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. 1999 Sep;65(3):757–763. doi: 10.1086/302555

A new locus for autosomal dominant "pure" hereditary spastic paraplegia mapping to chromosome 12q13, and evidence for further genetic heterogeneity.

E Reid 1, A M Dearlove 1, M Rhodes 1, D C Rubinsztein 1
PMCID: PMC1377983  PMID: 10441583

Abstract

Autosomal dominant pure hereditary spastic paraplegia (ADPHSP) is clinically characterized by slowly progressive lower-limb spasticity. The condition is genetically heterogeneous, and loci have been mapped at chromosomes 2p, 8q, 14q, and 15q. We have performed a genomewide linkage screen on a large family with ADPHSP, in which linkage to all four previously known loci was excluded. Analysis of markers on chromosome 12q gave a peak pairwise LOD score of 3.61 at D12S1691, allowing us to assign a new locus for ADPHSP (a locus that we have designated "SPG10") to this region. Haplotype construction and analysis of recombination events narrowed the SPG10 locus to a 9.2-cM region between markers D12S368 and D12S83. In addition, our data strongly suggest that there are at least six ADPHSP loci, since we describe a further family in which linkage to all five known ADPHSP loci has been excluded.

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