Sequence analysis of the COL5A2 gene in patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections.

Grond-Ginsbach, C; Wigger, F; Morcher, M; von Pein, F; Grau, A; Hausser, I; Brandt, T · Neurology · 2002

case_series · Level IV

Where this comes from

Abstract

The authors searched for mutations in the gene that codes for the alpha2 chain of type V procollagen in 10 patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections (sCAD). Two patients carried a missense mutation affecting the predicted C-propeptide (T1227S; D1429V). A third patient carried two mutations (V509A and P830L) in the same alpha2(V) chain. The T1227S mutation and the V509A/P830L haplotype also were detected among 50 healthy subjects. The D1429V substitution was detected neither in a series of 150 healthy control subjects nor among 50 additional patients with sCAD.

Medical subject headings