Journal
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND METABOLISM
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages 37-41Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.01.007
Keywords
Common mutation; Vietnamese; Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase; beta-Ketothiolase; T2 deficiency; Inborn error of metabolism
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan
- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan
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Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (12) deficiency is an inborn error of metabolism affecting isoleucine catabolism and ketone body utilization. This disorder is clinically characterized by intermittent keto-acidotic episodes with no clinical symptoms between episodes. In general, 12 gene mutations are heterogenous. No common mutations have been identified and more than 70 mutations have been identified in 70 patients with 12 deficiency (including unpublished data). We herein identified a common mutation, R208X, in Vietnamese patients. We identified R208X homozygously in six patients and heterozygously in two patients among eight Vietnamese patients. This R208X mutation was also identified heterozygously in two Dutch patients, however, R208X mutant alleles in the Vietnamese have a different haplotype from that in the Dutch, when analyzed using Msp I and Tag I polymorphisms in the T2 gene. The R208X mutant allele was not so frequent in the Vietnamese since we could not find that mutant allele in 400 healthy Vietnamese controls using the Nla III restriction enzyme assay. DNA diagnosis of 12 deficiency may be applicable to the Vietnamese population. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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