期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A
卷 149A, 期 7, 页码 1365-1374出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32987
关键词
myotonic dystrophy; CTG repeat; interruptions; DMPK gene
资金
- Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic [MZ000064203]
Myotonic dystrophy type I is caused by the expansion of a CTG repeat in the 3' UTR of the DMPK gene. A length exceeding 50 CTG triplets is pathogenic. Intermediate alleles with 35-49 triplets are not disease-causing but show instability in intergenerational transmissions. We report on the identification of multiple patients with different patterns of CCG and CTC interruptions in the DMPKCTG repeat tract that display unique intergenerational instability. In patients bearing interrupted expanded alleles, the location of the interruptions changed dramatically between generations and the repeats tended to contract. The phenotype for these patients corresponded to the classical form of the disease, but in some cases without muscular dystrophy and possibly with a later onset than expected. Symptomatic patients bearing interrupted intermediate length repeat tracts were also identified, although the role of the interruptions in their phenotype remains unclear. The identification of interruptions in the DMPK repeat has important consequences for molecular genetic testing where they can lead to false negative conclusions. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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