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Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
GGC repeat expansions in the 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) of the Notch Homolog 2 N-terminal-like C gene (NOTCH2NLC) have been reported to be the genetic cause of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID). However, whether they exist in other neurodegenerative disorders remains unclear. To det...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010085 |
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author | Wan, Mengxia He, Ji Huo, Junyan Sun, Can Fu, Yu Fan, Dongsheng |
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description | GGC repeat expansions in the 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) of the Notch Homolog 2 N-terminal-like C gene (NOTCH2NLC) have been reported to be the genetic cause of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID). However, whether they exist in other neurodegenerative disorders remains unclear. To determine whether there is a medium-length amplification of NOTCH2NLC in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we screened 476 ALS patients and 210 healthy controls for the presence of a GGC repeat expansion in NOTCH2NLC by using repeat-primed polymerase chain reaction (RP-PCR) and fragment analysis. The repeat number in ALS patients was 16.11 ± 5.7 (range 7–46), whereas the repeat number in control subjects was 16.19 ± 3.79 (range 10–29). An intermediate-length GGC repeat expansion was observed in two ALS patients (numbers of repeats: 45, 46; normal repeat number ≤ 40) but not in the control group. The results suggested that the intermediate NOTCH2NLC GGC repeat expansion was associated with Chinese ALS patients, and further functional studies for intermediate-length variation are required to identify the mechanism. |
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spelling | pubmed-98563912023-01-21 Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Wan, Mengxia He, Ji Huo, Junyan Sun, Can Fu, Yu Fan, Dongsheng Brain Sci Article GGC repeat expansions in the 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) of the Notch Homolog 2 N-terminal-like C gene (NOTCH2NLC) have been reported to be the genetic cause of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID). However, whether they exist in other neurodegenerative disorders remains unclear. To determine whether there is a medium-length amplification of NOTCH2NLC in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we screened 476 ALS patients and 210 healthy controls for the presence of a GGC repeat expansion in NOTCH2NLC by using repeat-primed polymerase chain reaction (RP-PCR) and fragment analysis. The repeat number in ALS patients was 16.11 ± 5.7 (range 7–46), whereas the repeat number in control subjects was 16.19 ± 3.79 (range 10–29). An intermediate-length GGC repeat expansion was observed in two ALS patients (numbers of repeats: 45, 46; normal repeat number ≤ 40) but not in the control group. The results suggested that the intermediate NOTCH2NLC GGC repeat expansion was associated with Chinese ALS patients, and further functional studies for intermediate-length variation are required to identify the mechanism. MDPI 2023-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9856391/ /pubmed/36672065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010085 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wan, Mengxia He, Ji Huo, Junyan Sun, Can Fu, Yu Fan, Dongsheng Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title | Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title_full | Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title_fullStr | Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title_short | Intermediate-Length GGC Repeat Expansion in NOTCH2NLC Was Identified in Chinese Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
title_sort | intermediate-length ggc repeat expansion in notch2nlc was identified in chinese patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010085 |
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