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Townes-Brocks syndrome: detection of a SALL1 mutation hot spot and evidence for a position effect in one patient.

Abstract
Townes-Brocks syndrome (TBS) is an autosomal dominant developmental disorder characterized by anal and thumb malformations and by ear anomalies that can affect the three compartments and usually lead to hearing loss. The gene underlying TBS, SALL1, is a human homolog of the Drosophila spalt gene which encodes a transcription factor. A search for SALL1 mutations undertaken in 11 unrelated affected individuals (five familial and six sporadic cases) led to the detection of mutations in nine of them. One nonsense and six different novel frameshift mutations, all located in the second exon, were identified. Together with the previously reported mutations [Kohlhase et al., 1999], they establish that TBS results from haploinsufficiency. The finding of de novo mutations in the sporadic cases is consistent with the proposed complete penetrance of the disease. Moreover, the occurrence of the same 826C>T transition in a CG dimer, in three sporadic cases from the present series and three sporadic cases from the other series [Kohlhase et al., 1999] (i.e., six of the eight mutations identified in sporadic cases), reveals the existence of a mutation hotspot. Six different SALL1 polymorphisms were identified in the course of the present study, three of which are clustered in a particular region of the gene that encodes a stretch of serine residues. Finally, the chromosome 16 breakpoint of a t(5;16)(p15.3;q12.1) translocation carried by a TBS-affected individual was mapped at least 180 kb telomeric to SALL1, thus indicating that a position effect underlies the disease in this individual.
AuthorsS Marlin, S Blanchard, R Slim, D Lacombe, F Denoyelle, J L Alessandri, E Calzolari, V Drouin-Garraud, F G Ferraz, A Fourmaintraux, N Philip, J E Toublanc, C Petit
JournalHuman mutation (Hum Mutat) Vol. 14 Issue 5 Pg. 377-86 ( 1999) ISSN: 1059-7794 [Print] United States
PMID10533063 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Chemical References
  • Codon, Nonsense
  • DNA Primers
  • SALL1 protein, human
  • Transcription Factors
Topics
  • Abnormalities, Multiple (genetics)
  • Animals
  • Anus, Imperforate (genetics)
  • Base Sequence
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16 (genetics)
  • Codon, Nonsense
  • DNA Primers (genetics)
  • Ear, External (abnormalities)
  • Female
  • Frameshift Mutation
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural (genetics)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mutation
  • Pedigree
  • Syndrome
  • Thumb (abnormalities)
  • Transcription Factors (genetics)
  • Translocation, Genetic

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