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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 70, Issue 2, Pages 324-335Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/338190
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS30170, NS33648, R01 NS033648] Funding Source: Medline
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The CLN6 gene that causes variant late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL), a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disease that features blindness, seizures, and cognitive decline, maps to 15q21-23. We have used multiallele markers spanning this similar to4-Mb candidate interval to reveal a core haplotype, shared in Costa Rican families with vLINCL but not in a Venezuelan kindred, that highlighted a region likely to contain the CLN6 defect. Systematic comparison of genes from the minimal region uncovered a novel candidate, FLJ20561, that exhibited DNA sequence changes specific to the different disease chromosomes: a G T transversion in exon 3, introducing a stop codon on the Costa Rican haplotype, and a codon deletion in exon 5, eliminating a conserved tyrosine residue on the Venezuelan chromosome. Furthermore, sequencing of the murine homologue in the nclf mouse, which manifests recessive NCL-like disease, disclosed a third lesion-an extra base pair in exon 4, producing a frameshift truncation on the nclf chromosome. Thus, the novel similar to36-kD CLN6-gene product augments an intriguing set of unrelated membrane-spanning proteins, whose deficiency causes NCL in mouse and man.
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