Article
Mutations in the RNA component of RNase MRP cause a pleiotropic human disease, cartilage-hair hypoplasia.
Cell - 26 Jan 2001
Ridanpää M, van Eenennaam H, Pelin K, Chadwick R, Johnson C, Yuan B, vanVenrooij W, Pruijn G, Salmela R, Rockas S, Mäkitie O, Kaitila I, de la Chapelle A
Abstract excerpt
The recessively inherited developmental disorder, cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH) is highly pleiotropic with manifestations including short stature, defective cellular immunity, and predisposition to several cancers. The endoribonuclease RNase MRP consists of an RNA molecule bound to several proteins. It has at least two functions, namely, cleavage of RNA in mitochondrial DNA synthesis and nucleolar cleaving of...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Cartilage
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Endoribonucleases
- Gene Silencing
- Genetic Markers
- Hair
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
