Cytogenetic Investigations in a Family with Ataxia Telangiectasia

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Journal Hum Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 1989 Aug 1

PMID 2767681

Citations 4

Authors

M W Humphreys

N C Nevin

M A Wooldridge

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Abstract

Cytogenetic findings on a family with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) in which three of four sibs were affected are described. The affected individuals had approximately twice the level of spontaneous chromosome breakage of a normal control, while the parents and the normal sib had no significant increase. Lymphocytes from all three A-T homozygotes showed specific stable chromosomal rearrangements involving chromosomes 7 and 14. All of these abnormalities involved breakage at the usual four sites associated with A-T (7p14, 7q35, 14q12, and 14q32). Two rearrangements detected in the eldest and most severely affected patient were clones, one of which [t(14;14)(p11;q12)] is not commonly found in A-T cells. No chromosomal rearrangements were encountered in lymphocytes from the control, the parents, or the normal sib. Lymphocytes from the A-T patients also were found to be 7-11 times more sensitive to the induction of chromatid aberrations by X-irradiation than control cells. Lymphocytes from the parents and normal sib showed a moderately increased frequency of X-ray induced aberrations compared with that of the control.

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