The Bethlem myopathy is a rare autosomal dominant proximal myopathy
characterized by early childhood onset and joint contractures. Evidence for
linkage and genetic heterogeneity has been established, with the majority
of families linked to 21q22.3 and one large family linked to 2q37,
implicating the three type VI collagen subunit genes, COL6A1 (chromosome
21), COL6A2 (chromosome 21) and COL6A3 (chromosome 2) as candidate genes.
Mutations of the invariant glycine residues in the triple-helical
domain-coding region of COL6A1 and COL6A2 have been reported previously in
the chromosome 21-linked families. We report here the identification of a
G-->A mutation in the N-terminal globular domain-coding region of COL6A3
in a large American pedigree (19 affected, 12 unaffected), leading to the
substitution of glycine by glutamic acid in the N2 motif, which is
homologous to the type A domains of the von Willebrand factor. This
mutation segregated to all affected family members, to no unaffected family
members, and was not identified in 338 unrelated Caucasian control
chromosomes. Thus mutations in either the triple-helical domain or the
globular domain of type VI collagen appear to cause Bethlem myopathy.
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Subcortical laminar heterotopia (SCLH), or 'double cortex', is a cortical
dysgenesis disorder associated with a defect in neuronal migration.
Clinical manifestations are epilepsy and mental retardation. This disorder,
which mainly affects females, can be inherited in a single pedigree with
lissencephaly, a more severe disease which affects the male individuals.
This clinical entity has been described as X- SCLH/LIS syndrome. Recently
we have demonstrated that the doublecortin gene, which is localized on the
X chromosome, is implicated in this disorder. We have now performed a
systematic mutation analysis of doublecortin in 11 unrelated females with
SCLH (one familial and 10 sporadic cases) and have identified mutations in
10/11 cases. The sequence differences include nonsense, splice site and
missense mutations and these were found throughout the gene. These results
provide strong evidence that loss of function of doublecortin is the major
cause of SCLH. The absence of phenotype-genotype correlations suggests that
X-inactivation patterns of neuronal precursor cells are likely to
contribute to the variable clinical severity of this disorder in females.
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Results: Compared to healthy controls, the AKI patients presented a significant upregulation in the frequency of circulating CD4+CD25+ T cells; however, the majority of this increase was from the CD4+CD25+TIM-3- subset, and the frequency of CD4+CD25+TIM-3+ T cells was downregulated in AKI patients. In both healthy controls and AKI patients, the CD4+CD25+TIM-3+ T cells expressed higher levels of Foxp3, and were more potent at expressing LFA-1, LAG-3, CTLA-4, IL-10 and TGF-β. In addition, the CD4+CD25+TIM-3+ T cells from both healthy controls and AKI patients presented higher capacity to suppress CD4+CD25- T cell proliferation than the CD4+CD25+TIM-3- T cells. Interestingly, the total CD4+CD25+ T cells from AKI patients presented significantly lower inhibitory capacity than those from healthy controls, indicating that the low frequency of CD4+CD25+TIM-3+ T cells was restricting the efficacy of the Treg responses in AKI patients.
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