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SUBMITTER: Lebo RV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1287534 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lebo R V RV Shapiro L R LR Fenerci E Y EY Hoover J M JM Chuang J L JL Chuang D T DT Kronn D F DF
American journal of human genetics 20000727 3
A child with maple syrup urine disease type 2 (MSUD2) was found to be homozygous for a 10-bp MSUD2-gene deletion on chromosome 1. Both purported parents were tested, and neither carries the gene deletion. Polymorphic simple-sequence repeat analyses at 15 loci on chromosome 1 and at 16 loci on other chromosomes confirmed parentage and revealed that a de novo mutation prior to maternal meiosis I, followed by nondisjunction in maternal meiosis II, resulted in an oocyte with two copies of the de nov ...[more]