1. Mutation analysis of the FLCN gene in Chinese patients with sporadic and familial isolated primary spontaneous pneumothorax
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Jun Xie, Ren Hz, Wang Dj, Long Yi, Ye Wang, Dehua Ma, Minhua Ye, Shilin Chen, Cheng-chu Zhu, Ye Zr, Qiao D, Wang Cg, Zhengfeng Xu, Mu Dk, Hou Yy, Baofu Chen, Chi Yang, and Lin J
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,China ,Adolescent ,Genotype ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,Genetic analysis ,Gastroenterology ,Internal medicine ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins ,Genetics ,Medicine ,Humans ,Folliculin ,Family history ,Genetics (clinical) ,Aged ,Family Health ,business.industry ,Cysts ,Tumor Suppressor Proteins ,Haplotype ,Case-control study ,Pneumothorax ,Syndrome ,Middle Aged ,eye diseases ,Case-Control Studies ,Mutation (genetic algorithm) ,Mutation ,Mutation testing ,Female ,business - Abstract
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a common manifestation of Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome caused by folliculin gene (FLCN) mutation, which is also found in isolated familial PSP cases. A complete genetic analysis of FLCN was performed in 102 unrelated Chinese patients with isolated PSP and 21 of their family members. Three novel mutations (c.924_926del, c.1611_1631del and c.1740C>T) and a previously reported mutation (c.1733insC) were identified in five familial and five sporadic PSP patients. Of the 21 family members of patients with PSP including 3 previous considered as sporadic, 4 (19%) had history of at least one episode of PSP and 9 (43%) were FLCN mutant carriers without PSP. Seven of the nine (78%) mutant carriers had pulmonary cysts detected by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Although c.924_926del and c.1611_1631del were found in eight patients from the same geographic district, haplotype analysis demonstrated that they did not share the same affected haplotype, thus excluding common ancestry. This study first demonstrates that FLCN mutation contributes to not only familial but also 'apparently sporadic' patients with isolated PSP. It suggests that mutation analysis and HRCT scan may be recommended for first-degree family members of PSP patients with FLCN mutations, irrespective of their family history status of PSP.
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- 2008