Mutation analysis in the iduronate-2-sulphatase gene in 43 Japanese patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter disease).
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Isogai K, Sukegawa K, Tomatsu S, Fukao T, Song XQ, Yamada Y, Fukuda S, Orii T, Kondo N
Mutation analysis in the iduronate-2-sulphatase gene in 43 Japanese patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter disease).
J Inherit Metab Dis. 1998 Feb;21(1):60-70.
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Our series of studies on Hunter disease in Japanese patients showed allelic heterogeneity of IDS gene mutations, genotype/phenotype correlation and racial differences in distribution of mutations. Twenty-five different small mutations have been characterized. Small mutations in the Japanese population are widely distributed through the IDS gene, although some mutations were unevenly concentrated on exon 5 (28%) and on exon 9 (24%). Mutations were seen at the same codon 468 in exon 9 in 5 patients. These findings are in good agreement with data on other ethnic groups. Two unique mutations linked to a severe phenotype were apparently associated with aberrant splicings; one was a point mutation within exon 3 (P86L), partially activating a cryptic splice acceptor site at 28 bp downstream from the mutation site within exon 3 and producing a 44-base truncated mRNA, and the other was a point mutation at the consensus sequence of the splice donor site of intron 2, causing exon 2 skipping.