Population-based frequency of surfactant dysfunction mutations in a native Chinese cohort
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Population-based frequency of surfactant dysfunction mutations in a native Chinese cohort Yu-Jun Chen, Jennifer Anne Wambach, Kelcey DePass, Daniel James Wegner, Shao-Ke Chen, Qun-Yuan Zhang, Hillary Heins, Francis Sessions Cole, Aaron Hamvas St. Louis, USA
Methods: We obtained blood spots from the Guangxi Neonatal Screening Center in Nanning, China that included Han (n=443) and Zhuang (n=313) ethnic groups. We resequenced all exons of the surfactant proteins-B (SFTPB), -C (SFTPC), and the ATP-binding cassette member A3 (ABCA3) genes and compared the frequencies of 5 common and all rare variants. Results: We found minor differences in the frequencies of the common variants in the Han and Zhuang cohorts. We did not find any rare mutations in SFTPB or SFTPC, but we found three ABCA3 mutations in the Han [minor allele frequency (MAF)=0.003] and 7 in the Zhuang (MAF=0.011) cohorts (P=0.10). The ABCA3 mutations were unique to each cohort; five were novel. The collapsed carrier rate of rare ABCA3 mutations in the Han and Zhuang populations combined was 1.3%, which is significantly lower than that in the United States (P
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