title: Severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with the deficiency of the 50 kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein maps to chromosome 13q12.
abstract: We have recently demonstrated the specific deficiency for the 50 kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein (50DAG) in Algerian patients afflicted with severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with DMD-like phenotype (SCARMD). A similar disease affecting Tunisian patients was linked to chromosome 13q but the status of the 50DAG was not investigated. Here we show by linkage analysis of Algerian families that the genetic defect which leads, either directly or indirectly, to the deficiency of the 50DAG in skeletal muscle is localized to the proximal part of chromosome 13q. We have not found any evidence of genetic heterogeneity among the thirteen families studied. It remains to be demonstrated whether the 50DAG gene maps at 13q12, and to determine if it is mutated in this disease.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Bologhine, CHU Alger-Ouest, Algeria.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Azibi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bachner
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Beckmann
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hamouda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chaouch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaouch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ait-Ouarab
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vignal
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weissenbach
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002882:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13; D003241:Consanguinity; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics*; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D049031:Sarcoglycans
chemical_list: D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D049031:Sarcoglycans