DGGE screening of PKD1 gene reveals novel mutations in a large cohort of 146 unrelated patients.

abstract：:Inv dup(15) is a clinically significant bisatellited derivative of chromosome 15. Five unrelated patients with this abnormality are described and compared with ten confirmed and nine suspected cases in the literature. Mental and developmental retardation, hypotonia, behavioral disturbances, seizures, abnormal dermatog...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wisniewski L,Hassold T,Heffelfinger J,Higgins JV

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalised lymphatic dysplasia (GLD) is characterised by extensive peripheral lymphoedema with visceral involvement. In some cases, it presents in utero with hydrops fetalis. Autosomal dominant and recessive inheritance has been reported. A large, non-consanguineous family with three affected siblings with generalise...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Connell F,Kalidas K,Ostergaard P,Brice G,Homfray T,Roberts L,Bunyan DJ,Mitton S,Mansour S,Mortimer P,Jeffery S,Lymphoedema Consortium.

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underestimates of NF1 gene mutations in neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) have been attributed to the large size of the NF1 gene, the considerable frequency of gross deletions and the common occurrence of splicing defects that are only detectable by cDNA analysis. We here report on a patient with severe NF1 showing at RT-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Colapietro P,Gervasini C,Natacci F,Rossi L,Riva P,Larizza L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes previous chromosomal studies in patients with the Cornelia de Lange syndrome showing abnormal karyotypes. We report on 45 cases of the Cornelia de Lange syndrome clinically examined by one of us (B.B.) and chromosomally studied using several different methods. Two abnormal karyotypes were found: ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beck B,Mikkelsen M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. They are complex disorders resulting from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors, and may share several susceptibility genes. Several recent studies have implicated variants of the Kalirin (KALRN) gene wit...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Krug T,Manso H,Gouveia L,Sobral J,Xavier JM,Albergaria I,Gaspar G,Correia M,Viana-Baptista M,Simões RM,Pinto AN,Taipa R,Ferreira C,Fontes JR,Silva MR,Gabriel JP,Matos I,Lopes G,Ferro JM,Vicente AM,Oliveira SA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As new genes for A/M are identified in the genomic era, the number of syndromes associated with A/M has greatly expanded. In this review, we provide a brief synopsis of the clinical presentation and molecular genetic etiology of previously characterized pathways involved in A/M, including the Sex-determining region Y-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Slavotinek A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is a syndromic form of mental retardation caused by loss of function mutations in the X-linked RPS6KA3 gene, which encodes RSK2, a serine/threonine kinase acting in the MAPK/ERK pathway. The mouse invalidated for the Rps6ka3 (Rsk2-KO) gene displays learning and long-term spatial memory defi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mehmood T,Schneider A,Sibille J,Marques Pereira P,Pannetier S,Ammar MR,Dembele D,Thibault-Carpentier C,Rouach N,Hanauer A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare oligogenic disorder exhibiting both clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Although the BBS phenotype is variable both between and within families, the syndrome is characterized by the hallmarks of developmental and learning difficulties, post-axial polydactylia, obesity, hypogenital...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Eichers ER,Abd-El-Barr MM,Paylor R,Lewis RA,Bi W,Lin X,Meehan TP,Stockton DW,Wu SM,Lindsay E,Justice MJ,Beales PL,Katsanis N,Lupski JR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional intronless gene coding for a calmodulin-like protein (CLP) has been localized to human chromosome 10p13-ter. Chromosomal assignment was performed by Southern blot analysis of DNA from human-rodent somatic cell hybrids and amplification of a CLP gene-specific 1090-bp DNA fragment by the polymerase chain ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Berchtold MW,Koller M,Egli R,Rhyner JA,Hameister H,Strehler EE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentromeric regions of human chromosomes are preferential sites for the integration of duplicated DNA, or "duplicons", which often contain gene fragments. Although pericentromeric regions appear to be genomic junkyards, they could also be the birthplace of new genes with novel functions. We have characterized a ch...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bridgland L,Footz TK,Kardel MD,Riazi MA,McDermid HE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the isolation of mammalian DNA repair genes and identification of their gene products, the comparison between the bacterial SOS response and various similar reactions in mammalian cells remains rather speculative. The increasing number of observed phenomena including enhanced DNA repair, virus induction, indu...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Herrlich P,Mallick U,Ponta H,Rahmsdorf HJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the allele frequency distribution of the microsatellite locus DYS19 in several populations with different geographical origins worldwide. Three new alleles were found. In addition, remarkable geographic and ethnic differences were observed in the allele frequency profiles and DNA marker (gene) diversit...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santos FR,Gerelsaikhan T,Munkhtuja B,Oyunsuren T,Epplen JT,Pena SD

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postnatal growth records of 13 patients with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome indicate that the syndrome is associated with continuing severe growth retardation and marked microcephaly. In spite of severe retardation, these patients (with one exception) survived beyond infancy. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fujimoto A,Wilson MG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with 45,X/46,XYnf mosaicism were investigated by Southern hybridization using both X- and Y-specific DNA probes. Our patients seem to be hemizygous for the X chromosomal loci tested. Single-copy and low-copy repeated Y chromosomal sequences assigned to the short arm, centromere, and euchromatin of the l...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gänshirt-Ahlert D,Pawlowitzki IH,Gal A

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a linkage study in a four-generation autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) family of Dutch ancestry. The family shows a clinically and genetically distinct form of ADCA. This neurodegenerative disorder manifests in the family as a relatively mild ataxia syndrome with some additional characteristic sym...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Verbeek DS,Schelhaas JH,Ippel EF,Beemer FA,Pearson PL,Sinke RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in Turkish, Native American, European American, and African American (AA) families have linked chromosome 18q21.1-23 to susceptibility for diabetes-associated nephropathy. In this study, we have carried out fine linkage mapping in the 18q region previously linked to diabetic nephropathy in AAs by genot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McDonough CW,Bostrom MA,Lu L,Hicks PJ,Langefeld CD,Divers J,Mychaleckyj JC,Freedman BI,Bowden DW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular characterization of the alpha-thalassemia mutations present in nine HbH subjects from Cuba was achieved by digestion with Bam HI, Bgl II, and Apa I and hybridization with alpha- and zeta-specific probes. The results show that the molecular basis of the genetic defect is quite homogeneous, all the subjects ca...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Martinez G,Ferreira R,Hernandez A,Di Rienzo A,Felicetti L,Colombo B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper genetic, clinical, and epidemiological studies on a muscular dystrophy which originated and is concentrated in the village of Cullar, Nevşehir of inland Turkey, are reported. A pedigree chart has been constructed by careful and repeated inquiries, and both clinical and laboratory examinations have genera...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sayli BS,Yaltkaya K,Cin S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial juvenile hyperuricaemic (gouty) nephropathy (FJHN), is an autosomal dominant disease associated with a reduced fractional excretion of urate, and progressive renal failure. FJHN is genetically heterogeneous and due to mutations of three genes: uromodulin (UMOD), renin (REN) and hepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Piret SE,Danoy P,Dahan K,Reed AA,Pryce K,Wong W,Torres RJ,Puig JG,Müller T,Kotanko P,Lhotta K,Devuyst O,Brown MA,Thakker RV

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatozoa contain highly specialized structural features reflecting unique functions required for fertilization. Among them, the flagellum is a sperm-specific organelle required to generate the motility, which is essential to reach the egg. The flagellum integrity is, therefore, critical for normal sperm function an...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Touré A,Martinez G,Kherraf ZE,Cazin C,Beurois J,Arnoult C,Ray PF,Coutton C

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-related disorders are due to a dynamic mutation of the CGG repeat at the 5' UTR of the FMR1 gene, coding for the RNA-binding protein FMRP. As the CGG sequence expands from premutation (PM, 56-200 CGGs) to full mutation (> 200 CGGs), FMRP synthesis decreases until it is practically abolished in fragile X synd...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nobile V,Palumbo F,Lanni S,Ghisio V,Vitali A,Castagnola M,Marzano V,Maulucci G,De Angelis C,De Spirito M,Pacini L,D'Andrea L,Ragno R,Stazi G,Valente S,Mai A,Chiurazzi P,Genuardi M,Neri G,Tabolacci E

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive fibrotic lung disorder of unknown etiology and unclear pathogenesis. Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) is strongly upregulated and may contribute to the abnormal remodeling that characterizes the disease. We conducted a case-control study of 130 IPF pat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Checa M,Ruiz V,Montaño M,Velázquez-Cruz R,Selman M,Pardo A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic segregation of chromosomes 14 and 21 in sperm from a 14;21 Robertsonian translocation carrier was analyzed with dual-color FISH using two locus-specific DNA probes (Tel 14q and LSI 21). The frequency of normal or chromosomally balanced sperm, resulting from alternate segregation, was 88.42%. The frequency of u...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Honda H,Miharu N,Samura O,He H,Ohama K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivated X chromosome has a site of unusually frequent folding in region Xq1, whereas a fold in Xq1 is uncommon on the active X. We investigated the pattern of X chromosome folding in high-resolution GTG- and RBG-stained preparations from four women. In early metaphase cells, slightly more than 50% of late-repl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Van Dyke DL,Worsham M,Weiss L

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is reported in which the mother and two sons are carriers of a Y-to-X translocation, der (X)t(X;Y) (p22;q11). All the the three carriers have short stature and disproportion of extremities, but otherwise normal phenotype. One of the sons, the propositus, has been affected with schizophrenia. Evidence was obta...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yamada K,Nanko S,Hattori S,Isurugi K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We wished to determine the time of pregnancy at which optimal numbers of nucleated red blood cells (NRBC) are present in maternal blood. Because 30% of the NRBC in maternal blood are fetal, there are implications for prenatal screening and diagnosis. Samples of whole blood were collected from each of 225 women at vari...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shulman LP,Phillips OP,Tolley E,Sammons D,Wachtel SS

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biallelic mutations of UBE3B have recently been shown to cause Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome (also reported as blepharophimosis-ptosis-intellectual disability syndrome), an autosomal recessive condition characterized by hypotonia, developmental delay, intellectual disability, congenital anomalies, characteristic...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Basel-Vanagaite L,Yilmaz R,Tang S,Reuter MS,Rahner N,Grange DK,Mortenson M,Koty P,Feenstra H,Farwell Gonzalez KD,Sticht H,Boddaert N,Désir J,Anyane-Yeboa K,Zweier C,Reis A,Kubisch C,Jewett T,Zeng W,Borck G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aniridia is a severe eye disease characterized by iris hypoplasia; both sporadic cases and familial cases with an autosomal dominant inheritance exist. Mutations in the PAX6 gene have been shown to be the genetic cause of the disease. Some of the sporadic cases are caused by large chromosomal deletions, some of which ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Grønskov K,Olsen JH,Sand A,Pedersen W,Carlsen N,Bak Jylling AM,Lyngbye T,Brøndum-Nielsen K,Rosenberg T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is characterized by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Two loci implicated in the disease have previously been mapped (PKD1 on chromosome 16 and PKD2 on chromosome 4). By two point and multipoint linkage analysis, negative lod scores have been found for both chromosome 16 ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Almeida S,de Almeida E,Peters D,Pinto JR,Távora I,Lavinha J,Breuning M,Prata MM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanism of lipid metabolism in the genesis of essential hypertension (EH), we linked blood pressure (BP) phenotypes with the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene. Variance component and sib-pair linkage models were used to test the relationship of the polymorphisms in the LPL gene region and EH in 148 Chin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yang W,Huang J,Ge D,Yao C,Duan X,Shen Y,Qiang B,Gu D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00