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Identification of a new locus for a peculiar form of congenital muscular dystrophy with early rigidity of the spine, on chromosome 1p35-36. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
B Moghadaszadeh I Desguerre H Topaloglu F Muntoni S Pavek C Sewry M Mayer M Fardeau F M Tom P Guicheney 《American journal of human genetics》1998,62(6):1439-1445
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Assignment of a form of congenital muscular dystrophy with secondary merosin deficiency to chromosome 1q42
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Brockington M Sewry CA Herrmann R Naom I Dearlove A Rhodes M Topaloglu H Dubowitz V Voit T Muntoni F 《American journal of human genetics》2000,66(2):428-435
We have previously reported an autosomal recessive form of congenital muscular dystrophy, characterized by proximal girdle weakness, generalized muscle hypertrophy, rigidity of the spine, and contractures of the tendo Achilles, in a consanguineous family from the United Arab Emirates. Early respiratory failure resulting from severe diaphragmatic involvement was present. Intellect and the results of brain imaging were normal. Serum creatine kinase levels were grossly elevated, and muscle-biopsy samples showed dystrophic changes. The expression of the laminin-alpha2 chain of merosin was reduced on several fibers, but linkage analysis excluded the LAMA2 locus on chromosome 6q22-23. Here, we report the results of genomewide linkage analysis of this family, by use of homozygosity mapping. In all four affected children, an identical homozygous region was identified on chromosome 1q42, spanning 6-15 cM between flanking markers D1S2860 and D1S2800. We have identified a second German family with two affected children having similar clinical and histopathological features; they are consistent with linkage to the same locus. The cumulative LOD score was 3.57 (straight theta=.00) at marker D1S213. This represents a novel locus for congenital muscular dystrophy. We suggest calling this disorder "CMD1B." The expression of three functional candidate genes in the CMD1B critical region was investigated, and no detectable changes in their level of expression were observed. The secondary reduction in laminin-alpha2 chain in these families suggests that the primary genetic defect resides in a gene coding for a protein involved in basal lamina assembly. 相似文献
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Tlili A Männikkö M Charfedine I Lahmar I Benzina Z Ben Amor M Driss N Ala-Kokko L Drira M Masmoudi S Ayadi H 《Human heredity》2005,60(3):123-128
Hereditary non-syndromic deafness is extremely heterogeneous. Autosomal recessive forms account for approximately 80% of genetic cases. Autosomal recessive non-syndromic sensorineural deafness segregating in a large consanguineous Tunisian family was mapped to chromosome 6p21.2-22.3. A maximum lod score of 5.36 at theta=0 was obtained for the polymorphic microsatellite marker IR2/IR4. Haplotype analysis defined a 16.5-Mb critical region between microsatellite markers D6S1602 and D6S1665. The screening of 3 candidate genes, COL11A2, BAK1 and TMHS, did not reveal any disease causing mutation, suggesting that this is a novel deafness locus, which has been named DFNB66. A search in the Human Cochlear EST Library for ESTs located in this critical interval allowed us to identify several candidates. Further investigations on these candidates are needed in order to identify the deafness-causing gene in this Tunisian family. 相似文献
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Assignment of the muscle-eye-brain disease gene to 1p32-p34 by linkage analysis and homozygosity mapping. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
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B Cormand K Avela H Pihko P Santavuori B Talim H Topaloglu A de la Chapelle A E Lehesjoki 《American journal of human genetics》1999,64(1):126-135
Muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) is an autosomal recessive disease of unknown etiology characterized by severe mental retardation, ocular abnormalities, congenital muscular dystrophy, and a polymicrogyria-pachygyria-type neuronal migration disorder of the brain. A similar combination of muscle and brain involvement is also seen in Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) and Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD). Whereas the gene underlying FCMD has been mapped and cloned, the genetic location of the WWS gene is still unknown. Here we report the assignment of the MEB gene to chromosome 1p32-p34 by linkage analysis and homozygosity mapping in eight families with 12 affected individuals. After a genomewide search for linkage in four affected sib pairs had pinpointed the assignment to 1p, the MEB locus was more precisely assigned to a 9-cM interval flanked by markers D1S200 proximally and D1S211 distally. Multipoint linkage analysis gave a maximum LOD score of 6.17 at locus D1S2677. These findings provide a starting point for the positional cloning of the disease gene, which may play an important role in muscle function and brain development. It also provides an opportunity to test other congenital muscular dystrophy phenotypes, in particular WWS, for linkage to the same locus. 相似文献
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Masoudi AA Uchida K Yokouchi K Ohwada K Abbasi AR Tsuji T Watanabe T Hirano T Sugimoto Y Kunieda T 《Animal genetics》2008,39(1):46-50
Forelimb-girdle muscular anomaly is an autosomal recessive disorder of Japanese black cattle characterized by tremor, astasia and abnormal shape of the shoulders. Pathological examination of affected animals reveals hypoplasia of forelimb-girdle muscles with reduced diameter of muscle fibres. To identify the gene responsible for this disorder, we performed linkage mapping of the disorder locus using an inbred pedigree including a great-grand sire, a grand sire, a sire and 26 affected calves obtained from a herd of Japanese black cattle. Two hundred and fifty-eight microsatellite markers distributed across the genome were genotyped across the pedigree. Four markers on the middle region of bovine chromosome 26 showed significant linkage with the disorder locus. Haplotype analysis using additional markers in this region refined the critical region of the disorder locus to a 3.5-Mb interval on BTA26 between BM4505 and MOK2602 . Comparative mapping data revealed several potential candidate genes for the disorder, including NRAP , PDZD8 and HSPA12A , which are associated with muscular function. 相似文献
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Refined Mapping of a Gene Responsible for Fukuyama-Type Congenital Muscular Dystrophy: Evidence for Strong Linkage Disequilibrium 总被引:7,自引:3,他引:4
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Tatsushi Toda Shiro Ikegawa Keiko Okui Eri Kondo Kayoko Saito Yukio Fukuyama Mieko Yoshioka Toshiyuki Kumagai Kaoru Suzumori Ichiro Kanazawa Yusuke Nakamura 《American journal of human genetics》1994,55(5):946-950
Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), the second most common form of childhood muscular dystrophy in Japan, is an autosomal recessive severe muscular dystrophy associated with an anomaly of the brain. After our initial mapping of the FCMD locus to chromosome 9q31-33, we further defined the locus within a region of ~5 cM between loci D9S127 and CA246, by homozygosity mapping in patients born to consanguineous marriages and by recombination analyses in other families. We also found evidence for strong linkage disequilibrium between FCMD and a polymorphic microsatellite marker, mfd220, which showed no recombination and a lod score of (Z) 17.49. A “111-bp” allele for the mfd220 locus was observed in 22 (34%) of 64 FCMD chromosomes, but it was present in only 1 of 120 normal chromosomes. This allelic association with FCMD was highly significant (χ2 =50.7; P<.0001). Hence, we suspect that the FCMD gene could lie within a few hundred kilobases of the mfd220 locus. 相似文献
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Substitution of a conserved cysteine-996 in a cysteine-rich motif of the laminin alpha2-chain in congenital muscular dystrophy with partial deficiency of the protein. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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M. Nissinen A. Helbling-Leclerc X. Zhang T. Evangelista H. Topaloglu C. Cruaud J. Weissenbach M. Fardeau F. M. Tom K. Schwartz K. Tryggvason P. Guicheney 《American journal of human genetics》1996,58(6):1177-1184
Congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) are autosomal recessive muscle disorders of early onset. Approximately half of CMD patients present laminin alpha2-chain (merosin) deficiency in muscle biopsies, and the disease locus has been mapped to the region of the LAMA2 gene (6q22-23) in several families. Recently, two nonsense mutations in the laminin alpha2-chain gene were identified in CMD patients exhibiting complete deficiency of the laminin alpha2-chain in muscle biopsies. However, a subset of CMD patients with linkage to LAMA2 show only partial absence of the laminin alpha2-chain around muscle fibers, by immunocytochemical analysis. In the present study we have identified a homozygous missense mutation in the alpha2-chain gene of a consanguineous Turkish family with partial laminin alpha2-chain deficiency. The T-->C transition at position 3035 in the cDNA sequence results in a Cys996-->Arg substitution. The mutation that affects one of the conserved cysteine-rich repeats in the short arm of the laminin alpha2-chain should result in normal synthesis of the chain and in formation and secretion of a heterotrimeric laminin molecule. Muscular dysfunction is possibly caused either by abnormal disulfide cross-links and folding of the laminin repeat, leading to the disturbance of an as yet unknown binding function of the laminin alpha2-chain and to shorter half-life of the muscle-specific laminin-2 and laminin-4 isoforms, or by increased proteolytic sensitivity, leading to truncation of the short arm. 相似文献
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Evidence for a major gene (RP10) for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa on chromosome 7q: linkage mapping in a second,unrelated family 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Rachel E. McGuire Alexandra M. Gannon Lori S. Sullivan Joseph A. Rodriguez Stephen P. Daiger 《Human genetics》1995,95(1):71-74
Retinitis pigmentosa is a genetically heterogeneous form of retinal degeneration, which has X-linked, autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant forms. The disease genes in families with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) have been linked to six loci, on 3q, 6p, 7p, 7q, 8q and 19q. In a large American family with late-onset adRP, microsatellite markers were used to test for linkage to the loci on 3q, 6p, 7p, 7q and 8q. Linkage was found to 7q using the marker D7S480. Additional microsatellite markers from 7q were then tested. In total, five markers, D7S480, D7S514, D7S633, D7S650 and D7S677, show statistically significant evidence for link-age in this family, with a maximum two-point lod score of 5.3 at 0% recombination from D7S514. These results confirm an earlier report of linkage to an adRP locus (RP10) in an unrelated family of Spanish origin and indicate that RP10 may be a significant gene for inherited retinal degeneration. In addition, we used recently reported microsatellite markers from 7q to refine the linkage map of the RP10 locus. 相似文献
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Mutations in the O-mannosyltransferase gene POMT1 give rise to the severe neuronal migration disorder Walker-Warburg syndrome 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
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Beltrán-Valero de Bernabé D Currier S Steinbrecher A Celli J van Beusekom E van der Zwaag B Kayserili H Merlini L Chitayat D Dobyns WB Cormand B Lehesjoki AE Cruces J Voit T Walsh CA van Bokhoven H Brunner HG 《American journal of human genetics》2002,71(5):1033-1043
Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) is an autosomal recessive developmental disorder characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy and complex brain and eye abnormalities. A similar combination of symptoms is presented by two other human diseases, muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) and Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD). Although the genes underlying FCMD (Fukutin) and MEB (POMGnT1) have been cloned, loci for WWS have remained elusive. The protein products of POMGnT1 and Fukutin have both been implicated in protein glycosylation. To unravel the genetic basis of WWS, we first performed a genomewide linkage analysis in 10 consanguineous families with WWS. The results indicated the existence of at least three WWS loci. Subsequently, we adopted a candidate-gene approach in combination with homozygosity mapping in 15 consanguineous families with WWS. Candidate genes were selected on the basis of the role of the FCMD and MEB genes. Since POMGnT1 encodes an O-mannoside N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, we analyzed the possible implication of O-mannosyl glycan synthesis in WWS. Analysis of the locus for O-mannosyltransferase 1 (POMT1) revealed homozygosity in 5 of 15 families. Sequencing of the POMT1 gene revealed mutations in 6 of the 30 unrelated patients with WWS. Of the five mutations identified, two are nonsense mutations, two are frameshift mutations, and one is a missense mutation. Immunohistochemical analysis of muscle from patients with POMT1 mutations corroborated the O-mannosylation defect, as judged by the absence of glycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan. The implication of O-mannosylation in MEB and WWS suggests new lines of study in understanding the molecular basis of neuronal migration. 相似文献
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M M Nthen S Cichon I R Vogt S Hemmer R Kruse M Knapp T Hller M Faiyaz ul Haque S Haque P Propping M Ahmad M Rietschel 《American journal of human genetics》1998,62(2):386-390
Complete or partial congenital absence of hair (congenital alopecia) may occur either in isolation or with associated defects. The majority of families with isolated congenital alopecia has been reported to follow an autosomal-recessive mode of inheritance (MIM 203655). As yet, no gene has been linked to isolated congenital alopecia, nor has linkage been established to a specific region of the genome. In an attempt to map the gene for the autosomal recessive form of the disorder, we have performed genetic linkage analysis on a large inbred Pakistani family in which affected persons show complete absence of hair development (universal congenital alopecia). We have analyzed individuals of this family, using >175 microsatellite polymorphic markers of the human genome. A maximum LOD score of 7.90 at a recombination fraction of 0 has been obtained with locus D8S258. Haplotype analysis of recombination events localized the disease to a 15-cM region between marker loci D8S261 and D8S1771. We have thus mapped the gene for this hereditary form of isolated congenital alopecia to a locus on chromosome 8p21-22 (ALUNC [alopecia universalis congenitalis]). This will aid future identification of the responsible gene, which will be extremely useful for the understanding of the biochemistry of hair development. 相似文献
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Rabia Habib Muhammad Ansar Manuel Mattheisen Muhammad Shahid Ghazanfar Ali Wasim Ahmad Regina C. Betz 《PloS one》2015,10(6)
Ectodermal dysplasias (EDs) are a large heterogeneous group of inherited disorders exhibiting abnormalities in ectodermally derived appendages such as hair, nails, teeth and sweat glands. EDs associated with reticulated pigmentation phenotype are rare entities for which the genetic basis and pathophysiology are not well characterized. The present study describes a five generation consanguineous Pakistani family segregating an autosomal recessive form of a novel type of ectodermal dysplasia. The affected members present with sparse and woolly hair, severe nail dystrophy and reticulate skin pigmentation. After exclusion of known gene loci related with other skin disorders, genome-wide linkage analysis was performed using Illumina HumanOmniExpress beadchip SNP arrays. We linked this form of ED to human chromosome 18p11.32-p11.31 flanked by the SNPs rs9284390 (0.113Mb) and rs4797100 (3.14 Mb). A maximum two-point LOD score of 3.3 was obtained with several markers along the disease interval. The linkage interval of 3.03 Mb encompassed seventeen functional genes. However, sequence analysis of all these genes did not discover any potentially disease causing-variants. The identification of this novel locus provides additional information regarding the mapping of a rare form of ED. Further research, such as the use of whole-genome sequencing, would be expected to reveal any pathogenic mutation within the disease locus. 相似文献
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A new locus for autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia maps to chromosome 16q24.3. 总被引:9,自引:2,他引:7
G De Michele M De Fusco F Cavalcanti A Filla R Marconi G Volpe A Monticelli A Ballabio G Casari S Cocozza 《American journal of human genetics》1998,63(1):135-139
Hereditary spastic paraplegia is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disorder. Both pure and complicated forms have been described, with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked inheritance. Various loci (SPG1-SPG6) associated with this disorder have been mapped. Here, we report linkage analysis of a large consanguineous family affected with autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia with age at onset of 25-42 years. Linkage analysis of this family excluded all previously described spastic paraplegia loci. A genomewide linkage analysis showed evidence of linkage to chromosome 16q24.3, with markers D16S413 (maximum LOD score 3.37 at recombination fraction [theta] of .00) and D16S303 (maximum LOD score 3.74 at straight theta=.00). Multipoint analysis localized the disease gene in the most telomeric region, with a LOD score of 4.2. These data indicate the presence of a new locus linked to pure recessive spastic paraplegia, on chromosome 16q24.3, within a candidate region of 6 cM. 相似文献
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Gill JL James VM Carta E Harris D Topf M Scholes SF Hateley G Harvey RJ 《Animal genetics》2012,43(3):267-270
Two newborn Belgian Blue calves from a farm in the United Kingdom exhibited lateral recumbency, low head carriage and transient muscle spasms following tactile or auditory stimulation. DNA sequence analysis indicated that both calves were homozygous for the recessive congenital muscular dystonia type 2 (CMD2) mutation (c.809T>C, p.Leu270Pro) in SLC6A5, encoding the neuronal glycine transporter GlyT2. Further testing of animals from the index farm and a sample of Belgian Blue sires revealed an unexpectedly high frequency of CMD2 carriers. This implies that linked quantitative trait loci may be influencing the prevalence of CMD2 in the estimated 55,000 Belgian Blue cattle in the United Kingdom. We have therefore developed new inexpensive tests for the CMD2 allele that can be used to confirm diagnosis, identify carriers and guide future breeding strategy, thus avoiding animal distress/premature death and minimizing the future economic impact of this disorder. 相似文献
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Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Miyoshi myopathy in an aboriginal Canadian kindred map to LGMD2B and segregate with the same haplotype. 总被引:6,自引:2,他引:4
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T. Weiler C. R. Greenberg E. Nylen W. Halliday K. Morgan D. Eggertson K. Wrogemann 《American journal of human genetics》1996,59(4):872-878
We report the results of our investigations of a large, inbred, aboriginal Canadian kindred with nine muscular dystrophy patients. The ancestry of all but two of the carrier parents could be traced to a founder couple, seven generations back. Seven patients presented with proximal myopathy consistent with limb girdle-type muscular dystrophy (LGMD), whereas two patients manifested predominantly distal wasting and weakness consistent with Miyoshi myopathy (distal autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy) (MM). Age at onset of symptoms, degree of creatine kinase elevation, and muscle histology were similar in both phenotypes. Segregation of LGMD/MM is consistent with autosomal recessive inheritance, and the putative locus is significantly linked (LOD scores >3.0) to six marker loci that span the region of the LGMD2B locus on chromosome 2p. Our initial hypothesis that the affected patients would all be homozygous by descent for microsatellite markers surrounding the disease locus was rejected. Rather, two different core haplotypes, encompassing a 4-cM region spanned by D2S291-D2S145-D2S286, segregated with the disease, indicating that there are two mutant alleles of independent origin in this kindred. There was no association, however, between the two different haplotypes and clinical variability; they do not distinguish between the LGMD and MM phenotypes. Thus, we conclude that LGMD and MM in our population are caused by the same mutation in LGMD2B and that additional factors, both genetic and nongenetic, must contribute to the clinical phenotype. 相似文献
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Gul Naz Ghazanfar Ali Syed Kamran-ul-Hassan Naqvi Zahid Azeem Wasim Ahmad 《Human genetics》2010,127(4):395-401
Autosomal recessive hypotrichosis is a rare form of human genetic disorder characterized by sparse to absent hair on scalp
and rest of the body of affected individuals. Over the past few years at least five autosomal recessive forms of hypotrichosis
loci have been mapped on different human chromosomes. In the present study, we report localization of another novel autosomal
recessive hypotrichosis locus on human chromosome 10q11.23–22.3 in a four generation consanguineous Pakistani family. All
the four patients in the family showed typical features of hereditary hypotrichosis including sparse hair on the scalp and
rest of the body. Human genome scan using highly polymorphic microsatellite markers mapped the disease locus to a large region
on chromosome 10. This novel locus maps to 29.81 cM (28.5 Mb) region, flanked by markers D10S538 and D10S2327 on chromosome
10q11.23–22.3. A maximum multipoint LOD score of 3.26 was obtained with several markers in this region. DNA sequence analysis
of exons and splice-junction sites of four putative candidate genes (P4HA1, ZNF365, ZMYND17, MYST4), located in the linkage interval, were sequenced but were negative for functional sequence variants. 相似文献
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Stamm DS Rampersaud E Slifer SH Mehltretter L Siegel DG Xie J Hu-Lince D Craig DW Stephan DA George TM Gilbert JR Speer MC;NTD Collaborative Group 《Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology》2006,76(6):499-505
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are considered complex, with both genetic and environmental factors implicated. To date, no major causative genes have been identified in humans despite several investigations. The first genomewide screen in NTDs demonstrated evidence of linkage to chromosomes 7 and 10. This screen included 44 multiplex families and consisted of 402 microsatellite markers spaced approximately 10 cM apart. Further investigation of the genomic screen data identified a single large multiplex family, pedigree 8776, as primarily driving the linkage results on chromosome 7. METHODS: To investigate this family more thoroughly, a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) screen was performed. Two-point and multipoint linkage analyses were performed using both parametric and nonparametric methods. RESULTS: For both the microsatellite and SNP markers, linkage analysis suggested the involvement of a locus or loci proximal to the telomeric regions of chromosomes 2q and 7p, with both regions generating a LOD* score of 3.0 using a nonparametric identity by descent relative sharing method. CONCLUSIONS: The regions with the strongest evidence for linkage map proximal to the telomeres on these two chromosomes. In addition to mutations and/or variants in a major gene, these loci may harbor a microdeletion and/or translocation; potentially, polygenic factors may also be involved. This single family may be promising for narrowing the search for NTD susceptibility genes. 相似文献
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A new locus for autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia associated with mental retardation and distal motor neuropathy, SPG14, maps to chromosome 3q27-q28 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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Vazza G Zortea M Boaretto F Micaglio GF Sartori V Mostacciuolo ML 《American journal of human genetics》2000,67(2):504-509
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs), a group of neurodegenerative disorders that cause progressive spasticity of the lower limbs, are characterized by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. To date, three loci for autosomal recessive HSP have been mapped on chromosomes 8p, 16q, and 15q. After exclusion of linkage at these loci, we performed a genomewide search in a consanguineous Italian family with autosomal recessive HSP complicated by mild mental retardation and distal motor neuropathy. Using homozygosity mapping, we obtained positive LOD scores for markers on chromosome region 3q27-q28, with a maximum multipoint LOD score of 3.9 for marker D3S1601. Haplotype analysis allowed us to identify a homozygous region (4.5 cM), flanked by markers D3S1580 and D3S3669, that cosegregates with the disease. These data strongly support the presence, on chromosome 3q27-28, of a new locus for complicated recessive spastic paraplegia, which we have named "SPG14." 相似文献
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J Tassin A Dürr T de Broucker N Abbas V Bonifati G De Michele A M Bonnet E Broussolle P Pollak M Vidailhet M De Mari R Marconi S Medjbeur A Filla G Meco Y Agid A Brice 《American journal of human genetics》1998,63(1):88-94
The gene for autosomal recessive juvenile Parkinsonism (AR-JP) recently has been mapped to chromosome 6q25.2-27 in Japanese families. We have tested one Algerian and 10 European multiplex families with early-onset Parkinson disease for linkage to this locus, with marker D6S305. Homogeneity analysis provided a conditional probability in favor of linkage of >.9 in eight families, which were analyzed further with eight microsatellite markers spanning the 17-cM AR-JP region. Haplotype reconstruction for eight families and determination of the smallest region of homozygosity in two consanguineous families reduced the candidate interval to 11.3 cM. If the deletion of two microsatellite markers (D6S411 and D6S1550) that colocalize on the genetic map and that segregate with the disease in the Algerian family is taken into account, the candidate region would be reduced to <1 cM. These findings should facilitate identification of the corresponding gene. We have confirmed linkage of AR-JP, in European families and in an Algerian family, to the PARK2 locus. PARK2 appears to be an important locus for AR-JP in European patients. The clinical spectrum of the disease in our families, with age at onset <=58 years and the presence of painful dystonia in some patients, is broader than that reported previously. 相似文献
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Family history is a major risk factor for colorectal cancer and many families segregate the disease as a seemingly monogenic trait. A minority of familial colorectal cancer could be explained by known monogenic genes and genetic loci. Familial polyposis and Lynch syndrome are two syndromes where the predisposing genes are known but numerous families have been tested without finding the predisposing gene. We performed a genome wide linkage analysis in 121 colorectal families with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The families were ascertained from the department of clinical genetics at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden and were considered negative for Familial Polyposis and Lynch syndrome. In total 600 subjects were genotyped using single nucleotide polymorphism array chips. Parametric- and non-parametric linkage analyses were computed using MERLIN in all and subsets of families. No statistically significant result was seen, however, there were suggestive positive HLODs above two in parametric linkage analysis. This was observed in a recessive model for high-risk families, at locus 9q31.1 (HLOD=2.2, rs1338121) and for moderate-risk families, at locus Xp22.33 (LOD=2.2 and HLOD=2.5, rs2306737). Using families with early-onset, recessive analysis suggested one locus on 4p16.3 (LOD=2.2, rs920683) and one on 17p13.2 (LOD/HLOD=2.0, rs884250). No NPL score above two was seen for any of the families. Our linkage study provided additional support for the previously suggested region on chromosome 9 and suggested additional loci to be involved in colorectal cancer risk. Sequencing of genes in the regions will be done in future studies. 相似文献