Abstract
Leri-Weill Dyschondrosteosis (LWD; OMIM 127300) is a dominantly inherited skeletal dysplasia characterized by disproportionate short stature with predominantly mesomelic limb shortening1. Expression is variable and consistently more severe in females2, who frequently display the Madelung deformity of the forearm (shortening and bowing of the radius with dorsal subluxation of the distal ulna). The rare Langer Mesomelic Dysplasia3 (LD; OMIM 249700), characterized by severe short stature with hypoplasia/aplasia of the ulna and fibula, has been postulated to be the homozygous form of LWD (refs 4–6). In a six-generation pedigree with LWD, we established linkage to the marker DXYS6814 in the pseudoautosomal region (PAR1) of the X and Y chromosomes (Z max = 6.28; θ=0). Linkage analysis of three smaller pedigrees increased the lod score to 8.68 (θ=0). We identified submicro-scopic PAR1 deletions encompassing the recently described short stature homeobox-containing gene SHOX (refs 7,8) segregating with the LWD phenotype in 5 families. A point mutation leading to a premature stop in exon 4 of SHOX was identified in one LWD family.
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Shears, D., Vassal, H., Goodman, F. et al. Mutation and deletion of the pseudoautosomal gene SHOX cause Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis. Nat Genet 19, 70–73 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0198-70
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