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Item Breakage in the SNRPN locus in a balanced 46,XY,t(15;19) Prader-Willi syndrome patient(Oxford Academic, 1996-04) Sun, Yongming; Nicholls, Robert D.; Butler, Merlin G.; Saitoh, Shinji; Hainline, Bryan E.; Palmer, Catherine G.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of MedicineA patient with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) was found to carry a de novo balanced reciprocal translocation, t(15;19)(q12;q13.41), which disrupted the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein N (SNRPN) locus. The translocation chromosome 15 was found to be paternal in origin. Uniparental disomy and abnormal DNA methylation were ruled out. The translocation breakpoint was found to have occurred between exon 0 (second exon) and 1 (third exon) of the SNRPN locus outside of the SmN open reading frame (ORF), which is intact. The transcriptional activities of ZNF127, IPW, PAR-1, and PAR-5 were detected with RT-PCR from fibroblasts of the patient, suggesting that these genes may not play a significant role in the PWS phenotype in this patient. Transcription from the first two exons and last seven exons of the SNRPN gene was also detected with RT-PCR; however, the complete mRNA (10 exons) was not detected. Thus, the PWS phenotype in the patient is likely to be the result of disruption of the SNRPN locus.Item A Child With Radius Aplasia, Cleft of Lip and Palate, Microcephaly, and Unusual Chromosome Findings(Wiley, 1982-12) Butler, Merlin G.; Russell, Laura J.; Palmer, Catherine G.; Bull, Marilyn; Hodes, M.E.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of MedicineWe report a child with malformation syndrome of microcephaly, asymmetrical radius aplasia, and cleft of lip and palate, who was mosaic for a chromosome marker and/or ring of unknown origin. In view of the reported cases of limb deficiency with chromosome abnormalities and the unlikelihood that the patient has a recognized genetic syndrome, the cause of the patient’s syndrome may well be the extra chromosomal material.Item Clinical and cytogenetic survey of 39 individuals with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome(Wiley, 1986-03) Butler, Merlin G.; Meaney, F. John; Palmer, Catherine G.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of MedicineIn a clinical and cytogenetic survey of 39 individuals with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome (PLWS) (23 males and 16 females ranging in age from 2 weeks to 39 years), an interstitial deletion of chromosome 15 (breakpoints q11 and q13) was identified in 21 cases and apparently normal chromosomes in the remainder. Studies of parental chromosome 15 variants showed that the del[15q] was paternal in origin, although chromosomes of both parents were normal. All chromosome deletions were de novo events. Possible causes for the chromosome deletion and the role of chromosome rearrangements in individuals with PLWS are discussed. Clinical characteristics of the deletion and nondeletion groups were recorded and compared with 124 individuals reported in the literature. Individuals with the chromosome deletion were found to have lighter hair, eye, and skin color, greater sun sensitivity, and higher intelligence scores than individuals with normal chromosomes. Correlation studies of metacarpophalangeal pattern profile variables and dermatoglyphic findings indicate apparent homogeneity of the deletion group and heterogeneity of individuals with PLWS and normal chromosomes.Item Molecular cytogenetic analysis of patients with holoprosencephaly and structural rearrangements of 7q(Wiley, 1998-02-26) Vance, Gail H.; Nickerson, Catherine; Sarnat, Lauren; Zhang, Aiwu; Henegariu, Octavian; Morichon-Delvallez, Nicole; Butler, Merlin G.; Palmer, Catherine G.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of MedicineThe holoprosencephaly (HPE) sequence is a malformation complex with abnormal midline cleavage of the embryonic forebrain. HPE is genetically heterogeneous with at least 6 different chromosome regions containing genes involved in the expression of the phenotype. HPE3, recently identified as the human Sonic hedgehog gene, is localized to 7q36. We have used fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification in 5 cell lines from patients with HPE (3 cases), HPE and sacral agenesis (1 case), and microcephaly (1 case) to further define the structural rearrangements of the long arm of chromosome 7 in each case. All cell lines demonstrated loss of material in the critical region of HPE3 at band 7q36, which includes the Sonic hedgehog gene. We report here the analysis of these patient cell lines.Item Parental origin of chromosome 15 deletion in Prader-Willi syndrome(Elsevier, 1983-06-04) Butler, Merlin G.; Palmer, Catherine G.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine