Haplotype analysis at the FRAXA locus in the Japanese population
| Autor: | Robert I. Richards, Naohiko Seki, Tada-aki Hori, Masatake Yamauchi, Ikuko Kondo, Alan Staples, Kunikazu Kishi, K. Holman, Grant R. Sutherland |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities X Chromosome DNA Mutational Analysis Locus (genetics) Biology White People Asian People Japan medicine Humans Allele Genetics (clinical) X chromosome Repetitive Sequences Nucleic Acid Genetics Molecular Epidemiology Chromosomal fragile site Chromosome Fragile Sites Chromosome Fragility Haplotype medicine.disease Founder Effect Fragile X syndrome Haplotypes Fragile X Syndrome Dynamic mutation Founder effect |
| Zdroj: | American journal of medical genetics. 51(4) |
| ISSN: | 0148-7299 |
| Popis: | Fragile X syndrome, one of the most common human genetic diseases, is characterized by a unique genetic mechanism which involves dynamic mutation in a heritable unstable DNA sequence, a p(CCG)n repeat, in the FRAXA locus. It has recently been suggested that a few founder chromosomes are responsible for most fragile X mutations in the Caucasian population. In order to investigate the origin of the fragile X mutations in the Japanese population, we analyzed haplotypes of the FRAXA locus in 40 unrelated fragile X chromosomes and 142 normal X chromosomes in Japanese males, by using two polymorphic AC repeats, FRAXAC1 and FRAXAC2, which flank the fragile site. This analysis provided evidence for founder fragile X chromosomes in the Japanese population, similar to that in Caucasians, although different haplotypes are involved. The distribution of normal allele size of the p(CCG)n repeat among the X chromosomes in the Japanese population is very similar to that reported for Caucasians, except that the most frequent copy number (n = 28) is one copy less than that in Caucasians and that there is an additional peak at 35 copies. There is significant correlation between FRAXAC alleles and the p(CCG)n repeat copy number in non-fragile X chromosomes, however, alleles with more than 31 copies of the p(CCG)n repeat do not segregate with either of the fragile X common FRAXAC haplotypes. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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