中国人D13S26位点的多态性及其在Wilson`s病家系中...

Polymorphisms of the D13S26 locus in Chinese and its application to linkage analysis of Wilson disease]

The D13S26 locus has been mapped to 13q21.1-q21.2 and is linked with Wilson disease gene at a distance of 3.8 centimorgans. The polymorphic alleles detected by HphI, EcoRI and BclI at the D13S26 locus are the same in Chinese as in Caucasians, but the allele frequencies are quite different. As calculated from 30 unrelated Chinese individuals, the allele frequencies were as follows: HphI 2.8 kb(0.47)/2.0kb(0.53); EcoRI 9.0 kb (0.02)/8.0 kb (0.98); BclI 6.3 kb (0.02)/5.6 kb (0.98). Cosegregation analysis of the D13S26 locus and Wilson disease locus was carried out in 3 families with the disease. In one of these families, the proband and his younger sister (7-years-old and phenotypically normal) were both heterozygous for this site. We predict with 85.6% confidence that the younger sister is in the presymptomatic stage of Wilson disease.