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Thirty-four random DNA probes from the terminal half of the human chromosome 4 short arm were further localized within 4pter----p15.1. A panel of somatic cell hybrid lines defining six chromosomal regions within 4pter----p15.1 was constructed using human cell lines containing translocation or deletion chromosomes. The vast majority of the DNA sequences, 32 of 34 or 94%, mapped to the three most proximal regions comprising 4p16.1----4p15.1. Only two probes were localized distal to 4p16.1: one in the region 4p16.3----4p16.1 and one in 4p16.3. D4S10, a polymorphic DNA marker linked to the Huntington's disease defect, has previously been mapped to the terminal region of 4p with conflicting assignments to 4p16.1 and 4p16.3. Analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms demonstrated hemizygosity for D4S10 in a patient with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome resulting from an unbalanced translocation t(4;8)(p16.3;p23.1), supporting the 4p16.3 localization. Our panel of somatic cell hybrids provides a rapid method for mapping new probes to the same vicinity as that of D4S10. However, the relative paucity of such DNA segments identified here suggests that a more directed approach may be required to generate additional markers near the HD gene.
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PMID:A somatic cell hybrid panel for localizing DNA segments near the Huntington's disease gene. 288 60

Somatic cell hybrids were selected that retain a derivative chromosome 5 from an individual in which the p15.1-pter segment of chromosome 5 is replaced with the p15.1-pter segment of chromosome 4. Hybrids that retain this derivative chromosome exclusively were found to be positive for G8, a DNA marker closely linked to the Huntington disease gene on chromosome 4p. From one such hybrid, a segregant was isolated that had deleted the entire q arm of the derivative chromosome but retained the p arm intact as its only detectable human DNA. A complete recombinant DNA library was prepared from this cell line, and the inserts in approximately 1/3 of the recombinant phage with human DNA were shown to be derived from 4pter-4p15.1, which represents only approximately 1% of the total human genome. The cell hybrid and DNA library represent a rapid and efficient means to identify and isolate many polymorphic DNA markers close to and flanking the Huntington disease gene.
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PMID:A cell hybrid and recombinant DNA library that facilitate identification of polymorphic loci in the vicinity of the Huntington disease gene. 294 30