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Molecular cytogenetic diagnosis of Williams syndrome

✍ Scribed by Hirota, Hamao; Matsuoka, Rumiko; Kimura, Misa; Imamura, Shin-ichiro; Joh-o, Kunitaka; Ando, Masahiko; Takao, Atsuyoshi; Momma, Kazuo

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
476 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0148-7299

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✦ Synopsis

Williams syndrome (WS) is characterized by distinct facial changes, growth deficiency, mental retardation, and congenital heart defect (particularly supravalvular aortic stenosis), associated at times with infantile hypercalcemia. Molecular genetic studies have indicated that hemizygosity at the elastin locus (7q11.23) causes WS. The purpose of this study was to confirm that this regional deletion, involving the elastin locus, is the cause of WS in Japan, and to clarify the correlation between the phenotype and the elastin locus.

Thirty-two patients with WS and thirty of their relatives were examined by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), using the WS chromosome region (WSCR) probe. All patients had cardiovascular disease (loo%), 30 had typical WS facial changes (94%), 31 had mental retardation or developmental delay (97%), 16 were small-for-date at birth (50%), 14 had short stature (44%), and 13 had dental anomalies (41%). No relatives showed any manifestation of WS.

Hemizygosity for a region of 7q11.23, involving the elastin locus, was found in all WS patients, but was not found in the 30 relatives.

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