1999
Aberrant splicing in the PKD2 gene as a cause of polycystic kidney disease.
Reynolds DM, Hayashi T, Cai Y, Veldhuisen B, Watnick TJ, Lens XM, Mochizuki T, Qian F, Maeda Y, Li L, Fossdal R, Coto E, Wu G, Breuning MH, Germino GG, Peters DJ, Somlo S. Aberrant splicing in the PKD2 gene as a cause of polycystic kidney disease. Journal Of The American Society Of Nephrology 1999, 10: 2342-51. PMID: 10541293, DOI: 10.1681/asn.v10112342.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPolycystin-2Mutant polycystin-2Future functional studiesNovel intragenic polymorphismsFrame splice variantsMissense variantsSingle base substitution mutationsPolycystin-2 proteinCryptic splice siteAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseBase substitution mutationsTransmembrane spansSingle base substitutionPolycystic kidney diseaseSplicing signalsSubunit functionAberrant splicingLymphoblast RNAMutant chromosomesSplice siteSubstitution mutationsPKD2 geneThird mutationBase substitutionsSplice variants
1997
Characterization of the Exon Structure of the Polycystic Kidney Disease 2 Gene (PKD2)
Hayashi T, Mochizuki T, Reynolds D, Wu G, Cai Y, Somlo S. Characterization of the Exon Structure of the Polycystic Kidney Disease 2 Gene (PKD2). Genomics 1997, 44: 131-136. PMID: 9286709, DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4851.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAG/GT rulePolycystic kidney disease 2 (PKD2) geneExon-intron structureIntegral membrane proteinsAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseTranslation start siteExon structurePositional cloningMembrane proteinsStart siteGenomic DNASplice acceptorPKD2 geneGenesExon 1Oligonucleotide primersHeteroduplex analysisPKD2Dominant polycystic kidney diseasePolycystic kidney diseaseMutation analysisCalcium channelsCloningSecond formExons