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HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 120, Issue 4, Pages 519-526Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0222-1
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- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD39420] Funding Source: Medline
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Although approximately 1 in 500 individuals carries a reciprocal translocation, little is known about the mechanisms that result in their formation. We analyzed the sequences surrounding the breakpoints in three unbalanced translocations of 1p and 9q, all of which were designated t(1;9)(p36.3;q34), to investigate the presence of sequence motifs that might mediate nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). The breakpoint regions were unique in all individuals. Two of three translocations demonstrated insertions and duplications at the junctions, suggesting NHEJ in the formation of the rearrangements. No homology was identified in the breakpoint regions, further supporting NHEJ. We found translin motifs at the breakpoint junctions, suggesting the involvement of translin in the joining of the broken chromosome ends. We propose a model for balanced translocation formation in humans similar to transposition in bacteria, in which staggered nicks are repaired resulting in duplications and insertions at the translocation breakpoints.
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