Frequencies of HPRT- lymphocytes and glycophorin A variants erythrocytes in Fanconi anemia patients, their parents and control donors
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Frequencies of HPRT- lymphocytes and glycophorin A variants erythrocytes in Fanconi anemia patients, their parents and control donors
Abstract
The mutant frequency of 6-thioguanine resistance (HPRT locus) in circulating T lymphocytes from 23 Fanconi anemia (FA) patients has been determined. The glycophorin A (GPA) in vivo cell mutants assay, which detects allele loss variant phenotypes arising from mutations in erythroid progenitor cells of GPA heterozygous MN individuals, has been applied in parallel to FA patients. No significant difference in frequency of HPRT- mutants was observed in FA compared to age matched healthy donors. In contrast, the mean frequency of GPA variant cells was elevated 31-fold for hemizygous NO variants and 8-fold for homozygous NN variants in FA patients over normal controls. In heterozygous FA parents, HPRT- mutant frequencies and GPA variant frequencies were within the normal range. Molecular analysis of HPRT- mutants has previously shown that FA cells have a high tendency to form deletions. Knowing that the cellular events allowing the detection of mutations at the HPRT and the GPA locus differ, our results emphasize the possible correlation between events of spontaneous loss of heterozygosity and genetic predisposition to cancer as observed in FA.
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