title: Demonstration of a Sandhoff disease-associated autosomal 50-kb deletion by field inversion gel electrophoresis.
abstract: Field inversion gel electrophoresis (FIGE) of SfiI-digested chromosomal DNA was used to demonstrate a 50-kb deletion in one allele of the gene encoding the beta subunit of human hexosaminidase (HEXB at 5q13) of two apparently unrelated patients with Sandhoff disease. In conventional electrophoretic restriction analysis, this deletion was masked by hybridization of bands from the other allele.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bikker
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: van den Berg
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Wolterman
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: de Vijlder
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Bolhuis
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012497:Sandhoff Disease / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA