Browsing by Author "Oliveira, L"
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- Doença de WhipplePublication . Oliveira, L; Gorjão, R; Deus, JROs autores procedem à revisão da entidade nosológica conhecida como Doença de Whipple. Descrevem as características epidemiológicas, etiopatogénicas e clínicas desta doença, referem e discutem os avanços no seu diagnóstico e terapêutica. Trata-se de uma doença bacteriana rara, crónica, de carácter multissistémico, provocada pelo bacilo gram-positivo, Tropheryma Whipplei, da família das Actinobacterias e do grupo Actinomycetes. Por ter uma apresentação clínica variada e por se tratar de uma doença rara é muitas vezes diagnosticada tardiamente. É necessário monitorizar a sua evolução clínica durante e após a terapêutica.
- A Pentanucleotide ATTTC Repeat Insertion in the Non-coding Region of DAB1, Mapping to SCA37, Causes Spinocerebellar AtaxiaPublication . Seixas, A; Loureiro, R; Costa, C; Ordóñez-Ugalde, A; Marcelino, H; Oliveira, L; Loureiro L, e outrosAdvances in human genetics in recent years have largely been driven by next-generation sequencing (NGS); however, the discovery of disease-related gene mutations has been biased toward the exome because the large and very repetitive regions that characterize the non-coding genome remain difficult to reach by that technology. For autosomal-dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), 28 genes have been identified, but only five SCAs originate from non-coding mutations. Over half of SCA-affected families, however, remain without a genetic diagnosis. We used genome-wide linkage analysis, NGS, and repeat analysis to identify an (ATTTC)n insertion in a polymorphic ATTTT repeat in DAB1 in chromosomal region 1p32.2 as the cause of autosomal-dominant SCA; this region has been previously linked to SCA37. The non-pathogenic and pathogenic alleles have the configurations [(ATTTT)7-400] and [(ATTTT)60-79(ATTTC)31-75(ATTTT)58-90], respectively. (ATTTC)n insertions are present on a distinct haplotype and show an inverse correlation between size and age of onset. In the DAB1-oriented strand, (ATTTC)n is located in 5' UTR introns of cerebellar-specific transcripts arising mostly during human fetal brain development from the usage of alternative promoters, but it is maintained in the adult cerebellum. Overexpression of the transfected (ATTTC)58 insertion, but not (ATTTT)n, leads to abnormal nuclear RNA accumulation. Zebrafish embryos injected with RNA of the (AUUUC)58 insertion, but not (AUUUU)n, showed lethal developmental malformations. Together, these results establish an unstable repeat insertion in DAB1 as a cause of cerebellar degeneration; on the basis of the genetic and phenotypic evidence, we propose this mutation as the molecular basis for SCA37.