Single sperm analysis of the trinucleotide repeats in the Huntington's disease gene: quantification of the mutation frequency spectrum.
Single sperm analysis of the trinucleotide repeats in the Huntington's disease gene: quantification of the mutation frequency spectrum.
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亨廷顿病基因中三核苷酸重复的单精子分析:突变频谱的量化。
DOI:
10.1093/hmg/4.9.1519
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Gusella,JF
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作者:
Leeflang,EP;Zhang,L;Tavaré,S;Hubert,R;Srinidhi,J;MacDonald,ME;Myers,RH;deYoung,M;Wexler,NS;Gusella,JF
The CAG triplet repeat region of the Huntington's disease gene was amplified in 923 single sperm from three affected and two normal individuals. Average-size alleles (15–18 repeats) showed only three contraction mutations among 475 sperm (0.6%). A 30 repeat normal allele showed an 11% mutation frequency. The mutation frequency of a 36 repeat intermediate allele was 53% with 8% of all gametes having expansions which brought the allele size into the HD disease range (38 repeats). Disease alleles (38–51 repeats) showed a very high mutation frequency (92–99%). As repeat number increased there was a marked elevation in the frequency of expansions, in the mean number of repeats added per expansion and the size of the largest observed expansion. Contraction frequencies also appeared to increase with allele size but decreased as repeat number exceeded 36. Our sperm typing data are of a discrete nature rather than consisting of smears of PCR product from pooled sperm. This allowed the observed mutation frequency spectra to be compared to the distribution calculated using discrete stochastic models based on current molecular ideas of the expansion process. An excellent fit was found when the model specified that a random number of repeats are added during the progression of the polymerase through the repeated region.