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Human balanced translocation and mouse gene inactivation implicate Basonuclin 2 in distal urethral development.


ABSTRACT: We studied a man with distal hypospadias, partial anomalous pulmonary venous return, mild limb-length inequality and a balanced translocation involving chromosomes 9 and 13. To gain insight into the etiology of his birth defects, we mapped the translocation breakpoints by high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), using chromosome 9- and 13-specific tiling arrays to analyze genetic material from a spontaneously aborted fetus with unbalanced segregation of the translocation. The chromosome 13 breakpoint was ?400 ?kb away from the nearest gene, but the chromosome 9 breakpoint fell within an intron of Basonuclin 2 (BNC2), a gene that encodes an evolutionarily conserved nuclear zinc-finger protein. The BNC2/Bnc2 gene is abundantly expressed in developing mouse and human periurethral tissues. In all, 6 of 48 unrelated subjects with distal hypospadias had nine novel nonsynonymous substitutions in BNC2, five of which were computationally predicted to be deleterious. In comparison, two of 23 controls with normal penile urethra morphology, each had a novel nonsynonymous substitution in BNC2, one of which was predicted to be deleterious. Bnc2(-/-) mice of both sexes displayed a high frequency of distal urethral defects; heterozygotes showed similar defects with reduced penetrance. The association of BNC2 disruption with distal urethral defects and the gene's expression pattern indicate that it functions in urethral development.

SUBMITTER: Bhoj EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3083624 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human balanced translocation and mouse gene inactivation implicate Basonuclin 2 in distal urethral development.

Bhoj Elizabeth J EJ   Ramos Purita P   Baker Linda A LA   Garg Vidu V   Cost Nicholas N   Nordenskjöld Agneta A   Elder Frederick F FF   Bleyl Steven B SB   Bowles Neil E NE   Arrington Cammon B CB   Delhomme Brigitte B   Vanhoutteghem Amandine A   Djian Philippe P   Zinn Andrew R AR  

European journal of human genetics : EJHG 20110202 5


We studied a man with distal hypospadias, partial anomalous pulmonary venous return, mild limb-length inequality and a balanced translocation involving chromosomes 9 and 13. To gain insight into the etiology of his birth defects, we mapped the translocation breakpoints by high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), using chromosome 9- and 13-specific tiling arrays to analyze genetic material from a spontaneously aborted fetus with unbalanced segregation of the translocation. The chr  ...[more]

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