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  • Title: Allelic association and deletions in autosomal recessive proximal spinal muscular atrophy: association of marker genotype with disease severity and candidate cDNAs.
    Author: Wirth B, Hahnen E, Morgan K, DiDonato CJ, Dadze A, Rudnik-Schöneborn S, Simard LR, Zerres K, Burghes AH.
    Journal: Hum Mol Genet; 1995 Aug; 4(8):1273-84. PubMed ID: 7581364.
    Abstract:
    The candidate region for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has been defined as a 750 kb interval on 5q13. In this study, we performed allelic association studies in 154 German SMA families with the multicopy markers Ag1-CA (D5S1556); C212 (D5F149S1/S2) and correlated genotype data with deletion of candidate genes. Both multicopy markers recognize 0-3 alleles pro chromosome. Deletions were detected for all copies of the markers Ag1-CA (C272) and C212 in 13 of 88 (15%) type I SMA patients and three of 48 (6%) type II patients. In all informative cases, the deletion was inherited from one parent. In two further cases (one type I and one type III SMA), de novo deletions of only one copy of Ag1-CA and C212 were found. In both cases the patients were homozygously deleted for the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene (exons 7 and 8) but only the type I SMA patient was deleted for the neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP) gene (exons 5 and 6). A third case (type II SMA) showed de novo deletion of SMN, but not of Ag1-CA, C212 and NAIP. Specific alleles of Ag1-CA and C212 showed significant association with SMA, particularly in type I SMA. When the number of marker copies defines genotypes, 1,1 (one allele on each chromosome) is found to be increased in type I SMA (50%) and 1,2 (one allele on one chromosome and two alleles on the other one) in type II SMA (60%). The 2,2 genotype (two alleles on each chromosome) was found in 4% of type I and II patients. By comparison, pooled normal genotype frequencies were 20, 44 and 36%, respectively. These results suggest a strong correlation between genotype and severity of disease. Based on these data we propose a model which indicates that type I SMA patients are composed of two severe alleles, type II of a mild and a severe, and type III of two mild alleles. Correlation of Ag1-CA genotype with deletion of the XS2G3/NAIP genes indicates that most patients with a deletion have a 1,1 genotype. Owing to the physical proximity of these markers, we propose that a large deletion occurs on type I SMA chromosomes that removes DNA between C212 and XS2G3/NAIP and that type II SMA results from compound heterozygosity for mild (small deletion) and severe mutations.
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