Mutations in olfactory signal transduction genes are not a major cause of human congenital general anosmia.

Abstract:

:Anosmia affects the western world population, mostly the elderly, reaching to 5% in subjects over the age of 45 years and strongly lowering their quality of life. A smaller minority (about 0.01%) is born without a sense of smell, afflicted with congenital general anosmia (CGA). No causative genes for human CGA have been identified yet, except for some syndromic cases such as Kallman syndrome. In mice, however, deletion of any of the 3 main olfactory transduction components (guanidine triphosphate binding protein, adenylyl cyclase, and the cyclic adenosine monophosphate-gated channel) causes profound reduction of physiological responses to odorants. In an attempt to identify human CGA-related mutations, we performed whole-genome linkage analysis in affected families, but no significant linkage signals were observed, probably due to the small size of families analyzed. We further carried out direct mutation screening in the 3 main olfactory transduction genes in 64 unrelated anosmic individuals. No potentially causative mutations were identified, indicating that transduction gene variations underlie human CGA rarely and that mutations in other genes have to be identified. The screened genes were found to be under purifying selection, suggesting that they play a crucial functional role not only in olfaction but also potentially in additional pathways.

journal_name

Chem Senses

journal_title

Chemical senses

authors

Feldmesser E,Bercovich D,Avidan N,Halbertal S,Haim L,Gross-Isseroff R,Goshen S,Lancet D

doi

10.1093/chemse/bjl032

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-01-01 00:00:00

pages

21-30

issue

1

eissn

0379-864X

issn

1464-3553

pii

bjl032

journal_volume

32

pub_type

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