics, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital, PO Box 110031, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. Fax: +64-9-3074939. E-mail: donaldl@adhb.govt.nz (Received 13 January 2015; accepted 8 March 2015) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 License which permits users to download and share the article for non-commercial purposes, so long as the article is reproduced in the whole without changes, and provided the original source is credited. ISSN 0300-9734 print/ISSN 2000-1967 online � 2015 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/03009734.2015.1029101 http://informahealthcare.com/journal/ups mailto:donaldl@adhb.govt.nz The RYR2 gene contains 105 exons and encodes for one of the largest ion channel protein in the human body. CPVT-causing mutations in the RYR2 gene have been found in 45 of the 105 translated exons (8,9); many of these mutations are substitution muta- tions. The main mutation screening method involves PCR-based amplification of 40–43 exons of the RYR2 gene, and subsequent bidirectional Sanger-based sequencing (tier 1). If no mutations are found in this targeted group of exons then the remaining exons are sequenced (tier 2). In the absence of sequence- detectable mutations, screening methods then move ontothosethatcandetectlarger-scale eventssuchasan exon 3 deletion (the deletion size ranges from 1.1 to 37.7kb;29affectedindividuals)(9-13),asmalldeletion in exon 99 (one affected individual) (10), and duplica- tion/insertioninexon97(oneaffected individual)(14). These larger mutations are usually detected using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), and this method is used to complement the Sanger-based screening; however, this method only screens for deletion and duplication events in a subset of exons of the RYR2 gene (15). In contrast, array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) offers enhanced exon coverage to detect exonic duplications and deletions. We have implemented a custom- designed aCGH array in our routine diagnostic testing of cardiac referrals to examine copy number changes in thecodingregionsof99genesassociatedwithinherited cardiac and neuromuscular disorders (15-18). In the present study, we screened a 43-year-old woman clinically diagnosed with CPVT using an aCGHassayanddetecteda1.1-kbdeletionencompass- ing exon 3 of the RYR2 gene. A custom-designed PCR-based assay was developed to screen for this dele- tion event in her children. The aCGH method has not been previously applied to CPVT screening (15-18). Materials and methods Genomic DNA (gDNA)wasextracted fromperipheral bloodEDTAsamplesusingtheGentraPuregeneDNA Extraction kit (Qiagen inc., Germantown, Maryland, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. A Roche NimbleGen 12x135K Custom CGH Array (Roche NimbleGen Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA) was used for copy number change analysis. The aCGH was designed to examine the coding regions of 99 genes associated with several cardiac and neuromuscular disorders, including genes responsible for long QT syndrome (LQTS), Brugada syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), short QT syndrome (SQT), and CPVT (18). See Supplementary Materials for the full gene list. Details about exonic and intronic probe densities and low-density ‘backbone’ probes that screen the human genome have previously been described (15). A total of 500 ng of the proband’s gDNA was processed according to the manufacturer’s instruc- tions (NimbleGen Array User’s Guide: CGH and CGH/LOH Arrays v9.1) (19), and has been described previously (15,17). In brief, a patient’s gDNA and Promega control DNA were fluorescently labeled with Cy3 (sample) and Cy5 (control) dyes, and sub- sequently purified via ethanol precipitation. The fluo- rescently labeled patient sample and the sex-matched control were combined in equimolar amounts and hybridized to one of 12 arrays on the aCGH slide for approximately 48 h using a Roche NimbleGen Hybri- disation Chamber. Subsequently, the slides were washed and scanned using a NimbleGen MS 200 Microarray Scanner. The array image files (.tif) were imported into DEVA v1.2.1 (Roche NimbleGen Inc.) for analysis. The data were filtered using a log2ratio threshold of less than –0.4 over six probes for a deletion event and a log2ratio threshold of greater than 0.4 over 15 probes for a duplication event. All copy number changes that met these criteria were examined further using the UCSC Genome Browser, human genome assembly NCBI36/ hg18 (released March 2006) (20), to determine the location and significance of the change. All significant copy number changes were PCR- verified to determine the exact breakpoint of the deletion. Two sets of primers were designed to flank the deletion site detected by the aCGH approach (RYR_ex3_del_F 5’ GCGTATCAGAGTAAGCT- GTGTC 3’; and RYR2_ ex3_del_R, 5’ AACTCT- GTGACTTTGGAAAAGGAAT 3’). PCR was performed as follows: 1x FastStart PCR buffer, 2 mM magnesium chloride, 0.8 mM each of the forward and reverse primer, 0.4 mM dNTP, 0.04 U FastStart Taq DNA Polymerase (Roche), and 50 ng of gDNA. The following cycling conditions were used: 95�C for 4 min, 35 cycles of 94�C for 45 s, 60�C for 30 s, 72�C for 2 min 45 s, and a final extension at 72�C for 10 min. PCR products were purified with ExoSAP-IT (Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, California, USA) prior to bi-directional DNA sequencing using BigDye Terminator v3.1 (Applied Biosystems by Life Tech- nologies, Carlsbad, California, USA) to determine the exact deletion breakpoint. The sequenced products were purified using the BigDye XTerminator Purification Kit (Applied Biosystems Ltd) and were then subjected to capillary electrophoresis using the Applied Biosystems model 3130xl Genetic Analyzer. The analysis of sequence traces was performed using Geneious software (Biomatters Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand) (21). ACGH identifies a heterozygous deletion in the RYR2 gene 191 Results Clinical history The proband (II-3) was a 43-year-old woman who was suspected to have CPVT, and she was referred to the Cardiac Inherited Disease Group (CIDG) of Auckland City Hospital for further cardiac/genetic investigation (Figure 1). The proband had previously experienced syncope with exertion and multiple ven- tricular premature complexes (VPCs) whilst moni- tored (Figure 2A). An exercise tolerance test (ETT) showed runs of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) with minimal exertion, and echocardiography confirmed a structurally normal heart. She was managed with beta-blockade and an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). To control further the VT episodes she later underwent a left thoraco- scopic sympathectomy and more recently has responded well to flecainide. The family history was significant for the sudden death of the proband’s brother (II-1) at the age of 15 years. He had suffered repeated syncope with documented polymorphic VT, and was taking beta- blockers at the time of his death whilst running. The proband’s mother (I-2) died suddenly at age 52 years, and reportedly had a myocardial infarction on autopsy. Clinical details were not available for II-2, II-4, and II-5. The proband’s four children (III-1 to III-4) also underwent cardiac investigation due to her probable CPVT diagnosis (Figure 1). All had echo- cardiography Holters and exercise testing. None had evidence of structural inherited heart disease, but one of the symptomatic fraternal twins (III-3) at 7 years of age had ventricular ectopy during exercise both on ETT and Holters. She was managed with beta- blockers and left cardiac sympathetic denervation, and has had no syncope over the ensuing 6 years. As well as probable CPVT, III-3 also exhibited symptoms of absence seizures. An electroencephalo- gram confirmed that II-3 suffered from primary generalized epilepsy with absence of seizures. Etho- suximide was administered for the absence seizures. She also exhibited learning difficulties and poor con- centration, and was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ETT (Bruce proto- col, see Figure 2B) and Holter conducted eight months post-surgery showed a reduction in VPCs. Four beats of VT were recently documented on exercise, and flecainide has since been added. There may be early signs of sinus node dysfunction, with the resting heart rate having fallen on the same dose of nadolol over recent years; the repolarization pattern has begun to look normal. She is asymptomatic for the bradycardia at present, and there have been no prolonged pauses on Holter. Molecular genetic analysis The aCGH analysis of the proband identified a heterozygous deletion on chromosome 1 (1q43) that was approximately 816 bp in size (hg18 co- ordinates chr1:235,560,602-235,561,416) (Figure 3). This deletion encompasses the whole of exon 3 of the RYR2 gene with flanking intronic regions (Figure 4). Sanger-based sequencing was used to confirm the aCGH results and also to determine the exact break- points of the deletion. Primers were designed to flank the region of interest (Figure 4A), and subsequent Sanger-based sequencing of the resulting smaller amplicon confirmed the aCGH results but with greater resolution such that the deletion proved to be 1,126 bp in size (Figure 4A). This mutation (c.169-198_c.273+823 del1126) has been previously reported by Ohno et al. (12) and Szentpali et al. II III 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 ? 1 2 ? ? ? I Key Unaffected male/female Affected/carrier male/female Deceased male/female Unknown clinical details? Figure 1. Pedigree of the RYR2 exon 3 deletion carriers. The proband (II-3) is indicated by the black arrow. Family members carrying the RYR2 exon 3 deletion are indicated in solid black. The members with unknown clinical and genetic background information are indicated by ?. 192 I. U. S. Leong et al. (Figure 5) (13). Exon 3 of the RYR2 gene encodes for a highly conserved region of the RYR2 protein, and the mutation is an in-frame deletion of 35 amino acids (p.Asn57-Gly91). The proband’s four children were also tested for the same mutation using a PCR-based screen, with only the daughter (II-3) proving to be a carrier of the deletion event; interestingly, this assay preferentially amplified only the deleted RYR2 gene allele in carrier individuals (Figure 4B). The outcome of this muta- tion screen correlated with the clinical phenotypes of the proband’s children. Discussion The custom-designed NimbleGen 12x135K aCGH confirmed the CPVT diagnosis of the proband, and the targeted PCR-based amplification assay confirmed the CPVT diagnosis of her daughter. The microarray was able to detect the deletion of only one exon of the RYR2 gene. The custom-designed aCGH described here has been used previously in screening for deletion/ duplication events in a large number of cardiac genes, but the design criteria have also been more generally applied to allow screening for mutations in non-car- diac-related referrals (15-18). Missense mutations are common within the RYR2 gene, with many of the mutations located in 45 out of the 105 exons. While deletion and duplication mutations are not common in the RYR2 gene, it is still important to check for copy number changes for this gene as deletion and duplication events have been detected (9-13). These large heterozygous deletions cannot be detected using standard genetic screening such as direct DNA sequencing and high-performance liquid chromatography (9). While A aVR V5 I II III II V1 V4 V5 V6 V2 V3 aVL aVF B Figure 2. Rhythm strips of the proband and her daughter. A: Three lead rhythm strip (25 mm/s, 10 mm/mV) taken during exercise of the female proband (II-3), at age 29 years following presentation with exertional syncope. Two minutes into stage 1 of the Bruce protocol, there are runs of polymorphic ventricular ectopy and ventricular tachycardia interrupted with occasional sinus beats. B: 12 lead rhythm strip (25 mm/s, 10 mm/mV) taken during exercise of an asymptomatic 7-year-old daughter of the proband (III-3) in stage 3, 9 min into the Bruce protocol. Frequent left bundle branch, inferior axis monomorphic ventricular extra beats develop into bigeminy. ACGH identifies a heterozygous deletion in the RYR2 gene 193 MLPA is able to detect exonic deletions, the tech- nique can only be applied to a small number of genes and a limited number of exons. The current aCGH method has made it more efficient in screening for dosage changes in several patient samples simulta- neously across a wide range of suspected genes. The deletion of exon 3 has been reported by five different groups (9-13), and 31 individuals carry this mutation (nine families, including this study). Of the 31 individuals, only three appear to have a deletion of the same location and extent as the one reported here (Figure 5, Table I) (12,13). It is tempting to suggest that the deletion cluster represents recombination between repetitive elements (Alu family of repeats) (Figure 5) that flank exon 3. Interestingly, the three individuals previously reported do not come from the same geographical region as our patients; the two unrelated cases reported by Ohno et al. (12) are ethnically different from our proband. Nineteen indi- viduals have deletions of similar sizes in this region (Figure 5) (10,11), and two individuals have much larger deletions in this region (3.6 kb and 37.7 kb; these two mutations are not shown in Figure 5) (9,12). Approximately 80% of these cases suffer from ventricular tachycardia, and approximately half experience atrial fibrillation and sino-atrial dys- function. A quarter have received an ICD or pace- maker, and only the two subjects in the current study have received a left thoracoscopic cardiac sympathec- tomy. The symptoms exhibited by the patients in the study reported here match the other symptoms found in those with the same mutations (i.e. syncope, bra- dycardia, ventricular tachycardia, and VPCs); how- ever, the two affected members in our study do not yet show clear signs of sino-atrial dysfunction and left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) which were found in the two other studies (12,13). The RYR2 protein is a major Ca2+ releasing chan- nel of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in cardiac muscle and plays an essential role in excitation–con- traction coupling and Ca2+ homeostasis in SR (22). All mutations found in the RYR2 gene to date have a gain-of-function effect, which causes a lowered threshold for either cytoplasmic Ca2+ or SR Ca2+ levels (23). This increase in cytoplasmic Ca2+ leads to delays after depolarization (DAD) (23). The exon 3 region of the RYR2 gene is highly susceptible to large Alu repeat-mediated genomic rearrangements (9). In vitro studies of the effect of RYR2 lacking the 23 5, 55 8, 00 0 23 5, 55 8, 50 0 23 5, 55 9, 00 0 23 5, 55 9, 50 0 23 5, 56 0, 00 0 23 5, 56 0, 50 0 23 5, 56 1, 00 0 23 5, 56 1, 50 0 23 5, 56 2, 00 0 23 5, 56 2, 50 0 23 5, 56 3, 00 0 23 5, 56 3, 50 0 23 5, 56 4, 00 0 [l o g 2 ] Segments in ratio data from 555109A05_2013-08-08_12-02_Area1(Cy3/Cy5) CGH Workflow with Segme...all_data hg18:chr1 Location: chr1 : 235,557,760 - 235,564,280 Number of Plots: Search annotation hr1:235560601-:1 0.00 Normalized ratio Segments 1.20 0.800 0.400 0.0 –0.400 –0.800 –1.20 –1.60 –2.00 Figure 3. Copy number changes in chromosome 1q43 of the proband. DEVA software output showing a copy number change (deletion; 10 probes; log2ratio: –0.6726) localized to chromosome 1q43 (235,560,602-235,561,416; hg18 co-ordinates) for the proband (II-3). 194 I. U. S. Leong et al. exon 3-encoded domain in HEK293 cells have shown increased Ca2+ release into the cytoplasm, which has been attributed to Ca2+ overload leading to DADs (24). Of the five members of the family that were tested here, two members were affected by ADHD (one daughter was confirmed to have CPVT, the other was asymptomatic). As the RYR2 gene mutation did not co-segregate with the appearance of ADHD, it could not be concluded that the gene is associated with the disorder. However, there have been two reported cases where CPVT patients (sub- stitution mutations in the RYR2 gene) suffer from ADHD (25,26). The proband’s daughter (II-3) was also affected by generalized epilepsy with absence seizures, which could be caused by the RYR2 exon 3 deletion. Previous reports have found that approx- imately half of children with CPVT also present with seizures (27), and half of RYR2 gene mutation carriers A. B. 1,500 2,000 1,000 850 650 500 400 II3* III1 III2 III3 III4 Exon 3 1,568 bp Exon 3 aCGH: ~752 bp Actual: ~500 bp aCGH: 816 bp Actual: 1,126 bp Control G G G GC C C C C C C C C C C TA A A G G A GC C C C C C C C C C TA G A AG C II3 Figure 4. PCR amplification of the region encompassing exon 3 of the RYR2 gene. A: Amplicon sizes of the expected PCR products using DNA from an unaffected individual carrying no deletion of exon 3 of the RYR2 gene (left), and for DNA with the exon 3 deletion (right). The deletion size according to aCGH and the actual deletion size confirmed by Sanger-based sequencing are shown (above red lines). The expected PCR amplicon size of the deletion mutant according to the aCGH data and the actual product size are both shown. B: 2% agarose gel showing the results of PCR amplification of the genomic region encompassing exon 3 of the RYR2 gene for the proband (II-3) and her four children (III-1 to III-4). 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