RGD Reference Report - Novel mutations and genotype-phenotype relationships in 107 families with Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD). - Rat Genome Database

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Novel mutations and genotype-phenotype relationships in 107 families with Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD).

Authors: Kondo-Iida, E  Kobayashi, K  Watanabe, M  Sasaki, J  Kumagai, T  Koide, H  Saito, K  Osawa, M  Nakamura, Y  Toda, T 
Citation: Kondo-Iida E, etal., Hum Mol Genet. 1999 Nov;8(12):2303-9.
RGD ID: 11062579
Pubmed: PMID:10545611   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders in the Japanese population, is characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy in combination with cortical dysgenesis (micropolygyria). Recently, we identified, on chromosome 9q31, the gene responsible for FCMD, which encodes a novel 461 amino acid protein which we have termed fukutin. Most FCMD-bearing chromosomes examined to date (87%) have been derived from a single ancestral founder, whose mutation consisted of a 3 kb retrotransposal insertion in the 3' non-coding region of the fukutin gene. FCMD is the first human disease known to be caused primarily by an ancient retrotransposal integration. We under-took a systematic analysis of the FCMD gene in 107 unrelated patients, and identified four novel non-founder mutations in five of them: one missense, one nonsense, one L1 insertion and a 1 bp insertion. The frequency of severe phenotypes, including Walker-Walberg syndrome-like manifestations such as hydrocephalus and microphthalmia, was significantly higher among probands who were compound heterozygotes carrying a point mutation on one allele and the founder mutation on the other, than it was among probands who were homozygous for the 3 kb retrotransposon. Remarkably, we detected no FCMD patients with non-founder (point) mutations on both alleles of the gene, and suggest that such cases might be embryonic-lethal. This could explain why few FCMD cases are reported in non-Japanese populations. Our results provided strong evidence that loss of function of fukutin is the major cause of FCMD, and appeared to shed some light on the mechanism responsible for the broad clinical spectrum seen in this disease.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Walker-Warburg syndrome  IAGP 11062579DNA:missense mutation more ...RGD 
Walker-Warburg syndrome  ISOFKTN (Homo sapiens)11062579; 11062579DNA:missense mutation more ...RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Fktn  (fukutin)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Fktn  (fukutin)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
FKTN  (fukutin)


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