Deletion 3p syndrome is associated with characteristic facial features, growth failure, and mental retardation. Typically, individuals with deletion 3p syndrome have terminal deletions that result in loss of material from 3p25 to 3pter. We present a child with a clinical phenotype consistent with deletion 3p syndrome (ptosis, microcephaly, growth retardation, and developmental delay) and a subtle interstitial deletion in the distal portion of the short arm of chromosome 3, del(3)(p25.3p26.2). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) studies using 3p subtelomeric probes confirmed the terminal region of chromosome 3 was present. Sequence tagged sites (STS)-linked BAC clones mapping to chromosomal region 3p25-p26 were used to characterize the interstitial deletion by FISH. The results indicate the deletion is within a region of approximately 4.5 Mb between STS markers D3S3630 and D3S1304. This interstitial deletion lies within all previously reported terminal deletions in deletion 3p syndrome individuals, and represents the smallest reported deletion associated with deletion 3p syndrome. Characterization of the deletion may help identify genes important to growth and development that contribute to the deletion 3p syndrome phenotype when present in a hemizygous state.
We examined Barr bodies formed by isodicentric human X chromosomes in cultured human cells and in mouse-human hybrids using confocal microscopy and DNA probes for centromere and subtelomere regions. At interphase, the two ends of these chromosomes are only a micron apart, indicating that these inactive X chromosomes are in a nonlinear configuration. Additional studies of normal X chromosomes reveal the same telomere association for the inactive X but not for the active X chromosome. This nonlinear configuration is maintained during mitosis and in a murine environment. (4) or in situ hybridization (2) places the Barr body adjacent to the nuclear envelope in 75-80% of interphase cells. Comings (5) suggested that inactive X chromosomes attach randomly to the nuclear membrane, and the multiple Barr bodies in aneuploid cells are widely distributed (6, 7). Nuclear matrix attachment sites are similar for the active and inactive X chromosomes (8). Yet, the configuration of the Barr body has been relatively unexplored. DNA hybridization, in situ (9), has provided a powerful method to examine chromosomes during interphase, revealing an orderly arrangement of chromosomes in the interphase nucleus (10-13) and tissue-specific variation (14, 15). Using such methods to explore the human inactive X chromosome, we find that the Barr body consists of a condensed X chromosome in a nonlinear configuration, with telomeres in close proximity.We examined the Barr body in interphase and mitotic cells using fluorescent probes for centromere and telomere regions of human X chromosomes. In addition to normal X chromosomes, we studied isodicentric X chromosomes (16), which form bipartite Barr bodies (16). Always inactive, they are mirror image duplications with two centromeres (one nonfunctional) and with two identical telomeres (see Fig. 1). The duplicate centromeres as well as common telomeres and their longer length facilitate structural analysis. To compare distance between hybridization signals with relative physical length we examined three isodicentrics, two joined by their long arms (3935 and 7213) and the third attached at the short arms (411). We isolated these dicentric chromosomes from their normal homologue in hybrid cells so that all signals would come from the dicentric X chromosome and to examine the human Barr body in a mouse cell environ. Finally, we simultaneously hybridized centromere and subtelomere probes using differential labels and confocal microscopy. MATERIALS AND METHODSCell Lines. These are characterized in Table 1. The hybrids derived from A9 mouse fibroblasts were selected in hypoxanthine/aminopterin/thymidine medium, back selected in 6-thioguanine to eliminate the active X; to retain the inactive X, the silent HPRT locus was reactivated by 5-azacytidine. Inactive X hybrids derived from tsA1S9T mouse cells were selected directly at 390C for activity of the AJS9T locus at Xpll (17).Preparation of Slides. Interphase cells. Confluent cells in LabTek slide chambers were fixed in methanol/acetic acid (3:1...
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