title: Mutations involving the transcription factor CBFA1 cause cleidocranial dysplasia.
abstract: Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) is an autosomal-dominant condition characterized by hypoplasia/aplasia of clavicles, patent fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, short stature, and other changes in skeletal patterning and growth. In some families, the phenotype segregates with deletions resulting in heterozygous loss of CBFA1, a member of the runt family of transcription factors. In other families, insertion, deletion, and missense mutations lead to translational stop codons in the DNA binding domain or in the C-terminal transactivating region. In-frame expansion of a polyalanine stretch segregates in an affected family with brachydactyly and minor clinical findings of CCD. We conclude that CBFA1 mutations cause CCD and that heterozygous loss of function is sufficient to produce the disorder.
authors.affiliation: Kinderklinik, Klinikum der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mundlos
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mundlos
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Mulliken
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Aylsworth
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albright
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lindhout
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Henn
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Knoll
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mertelsmann
authors.forename: B U
authors.initials: BU
authors.lastname: Zabel
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Olsen
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6; D002973:Cleidocranial Dysplasia / Q000235:genetics*; D050659:Core Binding Factor Alpha 1 Subunit; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D050659:Core Binding Factor Alpha 1 Subunit; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors