Article
Recurrence of lethal osteogenesis imperfecta due to parental mosaicism for a mutation in the COL1A2 gene of type I collagen. The mosaic parent exhibits phenotypic features of a mild form of the disease.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 1992
Edwards M J, Wenstrup R J, Byers P H, Cohn D H
Abstract excerpt
We have determined that a man, ascertained because he fathered a child with lethal osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) with each of two partners, is mosaic in both his germline and somatic tissues for a mutation in the COL1A2 gene which encodes the pro alpha 2(I) chain of type I procollagen. His dermal fibroblasts were previously shown to synthesize a population of cysteine-containing alpha 2(I) chains that were...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagen
- Cysteine
- DNA
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Genes, Lethal
- Glycine
