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ToolsSanchez-Delgado, Marta, Martin-Trujillo, Alejandro, Tayama, Chiharu, Vidal, Enrique, Esteller, Manel, Iglesias-Platas, Isabel, Deo, Nandita, Barney, Olivia, Maclean, Ken, Hata, Kenichiro, Nakabayashi, Kazuhiko, Fisher, Rosemary, Monk, David and Eggermann, Thomas (2015) Absence of maternal methylation in biparental hydatidiform moles from women with NLRP7 maternal-effect mutations reveals widespread placenta-specific imprinting. PLoS Genetics, 11 (11). ISSN 1553-7404
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Abstract
Familial recurrent hydatidiform mole (RHM) is a maternal-effect autosomal recessive disorder usually associated with mutations of the NLRP7 gene. It is characterized by HM with excessive trophoblastic proliferation, which mimics the appearance of androgenetic molar conceptuses despite their diploid biparental constitution. It has been proposed that the phenotypes of both types of mole are associated with aberrant genomic imprinting. However no systematic analyses for imprinting defects have been reported. Here, we present the genome-wide methylation profiles of both spontaneous androgenetic and biparental NLRP7 defective molar tissues. We observe total paternalization of all ubiquitous and placenta-specific differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in four androgenetic moles; namely gain of methylation at paternally methylated loci and absence of methylation at maternally methylated regions. The methylation defects observed in five RHM biopsies from NLRP7 defective patients are restricted to lack-of-methylation at maternal DMRs. Surprisingly RHMs from two sisters with the same missense mutations, as well as consecutive RHMs from one affected female show subtle allelic methylation differences, suggesting inter-RHM variation. These epigenotypes are consistent with NLRP7 being a maternal-effect gene and involved in imprint acquisition in the oocyte. In addition, bioinformatic screening of the resulting methylation datasets identified over sixty loci with methylation profiles consistent with imprinting in the placenta, of which we confirm 22 as novel maternally methylated loci. These observations strongly suggest that the molar phenotypes are due to defective placenta-specific imprinting and over-expression of paternally expressed transcripts, highlighting that maternal-effect mutations of NLRP7 are associated with the most severe form of multi-locus imprinting defects in humans.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2020 01:18 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 07:26 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77613 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005644 |
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