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Segregation and sporadic cases in families with Hunter's syndrome.
  1. G Machill,
  2. G Barbujani,
  3. G A Danieli,
  4. F H Herrmann
  1. Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Greifswald, Federal Republic of Germany.

    Abstract

    Segregation analysis on five samples of families with Hunter's syndrome (158 cases overall) shows that the mutant allele segregates in agreement with Mendelian expectations for an X linked recessive disease, but the proportion of sporadic cases is significantly lower than expected under mutation-selection equilibrium. Heterogeneity among the samples is apparent, but it is caused entirely by a sample of Ashkenazi families, whose segregation pattern has previously been interpreted as supporting the hypothesis of prenatal selection in favour of the pathological allele. Conversely, our joint analysis of the five samples by a maximum likelihood approach does not suggest segregation distortion. Possible reasons for the apparent lack of sporadic cases include the effect of ascertainment bias.

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