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The percentage of G gamma chains in the Hb F of SS patients and beta-thalassemia heterozygotes is generally 40%, but some have 60% to 70% G gamma. To test the hypothesis that DNA sequence variation 158 base pairs 5' of the G gamma gene is associated with this variation in G gamma values, DNA was analyzed using the restriction endonuclease Xmn I (gamma IVS-II probe). Xmn I recognizes the sequence from -157 to -166 only if T is at position -158. Individuals from five families had T at -158 for G gamma genes in both chromosomes, and the mean G gamma value was 69.7% +/- 4.6% (SD). For 13 families, individuals with T at -158 for the G gamma gene of one chromosome had a G gamma value of 60.6% +/- 5.7%. With one exception, lack of T at -158 was associated with low G gamma values (39.6% +/- 4.0%). In low Hb F G gamma-beta+-HPFH, the Xmn I site was seen 5' to both G gamma and A gamma genes, which suggests that T at -158 is associated with elevated Hb F; Pst I digestion showed that the A gamma gene T producer G gamma globin, which accounts for high levels of G gamma (87-88%). Calculations show that T at -158 is associated with a three- to 11-fold increase in production per G gamma gene, which is an order of magnitude less than that associated with the previously identified -202 C----G substitution of high Hb F G gamma-beta+-HPFH.
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PMID:DNA sequence variation associated with elevated fetal G gamma globin production. 241 16

Members of a Black family from Georgia who were investigated for the first time in 1960 and several times thereafter were reinvestigated through DNA restriction endonuclease analyses and haplotyping, while the gamma chain heterogeneity of the Hb F was reevaluated using a newly developed HPLC procedure. Four different abnormalities were present. (a) Heterozygosity for G gamma A gamma-HPFH type II characterized by a large deletion involving the delta and beta globin genes with a 5' end within the psi beta gene. (b) Heterozygosity for an -epsilon-G gamma-G gamma-psi beta-delta-beta S-chromosome, thus carrying a beta S globin gene and two G gamma genes instead of one G gamma and one A gamma gene. (c) Heterozygosity for an -epsilon-G gamma-A gamma T-psi beta-delta-beta S-chromosome, carrying the beta S globin gene and an allele of the A gamma (or A gamma I) gene. These three chromosomes occurred in combination with each other, resulting in SS and S-HPFH conditions, and with a normal -epsilon-G gamma-A gamma-psi beta-delta-beta A-chromosome resulting in the HPFH and Hb S heterozygosities. The presence of the -G gamma-G gamma- and -G gamma-A gamma T-chromosomes in the one SS patient was responsible for the high G gamma value (average 75%), 25% A gamma T chain, and for the absence of the A gamma I chain. (d) An alpha-thalassemia-2 heterozygosity in one member.
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PMID:Hemoglobin abnormalities in a black family with HB S, hereditary persistence of HB F, and a gamma chain variant; a reevaluation through gene mapping. 608 52

We report here restriction endonuclease maps of the beta-like globin gene cluster for the British form of HPFH and for a case of G gamma beta + HPFH, and also confirm and extend previous reports of the map for the Greek form of HPFH. These results show that all these conditions belong to a group lacking any substantial deletion or rearrangement of DNA sequence in this gene cluster. The absence of any gross disruption of the structure of this region of the genome, together with evidence that the HPFH genotype is either allelic with, or closely linked to, the beta-like globin gene cluster, suggests that the responsible lesions are nearer to being purely regulatory in nature than in forms of HPFH due to substantial deletions. Thus these conditions promise to provide less equivocal evidence about the regulation of beta-like globin gene expression than has so far been available.
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PMID:Restriction endonuclease maps of the beta-like globin gene cluster in the British and Greek forms of HPFH, and for one example of G gamma beta + HPFH. 617 34

Restriction endonuclease analyses of DNA from one Black G gamma A gamma-HPFH homozygote and four Black and one Indian G gamma A gamma-HPFH heterozygotes have identified three different HPFH types which are the result of large deletions including the delta and beta genes. Two of the types are comparable to those characterized previously, but the third, which is present in the Indian heterozygote, shows a distinct difference in the size of the deletion. The 5' end point of the deletion in this type III G gamma A gamma-HPFH extends 0.5-1.0 kb beyond the 5' end point of one of the Black types of HPFH (type I). Each of the three types is associated with a distinct ratio between the G gamma and the A gamma chains, an observation supported by family data. The highest ratio is found in the heterozygote with the Indian type III G gamma A gamma-HPFH, with 69.3% G gamma chains, while the averages for the other types were 50.7% G gamma (type I) and 32.3% G gamma (type II).
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PMID:Heterogeneity in the molecular basis of three types of hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin and the relative synthesis of the G gamma and A gamma types of gamma chain. 620 Nov 60

We have used restriction endonuclease mapping to study a deletion involving the beta-globin gene cluster in a Mexican-American family with gamma delta beta-thalassemia. Analysis of DNA polymorphisms demonstrated deletion of the beta-globin gene from the affected chromosome. Using a DNA fragment that maps greater than 40 kilobases (kb) 5' to the epsilon-gene as a probe, reduced amounts of normal fragments were found in the DNA of affected family members. Similar analysis using radiolabeled DNA fragments located 3' to the beta-globin cluster has shown that the deletion extends more than 17 kb 3' to the beta-gene, but terminates before the 3' endpoint of the Ghanian HPFH deletion. Hence, this gamma delta beta-thalassemia deletion eliminates over 105 kb of DNA and is the first report of a deletion of the entire beta-globin gene cluster.
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PMID:The entire beta-globin gene cluster is deleted in a form of gamma delta beta-thalassemia. 683 25