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1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Genetic recombination in the ABO blood group gene region

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09670456
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Legal medicine
Research InstitutionOSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE

Principal Investigator

SUZUKI Koichi  Osaka Medical College, Legal Medicine Professor, 医学部, 教授 (60171211)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NISHIO Hajime  Osaka Medical College, Legal Medicine Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (90253260)
TAMURA Akiyoshi  Osaka Medical College, Legal Medicine Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (50207239)
MIYAZAKI Tokiko  Osaka Medical College, Legal Medicine Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (60084919)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1998
KeywordsABO BLOOD GROUP / GENETIC RECOMBINATION / GENE CONVERSION / NUCLEOTIDE CHANGE
Research Abstract

Cloning and sequencing of the ABO genes from a family where ABO inheritance had been discrepant between the child (genotype ; A01) and the father (genocype ; 101) showed that the apparent A allele in the child was composed of the B allelic sequence in the 5' portion and the 01 allelic sequence in the 3' portion (B-01 array). The recovery of the 261G deletion in the 01 allele by the B allelic sequence allowed the authentic reading frame to be res : ored in the hybrid allele, resulting in expression of glycosyltransferase with the A1 activity.
Screening of a random Japanese population then reveal a relatively frequent occurrence (about 1%) of hybrid alleles wich various arrays. Extensive sequencing of the major four alleles, A1, B, 01, and 01v, showed allele-specific sequences in both exons and introns and nucleotide differences in the same alleles. These polymorphic sites enabled us to define che recombination breakpoints in those hybrid alleles. These breakpoints were found to locace variously within the ABO gene. A hybrid allele was found to have two breakpoints, one in incron V (01v-B) and the other in exon 7 (B-01v), probably resulting not from crossing-over but from gene conversion.
We scudied population samples from Japanese, some minor ethnic groups in South America, and German for the occurrence of ABO hybrid alleles. The frequency of the ABO hybrid alleles seems to differ in ethnic groups because we found no hybrid alleles in a German population and only a single allele in the minor ethnic groups.

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  • [Publications] Suzuki, K et al.: "A de novo recombination in the ABO blood group gene and evidence for the occurrence of recombination products." Human Genetic. 99. 454-461 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 辻 洋子ほか: "ABO式血液型遺伝子座における遺伝的組換えについて" DNA多型. 5. 159-162 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 辻 洋子ほか: "ABO組換え体の遺伝子解析2-新たに発見した例について" DNA多型. 6. 260-263 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tsuji, H et al.: "Sequence diversities in the O allele of the ABO blood group - occurrence of a novel O allele defined as O^3" Proceedings of 14^<th> IAFS. 12-14 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Tsuji, H et al.: "A de novo recombination in the ABO gene and frequent occurrence of recombination products." Advances in Research on DNA Polymorphisms. 330-335 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Nishio, H et al.: "Evidence for myosin-binding phosphatase in heart myofibrils." Biochemical and Biophsical Research Communications. 236. 570-575 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 鈴木 廣一: "最新 電気泳動実験法" 医歯薬出版(日本電気泳動学会 編集), 470(423-420)頁 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Suzuki, K., Iwata, M., Tsuji, H., Takagi, T., Tamura, A., Ishimoto, G., Ito, S., Matsui, K.and Miyazaki, T.: "A de novorecombination in the ABO blood group gene and evidence for the occurrence of recombination products." Human Genetics. 99. 454-461 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Tsuji, H., Iwata, M., Tamura, A., Miyazaki, T., Matsui, K., Uchida, A.and Suzuki, K.: "Sequence Diversities in the O Allele of the ABO Blood Group-Occurrence of a Novel O Allele Defind as O'." IAFS(Tokyo, 1996)Proceedings. 12-14 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Tsuji, H., Iwata, M., Tamura, A., Takagi, T., Ito, S., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Mizoi, Y., Matsumoto, H.and Suzuki, K.: "A De Novo Recombination in the ABO Gene and Frequent Occurrence of Recombination Products." Advances in Research on DNA Polymorphisms.Edited by ISFH Hakone Symposium Program Committee.330-335 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Nishio, H., Ichikawa, K.and Hartshorne, D.J.: "Evidence for Myosin-Binding Phosphatase in Heart Myofibrils." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication. 236. 570-575 (1997)

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