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MOLECULAR GENETICS & GENOMIC MEDICINE
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 172-181Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.128
Keywords
FMR1; CGG repeat pattern; haplotype; Chinese population
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2012CB944600]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81071028, 81172513]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-10-0832]
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Fragile X syndrome is mainly caused by a CGG repeat expansion within the 5 ' UTR of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene. Previous analyses of the FMR1 CGG repeat patterns and flanking haplotypes in Caucasians and African Americans have identified several factors that may influence repeat instability. However, the CGG repeat patterns and distribution for FRAXAC2 have not yet been investigated in mainland Chinese. We surveyed the CGG repeat lengths in 1113 Han Chinese (534 males and 579 females), and the CGG repeat patterns of 534 males were determined by sequence analysis. We also explored the flanking haplotypes (DXS548-FRAXAC1-FRAXAC2) in 566 unaffected and 28 unrelated fragile X Chinese males. The most frequent alleles for DXS548 and FRAXAC1 were identical between our Chinese population and other Asian populations. We identified several low-abundance alleles for DXS548 and FRAXAC1 not found in previous studies in mainland Chinese and Taiwanese cohorts. The most frequent allele was (CGG) 29 followed by (CGG) 30, and the most frequent patterns were 9 + 9 + 9, 10 + 9 + 9, and 9 + 9 + 6 + 9, similar to those in Singaporeans. We identified only one premutation female carrier with 89 CGG repeats in the 1113 Han Chinese. A few associations between the CGG repeat patterns and flanking haplotypes were determined in this study. In general, the Chinese population had a smaller number of alleles and lower expected heterozygosity for all three STR markers and FRAXA locus when compared with Caucasians and African Americans. We identified a novel haplotype 7-3-5 + that is significantly associated with the full mutation.
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