Lymphopenia in the BB Rat Model of Type 1 Diabetes is Due to a Mutation in a Novel Immune-Associated Nucleotide (Ian)-Related Gene | Zendy

Armand J. MacMurray | Zendy; Daniel H. Moralejo | Zendy; Anne E. Kwitek | Zendy; Elizabeth A. Rutledge | Zendy; Brian Van Yserloo | Zendy; Paul Gohlke | Zendy; Sara J. Speros | Zendy; Ben Snyder | Zendy; Jonathan B. Schaefer | Zendy; Sabine Bieg | Zendy; Jianjie Jiang | Zendy; Ruth A. Ettinger | Zendy; Jessica Fuller | Zendy; Terri Daniels | Zendy; Ånna Pettersson | Zendy; Kimberly Orlebeke | Zendy; Bruce Birren | Zendy; Howard J. Jacob | Zendy; Eric S. Lander | Zendy; Åke Lernmark | Zendy

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Lymphopenia in the BB Rat Model of Type 1 Diabetes is Due to a Mutation in a Novel Immune-Associated Nucleotide (Ian)-Related Gene

Author(s) -

Armand J. MacMurray,

Daniel H. Moralejo,

Anne E. Kwitek,

Elizabeth A. Rutledge,

Brian Van Yserloo,

Paul Gohlke,

Sara J. Speros,

Ben Snyder,

Jonathan B. Schaefer,

Sabine Bieg,

Jianjie Jiang,

Ruth A. Ettinger,

Jessica Fuller,

Terri Daniels,

Ånna Pettersson,

Kimberly Orlebeke,

Bruce Birren,

Howard J. Jacob,

Eric S. Lander,

Åke Lernmark

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

genome research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.556

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1549-5469

pISSN - 1088-9051

DOI - 10.1101/gr.412702

Subject(s) - biology , genetics , frameshift mutation , mutation , locus (genetics) , gene , positional cloning , phenotype , microbiology and biotechnology

The BB (BioBreeding) rat is one of the best models of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes and is used to study non-MHC loci contributing to Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes in the diabetes-prone BB (BBDP) rat is polygenic, dependent upon mutations at several loci. Iddm1, on chromosome 4, is responsible for a lymphopenia (lyp) phenotype and is essential to diabetes. In this study, we report the positional cloning of the Iddm1/lyp locus. We show that lymphopenia is due to a frameshift deletion in a novel member (Ian5) of the Immune-Associated Nucleotide (IAN)-related gene family, resulting in truncation of a significant portion of the protein. This mutation was absent in 37 other inbred rat strains that are nonlymphopenic and nondiabetic. The IAN gene family, lying within a tight cluster on rat chromosome 4, mouse chromosome 6, and human chromosome 7, is poorly characterized. Some members of the family have been shown to be expressed in mature T cells and switched on during thymic T-cell development, suggesting that Ian5 may be a key factor in T-cell development. The lymphopenia mutation may thus be useful not only to elucidate Type 1 diabetes, but also in the function of the Ian gene family as a whole.

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