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No evidence of PEG1/MEST gene mutations in Silver-Russell syndrome patients.

Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is characterized by prenatal and postnatal growth retardation with morphologic anomalies. Maternal uniparental disomy 7 has been reported in some SRS patients. PEG1/MEST is an imprinted gene on chromosome 7q32 that is expressed only from the paternal allele and is a candidate gene for SRS. To clarify its biological function and role in SRS, we screened PEG1/MEST abnormalities in 15 SRS patients from various standpoints. In the lymphocytes of SRS patients, no aberrant expression patterns of two splice variants (alpha and beta) of PEG1/MEST were detected when they were compared with normal samples. Direct sequence analysis failed to detect any mutations in the PEG1/MEST alpha coding region, and there were no significant mutations in the 5'-flanking upstream region containing the predicted promoter and the highly conserved human/mouse genomic region. Differential methylation patterns of the CpG island for PEG1/MEST alpha were normally maintained and resulted in the same pattern as in the normal control, suggesting that there was no loss of imprinting. These findings suggest that PEG1/MEST can be excluded as a major determinant of SRS.[1]

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  1. No evidence of PEG1/MEST gene mutations in Silver-Russell syndrome patients. Kobayashi, S., Uemura, H., Kohda, T., Nagai, T., Chinen, Y., Naritomi, K., Kinoshita, E.I., Ohashi, H., Imaizumi, K., Tsukahara, M., Sugio, Y., Tonoki, H., Kishino, T., Tanaka, T., Yamada, M., Tsutsumi, O., Niikawa, N., Kaneko-Ishino, T., Ishino, F. Am. J. Med. Genet. (2001) [Pubmed]
 
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