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We previously mapped a gene for severe pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD1) to a 9-cM interval on chromosome 13q14. In this report, we present the results of DNA sequencing and allelic association analyses that were done in an attempt to clone the GERD1 gene. Using a candidate transcript approach, we screened affected individuals for mutations in all transcribed regions of all genes, putative genes, and ESTs identified within the 6.2-Mb GERD1 locus based on alignments with the GenBank cDNA databases. From a total of 50 identifiable genes and 99 EST clusters in the GERD1 locus, we identified 163 polymorphisms (143 SNPs and 20 INDELs) in 21 genes and 37 ESTs. The patterns of inheritance and/or the high population frequencies of all polymorphic alleles identified in this study argued against causative relationships between any of the alleles and the GERD phenotype. Using a subset of 51 SNPs distributed throughout the GERD1 locus, we performed case-control and family (TDT) allelic association analyses on two sets of samples. The case-control study was performed with 73 GERD cases and 93 controls, and the family study was performed using 22 small families. SNP 160 (position 38,925,329 Mb, UCSChg15 map) gave a significant P value prior to multiple test correction in both the case control and family studies, while SNP168 (at 40,442,903 Mb) showed significant association after multiple test correction in the case-control sample, but was uninformative in the family sample. The results suggest that the GERD1 gene might be located near SNP160 or SNP168.
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This work was supported by grant number RO1-DC04591 from the NIDCD (G.D.E.), and by funding from Allegheny Singer Research Institute.
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Hu, F.Z., Donfack, J., Ahmed, A. et al. Fine mapping a gene for pediatric gastroesophageal reflux on human chromosome 13q14. Hum Genet 114, 562–572 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-004-1096-8
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