Chromosomal localization of the human vesicular amine transporter genes.

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Peter D, Finn JP, Klisak I, Liu Y, Kojis T, Heinzmann C, Roghani A, Sparkes RS, Edwards RH

Chromosomal localization of the human vesicular amine transporter genes.

Genomics. 1993 Dec;18(3):720-3.

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Abstract

The physiologic and behavioral effects of pharmacologic agents that interfere with the transport of monoamine neurotransmitters into vesicles suggest that vesicular amine transport may contribute to human neuropsychiatric disease. To determine whether an alteration in the genes that encode vesicular amine transport contributes to the inherited component of these disorders, we have isolated a human cDNA for the brain transporter and localized the human vesicular amine transporter genes. The human brain synaptic vesicle amine transporter (SVAT) shows unexpected conservation with rat SVAT in the regions that diverge extensively between rat SVAT and the rat adrenal chromaffin granule amine transporter (CGAT). Using the cloned sequences with a panel of mouse-human hybrids and in situ hybridization for regional localization, the adrenal CGAT gene (or VAT1) maps to human chromosome 8p21.3 and the brain SVAT gene (or VAT2) maps to chromosome 10q25. Both of these sites occur very close to if not within previously described deletions that produce severe but viable phenotypes.

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NameUniProt ID
Synaptic vesicular amine transporterQ05940Details