Journal of Clinical Pediatrics ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (8): 583-589.doi: 10.12372/jcp.2025.25e0085

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Prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling of 1q21.1 microdeletion/ microduplication syndrome in 39 fetuses

LIN Pengwu1,2, ZHU Shaohua1,2, ZHAO Zhongying1,2, WANG Jing1,2, HAO Shengju1,2, ZHANG Qinghua1,2, FENG Xuan1,2()   

  1. 1. Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child-care Hospital Gansu Provincial Central Hospital, Medical Genetics Center, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, China
    2. Gansu Provincial Clinical Research Center for Birth Defects and Rare Diseases, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, China
  • Received:2025-02-07 Accepted:2025-03-19 Published:2025-08-15 Online:2025-07-28
  • Contact: FENG Xuan E-mail:fengxuan1212@sina.com

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the clinical phenotype, genetic counseling, pregnancy outcomes, and long-term developmental outcomes of fetuses with 1q21.1 microdeletion/ microduplication syndrome, and to provide a comprehensive clinical picture of fetuses with this copy number variation to inform clinical decision-making. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted of pregnant women from January 2017 to December 2022. Results 39 cases of 1q21.1 microdeletion/microduplication syndrome fetuses were identified, with a detection rate of 0.16% (39/24,240). The size range of the copy number variation segments was 0.24 Mb to 62.34 Mb, with 22 cases (56.4%) being 1q21.1 microdeletions and 17 cases (43.6%) being 1q21.1 microduplications. Among the 22 cases of 1q21.1 microdeletion fetuses, 10 had prenatal ultrasound abnormalities (10/22, 45.6%), 4 had high-risk non-invasive/serological screening results (4/22, 18.2% ), 5 cases were of advanced maternal age (5/22, 22.7%), and 3 cases had a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes (3/22, 13.6%); among the deletion cases, 6 underwent parental origin testing, revealing 2 de novo mutations, 3 paternal origin, and 1 maternal. Among the 17 cases of 1q21.1 microduplication fetuses, 8 had prenatal ultrasound abnormalities (8/17, 45.6%), 4 had high-risk non-invasive/serological screening results (5/17, 29.4%), 5 were of advanced maternal age (2/17, 11.8%), and 3 had a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes (3/17, 17.6%); among the repeat cases, only 1 case showed a de novo mutation after parental lineage tracing. Conclusion 1q21.1 microdeletions/microduplications exhibit diverse manifestations during fetal development. CNV-seq technology holds significant value for detecting fetal cases of chromosomal microdeletion/microduplication syndromes, including 1q21.1.

Key words: 1q21.1 microdeletion/microduplication syndrome, chromosomal copy number variation testing, parental origin tracing, genetic counseling

CLC Number: 

  • R72