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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Alagille syndrome (AGS) or arteriohepatic dysplasia is a rare but well-defined clinical entity that is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. A limited number of patients carry a deletion in chromosome 20p, with 20p11.23-p12.2 as the area of minimal overlap. Recently, a family has been identified in which a balanced translocation with a breakpoint in 20p12 co-segregates with the AGS phenotype. Here, we report a three-generation family with AGS and in which the affected members have a normal karyotype. Linkage analysis was performed with markers from the 20p candidate region. A lod score of Z=2.96 was obtained with D20S27 at no recombination. Combining D20S27 and D20S61 to a single highly informative locus resulted in a maximum lod score of Z=+3.56 at Θ=0.0. Haplotype analysis positioned AGS between D20S59 and D20S65, markers that define an interval of about 40 cM. Allelic loss was not observed for the tested markers and no abnormalities in the PAX1 candidate gene were detected. These findings demonstrate that the locus on chromosome 20p could be responsible for AGS in cytogenetically normal patients and argues for a general role of this locus in the aetiology of AGS.
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    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Various polymorphic markers with a random distribution along the X chromosome were used in a linkage analysis performed on a family with apparently Xlinked recessive inheritance of neural tube defects (NTD). The lod score values were used to generate an exclusion map of the X chromosome; this showed that the responsible gene was probably not located in the middle part of Xp or in the distal region of Xq. A further refining of these results was achieved by haplotype analysis, which indicated that the gene for X-linked NTD was located either within Xp21.1-pter, distal from the DMD locus, or in the region Xq12–q24 between DXS106 and DXS424. Multipoint linkage analysis revealed that the likelihood for gene location is highest for the region on Xp. The region Xq26–q28, which has syntenic homology with the segment of the murine X chromosome carrying the locus for ‘bent tail’ (Bn), a mouse model for X-linked NTD, is excluded as the location for the gene underlying X-linked NTD in the present family. Thus, the human homologue of the Bn gene and the present defective gene are not identical, suggesting that more than one gene on the X chromosome plays a role in the development of the neural tube.
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