Human Molecular Genetics, 2001, Vol. 10, No. 21 2437-2446
© 2001 Oxford University Press
CAG repeat instability at SCA2 locus: anchoring CAA interruptions and linked single nucleotide polymorphisms
1Functional Genomics Unit, Centre for Biochemical Technology (CSIR), Mall Road, Delhi, India, 2Department of Neurology, Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India and 3Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that results from the expansion of a cryptic CAG repeat within the exon 1 of the SCA2 gene. The CAG repeat in normal individuals varies in length from 14 to 31 repeats and is frequently interrupted by one or more CAA triplets, whereas the expanded alleles contain a pure uninterrupted stretch of 34 to 59 CAG repeats. We have previously reported the presence of a limited pool of ‘ancestral’ or ‘at risk’ haplotypes for the expanded SCA2 alleles in the Indian population. We now report the identification of two novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in exon 1 of the SCA2 gene and their characterization in 215 normal and 64 expanded chromosomes. The two biallelic SNPs distinguished two haplotypes, GT and CC, each of which formed a predominant haplotype associated with normal and expanded SCA2 alleles. All the expanded alleles segregated with CC haplotype, which otherwise was associated with only 29.3% of the normal chromosomes. CAA interspersion analysis revealed that majority of the normal alleles with CC haplotype were either pure or lacked the most proximal 5' CAA interruption. The repeat length variation at SCA2 locus also appeared to be polar with changes occurring mostly at the 5' end of the repeat. Our results demonstrate that CAA interruptions play an important role in conferring stability to SCA2 repeat and their absence predisposes alleles towards instability and pathological expansion. Our study also provides new haplotypes associated with SCA2 that should prove useful in further understanding the mutational history and mechanism of repeat instability at the SCA2 locus.
+ To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Functional Genomics Unit, Centre for Biochemical Technology (CSIR), Delhi University Campus, Mall Road, Delhi 110 007, India. Tel: +91 11 7416489; Fax: +91 11 7667471; Email: skb@cbt.res.in
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