期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 92, 期 3, 页码 345-353出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.01.011
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- Medical Research Council (MRC, UK)
- BRC
- Wellcome Trust [091673/Z/10/Z, 088324, 068545/Z/02]
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- Motor Neuron Disease Association
- MRC [G0000934]
- Alzheimers Research UK [ARUK-PPG2012A-14] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1001253, G0601846, MR/J003832/1, MC_U123192748, G1000287, G108/638, G1100695, MC_U123160651, G1001799, MC_U105597119, G0802760, G0000934, G0801306, MR/J004758/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [ACF-2009-18-016, NF-SI-0508-10123, NF-SI-0512-10033] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G1100695, G108/638, G1001253, MR/J004758/1, MC_U123160651, G0802760, MC_U123192748, G0000934, G1000287, MR/J003832/1, MC_U105597119, G0601846, G1001799, G0801306] Funding Source: UKRI
Hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9orf72 are a major cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Understanding the disease mechanisms and a method for clinical diagnostic genotyping have been hindered because of the difficulty in estimating the expansion size. We found 96 repeat-primed PCR expansions: 85/2,974 in six neurodegenerative diseases cohorts (FTLD, ALS, Alzheimer disease, sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington disease-like syndrome, and other nonspecific neurodegenerative disease syndromes) and 11/7,579 (0.15%) in UK 1958 birth cohort (58BC) controls. With the use of a modified Southern blot method, the estimated expansion range (smear maxima) in cases was 800-4,400. Similarly, large expansions were detected in the population controls. Differences in expansion size and morphology were detected between DNA samples from tissue and cell lines. Of those in whom repeat-primed PCR detected expansions, 68/69 were confirmed by blotting, which was specific for greater than 275 repeats. We found that morphology in the expansion smear varied among different individuals and among different brain regions in the same individual. Expansion size correlated with age at clinical onset but did not differ between diagnostic groups. Evidence of instability of repeat size in control families, as well as neighboring SNP and microsatellite analyses, support multiple expansion events on the same haplotype background. Our method of estimating the size of large expansions has potential clinical utility. C9orf72-related disease might mimic several neurodegenerative disorders and, with potentially 90,000 carriers in the United Kingdom, is more common than previously realized.
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