The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.

abstract：:In an attempt to relate the age at onset of Huntington's disease to parental factors, the effects of parental onset-age (Po) and the age of the transmitting parent at the birth of a subsequently affected child (Pc) have been examined in a sample of cases ascertained from Victorian kindreds. There was a significant pos...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brackenridge CJ,Teltscher B

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of five multiallelic and highly informative dinucleotide CA repeat markers flanking the APC gene was used for presymptomatic diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis coli (FAP). Marker regions were amplified by PCR. DNA fragments were separated by electrophoresis in denaturing polyacrylamide gels and visual...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Eckert WA,Jung C,Wolff G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently fatal in infancy. Mitochondrial disease causing infantile HCM is characterised by extreme biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, but deficiency of respiratory chain complex I is observed relatively frequently. Identification of the precise genetic basis has pro...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fassone E,Taanman JW,Hargreaves IP,Sebire NJ,Cleary MA,Burch M,Rahman S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report a 34-year-old Japanese female with a Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS)-like phenotype and a mosaic Turner syndrome karyotype (45,X/46,XX). METHODS/RESULTS:Molecular studies including methylation analysis of 17 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) on the autosomes and the XIST-DMR on the X chromo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamazawa K,Nakabayashi K,Kagami M,Sato T,Saitoh S,Horikawa R,Hizuka N,Ogata T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:In clinical settings with fixed resources allocated to predictive genetic testing for high-risk cancer predisposition genes, optimal strategies for mutation screening programmes are critically important. These depend on the mutation spectrum found in the population under consideration and the f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Simard J,Dumont M,Moisan AM,Gaborieau V,Malouin H,Durocher F,Chiquette J,Plante M,Avard D,Bessette P,Brousseau C,Dorval M,Godard B,Houde L,INHERIT BRCAs.,Joly Y,Lajoie MA,Leblanc G,Lépine J,Lespérance B,Vézina H,

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In total, 43 patients having short stature syndrome in 37 Yakut families with autosomal recessive prenatal and postnatal nonprogressive growth failure and facial dysmorphism but with normal intelligence have been identified. METHODS:Because Yakuts are considered as a population isolate and the disease is ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maksimova N,Hara K,Miyashia A,Nikolaeva I,Shiga A,Nogovicina A,Sukhomyasova A,Argunov V,Shvedova A,Ikeuchi T,Nishizawa M,Kuwano R,Onodera O

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Few germline BRCA2 rearrangements have been described compared with the large number of germline rearrangements reported in the BRCA1 gene. However, some BRCA2 rearrangements have been reported in families that included at least one case of male breast cancer. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the contribution of large...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Casilli F,Tournier I,Sinilnikova OM,Coulet F,Soubrier F,Houdayer C,Hardouin A,Berthet P,Sobol H,Bourdon V,Muller D,Fricker JP,Capoulade-Metay C,Chompret A,Nogues C,Mazoyer S,Chappuis P,Maillet P,Philippe C,Lortholar

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increased expenditure, productivity of the pharmaceutical industry has decreased and currently 90% of developed molecules entering phase II and phase III clinical trials fail to gain regulatory approval. Most of these failures are due to lack of therapeutic efficacy rather than lack of safety, suggesting that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mokry LE,Ahmad O,Forgetta V,Thanassoulis G,Richards JB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl sought medical advice, saying that for two years it had been increasingly difficult for her to extend her little finger. An examination revealed that all her fingers, with the exception of her thumbs, had no interphalangeal fold. Her mother had less pronounced signs of the same type. This abnormalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lambert D,Nivelon-Chevallier A,Chapuis JL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which the mother's four pregnancies resulted in one spontaneous abortion, one healthy boy, and a male and female sib with developmental delay and multiple minor dysmorphic features. Chromosome analysis showed a large pericentric inversion of chromosome 10, involving the region between bands p1...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roberts P,Williams J,Sills MA

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Acrocallosal syndrome (ACLS) is a rare recessive disorder characterised by corpus callosum agenesis or hypoplasia, craniofacial dysmorphism, duplication of the hallux, postaxial polydactyly, and severe mental retardation. Recently, we identified mutations in KIF7, a key component of the Sonic hedgehog pathwa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Putoux A,Nampoothiri S,Laurent N,Cormier-Daire V,Beales PL,Schinzel A,Bartholdi D,Alby C,Thomas S,Elkhartoufi N,Ichkou A,Litzler J,Munnich A,Encha-Razavi F,Kannan R,Faivre L,Boddaert N,Rauch A,Vekemans M,Attié-Bitac

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common missense mutation in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene, a C to T substitution at nucleotide 677, is responsible for reduced MTHFR activity and associated with modestly increased plasma homocysteine concentrations. Since underlying maternal vascular disease increases the risk of pre-eclampsi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sohda S,Arinami T,Hamada H,Yamada N,Hamaguchi H,Kubo T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X linked (IPEX, OMIM 304790) is a rare, recessive disorder resulting in aggressive autoimmunity and early death. Mutations in FOXP3 have been identified in 13 of 14 patients tested. Research in the mouse model, scurfy, suggests that autoimmunity may stem from a lac...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wildin RS,Smyk-Pearson S,Filipovich AH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sedaghatian-type spondylometaphyseal dysplasia (SSMD) is a neonatal lethal form of spondylometaphyseal dysplasia characterised by severe metaphyseal chondrodysplasia with mild limb shortening, platyspondyly, cardiac conduction defects, and central nervous system abnormalities. As part of the FORGE Canada Con...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Smith AC,Mears AJ,Bunker R,Ahmed A,MacKenzie M,Schwartzentruber JA,Beaulieu CL,Ferretti E,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Majewski J,Bulman DE,Celik FC,Boycott KM,Graham GE

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:A 2-year-old boy with mental and growth retardation is presented; he has a 46,XY,r(10)(p15q26) chromosome complement. Five previously reported cases of ring chromosome 10 were reviewed and compared with the present case in an attempt to delineate a clinical syndrome. Since the first description, identified by Giemsa b...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nakai H,Adachi M,Katsushima N,Yamazaki N,Sakamoto M,Tada K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome type I is an autosomal recessive disease characterised by congenital sensorineural deafness, involvement of the vestibular system, and progressive visual loss owing to retinitis pigmentosa. Here we report the association of this disease with bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and reduced nasal mucocilia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bonneau D,Raymond F,Kremer C,Klossek JM,Kaplan J,Patte F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase activity was determined in serum, liver, and kidney in alloxan treated Swiss mice and in homozygous (Ob/Ob, Db/Db) and heterozygous (Ob/+, Db/m+) diabetic mice. Both alloxan and genetic diabetic mice exhibited a large increase in serum and liver trehalase activity with no change in kidney trehalase activity....

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Baumann FC,Boizard-Callais F,Labat-Robert J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique connective tissue disorder characterised by the triad of dentinogenesis imperfecta, blue sclerae, and multiple wormian bones has been identified in 20 members of three generations of a large kindred of mixed ancestry in South Africa. The skeletons of affected subjects were moderately osteoporotic but, apart f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Beighton P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a supernumerary metacentric small chromosome, diagnosed at birth, is described. The cytogenetic findings support its identification as i(18p). The clinical development from birth to 12 months is reported, with particular attention given to the psychomotor retardation and to the immunological aspect. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rocchi M,Stormi M,Archidiacono N,Filippi G

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a tumour predisposition syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. The condition is characterised by predisposition to benign leiomyomas of the skin and the uterus, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and uterine leiomyosar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehtonen HJ,Kiuru M,Ylisaukko-Oja SK,Salovaara R,Herva R,Koivisto PA,Vierimaa O,Aittomäki K,Pukkala E,Launonen V,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe two families with variable manifestations of the EEC syndrome. The findings in these families confirm that no symptom is obligatory for the diagnosis of EEC syndrome. In the absence of cleft lip/palate, EEC patients have a characteristic facial morphology with maxillary hypoplasia, short phi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fryns JP,Legius E,Dereymaeker AM,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floating-Harbor syndrome (FHS) is a rare human disease characterised by delayed bone mineralisation and growth deficiency, often associated with mental retardation and skeletal and craniofacial abnormalities. FHS was first described at Boston's Floating Hospital 42 years ago, but the causative gene, called Srcap, was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Messina G,Atterrato MT,Dimitri P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cockayne's syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with dwarfism, mental retardation, and otherwise clinically heterogeneous features. In cultured CS fibroblasts, the failure of RNA synthesis to recover to normal rates after UV-C irradiation provides a useful and relatively simple diagnostic test. We have...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehmann AR,Thompson AF,Harcourt SA,Stefanini M,Norris PG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolidase deficiency (PD) is a rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in the prolidase gene. The PD patients show a wide range of clinical outcomes characterised mainly by intractable skin ulcers, mental retardation and recurrent respiratory infections. Here we describe five different ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lupi A,Rossi A,Campari E,Pecora F,Lund AM,Elcioglu NH,Gultepe M,Di Rocco M,Cetta G,Forlino A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Noël S,Balériaux D,Telerman-Toppet N

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Male infertility is a prevalent issue worldwide, mostly due to the impaired sperm motility. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) present aberrant spermatozoa with absent, short, coiled, bent and irregular-calibre flagella resulting in severely decreased motility. Previous studies...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Li W,Wu H,Li F,Tian S,Kherraf ZE,Zhang J,Ni X,Lv M,Liu C,Tan Q,Shen Y,Amiri-Yekta A,Cazin C,Zhang J,Liu W,Zheng Y,Cheng H,Wu Y,Wang J,Gao Y,Chen Y,Zha X,Jin L,Liu M,He X,Ray PF,Cao Y,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00