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ArticleJournal of applied genetics2016

Position effect modifying gene expression in a patient with ring chromosome 14.

Roberta Santos Guilherme, Mariana Moysés-Oliveira, Anelisa Gollo Dantas, Vera Ayres Meloni, Mileny Esbravatti Colovati, Leslie Domenici Kulikowski, Maria Isabel Melaragno

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Article in Journal of applied genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Roberta Santos GuilhermeDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mariana Moysés-OliveiraDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Anelisa Gollo DantasDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Vera Ayres MeloniDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mileny Esbravatti ColovatiDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Leslie Domenici KulikowskiDepartment of Pathology, Laboratório de Citogenômica, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Dr. Eneas Carvalho de Aguiar 647, 05403-000, São Paulo, Brazil.
Maria Isabel MelaragnoDepartment of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 740, 04023-900, São Paulo, Brazil. melaragno.maria@unifesp.br.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo · BRUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical phenotype of patients with ring chromosomes usually reflects the loss of genomic material during ring formation. However, phenotypic alterations can also be found in the presence of complete ring chromosomes, in which the breakage and rejoining in terminal regions of both chromosome arms result in no gene loss. Here, we present a patient with a ring chromosome 14 that lost nothing but the telomeres. Since he and other patients with a similar chromosome abnormality present certain abnormal characteristics, we investigated the gene expression of eight chromosome 14 genes to find out whether the configuration of the ring had changed it, possibly producing some of these clinical features. The expression of these eight genes was studied by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) in the patient and in seven controls matched for gender and age. Two of them were found to be downregulated in the patient compared to the controls, indicating that his phenotype might be related to alterations in the expression of genes located in the abnormal chromosome, even when the copy number is normal. Thus, the phenotypic alterations found in the presence of complete ring chromosomes may be related to changes in the chromatin architecture, bringing about a change of expression by position effect. These results may explain some of the characteristics presented by our patient.

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AdultChromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, Pair 14Gene ExpressionHumansMalePhenotypeReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRing ChromosomesTelomereGene expressionqPCR and clinical phenotypeRing chromosome

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