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Private beta- and gamma-sarcoglycan gene mutations: evidence of a founder effect in Northern Italy.

Autosomal recessive muscular dystrophies called "sarcoglycanopathies" result from mutations in the genes encoding alpha-, beta-, gamma-, or delta-sarcoglycan complex components. The present study involved six unrelated families from Northern Italy showing mutations in the beta- or gamma-sarcoglycan genes. An 8 bp duplication in the beta-sarcoglycan gene and 1 bp insertion in the gamma-sarcoglycan gene occur with high frequency in our population. These mutations have never been reported thus far in other countries. Many patients are homozygotes for a single mutation, although they derived from non-consanguineous marriages. We suggest that these alleles are "private" mutations of this geographical region. A panel of highly informative microsatellite markers that map in the beta- and gamma-sarcoglycan gene locus was used to assess the haplotypes among affected patients and control population, in order to test the presence of linkage disequilibrium. We found that the 8 bp duplication in the beta-sarcoglycan gene and the 1 bp insertion in the gamma-sarcoglycan gene are in linkage disequilibrium with neighbouring polymorphisms. The recurrence of specific sarcoglycan mutations in Northern Italy is probably due to a founder effect, combined with a relative genetic isolation.[1]

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  1. Private beta- and gamma-sarcoglycan gene mutations: evidence of a founder effect in Northern Italy. Fanin, M., Hoffman, E.P., Angelini, C., Pegoraro, E. Hum. Mutat. (2000) [Pubmed]
 
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