Avtor/Urednik     Brauch, Hiltrud; Kishida, Takeshi; Glavač, Damjan; Chen, Fan; Pausch, Friederike; Hoefler, Heinz; Latif, Farida; Lerman, Michael I; Zbar, Berton; Neumann, Hartmut PH
Naslov     Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease with pheochromocytoma in the Black forest region of Germany: evidence for a founder effect
Tip     članek
Vir     Hum Genet
Vol. in št.     Letnik 95
Leto izdaje     1995
Obseg     str. 551-6
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     We identified a germline missense mutation at nucleotide 505 (T to C) of the VHL tumor suppressor gene in 14, apparently unrelated, VHL type 2A families from the Black Forest region of Germany. This mutation was previously identified in two VHL 2A families living in Pennsylvania (USA). All affected individuals in the 16 families shared the same VHL haplotype indicating a founder effect. This missense mutation at codon 169 (Tyr to His) would probably cause an alternation in the structure of the putative VHL protein. The association of this distinct mutation with the pheochromocytoma phenotype in VHL may help to elucidate the genetic mechanism of carcinogenesis in this multi tumor cancer syndrome.
Deskriptorji     HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
GERM-LINE MUTATION
POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION
SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA
ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL