Table 2

Description of DPC4 mutations identified in JPS patients

Patient/family Mutation Predicted effect
SV11bp deletion (GTCCACTGAAG) at nucleotide 516 (exon 4)Frameshift creating stop codon at nucleotide 561
AFCGC to TGC, at nucleotide 1083
(exon 8)
Arg to Cys
172 bp deletion (CC) at nucleotide 1564 (exon 11)Frameshift creating stop codon at nucleotide 1575
209 bp deletion (AAATGGAGC) at nucleotide 189 (exon 1)Deletion of amino acids 64-66
BLCGA to TGA at nucleotide 1333
(exon 10)
Substitution creating stop codon