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GENETICS
Volume 180, Issue 1, Pages 559-566Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.090894
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- Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
- MRC [MC_U123192748, MC_U123160652] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U123160652, MC_U123192748] Funding Source: researchfish
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The genetic basis of prion disease incubation time is principally determined by polymorphisms in the prion protein gene, Prnp. However, it is now known that other genetic factors are important. Several quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been identified across the genome including a broad region of linkage on Mmu11. Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) maps to this region and has been associated with microglial activation and reduced survival in the ME7 mouse scrapie model of prion disease. We have identified 10 polymorphisms, 3 of which are nonsynonomous, in Mcp1 between long (CAST) and short (SJL or NZW) incubation-time mouse strains. Crosses between these strains and Mcp1(-/-) mice inoculated with the Chandler/RMTL mouse scrapie prion strain formed the basis of a quantitative complementation test. In these models loss of Mcp1 did not show, an increase in incubation time suggesting that the effects of Mcp1 may be specific to the ME7 prion strain and that Mcp1 does not contribute to the QTL described on Mmu11.
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