title: Isolation of a 370 kb YAC fragment spanning a translocation breakpoint at 3p14.1 associated with holoprosencephaly.
abstract: Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a common developmental defect involving the brain and face. HPE is extremely heterogeneous, some cases being associated with structural anomalies of the short arm of chromosome 3. For a detailed characterization of a t(3;19)(p14.1;p13.1) breakpoint associated with HPE, we performed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis using yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) mapped to the short arm of chromosome 3 from the Le Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) library. Three YACs mapped proximal, and one was located distal to the described breakpoint on chromosome 3. One of the chromosome 3 'Mega-YACs' spanned the translocation breakpoint. From this chimeric YAC we generated a site specific probe of about 370 kb by digestion of the YAC-DNA, which will be assessed for gene alterations that could underlie HPE in this patient.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Biology and Human Genetics, University of Graz, Austria. petek@bkfug.kfunigraz.ac.at
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petek
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kroisel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D018244:Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast; D002893:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3; D005260:Female; D016142:Holoprosencephaly / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014178:Translocation, Genetic