An insertion/deletion <Emphasis Type="Italic">TEX28</Emphasis> polymorphism and its application to analysis of red/green visual pigment gene arrays |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Hisao?UeyamaEmail author Ryuzo?Torii Shoko?Tanabe Sanae?Oda Shinichi?Yamade |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Medical Biochemistry, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta, Otsu 520-2192, Japan;(2) Research Center for Animal Life Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan;(3) Institute of Visual Science, Nagoya, Japan;(4) Department of Ophthalmology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan |
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Abstract: | TEX28 gene (fTEX) is present immediately downstream of the red/green visual pigment gene array on the human X chromosome. Its pseudogene (pTEX) that lacks exon 1 is present within the array between pigment genes. We found that both fTEX and pTEX genes had a 697 bp insertion/deletion polymorphism in their introns 3. In color-normal male subjects, the frequency of the 697 bp region was 43% (40/94) in pTEX and 97% (91/94) in fTEX in the array of Red-pTEX-Green-fTEX and 10% (9/94) in pTEX and 87% (41/47) in fTEX in the array of Red-pTEX-Green-pTEX-Green-fTEX. These results suggest that normal arrays with multiple green genes may have arisen through gene duplication rather than unequal homologous crossover. In color-vision-deficient male subjects with a single-gene array, the frequency of the 697 bp region was 83% (25/30) in the array of Green-fTEX and 66% (74/112) in the array of Red-fTEX. In color-vision-deficient male subjects with a 2-gene array, the frequency of the region was 44% (16/36) in pTEX and 97% (35/36) in fTEX in the array of Green-pTEX-Green-fTEX and 75% (18/24) in pTEX and 92% (22/24) in fTEX in the array of Red-pTEX-Red-fTEX. These results suggest that 2-green-gene arrays have arisen through unequal homologous crossover between a normal 2-gene array and a single-green-gene array. With data from a long-range PCR method using the insertion/deletion polymorphism, we proposed a structure of the second gene of 3-gene arrays, Green-pTEX-Green-pTEX-Green-fTEX and Red-pTEX-Red-pTEX-Red-fTEX, in color-vision-deficient subjects. |
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Keywords: | Visual pigment gene Long-range PCR TEX28 Congenital color-vision deficiency |
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