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The second case of a t(17;22) in a family with neurofibromatosis type 1: sequence analysis of the breakpoint regions

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A reciprocal t(17;22)(q11.2;q11.2) was found in a female patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and in her affected daughter. Sequence analysis of cloned junction fragments traversing the breakpoints allowed the identification of the structures involved in the rearrangement. Aberrant bands in Southern hybridizations of restriction enzyme-digested DNA of the patient pointed to the disruption of the NF1 gene in intron 31. Semispecific polymerase chain reaction analysis of the genomic DNA of the patient with the specific primer anchored at NF1 exon 31 was used to obtain the breakpoint-spanning fragment of the derivative chromosome 17. The intron 31 sequence turned out to be interrupted within a large irregular (AT) repeat. The chromosome 22-derived sequence of the der(17) junction fragment allowed us to identify cosmids of the corresponding region from a chromosome 22-specific cosmid library. With the support of the breakpoint-spanning cosmids, the chromosome 22 region upstream of the fragment carried by the der(17) was characterized. Primers deduced from the sequence of this upstream region were used in combination with a primer in NF1 intron 31 distal to the breakpoint on chromosome 17 to amplify the der(22) junction fragment. The structure of the junction sequences suggested that the translocation had arisen by unequal homologous recombination between (AT)-rich repeats on chromosome 22 and on chromosome 17 in intron 31 of the NF1 gene. However, our data support the assumption of additional rearrangements prior to, or in the course of, the recombination event, leading to a loss of the sequences between the involved (AT) repeats on chromosome 22. In the direct vicinity of these (AT) repeats, two members of a previously undescribed low-copy repetitive sequence have been found, copies of which are also present on human chromosome 13.

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Received: 27 August 1996 / Revised: 7 October 1996

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Kehrer-Sawatzki, H., Häussler, J., Krone, W. et al. The second case of a t(17;22) in a family with neurofibromatosis type 1: sequence analysis of the breakpoint regions. Hum Genet 99, 237–247 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050346

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