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01-12-2006 | Research article
Analysis of IFT74as a candidate gene for chromosome 9p-linked ALS-FTD
Authors:
Parastoo Momeni, Jennifer Schymick, Shushant Jain, Mark R Cookson, Nigel J Cairns, Elisa Greggio, Matthew J Greenway, Stephen Berger, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Adriano Chiò, Hon Chung Fung, David M Holtzman, Edward D Huey, Eric M Wassermann, Jennifer Adamson, Michael L Hutton, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Jeffrey D Rothstein, Orla Hardiman, Jordan Grafman, Andrew Singleton, John Hardy, Bryan J Traynor
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BMC Neurology
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Issue 1/2006
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Abstract
Background
A new locus for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) has recently been ascribed to chromosome 9p.
Methods
We identified chromosome 9p segregating haplotypes within two families with ALS-FTD (F476 and F2) and undertook mutational screening of candidate genes within this locus.
Results
Candidate gene sequencing at this locus revealed the presence of a disease segregating stop mutation (Q342X) in the intraflagellar transport 74 (IFT74) gene in family 476 (F476), but no mutation was detected within IFT74 in family 2 (F2). While neither family was sufficiently informative to definitively implicate or exclude IFT74 mutations as a cause of chromosome 9-linked ALS-FTD, the nature of the mutation observed within F476 (predicted to truncate the protein by 258 amino acids) led us to sequence the open reading frame of this gene in a large number of ALS and FTD cases (n = 420). An additional sequence variant (G58D) was found in a case of sporadic semantic dementia. I55L sequence variants were found in three other unrelated affected individuals, but this was also found in a single individual among 800 Human Diversity Gene Panel samples.
Conclusion
Confirmation of the pathogenicity of IFT74 sequence variants will require screening of other chromosome 9p-linked families.