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Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a complex developmental disorder consisting of characteristic facial features, limb abnormalities, hirsutism, ophthalmologic involvement, gastroesophageaI dysfunction, hearing loss, as well as growth and neurodevelopmental retardation. Most cases of CdLS appear to be sporadic. Familial eases are rare and indicate autosomal dominant inheritance, Several individuals with CdLS have been reported with chromosomal abnormalities, suggesting candidate genomic regions within which the causative gene(s) may lie. A CdLS gene location (CDL1) has been assigned to 3q26.3 based on phenotypic overlap with the duplication 3q syndrome (critical region 3q26.2-q27) and the report of a CdLS individual with a balanced de novo t(3;17)(q26.3;q23.1). Pt has been postulated that a gene within the dup3q critical region results in the CdLS when deleted or mutated. We have performed a linkage analysis to the minimal critical region for the dup3q syndrome (that encompasses the translocation breakpoint) on chromosome 3q in 10 rare familial eases of CdLS, Nineteen markers spanning a region of approximately 40 Mb (37 cM) were used. Results of a multipoint linkage analysis demonstrated total led-scores that were negative across the chromosome 3q26-q27 region. In 4/10 families, led-scores were less than -2 in the 2 cM region encompassing the translocation, while in the remaining 6/10 families, led-scores could not exclude linkage to this region. These studies indicate that in some multicase families, the disease gene does not map to the CDL1 region at 3q26.3. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Author(s): Tonkin E; Strachan T; Krantz ID; Smith M; Devoto M; Bottani A; Simpson C; Hofreiter M; Abraham V; Jukofsky L; Conti BP; Jackson L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: American Journal of Medical Genetics
Year: 2001
Volume: 101
Issue: 2
Pages: 120-129
ISSN (print): 1552-4825
ISSN (electronic): 1552-4833
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1096-8628(20010615)101:2<120::AID-AJMG1319>3.0.CO;2-G
DOI: 10.1002/1096-8628(20010615)101:2<120::AID-AJMG1319>3.0.CO;2-G
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