<p>Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10) is a neurodegenerative disease predominant in Latin American individuals with Indigenous American ancestry. SCA10 is caused by an expansion of ATTCT repeat within the <i>ATXN10</i> gene. Healthy individuals carry 9–32 ATTCT repeats, whereas SCA10 patients carry an expansion of 280 repeats and higher. Recently, intermediate alleles (over than 32 repeats) have been identified in healthy Peruvian Indigenous American individuals, with unclear significance. This study aims to characterize the variability of the ATTCT repeats within the <i>ATXN10</i> gene across self-declared Indigenous American and Mestizo subpopulations from Peru. A total of 871 samples (754 Mestizo and 117 Indigenous American) were analyzed using PCR, and RP-PCR when suspecting apparent homozygosity due to larger alleles. 8.7% of the total of healthy individuals (76/871) carry at least one intermediate allele. The 14-repeat allele being the most common for both subpopulations (41.5%). Intermediate alleles were detected in the Peruvian population (4.5%) with a significantly higher frequency among self-declared Indigenous American compared to Mestizo, suggesting a possible association with the ethnic origin. The G allele at the SNP rs41524547 had a frequency of 51.39% in individuals with intermediate alleles, with not significantly difference between subpopulations. Further analysis should be performed to confirm the size and composition of ATTCT repeat tract, as well as the contribution of rs41524547 in SCA10.</p>

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Novel Intermediate ATXN10 Alleles in the Healthy Peruvian Population: A Matter of Indigenous American Ethnic Origin

  • Karina Milla-Neyra,
  • Ismael Araujo-Aliaga,
  • Carla Manrique-Enciso,
  • Elison Sarapura-Castro,
  • Maryenela Illanes-Manrique,
  • Diego Veliz-Otani,
  • Ana Saldarriaga-Mayo,
  • Angel Medina-Colque,
  • Julia Rios-Pinto,
  • Ivan Cornejo-Herrera,
  • Andrea Rivera-Valdivia,
  • Ignacio F. Mata,
  • Douglas Loesch,
  • Leonel Lozano-Vasquez,
  • Tanuja Bordia,
  • Timothy O’Connor,
  • Birgitt Schüle,
  • Mario Cornejo-Olivas

摘要

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10) is a neurodegenerative disease predominant in Latin American individuals with Indigenous American ancestry. SCA10 is caused by an expansion of ATTCT repeat within the ATXN10 gene. Healthy individuals carry 9–32 ATTCT repeats, whereas SCA10 patients carry an expansion of 280 repeats and higher. Recently, intermediate alleles (over than 32 repeats) have been identified in healthy Peruvian Indigenous American individuals, with unclear significance. This study aims to characterize the variability of the ATTCT repeats within the ATXN10 gene across self-declared Indigenous American and Mestizo subpopulations from Peru. A total of 871 samples (754 Mestizo and 117 Indigenous American) were analyzed using PCR, and RP-PCR when suspecting apparent homozygosity due to larger alleles. 8.7% of the total of healthy individuals (76/871) carry at least one intermediate allele. The 14-repeat allele being the most common for both subpopulations (41.5%). Intermediate alleles were detected in the Peruvian population (4.5%) with a significantly higher frequency among self-declared Indigenous American compared to Mestizo, suggesting a possible association with the ethnic origin. The G allele at the SNP rs41524547 had a frequency of 51.39% in individuals with intermediate alleles, with not significantly difference between subpopulations. Further analysis should be performed to confirm the size and composition of ATTCT repeat tract, as well as the contribution of rs41524547 in SCA10.