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Mechanism and timing of mitotic rearrangements in the subtelomeric D4Z4 repeat involved in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.


ABSTRACT: Autosomal dominant facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD1A) is associated with contractions of the polymorphic D4Z4 repeat on chromosome 4qter. Almost half of new FSHD mutations occur postfertilization, resulting in somatic mosaicism for D4Z4. Detailed D4Z4 analysis of 11 mosaic individuals with FSHD revealed a mosaic mixture of a contracted FSHD-sized allele and the unchanged ancestral allele in 8 cases, which is suggestive of a mitotic gene conversion without crossover. However, in 3 cases, the D4Z4 rearrangement resulted in two different-sized D4Z4 repeats, indicative of a gene conversion with crossover. In all cases, DNA markers proximal and distal to D4Z4 showed no allelic exchanges, suggesting that all rearrangements were intrachromosomal. We propose that D4Z4 rearrangements occur via a synthesis-dependent strand annealing model that relatively frequently allows for crossovers. Furthermore, the distribution of different cell populations in mosaic patients with FSHD suggests that mosaicism here results from D4Z4 rearrangements occurring during the first few zygotic cell divisions after fertilization.

SUBMITTER: Lemmers RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1182007 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mechanism and timing of mitotic rearrangements in the subtelomeric D4Z4 repeat involved in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

Lemmers Richard J L F RJ   Van Overveld Petra G M PG   Sandkuijl Lodewijk A LA   Vrieling Harry H   Padberg George W GW   Frants Rune R RR   van der Maarel Silvère M SM  

American journal of human genetics 20040520 1


Autosomal dominant facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD1A) is associated with contractions of the polymorphic D4Z4 repeat on chromosome 4qter. Almost half of new FSHD mutations occur postfertilization, resulting in somatic mosaicism for D4Z4. Detailed D4Z4 analysis of 11 mosaic individuals with FSHD revealed a mosaic mixture of a contracted FSHD-sized allele and the unchanged ancestral allele in 8 cases, which is suggestive of a mitotic gene conversion without crossover. However, in 3 ca  ...[more]

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