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Analysis of select folate pathway genes,PAX3, and humanT in a midwestern neural tube defect population

โœ Scribed by Trembath, Dimitri; Sherbondy, Andrea L.; Vandyke, Don C.; Shaw, Gary M.; Todoroff, Karen; Lammer, Edward J.; Finnell, Richard H.; Marker, Stephen; Lerner, Gary; Murray, Jeffrey C.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
380 KB
Volume
59
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-3709

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โœฆ Synopsis

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a common birth defect, seen in approximately 1/1,000 births in the United States. NTDs are considered a complex trait where several genes, interacting with environmental factors, create the phenotype. Using a Midwestern NTD population consisting of probands, parents, and siblings from Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska, we analyzed a range of candidate genes, including 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), folate receptors-alpha (FOLR1; hereafter abbreviated "FR-alpha") and -beta (FOLR2; hereafter, "FR-beta"), methionine synthase (hereinafter, "MS"), T, the human homolog of the murine Brachyury gene, and the paired-box homeotic gene 3 (PAX3), for association with NTDs. We were unable to demonstrate an association using a previously described Ala-->Val mutation in MTHFR and the majority of our NTD populations. However, we discovered a silent polymorphism in exon 6 of MTHFR which conserved a serine residue and which showed significant association with NTDs in our Iowa population. Analysis of exon 7 of MTHFR then demonstrated an Ala-->Glu mutation which was significantly associated with our Iowa NTD population; however, we could not replicate this result either in a combined Minnesota/ Nebraska or in a California NTD population. Using polymorphic markers for MS, FR-beta, T, and PAX3, we were unable to demonstrate linkage disequilibrium with our NTD populations. A mutation search of FR-alpha revealed one proband with a de novo silent mutation of the stop codon. This work provides a new panel of genetic variants for studies of folate metabolism and supports, in some NTD populations, an association between MTHFR and NTDs.

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