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USA survey for anyone who wants to improve Denver TMAU test

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A trainee genetic counselor is working at the Denver TMAU test lab. Probably as part of her training. As a project she wishes feedback on any aspect of the Denver TMAU test and process. You can fill in the survey and/or email her (email address is in survey). It's meant for USA people, but perhaps others can give their view too (as we have so few opportunities).

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"Hello all! I wanted to make you aware of a research study being conducted to better understand the experience and needs of individuals with trimethylaminuria with a goal of being able to create improved patient and healthcare provider education materials. Any participation is completely voluntary and all responses remain confidential. Feel free to use the contact information within the link with any questions or share the survey with others with TMAU."

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

FMO3 genetics lesson (part 2) : DNA, RNA and the protein

In this post we will familiarise you with the way a protein is made, in this case the FMO3 protein. The DNA has the coding for the amino acid sequence, that is transcripted into long RNA and then processed into short RNA, which is then converted into the final  sequence of amino acids that make up the  required protein (in this case the FMO3 protein).

Exons and Introns
DNA has the coding part on exons, which has the relevant information to make the FMO3 protein, but also contains introns which are currently a mystery and it is not known if they are needed. Some may regard introns as mostly junk DNA. Unfortunately, while introns seem to play no obvious role in building the protein, it seems likely that having mutants/variants amongst the introns  can still negatively affect the formation of the correct  full protein. This may explain why some people seem quite obvious genetic TMAU cases in the urine test, but the DNA test does not seem to show any mutantions. The DNA test usually only checks the coding region of the FMO3 DNA in the exons, and not the introns.

In FMO3, there are 9 exons, of which 8 (exon 2-8) are regarded as the coding parts. Probably most DNA tests will check these 8 coding regions specifically.

As can be seen from the slide above from Professor Shephard's slideshow (full video can be seen in the sidebar), The DNA is transcripted to long RNA and then processed into the short RNA form which does not contain the introns, and only contains the exons. It is now ready to code the amino acid sequence to build the FMO3 protein. The RNA is the part which has the sequence for the 532 amino acids needed to build FMO3 (the DNA coding being much longer including introns).

Looking at the terminology geneticists use, it can be seen that sometimes they refer to e.g. 668 (which obviously is higher than 532) because it is referring to a mutation/variant on the DNA strand (which is much longer), which corresponds with a fault at amino acid 223 (which means it is referring to the position on the final protein or short RNA of 532 amino acids).

It seems that nonsense mutations produce a 'false' stop to the production of the 532 amino acids. These make up about 5% of the known genetic TMAU mutations currently known.  The drug 'Ataluren' is hoping to be able to over-ride false stops in nonsense mutations and allow the full protein to be formed. The other FMO3 mutations/variants are mostly 'missense' mutations, where the wrong amino acid has been coded for a certain position in the 532.

A full overview of the genetics of FMO3 can be seen in the video given by Professor Shephard in the sidebar.


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