Improved molecular diagnosis of unparental disomy 15 in Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes utilizing new short tandem repeats (STRs) mapped to chromosome 15q11.2-q12
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (United States); and others
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are distinct mental retardation disorders caused by paternal (PWS) or maternal (AS) deficiencies of chromosome 15q11.2-q12. Three STRs (D15S11, GABRB3, and D15S113) were previously developed utilizing YACs from this region as a molecular diagnostic test for PWS/AS. Since then twenty-three new STRs have been developed by several groups which map to 15q11.2-q12. Fine mapping of some of these markers was accomplished utilizing a 3.5 Mb YAC contig of this region. Three new CEPH-Genethon markers, D15S122, D15S128, and D15S210 were mapped within the smallest PWS/AS critical regions. D15S122 mapped to YACs 230H12 and 132D4, D15S128 mapped to YACs 457B4, 11H11, and B58C7, and D15S210 mapped to 132D4 and B230E3. To improve molecular diagnosis of uniparental disomy in PWS/AS, D15S122 and D15S128 with >70% hetrozygosities were placed in a new multiplex PCR reaction with D15S11. Additionally, three CEPH-Genethon markers with high heterozygosities from distal 15q, D15S123, D15S125, and D15S131, were used establish a second multiplex to increase the total number of markers analyzed to six. Twenty-three patients with uniparental disomy 15 were compared using the original multiplex and the two new multiplexes. The results indicated that 16/23 had at least one fully informative marker with the original multiplex and 23/23 using the two new multiplexes. Using a more rigorous diagnostic criterion of two fully informative markers, only 8/23 were informative with the original multiplex and 21/23 with the two new multiplexes. These results demonstrate that these two new multiplexes composed of a total of six polymorphic STRs provide an improved diagnostic test for uniparental disomy 15.
- OSTI ID:
- 133415
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0143
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 55, Issue Suppl.3; Conference: 44. annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal (Canada), 18-22 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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