Abstract
Roberts syndrome (RS) is a rare, autosomal recessive condition characterized primarily by growth retardation, developmental delay, and limb anomalies. Some RS patients (RS+), but not others (RS-), have an abnormality of their constitutive heterochromatin (the "RS effect"). RS+ patients also show a cellular hypersensitivity to DNA damaging agents such as mitomycin C (MMC). Lymphoblastoid cell lines from 2 unrelated RS+ patients were fused and hybrid cells examined for correction of the RS effect and MMC hypersensitivity. Neither cellular defect was corrected in the 2 hybrid cell lines examined, suggesting that these 2 patients represent a single complementation group. Fusions were also performed between one RS+ cell line and 2 different RS- cell lines. In both fusions, the hybrids demonstrated correction of both the heterochromatin abnormality and MMC hypersensitivity. These observations suggest that RS+ and RS- patients belong to different complementation groups and do not arise from the same single gene mutation.
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