Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Mutations in a new member of the chromodomain gene family cause CHARGE syndrome

2004; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 36; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/ng1407

1546-1718

Lisenka E.L.M. Vissers, Conny M.A. van Ravenswaaij, R.J.C. Admiraal, Jane A. Hurst, Bert B.A. de Vries, Irene M. Janssen, W A van der Vliet, Erik Huys, Pieter J. de Jong, Ben C.J. Hamel, Eric Schoenmakers, Han G. Brunner, Joris A. Veltman, Ad Geurts van Kessel,

Congenital heart defects research

CHARGE syndrome is a common cause of congenital anomalies affecting several tissues in a nonrandom fashion. We report a 2.3-Mb de novo overlapping microdeletion on chromosome 8q12 identified by array comparative genomic hybridization in two individuals with CHARGE syndrome. Sequence analysis of genes located in this region detected mutations in the gene CHD7 in 10 of 17 individuals with CHARGE syndrome without microdeletions, accounting for the disease in most affected individuals.