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BLOOD
Volume 102, Issue 9, Pages 3412-3419Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-05-1681
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Deletions at the 3' end of the human beta-globin locus are associated with the hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH) in adults, potentially through the juxtaposition of enhancer elements in the vicinity of the fetal gamma-globin genes. We have tested how sequences at the HPFH-2, HPFH-3, and HPFH-6 breakpoints, which act as enhancers in vitro, affect the silencing of a locus control region (A)gamma (LCR(A)gamma) transgene in the adult stage of mice. We found persistent (A)gamma expression in the adult blood of most of the multicopy HPFH-2, HPFH-3, or HPFH-6 lines, in contrast to the control LCR(A)gamma lines which were silenced. Cre-mediated generation of single copy lines showed persistent gamma gene expression maintained in some of the HPFH-2 and HPFH-6 lines, but not in any of the HPFH-3 or LCR(A)gamma lines. In the HPFH-2 and HPFH-6 lines, persistent gamma gene expression correlated with euchromatic transgene integrations. Thus, our observations provide support for a model whereby HPFH conditions arise from the juxtaposition of enhancers as well as permissive chromatin subdomains in the vicinity of the gamma-globin genes. (C) 2003 by The American Society of Hematology.
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