Haplotyping of wild type and I278T alleles of the human cystathionine ?-synthase gene based on a cluster of novel SNPs in IVS12

Autor: Viktor Kozich, Anja Homberger, Jan P. Kraus, Erik Harms, Michael Linnebank, Hans Georg Koch
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Human Mutation. 17:350-351
ISSN: 1098-1004
1059-7794
DOI: 10.1002/humu.36
Popis: Homocystinuria is most frequently due to deficiency of cystathionine β-synthase (CBS). We identified IVS12 as a polymorphism hot spot of the human CBS gene and report five novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): g.13514G>A, g.13617A>G, g.13715C>T, g.13800G>A, and g.13904C>T. Analyzing 50 control DNA samples of unaffected and unrelated subjects of German origin the observed frequencies of heterozygosity were 0.02, 0.36, 0.18, 0.36, and 0.36, respectively. These polymorphic markers were combined into four distinct IVS12-haplotypes A1, A2, B1, and B2, revealing frequencies of 0.75, 0.01, 0.15, and 0.09, respectively, with an observed overall frequency of heterozygosity at 0.38. This haplotype system and the SNP c.699 were employed in the analysis of ten alleles affected by the most prevalent CBS mutation, c.833T>C (exon 8; I278T). We found that the I278T alleles segregate with at least two distinct haplotypes characterized by upstream and downstream polymorphic sites instead of sharing a common ancestral haplotype. This was a remarkable finding even in patients with very similar ethnic background. The novel haplotype system may facilitate future studies on the evolution of the CBS gene and might be suited for genotyping of families affected by homocystinuria. Hum Mutat 17:350-351, 2001. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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