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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-11
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Friedreich ataxia accounts for approximately 75% of European recessive ataxia patients. Approximately 98% of pathogenic chromosomes have large expansions of a GAA triplet repeat in the FRDA gene (E alleles), and strong linkage disequilibrium among polymorphisms spanning the FRDA locus indicates a common origin for all European E alleles. In contrast, we found that only 14 of 151 (9.3%) Mexican Mestizo patients with recessive ataxia were homozygous for E alleles. Analysis of polymorphisms spanning the FRDA locus revealed that all Mestizo E alleles had the common European haplotype, indicating that they share a single origin. Genetic admixture levels were determined, which revealed that the relative contributions to the Mestizo FRDA gene pool by Native American and European genes were 76-87% and 13-24%, respectively, commensurate with the observed low prevalence of Friedreich ataxia in Mestizos. This indicates that Friedreich ataxia in Mexican Mestizos is due to genetic admixture of European mutant FRDA genes in the Native American gene pool that existed prior to contact with Europeans.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0888-7543
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
84
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
779-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-European Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Friedreich Ataxia, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Genes, Recessive, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Genetics, Population, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Homozygote, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Linkage Disequilibrium, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Mexico, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15475256-Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic admixture of European FRDA genes is the cause of Friedreich ataxia in the Mexican population.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 975 NE, 10th Street, BRC458, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't