Abstract
The MYOD1 locus is preferentially expressed in skeletal muscle and at higher levels in its related neoplasm, rhabdomyosarcoma. We have combined physical mapping of the human locus with meiotic and physical mapping in the mouse, together with synteny homologies between the two species, to compare the physical relationship between MYOD1 and the genetically ascertained human rhabdomyosarcoma-associated locus. We have determined that the myogenic differentiation gene is tightly linked to the structural gene for the M (muscle) subunit of lactate dehydrogenase in band p15.4 on human chromosome 11 and close to the p and Ldh-1 loci in the homologous region of mouse chromosome 7. Because the rhabdomyosarcoma locus maps to 11p15.5, MYOD1 is very unlikely to be the primary site of alteration in these tumors. Further, these analyses identify two syntenic clusters of muscle-associated genes on the short arm of human chromosome 11, one in the region of rhabdomyosarcoma locus that includes IGF2 and TH and the second the tightly linked MYOD1 and LDHA loci, which have been evolutionarily conserved in homologous regions of both the mouse and the rat genomes.
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