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Comprehensive mutation analysis of TSC1 and TSC2 - and phenotypic correlations in 150 families with tuberous sclerosis

Jones, Alistair C., Shyamsundar, Magitha M., Thomas, Meinir W., Maynard, Julie Helen, Idziaszczyk, Shelley, Tomkins, Susan, Sampson, Julian Roy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-2348 and Cheadle, Jeremy Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9453-8458 1999. Comprehensive mutation analysis of TSC1 and TSC2 - and phenotypic correlations in 150 families with tuberous sclerosis. American Journal of Human Genetics 64 (5) , pp. 1305-1315. 10.1086/302381

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Abstract

Tuberous sclerosis (TSC [MIM 191090 and MIM 191100]) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by hamartomas in many organs. Two thirds of cases are sporadic and are thought to represent new mutations. TSC is caused by mutations affecting either of the presumed tumor-suppressor genes, TSC1 and TSC2. Both appear to function as tumor suppressors, because somatic loss or intragenic mutation of the corresponding wild-type allele is seen in the associated hamartomas. Here we report the first comprehensive mutation analysis of TSC1 and TSC2 in a cohort of 150 unrelated TSC patients and their families, using heteroduplex and SSCP analysis of all coding exons and using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and conventional Southern blot analysis and long PCR to screen for large rearrangements. Mutations were characterized in 120 (80%) of the 150 cases, affecting TSC1 in 22 cases and TSC2 in 98 cases. TSC1 mutations were significantly underrepresented in sporadic cases (P=.000185). Twenty-two patients had TSC2 missense mutations that were found predominantly in the GAP-related domain (eight cases) and in a small region encoded in exons 16 and 17, between nucleotides 1849 and 1859 (eight cases), consistent with the presence of residues performing key functions at these sites. In contrast, all TSC1 mutations were predicted to be truncating, consistent with a structural or adapter role for the encoded protein. Intellectual disability was significantly more frequent in TSC2 sporadic cases than in TSC1 sporadic cases (P=.0145). These data provide the first representative picture of the distribution and spectrum of mutations across the TSC1 and TSC2 loci in clinically ascertained TSC and support a difference in severity of TSC1- and TSC2-associated disease.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tuberous sclerosis; TSC1; TSC2
ISSN: 0002-9297
Date of Acceptance: 25 February 1999
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 09:55
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60502

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