BETA-THALASSEMIA IN CHINESE - USE OF INVIVO RNA ANALYSIS AND OLIGONUCLEOTIDE HYBRIDIZATION IN SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULAR DEFECTS
BETA-THALASSEMIA IN CHINESE - USE OF INVIVO RNA ANALYSIS AND OLIGONUCLEOTIDE HYBRIDIZATION IN SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULAR DEFECTS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.81.9.2821
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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KAZAZIAN, HH
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作者:
CHENG, TC;ORKIN, SH;KAZAZIAN, HH
To perform a systematic analysis of .beta.-thalassemia genes among Chinese, the DNA haplotype in the .beta.-globin gene region of 37 Chinese .beta.-thalassemia chromosomes was determined. Only 4 haplotypes were found. Blot hybridization analysis of erythroid RNA from patients homozygous for haplotypes 1, 2 and 3 demonstrated different patterns, suggesting that a different mutation was associated with each haplotype. The mutation associated with haplotype 1 was a C .fwdarw. T substitution at IVS-2, position 654. This mutation produces a new donor splice site and leads to formation of a .beta.-globin RNA with an insertion of 73 nucleotides. The mutation associated with haplotype 2 was a nucleotide insertion of A between codons 71 and 72, which results in a frameshift and premature termination of .beta.-globin synthesis. Haplotype analysis suggests that these 2 mutations may account for up to 85% of .beta.-thalassemia genes in this ethnic group. The haplotype 3 gene contained a transcriptional TATA box mutation that was previously reported. Oligonucleotide hybridization demonstrated that the mutation associated with haplotype 4 was the same IVS-1 position 5 substitution commonly observed among .beta.-thalassemia genes in Asian Indians. Since haplotype 4 of Chinese differs at polymorphic sites on either side of the IVS-1 position 5 mutation from the haplotype associated with this mutation in Indians, the mutation presumably arose independently in these populations.