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Owing to the large size of the APC gene, responsible for familial adenomatous polyposis, direct screening for individual mutations is not a practical approach. In the present study we establish the methodology of fluorescence based semi-automated DNA analysis to perform presymptomatic diagnosis of members at risk from 11 Portuguese FAP families with three (CA)n markers flanking the APC gene, MBC, CB26, and YN5.64, and four intragenic RFLPs. Haplotypes were constructed on the basis of individual genotypes and their segregation through generations were followed. The study was informative for 12% of subjects using only intragenic RFLPs and increased to 90% when we used the three (CA)n flanking markers. We report two of the 11 families under study in our laboratory and show recombinant events leading to a precise localisation of the CB26 marker between D5S82 and the APC gene. In one family there was a loss of (CA) units of one allele of the CB26 marker from an unaffected mother to her son.
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PMID:Presymptomatic diagnosis in Portuguese FAP families using intragenic RFLPs and (CA)n flanking markers by fluorescence based semiautomated DNA analysis. 872 2

Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal dominant inherited disease, confers a high risk of colon cancer. For presymptomatic diagnosis of FAP, we performed linkage studies in three unrelated Israeli families with FAP, using seven polymorphic systems around or at the APC locus on chromosome 5q. These systems are constituted of three DNA probes, recognizing four restriction fragment length polymorphism: C11p11, YN5.48 and pi227; three cytosine-adenine repeat markers: D5S318, D5S346 and MBC; and one intragenic polymorphism: APC-SspI. A meiotic recombination event was detected, apparently between the FAP gene and probe pi227. Based on the different analysis systems, we determined the haplotype at the APC locus in 11 at-risk individuals of the three families, six of whom were found to carry the disease-linked allele. Additionally, we identified a new FAP patient, in whom sigmoidoscopy showed the presence of adenomatous polyps throughout the colon.
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PMID:The use of DNA markers in the pre-clinical diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis. 920 21