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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-8-21
pubmed:abstractText
To identify various subtypes of spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) among 57 unrelated individuals clinically diagnosed as ataxia patients we analysed the SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, SCA6, SCA7 and DRPLA loci for expansion of CAG repeats. We detected CAG repeat expansion in 6 patients (10.5%) at the SCA1 locus. Ten of the 57 patients (17.5%) had CAG repeat expansion at the SCA2 locus, while four had CAG expansion at the SCA3/MJD locus (7%). At the SCA6 locus there was a single patient (1.8%) with 21 CAG repeats. We have not detected any patient with expansion in the SCA7 and DRPLA loci. To test whether the frequencies of the large normal alleles in SCA1, SCA2 and SCA6 loci can reflect some light on prevalence of the subtypes of SCAs we studied the CAG repeat variation in these loci in nine ethnic sub-populations of eastern India from which the patients originated. We report here that the frequency of large normal alleles (>31 CAG repeats) in SCA1 locus to be 0.211 of 394 chromosomes studied. We also report that the frequency of large normal alleles (>22 CAG repeats) at the SCA2 locus is 0.038 while at the SCA6 locus frequency of large normal alleles (>13 repeats) is 0.032. We discussed our data in light of the distribution of normal alleles and prevalence of SCAs in the Japanese and white populations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0340-6717
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
597-604
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Calcium Channels, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Ethnic Groups, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-European Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Genetic Testing, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Heterozygote Detection, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-India, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Spinocerebellar Ataxias, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion, pubmed-meshheading:10942107-Trinucleotide Repeats
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Analysis of CAG repeats in SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, SCA6, SCA7 and DRPLA loci in spinocerebellar ataxia patients and distribution of CAG repeats at the SCA1, SCA2 and SCA6 loci in nine ethnic populations of eastern India.
pubmed:affiliation
Crystallography and Molecular Biology Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta, India.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't