S. Goobie et al., Shwachman-Diamond syndrome with exocrine pancreatic dysfunction and bone marrow failure maps to the centromeric region of chromosome 7, AM J HU GEN, 68(4), 2001, pp. 1048-1054
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Research/Laboratory Medicine & Medical Tecnology","Molecular Biology & Genetics
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disorder charact
erized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and hematologic and skeletal ab
normalities. A genomewide scan of families with SDS was terminated at simil
ar to 50% completion, with the identification of chromosome 7 markers that
showed linkage with the disease. Finer mapping revealed significant linkage
across a broad interval that included the centromere. The maximum two-poin
t LOD score was 8.7, with D7S473, at a recombination fraction of 0. The max
imum multipoint LOD score was 10, in the interval between D7S499 and D7S482
(5.4 cM on the female map and 0 cM on the male map), a region delimited by
recombinant events detected in affected children. Evidence from all 15 of
the multiplex families analyzed provided support for the linkage, consisten
t with a single locus for SDS. However, the presence of several different m
utations is suggested by the heterogeneity of disease-associated haplotypes
in the candidate region.