Resumen
Craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS, OMIM 304110) is a distinctive genetic disorder whose main clinical manifestations include coronal synostosis, widely spaced eyes, clefting of the nasal tip and various skeletal anomalies. CFNS originally was thought to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, but recent studies suggest that it is X-linked dominant, whereby all daughters of males are affected, whereas none of their sons are affected. Here we report data confirming that CFNS is X-linked, mapping to a 13 cM interval in Xp22 with a maximum two-point lod score of 3.9 (θ = 0) at DXS8022 and a multipoint lod score of 5.08 at DXS1224. Detailed phenotypic analysis shows that females are more severely affected than males, a highly unusual characteristic for an X-linked disorder. CFNS represents the first multiple congenital anomaly syndrome with this unusual phenotypic pattern of X-linked inheritance.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 1937-1941 |
Número de páginas | 5 |
Publicación | Human Molecular Genetics |
Volumen | 6 |
N.º | 11 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - oct. 1997 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:We are grateful to all family members for their participation and help in the study. We thank Dr Laura Cornejo for her help. A.O.M.W. is supported by the Wellcome Trust. This work was supported in part by NIH training grant 5T32HD07107 (to N.H.R.), by NIH grants RO1DK44073 and RO1DK48095 (to R.A.P.), R29HD28732 and RO1HD29862 (to M.M.) and by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Development Fund (to M.M.).
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Genetics(clinical)