Table 3.

Three Human Genes in Which Specific Mutations in the Consensus−1 Ribosomal Frameshifting Signals Have Been Linked to Disease

Description Diseases and allelic variants[i]
ETFA-electron transfer flavoprotein α-subunit precursortype II glutaricaciduria. Allelic variant 0.0004 (Val-270DEL3bp) disrupts the spacing between the slippery site and the RNA pseudoknot.
Triacylglycerol lipaselipoprotein lipase deficiency. Allelic variant 0.0027 (Arg-75Ser) disrupts stem 1 of the RNA pseudoknot.
familial chylomicronemia syndrome. Allelic variant 0.0021 (Trp-86Arg) disrupts stem 2 of the RNA pseudoknot.
FASL receptorautoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome. Allelic variant 0.0007 (Tyr-216Cys) disrupts stem 2 in the RNA pseudoknot.

[i] The human diseases that are known or thought to be linked to these genes. References to these can be found in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database (http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/searchomim.html).