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Three different pathological lesions in the NF1 gene originating de novo in a family with neurofibromatosis type 1

Upadhyaya, Meena, Majounie, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2800-1091, Thompson, P., Han, S., Consoli, Claudia, Krawczak, M., Cordeiro, I. and Cooper, David Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8943-8484 2003. Three different pathological lesions in the NF1 gene originating de novo in a family with neurofibromatosis type 1. Human Genetics 112 (1) , pp. 12-17. 10.1007/s00439-002-0840-1

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Abstract

Three members of a Portuguese family, who exhibited clinical evidence of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), were found to possess different heritable and pathological mutations in their NF1 genes: a 1.5-Mb deletion spanning the entire NF1 gene, a truncating CGA-->TGA transition in exon 22 (R1241X), and a frameshift mutation in exon 29 (5406insT). All three lesions occurred de novo and are likely to have been generated by different mutational mechanisms. At least two of the mutations occurred on different chromosomal backgrounds. The probability of finding three non-identical NF1 gene lesions arising de novo in a family with NF1 is very remote, too low to be readily accepted as mere coincidence. A number of possible explanations for this unique finding were therefore explored, but none were found to be wholly convincing. This report nevertheless serves as a reminder that it is unwise, even in the case of an autosomal dominant condition, to extrapolate from the detection of a single mutation in a specific individual to assuming an identical molecular genetic aetiology in other clinically affected members of the same family.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 0340-6717
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 10:04
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61043

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