NS22: A highly polymorphic complex microsatellite marker within the ATM gene

✍ Scribed by Udar, Nitin; Farzad, Shahriar; Tai, Lei Qian; Bay, Jacques-Olivier; Gatti, Richard A.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 12 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19990212)82:4<287::aid-ajmg2>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

We have found a complex repeat sequence (NS22) that is highly polymorphic and located within intron 45 of the ataxia-telangiectasia gene (ATM). Sequencing this region from various individuals demonstrated two different polymorphic repeating units adjacent to one another. The fact that the sequence is located within the ATM gene provides a unique opportunity to follow segregation of affected and unaffected haplotypes for prenatal diagnosis of ataxiatelangiectasia. The high degree of polymorphism observed with this marker will also aid in evaluating loss of heterozygosity (LOH) across this region of the genome and may prove valuable in assessing the role of the ATM gene in susceptibility to cancer.