| Literature DB >> 15024629 |
Mary E LaMarca1,2, Mona Goldstein1,2, Nahid Tayebi1,2, Mauricio Arcos-Burgos1, Brian M Martin3, Ellen Sidransky4,5.
Abstract
The gene for glucocerebrosidase ( GBA), the enzyme deficient in Gaucher disease, is located in a gene-rich region on 1q21. Metaxin 1( MTX1) is a convergently transcribed gene contiguous to the 3' end of the GBA pseudogene. A single nucleotide alteration in MTX1, 628T-->C, resulting in the amino acid change F202L, was identified in patients with Gaucher disease in association with the common N370S mutation in GBA. The polymorphism was also present on 4.6% of 152 control alleles, but could have functional consequences that have a modifying role in Gaucher disease.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15024629 DOI: 10.1007/s10038-004-0134-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hum Genet ISSN: 1434-5161 Impact factor: 3.172