Identification and quantification of somatic mosaicism for a point mutation in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy family.

abstract：:An infant with congenital chondrodysplasia punctata with a secondary deformation of umbilical cord hernia is reported. The paper discusses deformation syndromes as anomalies due to unusual mechanical or intrinsic factors. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chandavasu O,Desposito F

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID) is one of the most common forms of disability worldwide, displaying a wide range of aetiologies and affecting nearly 2% of the global population. OBJECTIVE:To describe a novel autosomal recessive form of ID with strabismus and its underlying aetiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Aut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Alazami AM,Hijazi H,Al-Dosari MS,Shaheen R,Hashem A,Aldahmesh MA,Mohamed JY,Kentab A,Salih MA,Awaji A,Masoodi TA,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new case of postaxial acrofacial dysostosis (Miller) syndrome. This syndrome consists of mandibulofacial dysostosis, similar to that seen in Treacher Collins syndrome, and postaxial limb deficiency. The mode of inheritance remains uncertain. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Vigneron J,Stricker M,Vert P,Rousselot JM,Levy M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split hand-split foot malformation (SHFM) is a genetically heterogeneous limb developmental defect characterised by the absence of digital rays and syndactyly of the remaining digits. Three disease loci have recently been mapped to chromosomes 7q21 (SHFM1), Xq26 (SHFM2), and 10q25 respectively (SHFM3). We report the m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Raas-Rothschild A,Manouvrier S,Gonzales M,Farriaux JP,Lyonnet S,Munnich A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior polar cataract is a clinically distinctive opacity located at the back of the lens. It is commonly acquired in age related cataract, and may infrequently occur in pedigrees with congenital cataract. To date, five loci for autosomal dominant congenital posterior polar cataract have been identified. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pras E,Mahler O,Kumar V,Frydman M,Gefen N,Pras E,Hejtmancik JF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, the main cause of inherited mental retardation, is caused by transcriptional silencing of the fragile X mental retardation gene, FMR1. Absence of the associated protein FMRP leads to the dysregulation of many genes creating a phenotype of ADHD, anxiety, epilepsy and autism. The core aim of this rev...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： D'Hulst C,Kooy RF

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKHL7 gene has been implicated in the pathogenesis of glaucoma/autosomal dominant iridogoniodysgenesis (IGDA) (IRID1). This has been supported by mutations in some glaucoma and IGDA patients and the development of anterior eye chamber anomalies in patients with 6p deletions affecting the 6p25 region. We report a c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Davies AF,Mirza G,Flinter F,Ragoussis J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of a baby with lethal perinatal osteogenesis imperfecta (OI-II), resulting from the substitution of tryptophan 94 by cysteine in the carboxyl-terminal propeptide of pro alpha 1 (I) chains of type I procollagen, were studied. The limbs and torso were of normal length, shape, and proportion. Similarly, all ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cole WG,Chow CW,Bateman JF,Sillence DO

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are 23 females known with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD or BMD) who have X;autosome translocations that disrupt the X chromosome within band p21. A female with a t(X;4)(p21;q35) translocation was identified prenatally at routine amniocentesis. At birth, she was found to have a raised CK level, consi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bodrug SE,Roberson JR,Weiss L,Ray PN,Worton RG,Van Dyke DL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consensus clinical diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) include café-au-lait macules and skinfold freckling. The former are frequently the earliest manifestation of NF1, and as such are of particular significance when assessing young children at risk of the condition. A phenotype of predomi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Burkitt Wright EM,Sach E,Sharif S,Quarrell O,Carroll T,Whitehouse RW,Upadhyaya M,Huson SM,Evans DG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited optic neuropathies are a significant cause of childhood and adult blindness and dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is the most common form of autosomally inherited (non-glaucomatous) optic neuropathy. Patients with DOA present with an insidious onset of bilateral visual loss and they characteristically have tempor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Votruba M,Moore AT,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage between the locus for cystic fibrosis and other genetic markers was explored in 40 families from Birmingham and 20 from Manchester. No strong evidence was found for linkage with any of the markers examined. There was evidence against close linkage with ABO, HLA, and Rh. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Goodchild MC,Edwards JH,Glenn KP,Grindey C,Harris R,Mackintosh P,Wentzel J

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung disease, mental retardation, microcephaly, and specific craniofacial dysmorphism were observed in three children from a large, consanguineous, Moroccan family. A fourth child showed similar clinical features, with the exception of Hirschsprung disease. The association of these abnormalities in these child...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brooks AS,Breuning MH,Osinga J,vd Smagt JJ,Catsman CE,Buys CH,Meijers C,Hofstra RM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a well delineated multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterised by mental retardation, broad thumbs and toes, short stature, and specific facial features. The recent localisation of the disorder to 16p13.3 and subsequent identification of a submicroscopic deletion of this region...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wallerstein R,Anderson CE,Hay B,Gupta P,Gibas L,Ansari K,Cowchock FS,Weinblatt V,Reid C,Levitas A,Jackson L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 14 boys and six girls, including monozygotic twins, with the CHARGE association. All of the children had at least four of the seven major features included in the mnemonic CHARGE and all had ear anomalies or deafness or both and either coloboma or choanal atresia or both. All the boys had evidence of hypog...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Oley CA,Baraitser M,Grant DB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary hereditary microcephaly (MCPH) comprises a large group of autosomal recessive disorders mainly affecting cortical development and resulting in a congenital impairment of brain growth. Despite the identification of >25 causal genes so far, it remains a challenge to distinguish between different MCPH f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nasser H,Vera L,Elmaleh-Bergès M,Steindl K,Letard P,Teissier N,Ernault A,Guimiot F,Afenjar A,Moutard ML,Héron D,Alembik Y,Momtchilova M,Milani P,Kubis N,Pouvreau N,Zollino M,Guilmin Crepon S,Kaguelidou F,Gressens P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register of families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been maintained in Wales since 1973. Since 1986 we have attempted to refine carrier status, and when necessary offer prenatal diagnosis, for those at significant risk by using intragenic probes. cDNA probes were included from the beginning of 1988. Thir...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Norman AM,Upadhyaya M,Thomas NS,Roberts K,Harper PS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limb development is a complex process requiring proper spatio-temporal expression of a network of limb specific morphogens. Grem1 and Fmn1 play an important role in mouse and chick limb development. The mouse limb deformity (ld) phenotype with digit reduction, syndactyly, radio-ulnar synostosis, variable ren...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dimitrov BI,Voet T,De Smet L,Vermeesch JR,Devriendt K,Fryns JP,Debeer P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical phenotype of CDH1 pathogenic variant carriers has mostly been studied in families that fulfil criteria of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). We aimed at determining cancer phenotype and cancer risk estimation among families with CDH1 pathogenic variants not selected by HDGC clinical crite...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Xicola RM,Li S,Rodriguez N,Reinecke P,Karam R,Speare V,Black MH,LaDuca H,Llor X

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of calpainopathy is obtained by identifying calpain-3 protein deficiency or CAPN3 gene mutations. However, in many patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A), the calpain-3 protein quantity is normal because loss-of-function mutations cause its enzymatic inactivation. The ide...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fanin M,Nascimbeni AC,Angelini C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LMNA gene gives rise to at least three isoforms (lamin A, C, lamin AΔ10) as a result of normal alternative splicing, regulated by cis- and trans-acting regulatory factors, as well as the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of the gene. The two main isoforms, lamin A and C, are constitutive components of the fibrous nuc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Luo YB,Mastaglia FL,Wilton SD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocerebroside beta-glucosidase (glucocerebrosidase) activity was determined from peripheral blood lymphocytes and cultured skin fibroblasts of eight full sibs in a French-Canadian family at risk for Gaucher disease, an autosomal recessive sphingolipidosis resulting from deficient glucocerebrosidase activity. The di...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Choy FY

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described to investigate the inheritance of disease predisposition in cancer families. It is an extension of classic genetic linkage analysis, which enables information on loss of constitutional heterozygosity (LOCH) to be incorporated into the model. This adapted model treats LOCH data as additional obser...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Teare MD,Rohde K,Santibáñez Koref MF

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sibs out of four, born to unrelated parents, developed early cutaneous photosensitivity and severe colitis. All of them died from untreatable diarrhoea. A fourth boy, whose father was different, did not have the same symptoms. The origin of this syndrome remains unclear and, in particular, no metabolic defect co...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Labrune P,Huguet P,Alagille D,Odievre M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mild, non-transfusion dependent, beta thalassaemia phenotype is described in a Dutch patient homozygous for a mutation in the cleavage-polyadenylation sequence of the beta globin gene. The molecular basis of the mutation, AATAAA greater than AATGAA, was determined using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Losekoot M,Fodde R,Harteveld CL,van Heeren H,Giordano PC,Went LN,Bernini LF

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal hypokinesia or akinesia encompasses a broad spectrum of disorders, united by impaired movement in utero. Often, the underlying aetiology is genetic in origin, affecting part of the neuromuscular system. The affordable and high-throughput nature of next-generation DNA sequencing has led to an explosion in disease...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Beecroft SJ,Lombard M,Mowat D,McLean C,Cairns A,Davis M,Laing NG,Ravenscroft G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with unilateral radial aplasia, asymmetry, other malformations, and severe physical and mental retardation is reported. In blood and bone marrow cultures a low mosaicism for trisomy 22 was found. In a few cells a chromosome 22 was missing. The importance of early cytogenetic analysis on large numbers of cells ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dulitzky F,Shabtal F,Zlotogora J,Halbrecht I,Elian E

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome 13q deletion is associated with varying phenotypes, which seem to depend on the location of the deleted segment. Although various attempts have been made to link the 13q deletion intervals to distinct phenotypes, there is still no acknowledged consensus correlation between the monosomy of distinct...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ballarati L,Rossi E,Bonati MT,Gimelli S,Maraschio P,Finelli P,Giglio S,Lapi E,Bedeschi MF,Guerneri S,Arrigo G,Patricelli MG,Mattina T,Guzzardi O,Pecile V,Police A,Scarano G,Larizza L,Zuffardi O,Giardino D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PurposeThe purpose of this document is to provide guidance for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS, also known as massively parallel sequencing or MPS) in Canadian clinical genetic laboratories for detection of genetic variants in genomic DNA and mitochondrial DNA for inherited disorders, as well as somatic var...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hume S,Nelson TN,Speevak M,McCready E,Agatep R,Feilotter H,Parboosingh J,Stavropoulos DJ,Taylor S,Stockley TL,Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG).

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the KIAA2022 gene have been reported in male patients with X-linked intellectual disability, and related female carriers were unaffected. Here, we report 14 female patients who carry a heterozygous de novo KIAA2022 mutation and share a phenotype characterised by intellectual disability and epile...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Lange IM,Helbig KL,Weckhuysen S,Møller RS,Velinov M,Dolzhanskaya N,Marsh E,Helbig I,Devinsky O,Tang S,Mefford HC,Myers CT,van Paesschen W,Striano P,van Gassen K,van Kempen M,de Kovel CG,Piard J,Minassian BA,Nezar

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00