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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-14
pubmed:abstractText
Trichothiodystrophy (TTD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder whose defining feature is brittle hair. Associated clinical symptoms include physical and mental retardation of different severity, ichthyosis, premature aging, and, in half of the patients, photosensitivity. Recently, C7orf11 (TTDN1) was identified as the first disease gene for the nonphotosensitive form of TTD, being mutated in two unrelated cases and in an Amish kindred. We have evaluated the involvement of TTDN1 in 44 unrelated nonphotosensitive TTD cases of different geographic origin and with different disease severity. Mutations were found in six patients, five of whom are homozygous and one of whom is a compound heterozygote. All five identified mutations are deletions that have not been described before. Three are deletions of a few bases, resulting in frameshifts and premature termination codons. The other two include the whole TTDN1 gene, suggesting that TTDN1 is not essential for cell proliferation and viability. The severity of the clinical features does not correlate with the type of mutation, indicating that other factors besides TTDN1 mutations influence the severity of the disorder. Since only a small proportion of the analyzed cases were mutated in TTDN1, the nonphotosensitive form of TTD is genetically heterogeneous. Mutations in TTDN1 do not affect the response to ultraviolet (UV) light or the steady state level of the repair/transcription factor IIH (TFIIH), which is central to the onset of the photosensitive form of TTD.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1098-1004
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
92-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Child, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Genetic Testing, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Hair Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Ichthyosis, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Intellectual Disability, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Nail Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Transcription Factor TFIIH, pubmed-meshheading:16977596-Ultraviolet Rays
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Mutations in the C7orf11 (TTDN1) gene in six nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophy patients: no obvious genotype-phenotype relationships.
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pavia, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study