Faculty Research 1990 - 1999
A mutation in the Ter gene causing increased susceptibility to testicular teratomas maps to mouse chromosome 18.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1994
Keywords
Base-Sequence, Chromosome-Mapping, Crosses-Genetic, Disease-Susceptibility: ge, DNA: ge, Linkage-(Genetics), Male, Mice, Mice-Inbred-Strains, Molecular-Sequence-Data, Muridae: ge, Mutation, Polymerase-Chain-Reaction, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Teratocarcinoma: ge, Teratoma: ge, Testicular-Neoplasms: ge, Testis: ab, pa
First Page
363
Last Page
368
JAX Source
Nat Genet 1994 Apr;6(4):363-8
Grant
HD25389/HD/NICHD, NS31348/NS/NINDS
Abstract
Little is known about inherited susceptibility to spontaneous germ cells tumours in humans or other species. The Ter mutation in laboratory mice is novel in that it acts codominantly to reduce germ cell numbers on many inbred strain backgrounds and to enhance dramatically inherited predisposition to spontaneous testicular teratocarcinomas in strain 129 inbred mice. We have adopted a PCR-based, DNA pooling method for mice with 'extreme' phenotypes (small testes versus normal-sized testes) to identify a candidate linkage to the Ter locus. Two independent mapping approaches confirmed this evidence for Ter linkage near D18Mit62 on mouse chromosome 18, and suggest a possible human homologue on chromosome 5q.
Recommended Citation
Asada Y,
Varnum DS,
Frankel WN,
Nadeau JH.
A mutation in the Ter gene causing increased susceptibility to testicular teratomas maps to mouse chromosome 18. Nat Genet 1994 Apr;6(4):363-8