title: Mutation profiles of phenylketonuria in Quebec populations: evidence of stratification and novel mutations.
abstract: Independent phenylketonuria (PKU) chromosomes (n = 109) representing 80% of a proband cohort in Quebec province carry 18 different identified mutations in 20 different mutation/haplotype combinations. The study reported here, the third in a series on Quebec populations, was done in the Montreal region and predominantly on French Canadians. It has identified three novel mutations (A309D, D338Y, and 1054/1055delG[352fs]) and one unusual mutation/RFLP haplotype combination (E280K on Hp 2). The relative frequencies and distribution of PKU mutations were then compared in three regions and population subsets (eastern Quebec, French Canadian; western Quebec, French Canadian; and Montreal, non-French Canadian). The distributions of the prevalent and rare mutations are nonrandom and provide evidence for genetic stratification. The latter and the presence of eight unusual mutation/haplotype combinations in Quebec families with European ancestries (the aforementioned four and M1V, I65T, S349P, and R408W on Hp 1) corroborate demographic and anthropologic evidence, from elsewhere, for different origins of French Canadians in eastern and western Quebec.
authors.affiliation: McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute (Genetics Division), Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rozen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mascisch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laframboise
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Scriver
mesh_terms: D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D010375:Pedigree; D010651:Phenylalanine Hydroxylase / Q000235:genetics*; D010661:Phenylketonurias / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics*; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011792:Quebec / Q000453:epidemiology; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D010651:Phenylalanine Hydroxylase; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific; C032229:GANTC-specific type II deoxyribonucleases; C024412:GGTGA-specific type II deoxyribonucleases