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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-9-16
pubmed:abstractText
Fumarase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the citric acid cycle causing severe neurological impairment. The cDNA for both the rat and human enzymes has been cloned previously and shown to encode a coding region of 1.46 kb. To scan for mutations in fumarase-deficient patients we amplified the coding region of fumarase from fibroblast/lymphoblast cDNA employing the oligonucleotide primers designed from the published human and rat cDNA sequence. We then directly sequenced the polymerase chain reaction product. In seven unrelated patients, we detected four missense mutations (A265T, D383V, F269C, K187R), a nonsense mutation (W458X), a 3-bp AAA insertion that introduces an additional lysine residue at codon 435, and a spontaneous new mutation resulting in a 74-bp deletion (66del74). Seven at-risk pregnancies were monitored with one prenatal diagnosis of fumarase deficiency by molecular analysis and favorable outcome of the other pregnancies as predicted by enzyme assay of cultured fetal cells or molecular analysis.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1096-7192
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
63
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
254-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Fumarate Hydratase, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Prenatal Diagnosis, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9635293-Sequence Deletion
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular analysis and prenatal diagnosis of human fumarase deficiency.
pubmed:affiliation
Amino Acid Disorder Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02129, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Case Reports