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. 2023 Oct 5;17:91. doi: 10.1186/s40246-023-00535-y

Table 2.

Literature review on parental mosaicism since 2009 for cohort studies with more than 10 families

Disease Author Year Sample Size Sample Type Detection Method Parental Mosaicism
Paternal Maternal Unknown Total Percentage Detectable %VAF
AHC Yang et al 2019 80 families Blood/Saliva/Buccal mucosa/Hair/Skin/Urine/Sperm Deep sequencing/SS/mddPCR 4 2 0 6/80 7.5% 0.03–33.03%
Autism Krupp et al 2017 2264 families Blood ES 63* 49* 0 NA 6.80% 7.9–36.1%
Breuss et al 2020 14 families Sperm GS 3 0 0 3/14 21.43% 0.6–14.5%
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy Liu et al 2019 22 families Blood/Buccal mucosa/Hair/Nails/Urine Targeted sequencing/SS/MLPA/mddPCR 2 0 0 2/22 9.09% 1.2–-37.38%
Diverse Mendelian Disease Cao et al 2019 12,000 samples (120 candidate parental mosaic variants) Blood ES/Deep sequencing/Sanger Sequencing 14 25 1 40/12,000 0.33% 3.1–67.8%
Gambin et al 2020 2000 families (102 candidate parental mosaic variant) Blood/Saliva/Buccal mucosa/Hair/Urine ES/Deep sequencing/ddPCR/BDA 0 0 27 27/102 26.47% 0.3–18.2%
Shu et al 2021 237 families Blood/Saliva/Buccal mucosa/Hair/Urine Deep sequencing/ddPCR 4 10 0 NA 3.00% 0.22–34.0%
This study 2022 21 families Blood/Buccal mucosa/Sperm ES/SS/BDA/ddPCR 1 2 1 4/21 19.00% 8.7–35.9%
DMD Helderman-van den Enden et al 2009 318 families Blood Haplotyping 0 19 0 19/318 5.97% NA
Zhong et al 2019 74 families Blood Targeted sequencing/MLPA 0 2 0 2/74 2.70% NA
Epilepsy Depienne et al 2010 177 families Blood/Sperm SS,QAS-PCR, haplotyping 6 7 0 13/177 7.34% 0.04–24%
Xu et al 2015 174 families Blood/Saliva/Buccal mucosa/Hair/Urine Deep sequencing/SS/MLPA/dPCR 13 7 0 20/174 11.49% 1.1–32.6%
Yang et al 2017 112 families Blood/Sperm Deep sequencing/SS /MLPA/mddPCR 18 11 0 29/112 25.89% 0.01–39.04%
Myers et al 2018 120 families Blood/Saliva smMIP 6 4 0 10/120 8.33% 1.4–3.6%
de Lange et al 2019 80 families Blood Deep sequencing/ddPCR 3 1 0 4/80 5.00% 0.5–8.0%
Rikke S Møller 2019 75 families Blood/Buccal mucosa/Urine Gene panel sequencing 4 1 0 5/75 6.67% 0.8–29%
Holoprosencephaly Paulussen et al 2010 86 families Blood/Sperm SS/haplotyping 0 1 0 1/86 1.16% NA
Hu et al 2019 136 families Blood Targeted sequencing/ddPCR 2 3 0 5/136 3.68% 0.1–13%
ID Acuna-Hidalgo et al 2017 50 families Blood GS 3 1 0 4/50 8.00% 0.22–6.15%
Wright et al 2019 420 families Blood/Saliva ES/Deep sequencing 13 8 0 21/420 0.50% 0.5–33.0%
Frisk et al 2022 44 families Blood/Sperm ES/ddPCR 2 0 0 2/44 4.55% 1.1–20.24%
Malformation of cortical development Zillhardt et al 2016 18 families Blood ES/ddPCR/SS 1 2 1 4/18 22.22% 4.31–4.57%
Mandibulofacial Dysostosis with Microcephaly Huang et al 2016 94 families Blood Sanger Sequencing/Haplotyping 0 1 0 1/94 1.06% NA
Marfan and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes Chesneau et al 2021 333 families Blood Targeted sequencing/SS/HRMA 2 1 0 3/62 4.84% 1.1–13.6%
MPSII Alcantara-Ortigoza et al 2016 25 families Blood//Buccal mucosa/Hair/Urine SS 0 1 0 1/25 4.00% NA
OI Pyott et al 2011 37 families Blood SS 2 4 0 6/37 16.22% NA
Shaheen et al 2012 13 families Blood SS 0 0 2 2/13 15.38% NA
PID Mensa-Vilaro et al 2019 92 families Blood//Buccal mucosa/Hair/Urine/Sperm Gene panel/SS 1 5 1 7/92 7.61% 2.7–21.2%
Rett syndrome Zhang et al 2018 21 families Blood/Saliva/Sperm ddPCR 5 0 0 5/21 23.81% 0.03–7.55%
X-linked ALD Wang et al 2011 489 families Blood SS 1 2 1 4/489 0.82% NA

AHC: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood; ALD: adrenoleukodystrophy; ES: exome sequencing; VAF: Variant allele frequency; BDA: blocker displacement amplification; DMD: Duchenne muscular dystrophy; dPCR: digital polymerase chain reaction; ddPCR: droplet dPCR; HRMA: high-resolution melting analysis; mddPCR: micro ddPCR; MLPA: Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification; ID: intellectual disability; MPSII: Mucopolysaccharidosis type II; OI: Osteogenesis imperfecta; PID: Primary immunodeficiency diseases; SS: Sanger Sequencing. *Numbers extracted from best practice filter