Genome-wide linkage analysis and physical mapping of the rippling muscle disease gene
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States); and others
Rippling muscle disease (RMD) is an inherited disorder of skeletal muscle in which mechanical stimuli provoke electrically silent contractions. The patient`s symptoms are muscle cramps, pain, and stiffness, particularly during or following exercise. Clinical signs are balling of muscle following percussion, and a characteristic lateral rolling movement of muscle occurring after contraction followed by stretching. We report a new 44-member pedigree segregating RMD as an autosomal dominant trait. A genome-wide genetic linkage study in this family, using a novel approach of testing closely spaced highly polymorphic markers in affected individuals, localized the responsible gene to the distal end of the long arm of chromosome 1 with a maximum multi-point lod score of 3.56 ({theta}=0). In this family, RMD is localized to a 6 cM region near D1S235. Physical mapping of the linked region yielded several positive YAC clones, one of which spans the entire 6 cM distance. Several candidate genes not present in the YAC contig, but in the region of 1q4, have been excluded as causative by either linkage analysis of intragenic microsatellite repeats (alpha-actinin, angiotensinogen) or by SSCP of exons (skeletal muscle alpha-actinin). We studied two previously reported German families for linkage to the same locus and this same area did not co-segregate with the disease, a finding that shows that different genetic defects can cause a similar clinical phenotype (genetic heterogeneity). An understanding of the defect in contraction control within the muscle fibers in this disease may lead to a better understanding of muscle force transduction, intracellular calcium homeostasis, or both.
- OSTI ID:
- 134124
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0860
- 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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