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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-3-25
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The Charcot-Marie Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) duplication and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) deletion are reciprocal products of an unequal crossing-over event between misaligned flanking CMT1A-REP repeats. The molecular aetiology of this apparently homologous recombination event was examined by sequencing the crossover region. Through the detection of novel junction fragments from the recombinant CMT1A-REPs in both CMT1A and HNPP patients, a 1.7-kb recombination hotspot within the approximately 30-kb CMT1A-REPs was identified. This hotspot is 98% identical between CMT1A-REPs indicating that sequence identity is not likely the sole factor involved in promoting crossover events. Sequence analysis revealed a mariner transposon-like element (MITE) near the hotspot which we hypothesize could mediate strand exchange events via cleavage by a transposase at or near the 3' end of the element.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
288-97
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
A recombination hotspot responsible for two inherited peripheral neuropathies is located near a mariner transposon-like element.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't