Article
Homology-mediated recombination between type I collagen gene exons results in an internal tandem duplication and lethal osteogenesis imperfecta.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 1993
Cohn D H, Zhang X, Byers P H
Abstract excerpt
It has been proposed that the structure of the exons that encode the triple helical domain of the fibrillar collagen genes arose by repeated tandem duplication of an ancestral unit exon. Because these exons encode a repeat motif [(Gly-X-Y)n], sequence homology between exons may have driven the re...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Collagen
- DNA
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Exons
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Procollagen
- Recombination, Genetic