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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9-10
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-24
pubmed:abstractText
A recessive hairless mutation arose spontaneously in a congenic line of spontaneously hypertensive rats SHR.BN-(D1Mit3-Igf2)/Ipcv. The mutant rats develop generalized alopecia except for partial hair growth on their heads. Affected animals of the congenic line were crossed with LEW rats and randomly bred for several generations. A genome scan in 74 affected and 75 unaffected offspring localized the mutant gene on rat chromosome 18p12, near the marker D18Rat107, which is closely linked to the desmosomal cadherin gene cluster, syntenic to mouse chromosome 18 and human chromosome 18q12. Recently, the mouse and rat phenotypes lah/lah (lanceolate hair) and lah(J)/lah(J)(lanceolate hair-J) were found to be caused by mutations in the desmoglein 4 (Dsg4) gene. Direct sequencing of the Dsg4 gene in the SHR revealed a homozygous C-to-T transition generating a premature termination codon within exon 8 in the affected animals. Further studies on the skin histology in affected rats demonstrated features consistent with a lanceolate hair mutation, providing further support for the crucial role of desmoglein 4 in hair shaft differentiation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0301-4681
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
72
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
541-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Animals, Congenic, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Cadherins, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Chromosomes, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Codon, Nonsense, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Codon, Terminator, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Desmogleins, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Hair, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Homozygote, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Hypotrichosis, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Rats, Inbred SHR, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Rats, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15617564-Synteny
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
A spontaneous mutation in the desmoglein 4 gene underlies hypotrichosis in a new lanceolate hair rat model.
pubmed:affiliation
Gene Mapping Center, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't