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Ghasemian M, Rajabibazl M, Sadeghi H, Mirfakhraie R. DACT1 variants and colorectal cancer. Br J Biomed Sci 2021; 78:221-224. [PMID: 33843483 DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2021.1914919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- M Ghasemian
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Molecular Genetics Department, Genomic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Molecular Genetics Department, Genomic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Shamsi R, Seifi-Alan M, Behmanesh A, Omrani MD, Mirfakhraie R, Ghafouri-Fard S. A bioinformatics approach for identification of miR-100 targets implicated in breast cancer. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2017; 63:99-105. [DOI: 10.14715/cmb/2017.63.10.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2017] [Revised: 10/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous non-coding RNAs with principal roles in regulation of protein expression via translation repression and mRNA degradation. Based on these roles they are implicated in tumourigenesis processes as well. Among them is miR-100 which can exert both tumor suppressor and oncogenic functions in various cancer types. In breast cancer, it has been shown to affect apoptosis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition as well as tumor-related signaling pathways. In the present study, we introduce a novel approach for identification of miR-100 target genes which are possibly implicated in breast cancer pathogenesis. We applied 14 online tools for prediction of miR-100 target genes and used gene expression data produced by DNA microarray technology. By combining these two sets of data we proposed a list of miR-100 target genes with possible involvement in breast cancer. Considering the role of miR-100 as a context-dependent chief regulator of the cancer-related signaling pathways and a potential target for therapeutic modalities, identification of its targets would pave the way for designing new approaches for cancer treatment or sensitization of cancer cells to standard treatments.
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Rahimi M, Ghanbari M, Fazeli Z, Rouzrokh M, Omrani S, Mirfakhraie R, Omrani MD. Association of SRD5A2 gene mutations with risk of hypospadias in the Iranian population. J Endocrinol Invest 2017; 40:391-396. [PMID: 27848231 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-016-0573-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Hypospadias is one of the most common forms of congenital malformation of the male external genitalia worldwide. The ratio in the Iranian population is one in 250 live male births. The conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the presence of steroid 5α-reductase 2, which is encoded by SRD5A2 gene, plays an important role in the normal development of the male reproductive system. METHODS We examined whether SRD5A2 gene mutations (V89L and A49T polymorphisms) are associated with the risk of hypospadias in the Iranian population. We performed exons sequencing for SRD5A2 gene in 109 hypospadias patients. RESULTS We identified two new mutations in the subgroups of affected cases: including a substitution of the nucleotide T > A in the codon 73 [c.219T > A (p.Leu73_Ser74insHisPro)] and an insertion of an extra A nucleotide in the codon 77 [c.229insA* (p.Gly77*)]. Additionally, we performed PCR-RFLP for the two identified polymorphisms and revealed that V89L [OR = 5.8, 95% CI (3.8-8.8), p value < 0.001] and A49T [OR = 10.16, 95% CI (3.94-26.25), p value < 0.001] are significantly associated with hypospadias occurrence in patients. Our haplotype analysis further indicated that the Leu-Ala haplotype increases risk of hypospadias; conversely, the Val-Ala haplotype decreases the risk of hypospadias in the studied patients. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that polymorphisms in the SRD5A2 gene could be considered as a risk factor for hypospadias disease emergence.
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- M Rahimi
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakyar St., Daneshjoo Blvd., Evin, Chamran Highway, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakyar St., Daneshjoo Blvd., Evin, Chamran Highway, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Mofid Children's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakyar St., Daneshjoo Blvd., Evin, Chamran Highway, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakyar St., Daneshjoo Blvd., Evin, Chamran Highway, Tehran, Iran.
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Shaveisi-Zadeh F, Alibakhshi R, Asgari R, Rostami-Far Z, Bakhtiari M, Abdi H, Movafagh A, Mirfakhraie R. TTY2 genes deletions as genetic risk factor of male infertility. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 63:57-61. [PMID: 28364784 DOI: 10.14715/cmb/2017.63.2.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Y chromosome has a number of genes that are expressed in testis and have a role in spermatogenesis. TTY2L12A and TTY2L2A are the members of testis transcript Y2 (TTY2) that are Y linked multi-copy gene families, located on Yp11 and Yq11 loci respectively. The aim of this study was to investigate frequency of TTY2L12A and TTY2L2A deletions in azoospermic patients compared with fertile males. This study was performed on 45 infertile males with idiopathic azoospermia without any AZF micro deletions (group A), 33 infertile males with azoospermia which do not screened for AZF micro deletions (group B) and 65 fertile males (group C), from October 2013 to April 2015 in west of Iran. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was used for detection of TTY2L12A and TTY2L2A gene deletions in studied groups. No deletions were detected in normal fertile males of group C. 1 out of 45 azoospermic males of group A (2.22%) and 3 out of 33 azoospermic males of group B (9.09%) had TTY2L2A deletion (p= 0.409 and p= 0.036 respectively), also 1 out of 45 azoospermic males of group A (2.22%) and 4 out of 33 azoospermic males of group B (12.12%) had TTY2L12A deletion (p= 0.409 and p= 0.011 respectively). None of azoospermic males in Group A and B had deletions in both genes. Our data showed significant correlation between non-obstructive azoospermia and TTY2L12A and TTY2L2A deletions. Thus, it seems that TTY2L12A and TTY2L2A deletions can consider as one of the genetic risk factors for non-obstructive azoospermia.
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- F Shaveisi-Zadeh
- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Molecular Pathology Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Anatomical Sciences and Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ghaedi H, Tabasinezhad M, Alipoor B, Shokri F, Movafagh A, Mirfakhraie R, Omrani MD, Masotti A. The pre-mir-27a variant rs895819 may contribute to type 2 diabetes mellitus susceptibility in an Iranian cohort. J Endocrinol Invest 2016; 39:1187-93. [PMID: 27300034 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-016-0499-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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PURPOSE The study was aimed at investigating the association between hsa-mir-27a polymorphism rs895819 (T/C) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) susceptibility in a large Iranian cohort. METHODS In this case-control study, the investigated population consisted of T2DM patients (n = 204) and sex- and age-matched controls (n = 209). We used the polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) for genotyping. RESULTS We observed significant differences between T2DM patients and controls for weight (p = 0.002), BMI (p < 0.001), systolic blood pressure (p < 0.001), diastolic blood pressure (p < 0.001), fasting plasma glucose (p < 0.001), triglyceride (p = 0.004) and LDL cholesterol (p = 0.051). Moreover, we found that genotype distributions were significantly different between groups (p < 0.05) and that the rs895819-C allele is more frequent in controls (p = 0.030, OR = 0.72, 95 % CI 0.53-0.97). CONCLUSION Our study shows that rs895819 in hsa-mir-27a is associated with T2DM susceptibility and that the C allele conveyed a protective role against T2DM. Larger multicentric and specific functional studies will be necessary to obtain a deeper comprehension of the role of rs895819 and hsa-mir-27a and how they are involved in the development of diabetes.
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- H Ghaedi
- Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Biotechnology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Clinical Biochemistry Department, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Gene Expression - Microarrays Laboratory, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital-IRCCS, Viale di San Paolo 15, 00146, Rome, Italy.
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Bastami M, Ghaderian SM, Omrani MD, Mirfakhraie R, Nariman-Saleh-Fam Z, Mansoori Y, Masotti A. Evaluating the association of common UBE2Z variants with coronary artery disease in an Iranian population. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2015; 61:50-54. [PMID: 26602883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have discovered several variants associated with CAD. Notably, a recent study has identified UBE2Z rs46522 at 17q21.32 as a CAD-susceptibility variant in Europeans. However, association of this locus with CAD in non-Europeans has not been investigated. Herein, we evaluated the contribution of rs46522 and a variant in high linkage disequilibrium in UBE2Z 3'-UTR (rs1057897) to the CAD susceptibility by performing association study in an Iranian population. This study recruited 300 angiographically-confirmed CAD patients and 300 asymptomatic controls. Genotypes were determined by TaqMan genotyping assay. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that rs46522 was associated with the susceptibility to CAD assuming codominant [TT vs. CC: 2.68 (1.36-5.31), P: 1.1717e-2], dominant [CT+TT vs. CC: 1.74 (1.12-2.69), P: 1.2675e-2], recessive [TT vs. CC+CT: 2.12 (1.13-3.98), P: 1.9369e-2] and log-additive [1.61 (1.17-2.21), P: 2.967e-3] models. However, no association was observed for rs1057897 under any genetic models. In conclusion, we provide the first evidence for association of rs46522 with the susceptibility to CAD in an Iranian population and discussed about regulatory potential and functional role of the studied variants to provide clues for its association with CAD and promote further research.
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- M Bastami
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran
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- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran
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- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Urogenital Stem Cell Research Center Tehran Iran
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- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran
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- Tehran University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran
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- Fasa University of Medical Sciences Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center Fasa Iran
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- Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital—IRCCS Gene Expression—Microarrays Laboratory Rome Italy
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Zare-Abdollahi D, Safari S, Mirfakhraie R, Movafagh A, Bastami M, Azimzadeh P, Salsabili N, Ebrahimizadeh W, Salami S, Omrani MD. Mutational screening of the NR5A1 in azoospermia. Andrologia 2014; 47:395-401. [PMID: 24750329 DOI: 10.1111/and.12274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Nuclear receptor subfamily 5 group A member 1 (NR5A1) encodes a nuclear receptor that regulates transcription of multiple genes involved in adrenal and gonadal development, steroidogenesis and the reproductive axis. Human mutations in NR5A1were initially found in two 46, XY female patients suffering from severe gonadal dysgenesis and primary adrenal failure. However, more recent case reports have suggested that heterozygous mutations in NR5A1 may also contribute to the male infertility aetiology. We have analysed the coding sequence of NR5A1 in a cohort of 90 well-characterised idiopathic Iranian azoospermic infertile men versus 112 fertile men. Heterozygous NR5A1 mutations were found in 2 of 90 (2.2%) of cases. These two patients harboured missense mutations within the hinge region (p.P97T) and ligand-binding domain (p.E237K) of the NR5A1 protein. In silico analysis of the mutations showed that founded mutations could be detrimental. In conclusion, findings of the current and previous studies suggest that mutations in the NR5A1 gene are not common in azoospermia, and male infertility and inclusion of NR5A1 mutation screening in the diagnostic workup of male infertility may seem unnecessary.
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- D Zare-Abdollahi
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Safari S, Zare-Abdollahi D, Mirfakhraie R, Ghafouri-Fard S, Pouresmaeili F, Movafagh A, Omrani MD. An Iranian family with azoospermia and premature ovarian insufficiency segregating NR5A1 mutation. Climacteric 2013; 17:301-3. [PMID: 24067197 DOI: 10.3109/13697137.2013.847079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In brief, we report an Iranian family with a history of both azoospermia and premature ovarian insufficiency with the same heterozygote mutation in the NR5A1 gene that can be transmitted. As far as we know, this is the first observation that a common mutation in NR5A1 can cause these above-mentioned phenotypes in a family.
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- S Safari
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics , Tehran , Islamic Republic of Iran
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Mirfakhraie R, Fazli H, Montazeri M, Modabber G, Salsabili N, Sayed HSM, Mirzajani F, Kalantar SM. 7.017 Y chromosome microdeletions in Iranian infertile men. Reprod Biomed Online 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)61417-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mirzajani F, Mirfakhraie R, Nabati F, Tabatabaei NN, Talachian E, Houshmand M. The first study of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase mutations in Iranian galactosemia patients. Clin Biochem 2006; 39:697-9. [PMID: 16765930 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2006.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2005] [Revised: 02/26/2006] [Accepted: 04/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Classical galactosemia (McKusick 230400) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT;EC 2.7.7.10) gene. DESIGN AND METHODS In the present study, we report molecular analysis of 14 unrelated Iranian galactosemia children with reduced or without GALT activity using PCR-RFLP and SSCP-Sequencing methods. RESULTS Q188R mutation was the most observed mutation with the allelic frequency of 57.1%. The allelic frequencies for S135L, Y209S, A320T, and K285N were found to be 7.1%, 7.1%, 7.1%, and 3.57% respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that galactosemia is a heterogeneous disorder at the molecular level among the Iranian population.
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- F Mirzajani
- National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, IR, Iran.
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Jalalirad M, Houshmand M, Mirfakhraie R, Goharbari MH, Mirzajani F. First study of CF mutations in the CFTR gene of Iranian patients: detection of DeltaF508, G542X, W1282X, A120T, R117H, and R347H mutations. J Trop Pediatr 2004; 50:359-61. [PMID: 15537723 DOI: 10.1093/tropej/50.6.359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Thirty-seven unrelated Iranian CF families were screened for the presence of seven common mutations (DeltaF508, G542X, W1282X, G551D, N1303K, 1717-1G-->A, and 621-1G-->T) using ARMS PCR and exons 4 and 7 of the CFTR gene by SSCP method. This study resulted in the identification of 26.8 per cent of all CF alleles: DeltaF508 (16.2 per cent), W1282X (4 per cent), G542X (2.7 per cent), R117H (1.3 per cent), R347H (1.3 per cent), and A120T (1.3 per cent) mutations were detected. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first report of an Asian subject carrying the A120T mutation. Our findings suggest heterogeneity in the Iranian population, stressing the need to draw attention to sequence analysis in order to find population-specific mutations.
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- M Jalalirad
- National Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NRCGEB),Tehran, Iran.
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