Linkage analysis and identification of deletion in Alagille syndrome gene

Acta Paediatrica Japonica; Overseas Edition
Z R YuanN Kobayashi

Abstract

Alagille syndrome (AGS) is a genetic disease and the responsible gene has already been mapped at 20p12. To more accurately detect the region of the AGS gene on the linkage map of chromosome 20p, 14 yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones were screened to construct a YAC contig in the candidate region and 13 locus markers and 2 sequence-tagged sites (STS) were ordered. Combining all of the analyses, a 1.3 Mb critical region from D20S507 to D20S61 for the AGS gene was identified. As the human Jagged 1 gene (JAG1) lies just in this region and is responsible for the AGS disease, the genomic DNA in an AGS family without a visible deletion were analyzed by single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) and direct DNA sequencing, and a 2-bp (CT) deletion mutation at exon 26 of the JAG1 was identified.

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