Análisis genético, clínico y molecular de una familia afectada con una malformación del esmalte dental / Genetic, clinical and molecular analysis of a family affected by amelogenesis imperfecta

Background: Amelogenesis Imperfecta (AI) is a group of conditions where there is an abnormal formation of enamel in terms of quantity, structure and composition. AI is clinically and genetically heterogeneous, there are sex linked and autosomal versions, dominant and/or recessive, with phenotypes of hypoplastic, hypocalcified or hypomature enamel. Only recently, through clinical, genetic and molecular studies of affected families, phenotypic-genotypic correlations are being established in this group of anomalies. Aim: To carry out a genetic, clinical and molecular analysis of a Chilean family affected with an enamel malformation, which probably would correspond to Amelogenesis Imperfecta Dominant Autosomal (AIDA), of hypoplastic type, resulting from g.6395G>A mutation in the enamelin gene. Patients and Methods: A genealogical pattern was created for five generations. Five members of this family group were clinically examined, and four of them had a molecular analysis that consisted of the detection of a mutation in the enamelin gene using PCR. Results: In this family, the enamel malformation presents a dominant autosomal pattern of inheritance. The clinical examination of the group allowed a diagnosis of Amelogenesis Imperfecta, of the hypoplastic local type. However, the molecular analysis revealed that the members analyzed did not exhibit the g.6395G>A mutation reported for the enamelin gene (ENAM). Conclusions: The enamel phenotype in this family could be explained by the presence of one of four other mutations recently described in this or another gene, thereby supporting the findings of allelic heterogeneity reported in the literature.

Cáncer mamario factores de riesgo / Risk factors of breast cancer

El cáncer mamario presenta una gran incidencia en nuestra población de mujeres aun con los avances actuales, su curación depende principalmente de su detección précoz, para lograr dicho objetivo se requiere de una adecuada clasificación de las mujeres con alto riesgo de padecer ésta patología por medio de la identificación de los factores de riesgo que presentan una asociación importante con dicho cáncer. En éste estudio retrospectivo o de casos y controles tratamos de establecer el comportamiento de los factores que mas se postulan como de mayor asociación causal con cáncer mamario (edad, edad del primer parto, hiperfunción tiroidea, ingesta de A.C.O. y antecedentes familiares de cáncer), dentro del grupo de estudio. Finalmente concluimos que los factores con asociación importante con dicha patología son: edad, uso de anticonceptivos orales, edad tardia del primer parto y nuliparidad. Ademas encontramos que no existe una asociacion importante entre la aparición de dicho cáncer y antecedentes familiares de cáncer e hiperfunción tiroide