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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-27
pubmed:abstractText
A 3-year-old boy, his 7-year-old brother, and a maternal uncle had a pure form of spastic paraplegia and a variant X chromosome with a faintly stained gap at Xq11.2. The mother of the propositus also had the variant X chromosome but was clinically unaffected. Three other unaffected females in the family did not have the variant X chromosome. The gaps in the variant X chromosome from the affected members and the mother were Ag-NOR staining positive, C-banding negative, rDNA FISH analysis positive, and alpha-satellite FISH analysis negative. The gap, therefore, represented an insertion of the nucleolus organizer region (NOR) derived from the short arm of an acrocentric chromosome. The variant X chromosome of the mother was randomly inactivated, as evidenced by BrdU replication analysis of her Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cells. Because mutations of the proteolipid protein gene at Xq21 have been responsible for a pure form of spastic paraplegia, this was also investigated but found to be negative in all affected relatives. Summing up these findings, it is proposed that the NOR insertion in the affected members of the family disrupted a hitherto unknown gene for a pure form of spastic paraplegia, situated at Xq11.2, and caused the disorder.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0148-7299
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
94
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Chromosome Segregation, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-DNA Transposable Elements, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Karyotyping, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Nucleolus Organizer Region, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-RNA, Ribosomal, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Spastic Paraplegia, Hereditary, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10982474-X Chromosome
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Segregation of a pure form of spastic paraplegia and NOR insertion into Xq11.2.
pubmed:affiliation
Pediatric Clinic, Todaiji Seishien, Handicapped Children's Hospital, Nara, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article