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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-16
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is an often-fatal autosomal recessive disease in which albinism, bleeding, and lysosomal storage result from defects of diverse cytoplasmic organelles: melanosomes, platelet dense bodies, and lysosomes. HPS is the most common single-gene disorder in Puerto Rico, with an incidence of 1 in 1,800. We have identified the HPS gene by positional cloning, and found homozygous frameshifts in this gene in Puerto Rican, Swiss, Irish and Japanese HPS patients. The HPS polypeptide is a novel transmembrane protein that is likely to be a component of multiple cytoplasmic organelles and that is apparently crucial for their normal development and function. The different clinical phenotypes associated with the different HPS frameshifts we observed suggests that differentially truncated HPS polypeptides may have somewhat different consequences for subcellular function.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
300-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Albinism, Oculocutaneous, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Genetic Markers, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Ireland, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Japan, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Lysosomal Storage Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Puerto Rico, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Switzerland, pubmed-meshheading:8896559-Syndrome
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Positional cloning of a gene for Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, a disorder of cytoplasmic organelles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't