Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter disease): 13 gene mutations in 52 Japanese patients and carrier detection in four families

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 92 - Trang 110-114 - 1993
Yukiji Yamada1, Shunji Tomatsu1, Kazuko Sukegawa1, Yasuyuki Suzuki1, Naomi Kondo1, John J. Hopwood2, Tadao Orii1
1Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
2Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit, North Adelaide, Australia

Tóm tắt

Southern blot analysis of the iduronate sulfatase (IDS) gene in 52 unrelated Japanese patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II was carried out using a cDNA probe, and mutations in 13 patients (25%) were identified. Of these, 3 had partial gene deletions (in 2 the normal 9.4-kb fragment was absent and in 1 the normal 7.4-kb fragment was absent, as determined by Southern blot analysis using EcoRI-digested DNA, respectively), 2 had gene insertions (in 1 there was a unique 11.2kb fragment and in the other there was a unique 5kb fragment, determined by Southern blot analysis using EcoRI digested DNA), and 8 had rearrangements (in 6 the normal 9.4kb and 7.0kb fragments were absent and a unique 11.2kb fragment was present; in the remaining 2 patients there were different rearrangements). In these 13 patients, the similar Southern blot patterns were indicative of structural alterations of the IDS gene, as revealed when their DNA was digested with HindIII or PstI and probed with IDS cDNA. All patients with these structural alterations were in a clinically severe state, except for 1 with an intermediate clinical phenotype. Our analyses of four families among those of the 13 patients revealed that all four mothers were carriers. The detection of structural abnormalities led to a precise identification of Hunter heterozygotes and revealed one de novo rearrangement in a germ cell of one of the maternal grandparents.

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