advertisement
Abstract #50974 Published in IGR 14-3
Analysis of ASB10 variants in open angle glaucoma
Fingert JH; Roos BR; Solivan-Timpe F; Miller KA; Oetting TA; Wang K; Kwon YH; Scheetz TE; Stone EM; Alward WLHuman Molecular Genetics 2012; 21: 4543-4548
Glaucoma is a common cause of visual disability and affects ∼1.6% of individuals over 40 years of age ( 1). Non-synonymous coding sequence variations in the ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing gene 10 (ASB10) were recently associated with 6.0% of cases of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in patients from Oregon and Germany. We tested a cohort of POAG patients (n= 158) and normal control subjects (n= 82), both from Iowa, for ASB10 mutations. Our study had 80% power to detect a 4.9% mutation frequency in POAG patients. A total of 11 non-synonymous coding sequence mutations were detected in the cohort, but no association with POAG was detected when analyzed individually or as a group (P > 0.05). Furthermore, a survey of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI's) Exome Sequencing Project revealed that non-synonymous ASB10 mutations are present in the general population at a far higher frequency than the prevalence of POAG. These data suggest that non-synonymous mutations in ASB10 do not cause Mendelian forms of POAG.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. john-fingert@uiowa.edu
Full articleClassification:
3.4.2 Gene studies (Part of: 3 Laboratory methods > 3.4 Molecular genetics)