Locus for susceptibility for familial capillary malformation (‘port-wine stain’) maps to 5q

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Abstract
Capillary malformation (CM; ‘port-wine stain’), is a common vascular malformation affecting cutaneous capillary vessels in 0.3% of newborns. Increased incidence of lesions in first-degree relatives of these patients and several reported familial cases suggest that genetic factors may play a role in the pathogenesis of CM. We report the first genome-wide linkage analysis of familial CM. In the non-parametric linkage analysis, strong evidence of linkage (peak Z-score 6.72, P-value 0.000136) was obtained in an interval of 69 cM between markers D5S407 and D5S2098, corresponding to 5q11–5q23. Parametric linkage analysis gave a maximum combined HLOD score of 4.84 (α-value 0.67) at marker D5S2044 on 5q15, and analysis using only the linked families, defined a smaller, statistically significant locus CMC1 of 23 cM (peak LOD score 7.22) between markers D5S1962 and D5S652 corresponding to 5q13–5q15. Interesting candidate genes implicated in vascular and neural development, such as MEF2C, RASA1, and THBS4, are in this locus.