Analysis of Correlation between Whole Exome Sequencing and Ultrasound
Examination in Prenatal diagnosis of Fetal Skeletal Dysplasia
Abstract
Fetal skeletal dysplasia is a disease that is difficult to distinguish
these types of diseases during the fetal period. Due to the difficulty
of fetal ultrasound diagnosis, the severity of fetal skeletal dysplasia
is extremely difficult to assess. For this condition, we analyzed 79
fetal samples of skeletal dysplasia from the third affiliated hospital
of Zhengzhou University, China from August 2018 to April 2020, which had
undergone prenatal whole exome sequencing(WES). By comparing the results
of whole-exome sequencing and fetal ultrasound test results, we find
that the fetal short limb phenotype found in the range of
FL<-4.0SD or HL<-4.0SD through ultrasound test is
closely related to FGFR3 gene mutation , and the correlation is stronger
when accompanied by macrocephaly. We also find that the fetal limb
curved phenotype is closely related to COL1A1 gene mutation. At the same
time, we find that nasal dysplasia during fetal period is also a common
phenotype of abnormal results detected by whole exome sequencing.
Overall, our research shows that WES has different detection rates for
various skeletal abnormalities according to the different types of
ultrasound detection results, which provides a meaningful guidance for
clinical diagnosis of fetal skeletal dysplasia.