Investigation of two candidate genes for Hailey-Hailey disease
- Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States); and others
Hailey-Hailey disease (familial benign chronic pemphigus) is an autosomal dominant skin disease characterized by impaired keratinocyte cohesion and consequent blister formation. Recently we have used linkage to map the gene for this disease to a region of chromosome 3q between D3S1589 and D3S1316. The maximum combined two point lod score in four families studied was 14.60 at {theta} = 0 at the D3S1290 microsatellite repeat. Several genes have been mapped to chromosome 3q21-24, including cellular retinol binding protein (RBP1) and rhodopsin (RHO). Using microsatellite repeat for RHO we have found a recombinant with the RHO gene and Hailey-Hailey disease in one patient. Because of the profound effects of retinoids on epidermal differentiation, RBP1 could be considered as a possible candidate gene. We have amplified genomic DNA from patients from 14 individual families with Hailey-Hailey disease and 10 different control samples for each of the 4 exons of RBP1. Thus far, SSCP analysis has failed to detect different banding patterns in patients versus controls. We are now attempting to extend this RBP1 analysis and are collecting new families to use linkage analysis to narrow this still rather large (approximately 14 cM) interval.
- OSTI ID:
- 134095
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0831
- 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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