Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-cnmwb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T09:55:36.443Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Case of Angelman Syndrome Arising as a Result of a De Novo Robertsonian Translocation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

S. Ramsden*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
L. Gaunt
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, Barcelona, Spain
A. Seres-Santamaria
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, Barcelona, Spain
J. Clayton-Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
*
Department of Medical Genetics, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A male child has been identified with Angelman syndrome. He has been shown to carry a de novo Robertsonian 15/15 translocation where both chromosome 15s have been derived from the father. Consequently the disease in this instance is due to paternal uniparental disomy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1996

References

REFERENCES

1. Angelman, H: “Puppet children”: A report on three cases. Dev Med Child Neurol 1965; 7: 681688.Google Scholar
2. Webb, T, Clayton-Smith, J, Cheng, X, Knoll, JHM, Lalande, M, Pembrey, ME, Malcolm, S: Angelman syndrome with a chromosomal inversion 15inv (p11q13) accompanied by a deletion in 15q11q13. J Med Genet 1992; 29: 921924.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
3. Robinson, WP, Wagstaff, J, Bernasconi, F, Baccichetti, C, Artifoni, L, Franzoni, E, Suslak, L, Shih, L, Aviv, H, Schinzel, AA: Uniparental disomy explains the occurrence of the Angelman or Prader-Willi syndrome in patients with an additional small inv dup (15) chromosome. J Med Genet 1993; 30: 756760.Google Scholar
4. Mutirangura, A, Greenberg, F, Butler, MG, Malcolm, S, Nicholls, RD, Chakravarti, A, Ledbetter, DH: Multiplex PCR of three dinucleotid repeats in the Prader-Willi/Angelman critical region (15q11-q13). Hum Mol Genet 1993; 2: 143151.Google Scholar
5. Dittrich, B, Robinson, WP, Knoblauch, H, Buiting, K, Schmidt, K, Gillessen-Kaesbach, G, Horsthemke, B: Molecular diagnosis of the Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes by detection of parent of-origin specific DNA methylation in 15q11-13. Hum Genet 1992; 90: 313315.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
6. Knoll, JHM, Nichols, RD, Magenis, RE, Graham, JM, Kaplan, L, Lalande, M: Angelman syndrome: 3 molecular classes identified with chromosome 15q11q13 specific DNA markers. Am J Hum Genet 1990; 47: 149155.Google Scholar
7. Malcolm, S, Clayton-Smith, J, Nichols, M, Robb, S, Webb, T, Armour, JAL, Jeffreys, AJ, Pembrey, ME: Uniparental disomy in Angelman's syndrome. Lancet 1991; 694697.Google Scholar
8. Hall, JG: Angelman's syndrome, abnormality of 15q 11-13, and imprinting. J Med Genet 1990; 27: 141144.Google Scholar
9. Donnai, D: Robertsonian translocations: Clues to imprinting. Am J Med Genet 1993; 46: 681682.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
10. Glatt, KA, Sinnett, D, Lalande, M: Dinucleotide repeat polymorphism at the GABAA receptor 5 (GABRA5) locus at chromosome 15q11-q13. Hum Mol Genet 1992; 1: 348.Google Scholar
11. Cassidy, SB, Lai, LW, Erikson, RP, Magnuson, L, Thomas, E, Gendron, R, Herrmann, J: Trisomy 15 with loss of the paternal 15 as a cause of Prader-Willi syndrome due to maternal disomy. Am J Hum Genet 1992; 51: 701708.Google ScholarPubMed
12. Spence, JE, Perciaccante, RG, Greig, GM, Willard, HF, Ledbetter, DH, Heijtmancik, JF, Pollack, MS, O'Brien, WE, Beaudet, AL: Uniparental disomy as a mechanism for human genetic disease. Am J Hum Genet: 1988; 42: 217226.Google Scholar
13. Wang, JC, Passage, MB, Yen, PH, Shapiro, LJ, Mohandas, TK: Uniparental heterodisomy for chromosome 14 in a phenotypically abnormal familial balanced 13/14 Robertsonian translocation. Am J Hum Genet 1991; 48: 10691074.Google Scholar
14. Rinchik, EM, Bultman, SJ, Horsthemke, B, Lee, S, Strunk, KM, Spritz, RA, Avidano, KM, Jong, MTC, Nicholls, RD: A gene for the mouse pink-eyed dilution locus and for human type II ocu-locutaneous albinism. Nature 1993; 361: 7276.Google Scholar