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1: Genomics. 1998 Oct 15;53(2):123-8.Click here to read Links

Nonhomologous recombination between the cytochrome b558 heavy chain gene (CYBB) and LINE-1 causes an X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.

Kumatori A, Faizunnessa NN, Suzuki S, Moriuchi T, Kurozumi H, Nakamura M.

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan. kumatori@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp

We cloned and characterized a genomic DNA fragment including the deletion junction of a chronic granulomatous disease patient with a 25-kb deletion extending to the 5' two-thirds of CYBB. The 3' breakpoint of the deletion exists in exon 7 of CYBB. A LINE-1 element lies at 5 kb upstream of CYBB in normal persons, and the 5' breakpoint of the deletion in the patient is in the LINE-1 element. There are no significant homologies between corresponding normal 5' and 3' regions flanking the breakpoint of the patient, so a nonhomologous recombination is the most possible mechanism for this 25-kb deletion. The analysis also reveals that the patient has a novel 30-bp duplication in the 5' flanking region of the deletion point, which was transmitted by his mother with the deletion. Furthermore we suggest that the deletion occurred in his grandfather. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.

PMID: 9790760 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]