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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-3-18
pubmed:abstractText
Pseudoachondroplasia (PSACH) and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) are two human autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasias characterized by variable short stature, joint laxity and early-onset degenerative joint disease. Both disorders can result from mut-ations in the gene for cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP), an extracellular matrix glycoprotein. About one-third of PSACH cases result from heterozygosity for deletion of one codon within a very short triplet repeat, (GAC)5, which encodes five consecutive aspartic acid residues within the calmodulin-like region of the COMP protein. We have identified two expansion mut-ations in this repeat: an MED patient carrying a (GAC)6allele and a PSACH patient carrying a (GAC)7allele. These are among the shortest disease-causing triplet repeat expansion mutations described thus far, and are the first identified in a GAC repeat. A unique feature of this sequence is that expansion as well as shortening of the repeat can cause the same disease. In cartilage, both patients have rough endoplasmic reticulum inclusions in chondrocytes. The inclusions are also present in tendon tissue and can be reproduced in cultured tendon cells, suggesting that the pathophysiology of disease is similar in both cartilage and tendon.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0964-6906
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
123-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Achondroplasia, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Cartilage, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Extracellular Matrix Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Osteochondrodysplasias, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Tendons, pubmed-meshheading:9887340-Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Trinucleotide expansion mutations in the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) gene.
pubmed:affiliation
Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Steven Spielberg Pediatric Research Center, Burns and Allen Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't