Cullin 4B (CUL4B), lysosomal-associated membrane protein Type 2 (LAMP2), ATP1B4, TMEM255A, and ZBTB33 are neighboring genes on Xq24. Mutations in CUL4B result in Cabezas syndrome (CS). Male CS patients present with dysmorphic, neuropsychiatric, genitourinary, and endocrine abnormalities. Heterozygous CS females are clinically asymptomatic. LAMP2 mutations cause Danon disease (DD). Cardiomyopathy is a dominant feature of DD present in both males and heterozygous females. No monogenic phenotypes have been associated with mutations in ATP1B4, TMEM255A, and ZBTB33 genes. To facilitate diagnostics and counseling in CS and DD families, we present a female DD patient with a de novo Alu-mediated Xq24 rearrangement causing a deletion encompassing CUL4B, LAMP2, and also the other three neighboring genes. Typical to females heterozygous for CUL4B mutations, the patient was CS asymptomatic, however, presented with extremely skewed X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) ratios in peripheral white blood cells. As a result of the likely selection against CUL4B deficient clones, only minimal populations (~3%) of LAMP2 deficient leukocytes were identified by flow cytometry. On the contrary, myocardial LAMP2 protein expression suggested random XCI. We demonstrate that contiguous CUL4B and LAMP2 loss-of-function copy number variations occur and speculate that male patients carrying similar defects could present with features of both CS and DD.
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- chromozomální delece MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- elementy Alu genetika MeSH
- exony genetika MeSH
- glykogenóza typu IIb diagnóza genetika patofyziologie MeSH
- inaktivace chromozomu X genetika MeSH
- kardiomyopatie genetika patofyziologie MeSH
- kulinové proteiny genetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- membránový protein 2 asociovaný s lyzozomy genetika MeSH
- mentální retardace vázaná na chromozom X genetika patofyziologie MeSH
- mutace ztráty funkce genetika MeSH
- myokard metabolismus MeSH
- sodíko-draslíková ATPasa genetika MeSH
- transkripční faktory genetika MeSH
- variabilita počtu kopií segmentů DNA genetika MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- kazuistiky MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
BACKGROUND: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting 1 in 8,000 newborns. The majority of patients carry bi-allelic variants in the survival of motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1). SMN1 is located in a duplicated region on chromosome 5q13 that contains Alu elements and is predisposed to genomic rearrangements. Due to the genomic complexity of the SMN region and genetic heterogeneity, approximately 50% of SMA patients remain without genetic diagnosis that is a prerequisite for genetic treatments. In this work we describe the diagnostic odyssey of one SMA patient in whom routine diagnostics identified only a maternal heterozygous SMN1Δ(7-8) deletion. METHODS: We characterized SMN transcripts, assessed SMN protein content in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), estimated SMN genes dosage, and mapped genomic rearrangement in the SMN region. RESULTS: We identified an Alu-mediated deletion encompassing exons 2a-5 of SMN1 on the paternal allele and a complete deletion of SMN1 on the maternal allele as the cause of SMA in this patient. CONCLUSION: Alu-mediated rearrangements in SMN1 can escape routine diagnostic testing. Parallel analysis of SMN gene dosage, SMN transcripts, and total SMN protein levels in PBMC can identify genomic rearrangements and should be considered in genetically undefined SMA cases.
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- delece genu * MeSH
- elementy Alu MeSH
- genetické testování metody MeSH
- leukocyty mononukleární metabolismus MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- messenger RNA genetika metabolismus MeSH
- předškolní dítě MeSH
- protein přežití motorických neuronů 1 genetika metabolismus MeSH
- sekvenční analýza DNA metody MeSH
- spinální svalová atrofie diagnóza genetika MeSH
- western blotting metody MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- předškolní dítě MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- kazuistiky MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
BACKGROUND: The origin of Western African pastoralism, represented today by the Fulani nomads, has been a highly debated issue for the past decades, and has not yet been conclusively resolved. AIM: This study focused on Alu polymorphisms in sedentary and nomadic populations across the African Sahel to investigate patterns of diversity that can complement the existing results and contribute to resolving issues concerning the origin of West African pastoralism. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A new dataset of 21 Alu biallelic markers covering a substantial part of the African Sahel has been analysed jointly with several published North African populations. RESULTS: Interestingly, with regard to Alu variation, the relationship of Fulani pastoralists to North Africans is not as evident as was earlier revealed by studies of uniparental loci such as mtDNA and NRY. Alu insertions point rather to an affinity of Fulani pastoralists to Eastern Africans also leading a pastoral lifestyle. CONCLUSIONS: It is suggested that contemporary Fulani pastoralists might be descendants of an ancestral Eastern African population that, while crossing the Sahara in the Holocene, admixed slightly with a population of Eurasian (as evidenced by uniparental polymorphisms) ancestry. It seems that, in the Fulani pastoralists, Alu elements reflect more ancient genetic relationships than do uniparental genetic systems.
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- elementy Alu genetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- osoby s přechodným pobytem a migranti * MeSH
- polymorfismus genetický genetika MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- subsaharská Afrika MeSH
BACKGROUND: Transposable elements form a significant proportion of eukaryotic genomes. Recently, Lexa et al. (Nucleic Acids Res 42:968-978, 2014) reported that plant long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons often contain potential quadruplex sequences (PQSs) in their LTRs and experimentally confirmed their ability to adopt four-stranded DNA conformations. RESULTS: Here, we searched for PQSs in human retrotransposons and found that PQSs are specifically localized in the 3'-UTR of LINE-1 elements, in LTRs of HERV elements and are strongly accumulated in specific regions of SVA elements. Circular dichroism spectroscopy confirmed that most PQSs had adopted monomolecular or bimolecular guanine quadruplex structures. Evolutionarily young SVA elements contained more PQSs than older elements and their propensity to form quadruplex DNA was higher. Full-length L1 elements contained more PQSs than truncated elements; the highest proportion of PQSs was found inside transpositionally active L1 elements (PA2 and HS families). CONCLUSIONS: Conservation of quadruplexes at specific positions of transposable elements implies their importance in their life cycle. The increasing quadruplex presence in evolutionarily young LINE-1 and SVA families makes these elements important contributors toward present genome-wide quadruplex distribution.
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- dlouhé rozptýlené jaderné elementy MeSH
- elementy Alu MeSH
- endogenní retroviry MeSH
- G-kvadruplexy * MeSH
- genomika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mapování chromozomů MeSH
- repetitivní sekvence nukleových kyselin MeSH
- transpozibilní elementy DNA * MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Mutations in WNK1 and WNK4 cause familial hypertension, the Gordon syndrome. WNK1 and WNK4 conserved noncoding regions were targeted to polymorphism screening using DHPLC and DGGE. The scan identified an undescribed polymorphic AluYb8 insertion in WNK1 intron 10. Screening in primates revealed that this Alu-insertion has probably occurred in human lineage. Genotyping in 18 populations from Europe, Asia, and Africa (n = 854) indicated an expansion of the WNK1 AluYb8 bearing chromosomes out of Africa. The allele frequency in Sub-Saharan Africa was ~3.3 times lower than in other populations (4.8 vs. 15.8%; P = 9.7 × 10(-9) ). Meta-analysis across three European sample sets (n = 3,494; HYPEST, Estonians; BRIGHT, the British; CADCZ, Czech) detected significant association of the WNK1 AluYb8 insertion with blood pressure (BP; systolic BP, P = 4.03 × 10(-3) , effect 1.12; diastolic BP, P = 1.21 × 10(-2) , effect 0.67). Gender-stratified analysis revealed that this effect might be female-specific (n = 2,088; SBP, P = 1.99 × 10(-3) , effect 1.59; DBP P = 3.64 × 10(-4) , effect 1.23; resistant to Bonferroni correction), whereas no statistical support was identified for the association with male BP (n = 1,406). In leucocytes, the expressional proportions of the full-length WNK1 transcript and the splice-form skipping exon 11 were significantly shifted in AluYb8 carriers compared to noncarriers. The WNK1 AluYb8 insertion might affect human BP via altering the profile of alternatively spliced transcripts.
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- alternativní sestřih genetika MeSH
- artrogrypóza genetika MeSH
- běloši genetika MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- elementy Alu genetika MeSH
- exony MeSH
- genetická variace MeSH
- hypertenze genetika MeSH
- intracelulární signální peptidy a proteiny MeSH
- introny MeSH
- inzerční mutageneze MeSH
- krevní tlak genetika MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- pes equinovarus genetika MeSH
- polymorfismus genetický MeSH
- protein-serin-threoninkinasy genetika MeSH
- rozštěp patra genetika MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- vrozené deformity ruky genetika MeSH
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- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Afrika MeSH
- Asie MeSH
- Evropa MeSH
BACKGROUND: Mutations in the LDLR gene are the most frequent cause of Familial hypercholesterolemia, an autosomal dominant disease characterised by elevated concentrations of LDL in blood plasma. In many populations, large genomic rearrangements account for approximately 10% of mutations in the LDLR gene. METHODS: DNA diagnostics of large genomic rearrangements was based on Multiple Ligation dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA). Subsequent analyses of deletion and duplication breakpoints were performed using long-range PCR, PCR, and DNA sequencing. RESULTS: In set of 1441 unrelated FH patients, large genomic rearrangements were found in 37 probands. Eight different types of rearrangements were detected, from them 6 types were novel, not described so far. In all rearrangements, we characterized their exact extent and breakpoint sequences. CONCLUSIONS: Sequence analysis of deletion and duplication breakpoints indicates that intrachromatid non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) between Alu elements is involved in 6 events, while a non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is implicated in 2 rearrangements. Our study thus describes for the first time NHEJ as a mechanism involved in genomic rearrangements in the LDLR gene.
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- elementy Alu MeSH
- genová přestavba MeSH
- hyperlipoproteinemie typ II genetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- molekulární sekvence - údaje MeSH
- receptory LDL genetika MeSH
- sekvence nukleotidů MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
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- dlouhé rozptýlené jaderné elementy genetika MeSH
- elementy Alu genetika MeSH
- genom lidský MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
Cystathionine beta-synthase [CBS; l-serine hydro-lyase (adding homocysteine), EC 4.2.1.22] catalyzes the first committed step of transsulfuration and is the enzyme deficient in classical homocystinuria. In this report, we describe the molecular cloning and the complete nucleotide sequence of the human CBS gene. We report a total of 28,046 nucleotides of sequence, which, in addition to the CBS gene, contains approximately 5 kb of the 5' flanking region. The human CBS gene contains 23 exons ranging from 42 to 209 bp. The 5' UTR is formed by 1 of 5 alternatively used exons and 1 invariably present exon, while the 3' UTR is encoded by exons 16 and 17. We also describe the identification of two alternatively used promoter regions that are GC rich (approximately 80%) and contain numerous putative binding sites for Sp1, Ap1, Ap2, and c-myb, but lack the classical TATA box. The CBS locus contains an unusually high number of Alu repeats, which may predispose this gene to deleterious rearrangements. Additionally, we report on a number of DNA sequence repeats that are polymorphic in North American and European Caucasians. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
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- alternativní sestřih * genetika MeSH
- běloši MeSH
- cystathionin-beta-synthasa * genetika MeSH
- elementy Alu genetika MeSH
- exony genetika MeSH
- klonování DNA MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- minisatelitní repetice genetika MeSH
- molekulární sekvence - údaje MeSH
- polymorfismus genetický genetika MeSH
- promotorové oblasti (genetika) genetika MeSH
- sekvence nukleotidů MeSH
- sekvenční analýza DNA MeSH
- sekvenční homologie nukleových kyselin MeSH
- transkripční faktory genetika MeSH
- vazebná místa genetika MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. MeSH
