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  2. Holoprosencephaly due to mutations in ZIC2, a homologue of Drosophila odd-paired

Holoprosencephaly due to mutations in ZIC2, a homologue of Drosophila odd-paired

  • Nat Genet. 1998 Oct;20(2):180-3. doi: 10.1038/2484.
S A Brown 1 D Warburton L Y Brown C Y Yu E R Roeder S Stengel-Rutkowski R C Hennekam M Muenke
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Affiliation

  • 1 Columbia University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York, New York, USA. brown@cuccfa.ccc.columbia.edu
PMID: 9771712 DOI: 10.1038/2484
Abstract

Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is the most common structural anomaly of the human brain and is one of the anomalies seen in patients with deletions and duplications of chromosome 13. On the basis of molecular analysis of a series of patients with hemizygous deletions of the long arm of chromosome 13, we have defined a discrete region in band 13q32 where deletion leads to major developmental anomalies (the 13q32 deletion syndrome). This approximately 1-Mb region lies between markers D135136 and D13S147. Patients in which this region is deleted usually have major congenital malformations, including brain anomalies such as HPE or exencephaly, and digital anomalies such as absent thumbs. We now report that human ZIC2 maps to this critical deletion region and that heterozygous mutations in ZIC2 are associated with HPE. Haploinsufficiency for ZIC2 is likely to cause the brain malformations seen in 13q deletion patients.

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