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Sanjad-Sakati and autosomal recessive Kenny-Caffey syndromes are allelic: evidence for an ancestral founder mutation and locus refinement.

Abstract
The Sanjad-Sakati syndrome (SSS; MIM241410), an autosomal recessive trait characterized by congenital hypoparathyroidism, growth and mental retardation, seizures, and a characteristic physiognomy, was recently linked to chromosome area 1q42-q43. SSS resembles the autosomal recessive form of Kenny-Caffey syndrome (KCS; MIM244460), with similar manifestations but lacking osteosclerosis. Since KCS was recently linked to the region 1q42-q43, the possibility that this disorder is allelic with SSS was considered. Eight Sanjad-Sakati families from Saudi Arabia were genotyped with polymorphic short tandem repeat markers from the SSS/KCS critical region. A maximum multipoint LOD score of 14.32 was obtained at marker D1S2649, confirming linkage of SSS to the same region as autosomal recessive KCS. Haplotype analysis refined the critical region to 2.6 cM and identified a rare haplotype present in all the SSS disease alleles, indicative of a common founder. In addition to the assignment of the Saudi SSS and Kuwaiti KCS syndromes to overlapping genetic intervals, comparison of the haplotypes unexpectedly demonstrated that the diseases shared an identical haplotype. This finding, combined with the clinical similarity between the two syndromes, suggests that the two conditions are not only allelic but are also caused by the same ancestral mutation.
AuthorsG A Diaz, B D Gelb, F Ali, N Sakati, S Sanjad, B F Meyer, M Kambouris
JournalAmerican journal of medical genetics (Am J Med Genet) Vol. 85 Issue 1 Pg. 48-52 (Jul 02 1999) ISSN: 0148-7299 [Print] United States
PMID10377012 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Topics
  • Abnormalities, Multiple (genetics)
  • Alleles
  • Child
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
  • Developmental Disabilities (genetics)
  • Founder Effect
  • Genes, Recessive
  • Genotype
  • Haplotypes
  • Humans
  • Hypoparathyroidism (genetics)
  • Intellectual Disability (genetics)
  • Mutation
  • Osteochondrodysplasias (genetics)
  • Phenotype
  • Seizures (genetics)
  • Syndrome

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