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Exhaustive mutation analysis of the NF1 gene allows identification of 95% of mutations and reveals a high frequency of unusual splicing defects.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 2000
Messiaen L M, Callens T, Mortier G, Beysen D, Vandenbroucke I, Van Roy N, Speleman F, Paepe A D
Abstract excerpt
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common autosomal dominant disorders and is caused by mutations in the NF1 gene. Mutation detection is complex due to the large size of the NF1 gene, the presence of pseudogenes and the great variety of possible lesions. Although there is no evidence for locus heterogeneity in NF1, mutation detection rates rarely exceed 50%. We studied 67 unrelated NF1 patients...
Topics
- Alternative Splicing
- Blotting, Southern
- Codon
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Complementary
- Environmental Exposure
- Exons
- Frameshift Mutation
- Genes, Neurofibromatosis 1
- Heteroduplex Analysis
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Introns