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Nuclear localization or inclusion body formation of ataxin-2 are not necessary for SCA2 pathogenesis in mouse or human 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
Instability of CAG DNA trinucleotide repeats is the mutational mechanism for several neurodegenerative diseases resulting in the expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) tract. Proteins with long polyQ tracts have an increased tendency to aggregate, often as truncated fragments forming ubiquitinated intranuclear inclusion bodies. We examined whether similar features define spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) pathogenesis using cultured cells, human brains and transgenic mouse lines. In SCA2 brains, we found cytoplasmic, but not nuclear, microaggregates. Mice expressing ataxin-2 with Q58 showed progressive functional deficits accompanied by loss of the Purkinje cell dendritic arbor and finally loss of Purkinje cells. Despite similar functional deficits and anatomical changes observed in ataxin-1[Q80] transgenic lines, ataxin-2[Q58] remained cytoplasmic without detectable ubiquitination. 相似文献
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Duffy D Montgomery G Treloar S Birley A Kirk K Boomsma D Beem L de Geus E Slagboom E Knighton J Reed P Martin N 《Nature genetics》2001,28(4):315
Busjahn et al reported finding linkage between PPARG (3p25) and being a dizygotic (DZ) twin. We differentiate, as do the authors, between the conception of DZ twins, and being the viable result of such a conception. 相似文献
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Williams ES Stap J Essers J Ponnaiya B Luijsterburg MS Krawczyk PM Ullrich RL Aten JA Bailey SM 《Nature genetics》2007,39(6):696-8; author reply 698-9
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Insulin gene region-encoded susceptibility to type 1 diabetes is not restricted to HLA-DR4-positive individuals. 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
S C Bain J B Prins C M Hearne N R Rodrigues B R Rowe L E Pritchard R J Ritchie J R Hall D E Undlien K S Ronningen 《Nature genetics》1992,2(3):212-215
Type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is an autoimmune disease of the insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells which is determined by both genetic and environmental factors. The major histocompatibility complex and the insulin gene region (INS) on human chromosomes 6p and 11p, respectively, contain susceptibility genes. Using a mostly French data set, evidence for linkage of INS to IDDM was recently obtained but only in male meioses (suggesting involvement of maternal imprinting) and only in HLA-DR4-positive diabetics. In contrast, we find evidence for linkage in both male and female meioses and that the effect of the susceptibility gene(s) in the INS region is not dependent on the presence of HLA-DR4. 相似文献
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Stacey SN Gudbjartsson DF Sulem P Bergthorsson JT Kumar R Thorleifsson G Sigurdsson A Jakobsdottir M Sigurgeirsson B Benediktsdottir KR Thorisdottir K Ragnarsson R Scherer D Rudnai P Gurzau E Koppova K Höiom V Botella-Estrada R Soriano V Juberías P Grasa M Carapeto FJ Tabuenca P Gilaberte Y Gudmundsson J Thorlacius S Helgason A Thorlacius T Jonasdottir A Blondal T Gudjonsson SA Jonsson GF Saemundsdottir J Kristjansson K Bjornsdottir G Sveinsdottir SG Mouy M Geller F Nagore E Mayordomo JI 《Nature genetics》2008,40(11):1313-1318
To search for new sequence variants that confer risk of cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC), we conducted a genome-wide SNP association study of 930 Icelanders with BCC and 33,117 controls. After analyzing 304,083 SNPs, we observed signals from loci at 1p36 and 1q42, and replicated these associations in additional sample sets from Iceland and Eastern Europe. Overall, the most significant signals were from rs7538876 on 1p36 (OR = 1.28, P = 4.4 x 10(-12)) and rs801114 on 1q42 (OR = 1.28, P = 5.9 x 10(-12)). The 1p36 locus contains the candidate genes PADI4, PADI6, RCC2 and ARHGEF10L, and the gene nearest to the 1q42 locus is the ras-homolog RHOU. Neither locus was associated with fair pigmentation traits that are known risk factors for BCC, and no risk was observed for melanoma. Approximately 1.6% of individuals of European ancestry are homozygous for both variants, and their estimated risk of BCC is 2.68 times that of noncarriers. 相似文献
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《Nature genetics》2012,44(3):233
An alphabet soup of organizations and initiatives across the world are concerned with identifying, collecting and evaluating disease-causing human gene variants and using them to diagnose and treat rare diseases. Despite increasing standardization of nomenclature and technology, our efforts still need coordination to produce a pipeline leading from discovery to delivery. 相似文献
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FCGR3B copy number variation is associated with susceptibility to systemic, but not organ-specific, autoimmunity 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Fanciulli M Norsworthy PJ Petretto E Dong R Harper L Kamesh L Heward JM Gough SC de Smith A Blakemore AI Froguel P Owen CJ Pearce SH Teixeira L Guillevin L Graham DS Pusey CD Cook HT Vyse TJ Aitman TJ 《Nature genetics》2007,39(6):721-723
Naturally occurring variation in gene copy number is increasingly recognized as a heritable source of susceptibility to genetically complex diseases. Here we report strong association between FCGR3B copy number and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (P = 2.7 x 10(-8)), microscopic polyangiitis (P = 2.9 x 10(-4)) and Wegener's granulomatosis in two independent cohorts from the UK (P = 3 x 10(-3)) and France (P = 1.1 x 10(-4)). We did not observe this association in the organ-specific Graves' disease or Addison's disease. Our findings suggest that low FCGR3B copy number, and in particular complete FCGR3B deficiency, has a key role in the development of systemic autoimmunity. 相似文献
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Sex chromosomes are subject to sex-specific selective evolutionary forces. One model predicts that genes with sex-biased expression should be enriched on the X chromosome. In agreement with Rice's hypothesis, spermatogonial genes are over-represented on the X chromosome of mice and sex- and reproduction-related genes are over-represented on the human X chromosome. Male-biased genes are under-represented on the X chromosome in worms and flies, however. Here we show that mouse spermatogenesis genes are relatively under-represented on the X chromosome and female-biased genes are enriched on it. We used Spo11(-/-) mice blocked in spermatogenesis early in meiosis to evaluate the temporal pattern of gene expression in sperm development. Genes expressed before the Spo11 block are enriched on the X chromosome, whereas those expressed later in spermatogenesis are depleted. Inactivation of the X chromosome in male meiosis may be a universal driving force for X-chromosome demasculinization. 相似文献