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. 1997 Mar;60(3):588–596.

Localization of a gene for an autosomal recessive form of juvenile Parkinsonism to chromosome 6q25.2-27.

H Matsumine 1, M Saito 1, S Shimoda-Matsubayashi 1, H Tanaka 1, A Ishikawa 1, Y Nakagawa-Hattori 1, M Yokochi 1, T Kobayashi 1, S Igarashi 1, H Takano 1, K Sanpei 1, R Koike 1, H Mori 1, T Kondo 1, Y Mizutani 1, A A Schäffer 1, Y Yamamura 1, S Nakamura 1, S Kuzuhara 1, S Tsuji 1, Y Mizuno 1
PMCID: PMC1712507  PMID: 9042918

Abstract

An autosomal recessive form of juvenile Parkinsonism (AR-JP) (MIM 600116) is a levodopa-responsive Parkinsonism whose pathological finding is a highly selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the zona compacta of the substantia nigra. By linkage analysis of diallelic polymorphism of the Mn-superoxide dismutase gene (SOD2), we found a family with AR-JP showing perfect segregation of the disease with the SOD2 locus. By extending the linkage analysis to 13 families with AR-JP, we discovered strong evidence for the localization of the AR-JP gene at chromosome 6q25.2-27, including the SOD2 locus, with the maximal cumulative pairwise LOD scores of 7.26 and 7.71 at D6S305 (theta = .03) and D6S253 (theta = .02), respectively. Observation of obligate recombination events, as well as multipoint linkage analysis, placed the AR-JP gene in a 17-cM interval between D6S437 and D6S264. Delineation of the AR-JP gene will be an important step toward our understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying selective degeneration of the nigral neurons.

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