Clinical and molecular characterization of patients with Jacobsen syndrome
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States); and others
Jacobsen (11q-) syndrome is caused by segmental aneusomy for the distal end of the long arm of chromosome 11. Typical features include mental retardation, trigonocephaly, facial dysmorphism, cardiac defects and thrombocytopenia, among others. We studied 14 Jacobsen syndrome patients with de novo terminal deletions of 11q. The deletions were characterized in a loss of heterozygosity analysis using polymorphic dinucleotide repeats. There was no preference in the parental origin of the deleted chromosome. Seven patients with the largest deletions, extending from 11q23.3-qter, appear to share the same breakpoint, between D11S924 and D11S1341. Terminal deletions extending proximal to this common breakpoint may be lethal. The remaining seven patients had various smaller deletions of 11q23.3, 11q24 or 11q25. Three patients with small terminal deletions had several major features of Jacobsen syndrome, including facial dysmorphism, cardiac defects and thrombocytopenia, suggesting that the genes responsible for these features lie near the end of the chromosome. These three patients did not have trigonocephaly, suggesting that, if hemizygosity for a single gene is responsible, it may lie proximal to D11S934.
- OSTI ID:
- 133740
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0471
- 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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