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Cleft lip/palate and CDH1/E-cadherin mutations in families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer

Cleft lip/palate and CDH1/E-cadherin mutations in families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer We report the association of CDH1/E-cadherin mutations with cleft lip, with or without cleft palate (CLP), in two families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). In each family, the CDH1 mutation was a splicing mutation generating aberrant transcripts with an in-frame deletion, removing the extracellular cadherin repeat domains involved in cell-cell adhesion. Such transcripts might encode mutant proteins with trans-dominant negative effects. We found that CDH1 is highly expressed at 4 and 5 weeks in the frontonasal prominence, and at 6 weeks in the lateral and medial nasal prominences of human embryos, and is therefore expressed during the critical stages of lip and palate development. These findings suggest that alteration of the E-cadherin pathway can contribute to human clefting. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Medical Genetics British Medical Journal

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Publisher
British Medical Journal
Copyright
Copyright 2006 Journal of Medical Genetics
ISSN
0022-2593
eISSN
1468-6244
DOI
10.1136/jmg.2005.031385
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Abstract

We report the association of CDH1/E-cadherin mutations with cleft lip, with or without cleft palate (CLP), in two families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). In each family, the CDH1 mutation was a splicing mutation generating aberrant transcripts with an in-frame deletion, removing the extracellular cadherin repeat domains involved in cell-cell adhesion. Such transcripts might encode mutant proteins with trans-dominant negative effects. We found that CDH1 is highly expressed at 4 and 5 weeks in the frontonasal prominence, and at 6 weeks in the lateral and medial nasal prominences of human embryos, and is therefore expressed during the critical stages of lip and palate development. These findings suggest that alteration of the E-cadherin pathway can contribute to human clefting.

Journal

Journal of Medical GeneticsBritish Medical Journal

Published: Feb 7, 2006

Keywords: CL, cleft lip; CLP, cleft lip with or without cleft palate; COGENE, Craniofacial and Oral Gene Expression Network Consortium; HDGC, hereditary diffuse gastric cancer; NMD, nonsense mediated decay; CDH1/E-cadherin; cleft lip/palate; gastric cancer

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