Cytogenetic and immuno-FISH analysis of the 4q subtelomeric region, which is associated with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

Abstract:

:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by the shortening of a copy-number polymorphic array of 3.3 kb repeats (D4Z4) at one allelic 4q35.2 region. How this contraction of a subtelomeric tandem array causes FSHD is unknown but indirect evidence suggests that a short array has a cis effect on a distant gene or genes. It was hypothesized that the length of the D4Z4 array determines whether or not the array and a large proximal region are heterochromatic and thereby controls gene expression in cis. To test this, we used fluorescence in situ hybridization probes with FSHD and control myoblasts to characterize the distal portion of 4q35.2 with respect to the following: intense staining with the chromatin dye 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; association with constitutively heterochromatic foci; extent of binding of heterochromatin protein 1alpha; histone H3 methylation at lysine 9 and lysine 4; histone H4 lysine 8 acetylation; and replication timing within S-phase. Our results indicate that 4q35.2 does not resemble constitutive heterochromatin in FSHD or control myoblasts. Furthermore, in these analyses, the allelic 4q35.2 regions of FSHD myoblasts did not behave differently than those of control myoblasts. Other models for how D4Z4 array contraction causes long-distance regulation of gene expression in cis need to be tested.

journal_name

Chromosoma

journal_title

Chromosoma

authors

Yang F,Shao C,Vedanarayanan V,Ehrlich M

doi

10.1007/s00412-004-0280-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-05-01 00:00:00

pages

350-9

issue

7

eissn

0009-5915

issn

1432-0886

journal_volume

112

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