Isolation of candidate genes of Friedreich`s ataxia on chromosome 9q13
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (United States); and others
Friedreich`s ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive degenerative disease involving the central and peripheral nervous system and the heart. The mutated gene in FRDA has recently been localized within a 450 Kb interval on chromosome 9q13 between the markers D9S202/FR1/FR8. We have been able to confirm such localization for the disease gene by analysis of extended haplotype in consanguineous families. Cases of loss of marker homozygosity, which are likely to be due to ancient recombinations, have been found to involve D9S110, D9S15, and D9S111 on the telomeric side, and FR5 on the centromeric side, while homozygosity was always found for a core haplotype including D9S5, FD1, and D9S202. We constructed a YAC contig spanning the region between the telomeric markers and FR5, and cosmids have been obtained from the YACs. In order to isolate transcribed sequences from the FRDA candidate region we are utilizing a combination of approaches, including hybridization of YACs and cosmids to an arrayed human heart cDNA library, cDNA direct selection, and exon amplification. A transcribed sequence near the telomeric end of the region has been isolated by cDNA direct selection using pooled cosmids as genomic template and primary human heart, muscle, brain, liver and placenta cDNAs as cDNA source. We have shown this sequence to be the human equivalent of ZO-2, a tight junction protein previously described in the dog. No mutations of this gene have been found in FRDA subjects. Additional cDNA have recently been isolated and they are currently being evaluated.
- OSTI ID:
- 134078
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0814
- 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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