Chinen Yasutsugu, Tohma Takaya, Izumikawa Yoshinori, Uehara Hiroyuki, Ohta Takao
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0125, Japan.
J Hum Genet. 2005;50(7):357-359. doi: 10.1007/s10038-005-0258-4. Epub 2005 Jun 3.
Sanfilippo type B syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB; MPS IIIB) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder that is caused by defective alpha- N-acetylglucosaminidase (NAGLU). We performed NAGLU gene analysis in five patients with MPS IIIB whose respective parents from the Okinawa islands in Japan were not apparently consanguineous. We found a missense mutation (R565P) in all five patients (all homozygotes). We screened this mutation in 200 healthy subjects and found one heterozygote (none of the subjects were related to the patients). These results suggest that there may be a founder effect that results in the accumulation of R565P mutation in this area.
桑菲利波B型综合征(黏多糖贮积症IIIB型;MPS IIIB)是一种常染色体隐性溶酶体贮积病,由α-N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖苷酶(NAGLU)缺陷引起。我们对5例MPS IIIB患者进行了NAGLU基因分析,这些患者来自日本冲绳岛,其各自的父母并无明显血缘关系。我们在所有5例患者(均为纯合子)中发现了一个错义突变(R565P)。我们在200名健康受试者中筛查了该突变,发现1名杂合子(所有受试者均与患者无亲缘关系)。这些结果表明,可能存在奠基者效应,导致该区域R565P突变的积累。