title: Variation at the MJD locus in the major psychoses.
abstract: Expansion of triplet repeats has been seen to underlie several disorders that manifest anticipation. Clinical evidence suggests that anticipation occurs in the major psychoses. We studied the distribution of repeat sizes at the Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) locus in a group of patients with the major psychoses. We did not find any large expansions, though 2 patients had alleles that were two repeats larger than in our controls. The difference in allele sizes was larger in the patient sample as compared to the controls. The effect of such large differences might be of functional significance.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Saleem
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vijayakumar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mutsuddi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chowdhary
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Brahmachari
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005819:Genetic Markers; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D020449:Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers