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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages 667-670Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.09.016
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Primary microcephaly of postnatal onset is a feature of many neurological disorders, mostly associated with mental retardation seizures, and spasticity, and it typically carries a grave prognosis Five infants from four unrelated families of Caucasus Jewish origin presented soon after birth with spasticity, epilepsy and profound psychomotor retardation Head circumference percentiles declined, and brain MRI disclosed marked cereberal and cerebellar atrophy with severe myelination defect A search for a common homozygous region revealed a 2 28 Mb genomic segment on chromosome 11 that encompassed 16 protein coding genes A missense mutation in one of them, MEDI 7, segregated with I he disease state in the families and was carried by four of 79 anonymous Caucasus Jews A corresponding mutation in the homologous S cerevisiae gene SRB4 inactivated the protein according to complementation assays Screening of MED17 in additional patients with similar clinical and radiologic findings revealed four more patients, all homozygous for the p L371P mutation and all originating from Caucasus Jewish families We conclude that the p L371P mutation in MEDI 7 is a founder mutation in the Caucasus Jewish community and that homozygosity for this mutation is associated with infantile cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with poor myelination
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