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Hum Mutat ; 20(4): 249-52, 2002 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12325019

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Mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) cause Rett syndrome, a severe neurodevelopmental disorder occurring predominantly in females. Male patients with Rett syndrome are extremely rare, as the Rett-causing mutations in the MECP2 gene are usually lethal in hemizygous males. However, different mutations in the same gene were reported to cause mental retardation, both in sporadic non-syndromic males as well as in syndromic families with disease manifestation in carrier females. The majority of the reported MECP2 mutations in mentally retarded patients cause amino acid substitutions and, especially in isolated cases, discrimination between a disease-causing mutation and a rare polymorphism is not obvious and the significance of each individual variation should be verified. We mapped a new non-syndromic X-linked family (MRX79) to the chromosomal region Xq27.3-Xq28 and identified an A140V mutation in the MEPC2 gene in all patients with the disease haplotype. In addition to data published by others, this suggests that A140V is a recurrent mutation (and not a polymorphism) found in patients with X-linked mental retardation.


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Alanina/genética , Proteínas Cromosómicas no Histona , Cromosomas Humanos X/genética , Proteínas de Unión al ADN/genética , Pruebas Genéticas , Discapacidad Intelectual/genética , Mutación/genética , Valina/genética , Sustitución de Aminoácidos/genética , Preescolar , Islas de CpG/genética , Femenino , Tamización de Portadores Genéticos , Pruebas Genéticas/tendencias , Haplotipos/genética , Humanos , Lactante , Masculino , Proteína 2 de Unión a Metil-CpG , Linaje , Proteínas Represoras/genética , Síndrome de Rett/genética
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