Pathogenicity and selective constraint on variation near splice sites
By
Jenny Lord,
Giuseppe Gallone,
Patrick J. Short,
Jeremy F McRae,
Holly Ironfield,
Elizabeth H. Wynn,
Sebastian S. Gerety,
Liu He,
Bronwyn Kerr,
Diana S. Johnson,
Emma McCann,
Esther Kinning,
Frances Flinter,
I. Karen Temple,
Jill Clayton-Smith,
Meriel McEntagart,
Sally Ann Lynch,
Shelagh Joss,
Sofia Douzgou,
Tabib Dabir,
Virginia Clowes,
Vivienne P. M. McConnell,
Wayne Lam,
Caroline F Wright,
David R. FitzPatrick,
Helen V Firth,
Jeffrey C Barrett,
Matthew E Hurles,
on behalf of the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study
Posted 30 Jan 2018
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/256636
(published DOI: 10.1101/gr.238444.118)
Accurate and efficient pre-mRNA splicing is crucial for normal development and function, and mutations which perturb normal splicing patterns are significant contributors to human disease. We used exome sequencing data from 7,833 probands with developmental disorders (DD) and their unaffected parents to quantify the contribution of splicing mutations to DDs. Patterns of purifying selection, a deficit of variants in highly constrained genes in healthy subjects and excess de novo mutations in patients highlighted particular positions within and around the consensus splice site of greater disease relevance. Using mutational burden analyses in this large cohort of proband-parent trios, we could estimate in an unbiased manner the relative contributions of mutations at canonical dinucleotides (73%) and flanking non-canonical positions (27%), and calculated the positive predictive value of pathogenicity for different classes of mutations. We identified 18 likely diagnostic de novo mutations in dominant DD-associated genes at non-canonical positions in splice sites. We estimate 35-40% of pathogenic variants in non-canonical splice site positions are missing from public databases.
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