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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome |
Other Titles: | Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome |
Author: | Lower, K. Turner, G. Kerr, B. Mathews, K. Shaw, M. Gedeon, A. Schelley, S. Hoyme, H. White, S. Delatycki, M. Lampe, A. Clayton-Smith, J. Stewart, H. van Ravenswaay, C. de Vries, B. Cox, B. Grompe, M. Ross, S. Thomas, P. Mulley, J. et al. |
Citation: | Nature Genetics, 2002; 32(4):661-665 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 1061-4036 1546-1718 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Karen M. Lower, Gillian Turner, Bronwyn A. Kerr, Katherine D. Mathews, Marie A. Shaw, Ági K. Gedeon, Susan Schelley, H. Eugene Hoyme, Susan M. White, Martin B. Delatycki, Anne K. Lampe, Jill Clayton-Smith, Helen Stewart, Conny M.A. van Ravenswaay, Bert B.A. de Vries, Barbara Cox, Markus Grompe, Shelley Ross, Paul Thomas, John C. Mulley and Jozef Gécz |
Abstract: | Börjeson–Forssman–Lehmann syndrome (BFLS; OMIM 301900) is characterized by moderate to severe mental retardation, epilepsy, hypogonadism, hypometabolism, obesity with marked gynecomastia, swelling of subcutaneous tissue of the face, narrow palpebral fissure and large but not deformed ears. Previously, the gene associated with BFLS was localized to 17 Mb in Xq26–q27 (refs 2–4). We have reduced this interval to roughly 9 Mb containing more than 62 genes. Among these, a novel, widely expressed zinc-finger (plant homeodomain (PHD)-like finger) gene (PHF6) had eight different missense and truncation mutations in seven familial and two sporadic cases of BFLS. Transient transfection studies with PHF6 tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP) showed diffuse nuclear staining with prominent nucleolar accumulation. Such localization, and the presence of two PHD-like zinc fingers, is suggestive of a role for PHF6 in transcription. |
Keywords: | Animals Humans Mice Hela Cells X Chromosome Cell Nucleus Cell Nucleolus Syndrome Luminescent Proteins Green Fluorescent Proteins Transfection Amino Acid Substitution Pedigree Sequence Alignment Microsatellite Repeats Zinc Fingers Mutation Mutation, Missense Amino Acid Sequence Amino Acid Motifs Molecular Sequence Data Embryo, Mammalian Genetic Predisposition to Disease Physical Chromosome Mapping Intellectual Disability Female Male Heterozygote |
DOI: | 10.1038/ng1040 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng1040 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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