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Official Journal of the Human Genome Organisation

Table 3 Selection of potentially interesting CNV loci on chromosome 21 that may affect phenotypic variability in trisomy 21

From: Implications of copy number variation in people with chromosomal abnormalities: potential for greater variation in copy number state may contribute to variability of phenotype

Chromosome 21 location (hg18)

Genes

Associated disease/phenotype

Exonic

Copy number loss/gain

Frequency in CNV studies (samples with CNV/total samples in study)

Reference

26,173,965–26,174,696

APP

Alzheimer’s disease

No

Gain

1/1

McKernan et al. (2009)

26,196,591–26,196,901

No

Loss

1/1

Wang et al. (2008)

31,337,700–31,424,326

TIAM1

Associated with several different cancers

Exons 27–29

Gain

1/50

de Smith et al. (2007)

35,304,204–35,704,075

RUNX1

Acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia

Exon 1

Loss

6/2906

Gusev et al. (2009)

36,748,886–36,783,426

CLDN14

Hearing loss

Exons 1–3

Loss/Gain

Loss 1/50

de Smith et al. (2007)

Gain 1/50

36,785,973–36,801,336

No

Loss/Gain

Loss 6/90

Matsuzaki et al. (2009)

Gain 6/90

34,648,096–34,829,283

KCNE1

Down syndrome critical region (DCR)

All exons of KCNE1, KCNE2, FAM165B, and exons 2–4 of RCAN1

Gain

5/1190

Zogopoulos et al. (2007)

KCNE2

FAM165

BRCAN1

37,092,300–37,354,491

DSCR6

DCR

All exons of DSCR6 and exons 1–7 of HLCS

Gain

1/776

Pinto et al. (2007)

HLCS

37,489,474–37,490,172

TTC3

DCR

Exon 41

Gain

1/1

Kim et al. (2009)

40,466,951–40,489,050

DSCAM

Congenital heart defects (CHD)

Exons 12–15

Loss

9/90

Matsuzaki et al. (2009)

40,592,263–40,596,079

No

Loss

1/40

Conrad et al. (2010)

41,568,947–41,572,987

BACE2

CHD

Exon 9

Loss

1/36

Mills et al. (2006)

42,123,984–42,136,309

PRDM15

CHD

Exons 14–18

Loss

3/90

Matsuzaki et al. (2009)

42,223,189–42,226,495

C2CD2

CHD

No

Loss

45/450

Conrad et al. (2010)

46,234,806–46,234,806

COL6A1

CHD

No

Gain

1/1

Levy et al. (2007)

46,367,207–46,399,800

COL6A2

CHD

Exons 21–28

Gain

2/2026

Shaikh et al. (2009)