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Mapping the multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (MSSE) gene and investigation of xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) and PATCHED (PTCH) as candidate genes.

Abstract
The MSSE gene predisposes to the development of multiple invasive but self-healing skin tumours (multiple self-healing squamous epitheliomata, MSSE). MSSE (previously named ESS1) was mapped to chromosome 9q by linkage analysis; haplotype analysis in families then suggested a common founder mutation and indicated that the gene lies in the interval D9S1-D9S29 (9q22-q31). Squamous cell carcinomata also develop as one of the complications of xeroderma pigmentosum, and one of the xeroderma pigmentosum genes (XPA) maps within the MSSE interval. We have investigated the hypothesis that a novel dominant mutation in XPA is responsible for MSSE. We screened the entire coding region, 3' untranslated region (UTR) and 5'UTR of XPA for germline mutations in MSSE families by single-stranded conformation polymorphism analysis and by direct DNA sequencing. No mutations were detected but a novel intragenic polymorphism was identified in the 5'UTR of XPA, in both MSSE-affected and unrelated normal individuals. This XPA polymorphism and nine new polymorphic markers that map in the MSSE region were typed in eleven MSSE families; XPA was excluded as the MSSE gene and the most likely location of MSSE was reduced to the interval between D9S197 and (D9S287, D9S1809). The Patched (PTCH) gene, which is mutated in naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS or Gorlin syndrome) lies in this interval and all MSSE families have been shown to share a common haplotype at three novel intragenic PTCH polymorphisms. Although no mutation has been detected in MSSE families, PTCH has not been excluded as the MSSE gene.
AuthorsF M Richards, D R Goudie, W N Cooper, Q Jene, I Barroso, C Wicking, B J Wainwright, M A Ferguson-Smith
JournalHuman genetics (Hum Genet) Vol. 101 Issue 3 Pg. 317-22 (Dec 1997) ISSN: 0340-6717 [Print] Germany
PMID9439661 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Genetic Markers
  • Membrane Proteins
  • PTCH1 protein, human
  • Patched Receptors
  • Patched-1 Receptor
  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • XPA protein, human
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein
Topics
  • Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome (genetics)
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell (etiology, genetics)
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
  • DNA-Binding Proteins (genetics)
  • Exons
  • Founder Effect
  • Genetic Markers
  • Genetic Testing
  • Haplotypes
  • Humans
  • Membrane Proteins (genetics)
  • Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous (genetics)
  • Patched Receptors
  • Patched-1 Receptor
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum (genetics)
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein

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