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The ENG1 Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) family spans six generations and comprises more than 90 maternally related individuals. In this pedigree, the G:A LHON mutation at nucleotide position 11778 shows a complex pattern of segregation in which it is homoplasmic mutant in two branches, homoplasmic wildtype in another, and heteroplasmic in a fourth branch. In addition, there is co-segregation of the 11778 mutant allele and of a G:A silent polymorphism at nucleotide position 5471 in 18 of 19 family members. This co-segregation indicates that the two substitutions arose either simultaneously, or nearly so, in the same "founder" mtDNA molecule. However, the highly divergent mitochondrial allele ratios in the one family member suggest that there has been a complex origin and segregation "history" of these two substitutions. Taking all of the results into consideration, the evidence supports sequential single mutations at sites 5471 and 11778, in close temporal proximity, with subsequent segregation of the intermediate mutational genotype to high levels in one branch of the ENG1 LHON family. In other branches, either the double wildtype or double mutant genotype has become essentially homoplasmic. © Springer-Verlag 2004.
Author(s): Howell N, Kubacka I, Keers SM, Turnbull DM, Chinnery PF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Human Genetics
Year: 2005
Volume: 116
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 28-32
ISSN (print): 0340-6717
ISSN (electronic): 1432-1203
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-004-1203-x.
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-004-1203-x
PubMed id: 15599765
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