title: Contig map of the Parkinson's disease region on 4q21-q23.
abstract: We have constructed a yeast artificial chromosome contig (YAC) map of human chromosome 4q21-q23 across the Parkinson's disease region by combining molecular and fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques. This map contains 55 YACs and 51 molecular markers, including 23 polymorphic markers. We have also isolated one P1 and 33 bacterial artificial chromosomes located within this contig. Plasmid libraries were generated from 11 of these BAC and P1 clones, and 614 random plasmid clones were sequenced for a total of about 200 kb. This contig allowed us to precisely determine the location of 18 transcripts within the D4S2460-D4S2986 interval, including the alpha-synuclein gene found to be mutated in some families with Parkinson's disease.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lavedan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dehejia
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pike
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dutra
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leroy
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Root
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rubenstein
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chandrasekharappa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Makalowska
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Nussbaum
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Polymeropoulos
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D018244:Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast; D002894:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000235:genetics*