Mortality risks in patients with constitutional autosomal chromosome deletions in Britain: a cohort study |
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Authors: | Anthony J Swerdlow Minouk J Schoemaker Craig D Higgins Alan F Wright Patricia A Jacobs |
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Institution: | (1) Section of Epidemiology, Sir Richard Doll Building, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK;(2) Cell and Molecular Genetics Section, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK;(3) Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, SP2 8BJ, UK |
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Abstract: | Constitutional chromosome deletions result in wide ranging morbidity and often fatality. Information about risks and causes
of death in these patients is important for counselling, and may illuminate the functions of the part of the chromosome deleted.
There have been no cohort studies analysing mortality risks in persons with specific deletions compared with general population
rates. We therefore conducted a cohort study following cause-specific mortality in 2,561 patients with autosomal chromosome
deletions diagnosed by light microscopy or fluorescence in situ hybridisation at cytogenetic laboratories across Britain,
1965–2002. The commonest deletions were of 22q (544 patients), 15q (460) and 7q (210) and the least common 19q (0) and 20q
(2). The prevalence of visible deletions of different chromosome arms was significantly inversely correlated with gene density
of the arm (p < 0.001). Mortality was 11-fold raised in the cohort compared with the general population (standardised mortality ratio = 11.4
(95% confidence interval 10.0–12.8)), was significantly raised for each deletion with ≥25 subjects in the study, and had a
lower confidence limit >10 for deletions of 1p, 1q, 3p, 4p, 5q and 22q. Overall, 29% of deaths were due to congenital anomalies;
significantly raised mortality occurred also from many other causes, varying by chromosome and arm of deletion. The data imply
that viability of foetuses with visible chromosome deletions may be inversely related to gene density, and that all visible
and fluorescence in situ hybridisation-detectable deletions lead to much raised mortality, but the extent and causes of mortality
vary according to the specific deletion.
The UK Clinical Cytogenetics Group comprises: The above, plus Paul J Batstone (Inverness Genetics Laboratory), Thomas Spencer
(NE London Regional Cytogenetics Laboratory, Great Ormond Street Hospital), Teresa Davies (Bristol Genetics Laboratory), Valerie
Davison (Birmingham Genetics Laboratory), Zoe Docherty (SE Thames, Guy’s Hospital Genetics Laboratory), David P. Duckett (Leicestershire
Genetics Centre), Margaret Fitchett (Oxford Genetics Laboratory), Alison Fordyce (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh); Lorraine
Gaunt (Manchester Genetics Laboratory), Elizabeth Grace (Edinburgh Genetics Laboratory), Peter Howard (Liverpool Genetics
Laboratory), Gordon W. Lowther (Glasgow Genetics Laboratory), Christine Maliszewska (Dundee Genetics Laboratory), Edna L.
Maltby (Sheffield Genetics Laboratory), Kevin P. Ocraft (Nottingham Genetics Laboratory); Selwyn Roberts (Wales Genetics Laboratory),
Kim K. Smith (Cambridge Genetics Laboratory), Gordon S. Stephen (Aberdeen Genetics Laboratory), John W. Taylor (SW Thames,
St George’s Hospital Genetics Laboratory), Catherine S. Waters (NW Thames, Northwick Park Hospital Genetics Laboratory), Jeffery
Williams (Leeds Genetics Laboratory), John Wolstenholme (Newcastle Genetics Laboratory), Sheila Youings (Wessex Regional Genetics
Laboratory). |
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