Browsing by Subject "Linkage analysis"

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    Exclusion of Class III malocclusion candidate loci in Brazilian families
    (SAGE Publications, 2011-10) Cruz, R.M.; Hartsfield, J.K., Jr.; Falcão-Alencar, G.; Koller, D.L.; Pereira, R.W.; Mah, J.; Ferrari, I.; Oliveira, S.F.; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    The role played by genetic components in the etiology of the Class III phenotype, a class of dental malocclusion, is not yet understood. Regions that may be related to the development of Class III malocclusion have been suggested previously. The aim of this study was to search for genetic linkage with 6 microsatellite markers (D1S234, D4S3038, D6S1689, D7S503, D10S1483, and D19S566), near previously proposed candidate regions for Class III. We performed a two-point parametric linkage analysis for 42 affected individuals from 10 Brazilian families with a positive Class III malocclusion segregation. Analysis of our data indicated that there was no evidence for linkage of any of the 6 microsatellite markers to a Class III locus at = zero, with data supporting exclusion for 5 of the 6 markers evaluated. The present work reinforces that Class III is likely to demonstrate locus heterogeneity, and there is a dependency of the genetic background of the population in linkage studies.
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    Linkage analyses in Caribbean Hispanic families identify novel loci associated with familial late-onset Alzheimer's disease
    (Elsevier, 2015-12) Barral, Sandra; Cheng, Rong; Reitz, Christiane; Vardarajan, Badri; Lee, Joseph; Kunkle, Brian; Beecham, Gary; Cantwell, Laura S.; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Haines, Jonathan L.; Goate, Alison M.; Foroud, Tatiana; Boerwinkle, Eric; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Mayeux, Richard; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, IU School of Medicine
    INTRODUCTION: We performed linkage analyses in Caribbean Hispanic families with multiple late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) cases to identify regions that may contain disease causative variants. METHODS: We selected 67 LOAD families to perform genome-wide linkage scan. Analysis of the linked regions was repeated using the entire sample of 282 families. Validated chromosomal regions were analyzed using joint linkage and association. RESULTS: We identified 26 regions linked to LOAD (HLOD ≥3.6). We validated 13 of the regions (HLOD ≥2.5) using the entire family sample. The strongest signal was at 11q12.3 (rs2232932: HLODmax = 4.7, Pjoint = 6.6 × 10(-6)), a locus located ∼2 Mb upstream of the membrane-spanning 4A gene cluster. We additionally identified a locus at 7p14.3 (rs10255835: HLODmax = 4.9, Pjoint = 1.2 × 10(-5)), a region harboring genes associated with the nervous system (GARS, GHRHR, and NEUROD6). DISCUSSION: Future sequencing efforts should focus on these regions because they may harbor familial LOAD causative mutations.