Toshiyuki Yamamoto    Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine    Position   Professor
Article types	Case report
Language	English
Peer review	Non peer reviewed
Title	West syndrome associated with mosaic duplication of FOXG1 in a patient with maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14.
Journal	Formal name：American Journal of Medical Genetics
Volume, Issue, Page	155(10),pp.2584-2588
Author and coauthor	Jun Tohyama, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Kana Hosoki, Keisuke Nagasaki, Noriyuki Akasaka, Tsukasa Ohashi, Yu Kobayashi, Shinji Saitoh
Publication date	2011/10
Summary	FOXG1 on chromosome 14 has recently been suggested as a dosage-sensitive gene. Duplication of this gene could cause severe epilepsy and developmental delay, including infantile spasms. Here, we report on a female patient diagnosed with maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14 and West syndrome who carried a small supernumerary marker chromosome. A chromosomal analysis revealed mosaicism of 47,XX, + mar[8]/46,XX[18]. Spectral karyotyping multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis confirmed that the marker chromosome was derived from chromosome 14. A DNA methylation test at MEG3 in 14q32.2 and microsatellite analysis using polymorphic markers on chromosome 14 confirmed that the patient had maternal uniparental disomy 14 as well as a mosaic small marker chromosome of paternal origin containing the proximal long arm of chromosome 14. Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization analysis conclusively defined the region of the gain of genomic copy numbers at 14q11.2-q12, encompassing FOXG1. The results of the analyses of our patient provide further evidence that not only duplication but also a small increase in the dosage of FOXG1 could cause infantile spasms.
DOI	10.1002