1. A study of Wilson disease mutations in Britain
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Donna Sheard, Miranda Durkie, Oliver Quarrell, Ian R. Peake, Anne Goodeve, Diana Curtis, Stuart Tanner, and Pauline Balac
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Proband ,Heterozygote ,Nonsense mutation ,Mutation, Missense ,Genes, Recessive ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Frameshift mutation ,Exon ,Hepatolenticular Degeneration ,Genetics ,medicine ,Ethnicity ,Missense mutation ,Humans ,Frameshift Mutation ,Cation Transport Proteins ,Genetics (clinical) ,Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational ,Sequence Deletion ,Adenosine Triphosphatases ,Mutation ,Alternative splicing ,Homozygote ,Chromosome Mapping ,Single-strand conformation polymorphism ,Exons ,United Kingdom ,Alternative Splicing ,Amino Acid Substitution ,Copper-Transporting ATPases ,DNA Transposable Elements ,Carrier Proteins ,Copper - Abstract
Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disease of copper transport. The disease is caused by a large number of mutations in the ATP7B gene, some of which appear to be population specific, whereas others are found in probands from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds. This study presents the results of screening the ATP7B gene by SSCP and sequencing in order to define the spectrum of mutations seen in British referrals for WD. The 52 patients screened included 10 with a non-British mixed ethnicity origin. This study identified 19 novel mutations and 18 mutations that had been previously described. The novel mutations included seven nonconservative missense mutations, eight small insertions, or deletions causing frameshift, two nonsense mutations, and two splice-site mutations. Seven of the 10 mixed ethnicity patients harboured homozygous mutations, whereas only four of the larger British group were homozygotes. The detection rate by SSCP analysis in the British group of 42 consecutive unrelated WD probands was 70%. However, SSCP screening of just three exons (exons 8, 14, and 18) is predicted to identify 60% of mutations present in WD referrals.
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- 1999