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About 20% of patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II) have gross structural rearrangements involving the iduronate-sulfatase (IDS) gene in Xq27.3–q28. A nearby IDS pseudogene (IDS-2) promotes nonallelic recombination between highly homologous sequences. Here we describe major rearrangements due to gene/pseudogene recombination. In two unrelated patients, partial IDS gene deletions were found joining introns 3 and 7 of the IDS gene together with gene to pseudogene conversion in the area of breakpoints. In a third patient, a junction between intron 3 of IDS-2 and intron 7 of IDS was seen that was due to a deletion and inversion of the 5′ part of the gene. Characterisation of breakpoints in six patients with large inversions revealed that all recombinations of this type occurred in the same area of homology between IDS and IDS-2; they were molecularly balanced, and accompanied by gene conversions in most cases. Apart from diagnostic implications, such naturally occurring recombination ‘hot spots’ may allow some insight into general features of crossover events in mammals.
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Bunge, S., Rathmann, M., Steglich, C. et al. Homologous nonallelic recombinations between the iduronate-sulfatase gene and pseudogene cause various intragenic deletions and inversions in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II. Eur J Hum Genet 6, 492–500 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200213
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