Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Deleterious mutations in the Zinc-Finger 469 gene cause brittle cornea syndrome.


ABSTRACT: Brittle cornea syndrome (BCS) is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by a thin cornea that tends to perforate, causing progressive visual loss and blindness. Additional systemic symptoms such as joint hypermotility, hyperlaxity of the skin, and kyphoscoliosis place BCS among the connective-tissue disorders. Previously, we assigned the disease gene to a 4.7 Mb interval on chromosome 16q24. In order to clone the BCS gene, we first narrowed the disease locus to a 2.8 Mb interval and systematically sequenced genes expressed in connective tissue in this chromosomal segment. We have identified two frameshift mutations in the Zinc-Finger 469 gene (ZNF469). In five unrelated patients of Tunisian Jewish ancestry, we found a 1 bp deletion at position 5943 (5943 delA), and in an inbred Palestinian family we detected a single-nucleotide deletion at position 9527 (9527 delG). The function of ZNF469 is unknown. However, a 30% homology to a number of collagens suggests that it could act as a transcription factor involved in the synthesis and/or organization of collagen fibers.

SUBMITTER: Abu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2427192 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Deleterious mutations in the Zinc-Finger 469 gene cause brittle cornea syndrome.

Abu Almogit A   Frydman Moshe M   Marek Dina D   Pras Eran E   Nir Uri U   Reznik-Wolf Haike H   Pras Elon E  

American journal of human genetics 20080501 5


Brittle cornea syndrome (BCS) is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by a thin cornea that tends to perforate, causing progressive visual loss and blindness. Additional systemic symptoms such as joint hypermotility, hyperlaxity of the skin, and kyphoscoliosis place BCS among the connective-tissue disorders. Previously, we assigned the disease gene to a 4.7 Mb interval on chromosome 16q24. In order to clone the BCS gene, we first narrowed the disease locus to a 2.8 Mb interval and syste  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC7109549 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4070100 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3659006 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4642625 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8426531 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3113239 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7415034 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6101314 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC10091010 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8476817 | biostudies-literature