title: Fine mapping of progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia: a tool for heterozygote identification.
abstract: Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia is a skeletal genetic disorder affecting primarily the articular cartilage, causing joint stiffness and leading to a crippling status. More than two-thirds of the reported patients belong to Arab and Mediterranean populations. The disease locus has been mapped to chromosome 6q22 in a region of 12.9 cM using a Jordanian family. We examined two additional families, one Jordanian and one Palestinian, to test for homogeneity of the disorder and the presence of a common haplotype, to fine map the disorder, and to use all the information to derive a tool for heterozygote identification. The two families showed linkage to the same previously reported locus, thus suggesting homogeneity, but they did not share a common haplotype. They also provided information that refined the genetic region for the disease locus to 2.1 cM with three microsatellite markers. The absence of a common haplotype indicates that no common ancestor mutations were inherited by our patients. Genotyping for the three-marker haplotype showed that it can be used as a heterozygote identification tool.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alkhateeb
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: al-Alami
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Leal
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: el-Shanti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alkbateeb
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006239:Haplotypes; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree