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[Deletion and mutation analysis to FOXL2 in blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome]
Zhong-min Zhou1, De-sheng Liang, Yi Quan
1State Key Lab of Medical Genetics of China, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Objective:
To perform genetic analysis in 5 patients with blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) and refine the genotype-phenotype correlation.
Methods:
G-band karyotyping, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), SNP array, PCR and sequencing techniques were performed to one patient with BPES and mental retardation and 4 only with BPES.
Results:
Patient 1 with mental retardation carried a 9.4 Mb heterozygous deletion in chromosome 3q22.1-q23 including FOXL2 gene; Both patient 2 and 3 carried a c.704delG heterozygous mutation of FOXL2, while they were assigned to the different clinical type from those reported previously. Patient 3 was assigned to type II BPES; No mutation of FOXL2 was detected in patient 4 and 5.
Conclusions:
There might be the gene(s) responsible for mental retardation within chromosome 3q22.1-q23. It was indicated that the mutation c.704delG in FOXL2 led to a truncated protein is associated with both type I and II of BPES.
