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. 2022 Jan 1;30(4):428–438. doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-01012-7

Table 2.

Reported secondary findings in our cohort.

Case no. Fetal phenotype Gene and reference sequence Identified variant Disorder Disorder inheritance, variant zygosity and origin ACMG classification/criteria** Novel/known variant ClinVar ID
6* NT > 7 mm, heart defect, multicystic dysplastic kidneys, shortened long bones, bilateral clubfoot, abnormal skull configuration

SBDS

NM_016038.2

c.258+2T>C, p.(?) Shwachman-Diamond syndrome

AR, hom,

mother also homozygous, father heterozygous (parents are consanguineous)

5 Known VCV000003196.14
8* Skeletal dysplasia, IUGR (length of long bones and fetal weight < 3rd percentile, small thorax)

KMT2D

NM_003482.3

c.5468-1G>A, p.(?) Kabuki syndrome 1

AD, het,

maternally inherited

5

PVS1/PM2-M/PP3-S

Novel SCV001519078
20 Microcephaly, agenesis of right kidney

BRCA2

NM_000059.3

c.7350_7354del,

p.(Asn2450Lysfs*2)

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, 2

AD, het,

paternally inherited

5

PP5-VS/PVS1/PM2-M

Known VCV000254601.2

DUOX2

NM_014080.4

c.605_621del, p.(Gln202Argfs*93) Thyroid dyshormonogenesis 6 AR, hom 5 Known SCV001519079

In all listed fetuses a diagnostic variant of underlying malformation has been identified.

*Tested with a panel encompassing 6713 genes.

NT nuchal translucency, IUGR intrauterine growth retardation, AD autosomal-dominant inheritance, AR autosomal recessive inheritance, Hom homozygous, Het heterozygous, ClinVar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/.

**ACMG criteria are listed only for novel variants, ACMG variant classification [15] (5 = pathogenic, 4 = likely pathogenic, 3 = variant of unknown significance, 2 = likely benign, 1 = benign); variants are described according to HGVS nomenclature.

There are no corresponding identifiers to patient numbers.

ACMG criterion applied:

PVS1: Null variant (nonsense, frameshift, canonical ±1 or 2 splice sites, initiation codon, single or multiexon deletion) in a gene where LOF is a known mechanism of disease.

PM2-M: Absent from controls in gnomAD database, used at a moderate level.

PP3-S: Multiple lines of computational evidence support a deleterious effect on the gene or gene product, used at the supporting level.

PP5-VS: Reputable source recently reports variant as pathogenic, but the evidence is not available to the laboratory to perform an independent evaluation, used at a very strong level.