Monosomy 1p36.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) has an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance and consists of at least three subtypes. FHL2 subtype with perforin (PRF1) mutation accounts for 30% of all FHL cases, while FHL with MUNC13-4 mutation was recently identified and designated as FHL3 subtype. OB...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamamoto K,Ishii E,Sako M,Ohga S,Furuno K,Suzuki N,Ueda I,Imayoshi M,Yamamoto S,Morimoto A,Takada H,Hara T,Imashuku S,Sasazuki T,Yasukawa M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the long-term motor outcomes of genome-wide association study (GWAS)-linked Parkinson disease (PD) carriers are useful for clinical management. OBJECTIVES:To characterise the association between GWAS-linked PARK16 gene variant and disease progression in PD over a 9-year time frame. METHODS:Over a 9...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Deng X,Xiao B,Allen JC,Ng E,Foo JN,Lo YL,Tan LCS,Tan EK

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism has been well studied in the adult human population, in part because the e4 allele is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Little is known of the distribution of ApoE alleles in newborns, and their association with perinatal brain damage has not been investiga...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Becher JC,Keeling JW,McIntosh N,Wyatt B,Bell J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family study of hidradenitis suppurativa was undertaken based on 26 subjects with the disease. The probands were obtained from Hospital Activity Analysis (HAA) records for a three year period (1980 to 1983) and by direct referral from hospital specialists over a six month period (1983 to 1984). Family pedigree infor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fitzsimmons JS,Guilbert PR

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:DNA fingerprinting was performed to verify the pedigree structure of a family under investigation for an unusual case of beta thalassaemia. A higher than expected proportion of hypervariable bands was shared by the proband and his mother, leading to suspicion that the child had been the product of a consanguineous mat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wells RA,Wonke B,Thein SL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), also known as Kennedy's disease, is an X-linked motor neuron disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the gene coding for the androgen receptor (AR). The range and significance of reduced penetrance alleles in SBMA has not been fully determined to date. We prese...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Laskaratos A,Breza M,Karadima G,Koutsis G

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelman syndrome (AS) and Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have become the classical examples of genomic imprinting in man, as completely different phenotypes are generated by the absence of maternal (AS) or paternal (PWS) contributions to the q11-13 region of chromosome 15 as a result of deletion or uniparental disomy. A...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Meijers-Heijboer EJ,Sandkuijl LA,Brunner HG,Smeets HJ,Hoogeboom AJ,Deelen WH,van Hemel JO,Nelen MR,Smeets DF,Niermeijer MF

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the genetic linkage data between the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) gene and 57 markers on various autosomes, we have constructed an exclusion map for this disorder. The maximum likelihood location of the FSHD gene and the percentage of the excluded areas on each chromosome are presented here. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sarfarazi M,Upadhyaya M,Padberg G,Pericak-Vance M,Siddique T,Lucotte G,Lunt P

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 5α-reductase type 2 (5α-RD2) deficiency caused by mutations in the steroid 5α-reductase 2 (SRD5A2) gene results in variable degrees of undervirilisation in patients with 46,XY disorders of sex development. This study aims to profile the regional distribution and phenotype-genotype characteristics of SRD5...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Gui B,Song Y,Su Z,Luo FH,Chen L,Wang X,Chen R,Yang Y,Wang J,Zhao X,Fan L,Liu X,Wang Y,Chen S,Gong C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X inactivation studies have been carried out on 22 pairs of female monozygotic twins, one set of female monozygotic triplets, and their mothers and singleton sisters, using the probe M27 beta. Forty-eight per cent of the twins, 55% of their mothers, and 42% of their singleton sisters showed skewed X inactivation. Two ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Watkiss E,Webb T,Rysiecki G,Girdler N,Hewett E,Bundey S

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is significant evidence for genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in X linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP). We have studied the linkage of XLRP in four Irish families to a number of polymorphic DNA markers. We report linkage between the DXS7 (L1.28) locus and the XLRP locus (Z = 3.445, theta = 0.00). Combined with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Farrar GJ,Geraghty MT,Moloney JM,McConnell DJ,Humphries P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anticonvulsants taken in pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of malformations and developmental delay in the children. To evaluate the pattern of abnormalities associated with prenatal anticonvulsant exposure further, we undertook a clinical study of 57 children with fetal anticonvulsant syndrome...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Turnpenny P,Quinn A,Glover S,Lloyd DJ,Montgomery T,Dean JC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years, array-comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) has considerably improved our ability to detect cryptic unbalanced rearrangements in patients with syndromic mental retardation. METHOD:Molecular karyotyping of six patients with syndromic mental retardation was carried out using whole-g...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Le Meur N,Holder-Espinasse M,Jaillard S,Goldenberg A,Joriot S,Amati-Bonneau P,Guichet A,Barth M,Charollais A,Journel H,Auvin S,Boucher C,Kerckaert JP,David V,Manouvrier-Hanu S,Saugier-Veber P,Frébourg T,Dubourg C,Andr

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with speech delay and mild mental retardation (IQ 82) was found to have a complex double translocation involving four chromosomes and a total of five breakpoints, two being on the same arm. This resulted in the karyotype 46,XY,t(2;4;7)(7;8)(q14;q31;q11q22;q13). As far as the authors are aware this is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Couzin DA,Watt JL,Auchterlonie IA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Familial Ovarian Cancer Register has been established which has recruited primarily through media publicity. In depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with 20 women who had volunteered in order to explore (1) knowledge about the disease, (2) motivations for contacting the Register, and (3) expectations. W...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Green J,Murton F,Statham H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) syndrome is a childhood cancer predisposition syndrome involving biallelic germline mutations of MMR genes, poorly recognised by clinicians so far. METHODS:Retrospective review of all 31 patients with CMMRD diagnosed in French genetics laboratories in order ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lavoine N,Colas C,Muleris M,Bodo S,Duval A,Entz-Werle N,Coulet F,Cabaret O,Andreiuolo F,Charpy C,Sebille G,Wang Q,Lejeune S,Buisine MP,Leroux D,Couillault G,Leverger G,Fricker JP,Guimbaud R,Mathieu-Dramard M,Jedra

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DLG5 p.R30Q has been reported to be associated with Crohn disease (CD), but this association has not been replicated in most studies. A recent analysis of gender-stratified data from two case-control studies and two population cohorts found an association of DLG5 30Q with increased risk of CD in men but not ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Browning BL,Annese V,Barclay ML,Bingham SA,Brand S,Büning C,Castro M,Cucchiara S,Dallapiccola B,Drummond H,Ferguson LR,Ferraris A,Fisher SA,Gearry RB,Glas J,Henckaerts L,Huebner C,Knafelz D,Lakatos L,Lakatos PL,La

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oguchi disease is a rare autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness. The condition is associated with fundus discolouration and abnormally slow dark adaptation. Earlier studies suggested that the 48 kD protein S antigen may be involved in the recovery phase of light transduction. Previous cytoge...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maw MA,John S,Jablonka S,Müller B,Kumaramanickavel G,Oehlmann R,Denton MJ,Gal A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed all known UK cases of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Among 49 cases with proven 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase deficiency, half had been terminated or had died in infancy. The minimum incidence is 1 in 60,000. The frequent occurrence of hypospadias may account for 71% of recognised cases being male. Impo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ryan AK,Bartlett K,Clayton P,Eaton S,Mills L,Donnai D,Winter RM,Burn J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report concordant male monozygotic twins with congenital short femur (proximal focal femoral deficiency) and discuss the aetiological implications. Coincidentally, they and their father have benign familial macrocephaly. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Connor JM,Rae PS,Connor RA

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Congenital chromosome abnormalities are relatively common in our species and among structural abnormalities the most common class is balanced reciprocal translocations. Determining the parental origin of de novo balanced translocations may provide insights into how and when they arise. While there is a gener...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Thomas NS,Morris JK,Baptista J,Ng BL,Crolla JA,Jacobs PA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with partial monosomy of the short arm of chromosome 8 are described. Their clinical features were very similar. Comparison with previously reported patients confirms the existence of an 8p- syndrome. The importance of cytogenetic investigations in all infants with major congenital heart defect and facial...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bröcker-Vriends AH,Mooij PD,van Bel F,Beverstock GC,van de Kamp JJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex linked recessive deafness is a rare cause of male genetic deafness, estimated to account for 6.2% of male genetic deafness in 1966. A male excess was found in the deaf population of Ireland in 1851. Reevaluation of this survey of 1851 confirms sex linked deafness as a factor in the disproportionate number of deaf ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report here clinical, cytogenetic and molecular data for a pair of monochorionic diamniotic twins with paternal isodisomy for chromosome 19. Both twins presented with dysmorphic features and global developmental delay. This represents, to our knowledge, the first individual human case of paternal uniparen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yeung KS,Ho MSP,Lee SL,Kan ASY,Chan KYK,Tang MHY,Mak CCY,Leung GKC,So PL,Pfundt R,Marshall CR,Scherer SW,Choufani S,Weksberg R,Hon-Yin Chung B

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Interpretation of results from mutation screening of tumour suppressor genes known to harbour high risk susceptibility mutations, such as APC, BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1, MSH2, TP53, and PTEN, is becoming an increasingly important part of clinical practice. Interpretation of truncating mutations, gene rearrangemen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Abkevich V,Zharkikh A,Deffenbaugh AM,Frank D,Chen Y,Shattuck D,Skolnick MH,Gutin A,Tavtigian SV

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominantly inherited osteogenesis imperfecta is consistently linked to the two loci encoding the alpha 1 and alpha 2 subunits of collagen 1, the predominant bone collagen. We have performed several prenatal diagnoses based on identification of the segregating allele at the concordant locus in chorionic villus samples ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lynch JR,Ogilvie D,Priestley L,Baigrie C,Smith R,Farndon P,Sykes B

更新日期：1991-03-01 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