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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2014 Oct 19;46(12):1293–1302. doi: 10.1038/ng.3120

Table 1. 15q13.3 structural variant events.

Different structural rearrangements at the 15q13.3 region and the frequency of each rearrangement are shown.

Species Structural variant Size GRCh37 coordinates Disease/Predisposition Frequency
Human 15q13.3 microdeletion 2 Mbp Chr15: 30.7–32.7 Mbp; Chr15: 30.9–32.9 Mbp intellectual disability, epilepsy, autism and schizophrenia 0.27% (42/15,767) cases; 0% (0/8,329) controls *
Human 15q13.3 microduplication 2 Mbp Chr15: 30.7–32.7 Mbp; Chr15: 30.9–32.9 Mbp intellectual disability, epilepsy and autism 0.13% (20/15,767) cases; 0.3% (3/8,329) controls *
Human γ inversion (BP4-BP5) 1.8 Mbp Chr15: 30.80–32.70 Mbp predisposition to CHRNA7 microdeletion 6% (haplotype freq.)
Human β inversion (BP4) 130 kbp Chr15: 30.70–30.84 Mbp - 10% (haplotype freq.)
Human CNPα duplication 300 kbp Chr15: 30.37–30.67 Mbp
Chr15: 32.45–32.75 Mbp
- CN=4 77%; CN=3 19%; CN=2 2%; CN=5 2%
Human CNPβ duplication 210 kbp Chr15: 30.70–30.91 Mbp
Chr15: 32.68–32.89 Mbp
- CN=8 72%; CN=7 21%; CN=9 5%; CN=6 2%
Human CHRNA7-adj duplication 124 kbp Chr15: 30.97–31.09 Mbp predisposition to CHRNA7 microdeletion fixed
Human ARHGAP11B duplication 39 kbp Chr15: 30.90–30.93 Mbp - fixed
Chimpanzee β inversion (BP5) 120 kbp Chr15: 32.7–32.8 Mbp - ND
Gorilla γ inversion 1.9 Mbp Chr15: 30.40–32.90 Mbp - fixed
Gorilla inversion of a portion of α(BP5) 80 kbp Chr15: 32.61–32.69 Mbp - ND
Gorilla partial duplication of α (BP4) 80 kbp Chr15: 30.37–30.45 Mbp - fixed
*

Cooper et al., 2011