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NOBOX homeobox mutation causes premature ovarian failure.

ABSTRACT: NOBOX (newborn ovary homeobox gene) is an oocyte-specific homeobox gene that plays a critical role in early folliculogenesis and represents a candidate gene for nonsyndromic ovarian failure. We investigated whether mutations in the NOBOX gene cause premature ovarian failure (POF). We sequenced the NOBOX gene in 96 white women with POF and discovered seven known single-nucleotide polymorphisms and four novel variations, two of which, p.Arg355His and p.Arg360Gln, cause missense mutations in the homeobox domain. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) confirmed that the missense mutation, p.Arg355His, disrupted NOBOX homeodomain binding to NOBOX DNA-binding element (NBE) and had a dominant negative effect on the binding of wild-type NOBOX to DNA. Our findings demonstrate that NOBOX mutations can cause POF.

SUBMITTER: Qin Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1950834 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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NOBOX homeobox mutation causes premature ovarian failure.

Qin Yingying Y Choi Youngsok Y Zhao Han H Simpson Joe Leigh JL Chen Zi-Jiang ZJ Rajkovic Aleksandar A

American journal of human genetics 20070710 3

NOBOX (newborn ovary homeobox gene) is an oocyte-specific homeobox gene that plays a critical role in early folliculogenesis and represents a candidate gene for nonsyndromic ovarian failure. We investigated whether mutations in the NOBOX gene cause premature ovarian failure (POF). We sequenced the NOBOX gene in 96 white women with POF and discovered seven known single-nucleotide polymorphisms and four novel variations, two of which, p.Arg355His and p.Arg360Gln, cause missense mutations in the ho ...[more]

PMID: 17701902

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