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ArticleHuman genetics2007

Loss of SLC38A5 and FTSJ1 at Xp11.23 in three brothers with non-syndromic mental retardation due to a microdeletion in an unstable genomic region.

Guy Froyen, Marijke Bauters, Jackie Boyle, Hilde Van Esch, Karen Govaerts, Hans van Bokhoven, Hans-Hilger Ropers, Claude Moraine, Jamel Chelly, Jean-Pierre Fryns and 3 more

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13 authors at 8 institutions in 5 countries.

Guy FroyenHuman Genome Laboratory, Department for Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB, Leuven, Belgium. guy.froyen@med.kuleuven.be
Marijke Bauters
Jackie Boyle
Hilde Van Esch
Karen Govaerts
Hans van Bokhoven
Hans-Hilger Ropers
Claude Moraine
Jamel Chelly
Jean-Pierre Fryns
Peter Marynen
Jozef Gecz
Gillian Turner
KU Leuven · BEHunter Genetics · AUVIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology · BECentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours · FRInserm · FRMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics · DERadboud University Medical Center · NLUniversity of Adelaide · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using high resolution X chromosome array-CGH we identified an interstitial microdeletion at Xp11.23 in three brothers with moderate to severe mental retardation (MR) without dysmorphic features. The extent of the deletion was subsequently delineated to about 50 kb by regular PCR and included only the SLC38A5 and FTSJ1 genes. The loss of the FTSJ1 MR gene in males is expected to result in the observed phenotype but the contribution of the deletion of the solute carrier SLC38A5 gene is less clear. Their mother also carries the deletion and completely inactivates the aberrant X chromosome. Interestingly, the distal breakpoint is situated within a 200 kb SSX repeat region that appears to stimulate recombination since subtle copy number changes often occur at this location and it is frequently involved in translocations in tumours. Since this apparent SSX unstable structure is flanked proximally by FTSJ1 and PQBP1, subtle deletions or duplications at this location would be expected to cause MR, as in our family. So far, we have screened a cohort of 300 patients but did not find additional aberrations at the FTSJ1 locus indicating that the frequency is likely to be low.

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Chromosome DeletionChromosomes, Human, XAmino Acid Transport Systems, NeutralFemaleHumansIntellectual DisabilityMaleMethyltransferasesNuclear ProteinsPolymerase Chain ReactionSex Chromosome AberrationsSiblingsX Chromosome InactivationAmino Acid Transport Systems, NeutralFTSJ1 protein, humanMethyltransferasesNuclear ProteinsSLC38A5 protein, human

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PMID17333282
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