Application of two neutral MspI DNA polymorphisms in the analysis of hereditary protein C deficiency.
Screening of restriction enzyme digested DNA from normal and protein C deficient individuals with a variety of probes derived from the protein C locus has revealed the existence of two neutral MspI polymorphism. One polymorphism (MI), which is located approximately 7 kb upstream of the protein C gene, has allelic frequencies of 69 and 31%, and was used to exclude extensive gene deletions as a likely cause of type I protein C deficiency in 50% of cases in a panel of 22 families. Furthermore, the same polymorphism has been used in 5 doubly affected individuals establishing compound heterozygosity in 3 of these. The second, intragenic, polymorphism (MII) has allelic frequencies of 99 and 1% in the normal population. The frequency of the rare allele of this RFLP was with 7% much higher in a panel of 22 Dutch families with protein C deficiency. Interestingly, in all three probands that were heterozygous for MII the rare allele of MII coincided with a point mutation that leads to a stop codon in amino acid position 306 of the protein C coding sequence. This mutation may account for 14% of the protein C deficient individuals in The Netherlands.
Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research Unit, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands.
P H
PH
Reitsma
W
W
te Lintel Hekkert
E
E
Koenhen
P A
PA
van der Velden
C F
CF
Allaart
P P
PP
Deutz-Terlouw
S R
SR
Poort
R M
RM
Bertina
D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D019003:Deoxyribonuclease HpaII; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006579:Heterozygote; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011486:Protein C / Q000235:genetics*; D020151:Protein C Deficiency
D011486:Protein C; D004247:DNA; D019003:Deoxyribonuclease HpaII; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific