Founder effect and prevalence of myotonic dystrophy in South Africans: molecular studies (original) (raw)

. 1996 Aug;59(2):445–452.

Abstract

A high prevalence of myotonic dystrophy (DM) has been described in South African Caucasoid Afrikaans-speaking families in the northern Transvaal. Evidence is presented for a strong founder effect, with a single haplotype occurring on 68% of all Caucasoid DM chromosomes; among the Afrikaans speakers, the proportion was 83%. In addition to this major haplotype, five minor DM haplotypes in the Caucasoids and two minor haplotypes in DM individuals of mixed ancestry were found. All DM chromosomes, however, had a common haplotype core, namely, Alu (ins), HinfI-2 (intron 9), and TaqI-2 (D19S463). We have detected significant linkage disequilibrium between the DM mutation and particular alleles of the extragenic markers D19S112 and D19S207. Significant differences were found in allele and haplotype distributions in the Caucasoid DM and non-DM chromosomes and Negroid non-DM chromosomes. These findings together with the strong association of allele 3 at the D19S63 locus on 93% (14/15) of the South African DM chromosomes suggest that the majority of present-day DM mutations in South African Caucasoids may have originated from a common initial founder who introduced one of the European ancestral mutations.

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