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- Title
A novel locus for autosomal dominant congenital motor nystagmus mapped to 1q31-q32.2 between D1S2816 and D1S2692.
- Authors
Xiao, Xueshan; Li, Shiqiang; Guo, Xiangming; Zhang, Qingjiong
- Abstract
Congenital motor nystagmus (CMN) is characterized by bilateral involuntary ocular oscillation without any other underlying ocular or systemic diseases. An autosomal dominant CMN was identified in a large Chinese family where all patients had nystagmus since infancy. The nystagmus in the family is independent of any known ocular or systemic diseases. After exclusion of known CMN loci, a genome-wide scan was performed by genotyping microsatellite markers at about 10 cM intervals, together with two-point linkage analysis. Exome sequencing was used to screen coding exons of well-annotated genes. Sanger-dideoxy sequencing was used to verify candidate variations inside the linkage interval. Congenital motor nystagmus in this family shows linkage to markers in a 11.39 Mb (12.1 cM) region on chromosome 1q31-q32.2 between D1S2816 and D1S2692. All nine markers in the linkage interval gave positive lod scores, with D1S2655 and D1S2636 yielding lod scores of 5.16 and 5.18, respectively, at θ = 0. No causative mutation in the linkage interval was identified by exome sequencing of gDNA from four patients. A linkage study of additional families and further analysis of candidate genes may ultimately lead to identification of the gene responsible for dominantly inherited CMN.
- Subjects
NYSTAGMUS; OCCUPATIONAL diseases; LOCUS (Genetics); GENES; CHROMOSOMES
- Publication
Human Genetics, 2012, Vol 131, Issue 5, p697
- ISSN
0340-6717
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00439-011-1113-7