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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Cancer Biol. 2010 Apr 21;20(4):234–245. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.04.001

Table 1.

SVA insertions and disease

Gene Insertion (kb) HG19 Full-length Subfamily** Associated disease Genotype Potential Mechanism Progenitor Note SVA Sequence

HLA-A 2 No Yes* F1 Leukemia SVA/+ Deletion 3p21.31X Founder Insertion (JPN) AB291067, AB291066
NF2 1.7 Yes Yes D Neurofibromatosis 2 SVA/+ Deletion N/A HG19
BTK 0.25 No No N/A X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) SVA/Y Exon skipping N/A Alu inserton at same site Conley et al 2005
α-spectrin 0.63 No No E Heriditary elliptocytosis and pyropoikilocytosis SVA/+ Exon skipping 3q25.1X Inverted 3' transduction dbRIPY
TAF1 2.6 No Yes F X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) SVA/Y DNA methylation N/A Founder Insertion (PHI) AB191243
LDLRAP1 2.6 No Yes E Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia (ARH) SVA/SVA Reduced mRNA N/A Italian Ancestry Wilhund et al 2002
Fukutin 3.1 No Yes E Fukuyama-type muscular dystrophy (FCMD) SVA/SVA Reduced mRNA N/A Founder Insertion (JPN) AB185332

Published SVA insertions associated with disease. A full-length SVA insertion is defined as the presence of either the CCCTCT hexamer or MAST2 sequence.

*

Contains MAST2 sequence

**

SVA Subfamily Determined by Repeatmasker (http://www.repeatmasker.org) according Wang et al 2005 subfamily classification.

X

present in Human Genome (hg19) UCSC browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/)