title: Point mutation in the parkin gene on patients with Parkinson's disease.
abstract: To investigate the distribution of possible novel mutations from parkin gene in variant subset of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in China and explore whether parkin gene plays an important role in the pathogenesis of PD, 70 patients were divided into early-onset group and late-onset group; 70 healthy subjects were included as controls. Genomic DNA from 70 normal controls and from those of PD patients were extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes by using standard procedures. Mutations of parkin gene (exon 1-12) in all the subjects were screened by PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP), and further sequencing was performed in the samples with abnormal SSCP results, in order to confirm the mutation and its location. A new missense mutation Gly284Arg in a patient and 3 abnormal bands in SSCP electrophoresis from samples of another 3 patients were found. All the DNA variants were sourced from the samples of the patients with early-onset PD. It was concluded that Parkin point mutation also partially contributes to the development of early-onset Parkinson's disease in Chinese.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Xiehe Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhihou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Shenggang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Xuebing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Hongjin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: E-tang
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Tong
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D005091:Exons; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D017354:Point Mutation; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; C111567:parkin protein