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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
Data on polydactyly were obtained from two large samples: the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), and from a migrant Northeastern Brazilian population of rural origin (Hospedaria). ECLAMC is a case-control clinical epidemiological program comprising 10,035 individuals distributed among 2,030 segregating nuclear families. Hospedaria data consisted of 6,586 examined individuals belonging to 1,040 nuclear families. Using complex segregation analysis methodology we found no evidence of two loci (a major gene and a modifier locus) acting on postaxial polydactyly in the present study. Very high heritability values (in a classical multifactorial model) of postaxial polydactyly were detected, for several sets of analyses in ECLAMC and in Hospedaria. For the whole ECLAMC sample there is a peculiar suggestion of a major recessive gene effect responsible for the trait; however, no comparison with a model involving transmission probabilities (tau) was possible in this highly heterogeneous sample. If the whole ECLAMC sample is divided in subsamples, according to Black admixture proportions, the same multifactorial picture emerges. Two different inheritance patterns were verified for hand (HP) and foot (FP) postaxial polydactyly: For HP there is evidence of a non-Mendelian transmission mechanism, while for FP the parental/sib transmission appears to be due only to multifactorial causes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0148-7299
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
466-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Lack of evidence of a major gene acting on postaxial polydactyly in South America.
pubmed:affiliation
Departamento de Genética, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. feitosa@gene.dbbm.fiocruz.br
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't