Alu insertion polymorphisms in NW Africa and the Iberian Peninsula: evidence for a strong genetic boundary through the Gibraltar Straits.

abstract：:Eleven families segregating for the X-linked recessive immune deficiency disorder, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), were studied by linkage analysis with an alpha satellite DNA probe, pBamX-7, which detects polymorphisms at the X chromosome centromere, locus DXZ1, as well as three other polymorphic markers defining loc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Greer WL,Mahtani MM,Kwong PC,Rubin LA,Peacocke M,Willard HF,Siminovitch KA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to analyze DNA methylation profiling at the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) locus, in order to determine whether abnormal DNA methylation is involved in the development of schizophrenia. We recruited a total of 371 patients with paranoid schizophrenia (199 males and 172 females) and 288 unrelated ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chen Y,Zhang J,Zhang L,Shen Y,Xu Q

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X chromosomes of individuals with isolated steroid sulphatase deficiency (X-linked ichthyosis) from ten families were studied by flow karyotype analysis. In four of the families, a small but significant reduction in the relative fluorescence of the X chromosome was detected consistent with a deletion ranging from ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooke A,Gillard EF,Yates JR,Mitchell MJ,Aitken DA,Weir DM,Affara NA,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：:Segregation analysis of informative families for chromosome 6 markers confirmed the map order GLO--Bf--HLA-(B, C)--HLA-A, and, surprisingly, implies that PGM3 is more probably located on the HLA-A than on the HLA-B side of the linkage group. Therefore the map position of PGM3 should be reconsidered, i.e., more informa...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schunter F,Wernet P,Kömpf J,Bissbort S,Göhler F

更新日期：1978-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary paraganglioma type 1 (PGL1) is characterized by slow-growing and vascularized tumors that often develop in the carotid body (CB) and is caused by mutations in the gene for succinate dehydrogenase D ( SDHD) of mitochondrial complex II. The mechanisms of tumorigenesis and the factors affecting penetrance and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Astrom K,Cohen JE,Willett-Brozick JE,Aston CE,Baysal BE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegias (AD-FSP) are a group of genetically heterogeneous diseases characterised by a progressive spasticity of the lower limbs. Three loci have already been identified by genetic linkage studies on chromosomes 2p, 14q and 15q. Here we present linkage data from a large German fa...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bürger J,Metzke H,Paternotte C,Schilling F,Hazan J,Reis A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve diseases, most with neuropsychiatric features, arise from trinucleotide repeat expansion mutations. Expansion mutations may also cause a number of other disorders, including several additional forms of spinocerebellar ataxia, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. To obtain candiate genes for th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Margolis RL,Abraham MR,Gatchell SB,Li SH,Kidwai AS,Breschel TS,Stine OC,Callahan C,McInnis MG,Ross CA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three families with anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (AED) have been studied by linkage analysis with seven polymorphic DNA markers from the Xp11-q21 region. Previously reported linkage to DXYS1 (Xq13-q21) has been confirmed (z (theta) = 4.08 at theta = 0.05) and we have also established linkage to another polymorphic ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hanauer A,Alembik Y,Arveiler B,Formiga L,Gilgenkrantz S,Mandel JL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactase gene expression declines with aging (lactase non-persistence) in the majority of humans worldwide. Lactase persistence is a heritable autosomal dominant condition and has been strongly correlated with several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located ~14-kb upstream (-13907, -13910 and -13915) of the lact...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Olds LC,Ahn JK,Sibley E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide, which mitochondria mainly produce in vascular endothelial cells, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. Accordingly, mitochondrial functional differences are thought to be one of the most important factors for the risk of myocardial infarction among vari...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nishigaki Y,Yamada Y,Fuku N,Matsuo H,Segawa T,Watanabe S,Kato K,Yokoi K,Yamaguchi S,Nozawa Y,Tanaka M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slight increase in mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) has been reported in erythrocytes from human fragile X patients. As it is difficult to perform case-controlled studies in patients with fragile X syndrome, we studied MCH in erythrocytes from transgenic mice with an Fmr1 knockout. None of the knockout mice showed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reyniers E,Van Bockstaele DR,De Boulle K,Kooy RF,Bakker CE,Oostra BA,Willems PJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric cataracts are observed in 1-15 per 10,000 births with 10-25 % of cases attributed to genetic causes; autosomal dominant inheritance is the most commonly observed pattern. Since the specific cataract phenotype is not sufficient to predict which gene is mutated, whole exome sequencing (WES) was utilized to con...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reis LM,Tyler RC,Muheisen S,Raggio V,Salviati L,Han DP,Costakos D,Yonath H,Hall S,Power P,Semina EV

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last Crypto-Jews (Marranos) are the survivors of Spanish Jews who were persecuted in the late fifteenth century, escaped to Portugal and were forced to convert to save their lives. Isolated groups still exist in mountainous areas such as Belmonte in the Beira-Baixa province of Portugal. We report here the genetic ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gerber S,Rozet JM,Takezawa SI,dos Santos LC,Lopes L,Gribouval O,Penet C,Perrault I,Ducroq D,Souied E,Jeanpierre M,Romana S,Frézal J,Ferraz F,Yu-Umesono R,Munnich A,Kaplan J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the clinical and cytogenetic findings in a female patient with secondary amenorrhea and normal phenotype. Some difficulties related to karyotype-phenotype correlation are discussed. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Branković S,Laća Z,Dramusić V,Ivanović M,Morić-Petrović S

更新日期：1979-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder characterised by severe in utero growth restriction and poor postnatal growth, body asymmetry, irregular craniofacial features and several additional minor malformations. The aetiology of SRS is complex and current evidence strongly implicates imprin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prickett AR,Ishida M,Böhm S,Frost JM,Puszyk W,Abu-Amero S,Stanier P,Schulz R,Moore GE,Oakey RJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the evolutionary history of the gene region containing the multifunctional adipose tissue hormone leptin, we genotyped 1,957 individuals from 12 world populations for a highly variable tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism located 476 bp 3' of exon 3 of the leptin gene. Common alleles shared among p...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Moffett S,Martinson J,Shriver MD,Deka R,McGarvey ST,Barrantes R,Ferrell RE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Drosophila-related expressed sequence tag (DRES) with sequence similarity to the peanut gene has previously been localized to human chromosome 22q11. We have isolated the cDNA corresponding to this DRES and show that it is a novel member of the family of septin genes, which encode proteins with GTPase activity thoug...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McKie JM,Sutherland HF,Harvey E,Kim UJ,Scambler PJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the possible role of genetic polymorphism of three drug-metabolizing enzymes, debrisoquine/sparteine hydroxylase (CYP2D6), glutathione S-transferase mu (GSTM1), and N-acetyltransferase (NAT2), as a putative genetic component of human longevity, was explored. A total of 817 DNA samples from a cent...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Muiras ML,Verasdonck P,Cottet F,Schächter F

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological, teratological and genetic data on 134 index patients with omphalocele (79 isolated and 55 multiple ones) and on 134 matched controls born in Hungary 1970-1976 were studied medical records and by retrospective interview. The stillbirth rate and infant mortality are significantly higher, and there i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Czeizel A,Vitéz M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC) is characterised by radiological, neurological, cognitive and psychiatric abnormalities. The associations between these abnormal phenotypes and abnormal genes remain unclear despite the recent mapping to chromosome 14q of a susceptibility locus for IBGC ( IBGC1). We identi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brodaty H,Mitchell P,Luscombe G,Kwok JJ,Badenhop RF,McKenzie R,Schofield PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Databases of disease-associated or disease-causing mutations allow the study, not only of the molecular mechanisms underlying the primary lesions at the DNA level, but also of the functional consequences of mutation at the phenotypic level. The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) and the bioinformatics analyses of its...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Knecht C,Krawczak M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of trisomy 6p21 leads to 6pter resulting from a maternal balanced t(2;6)(p25;p21) translocation is reported. The main clinical abnormalities were psychomotor retardation, hypotrophy, blepharophimosis, nystagmus, high nasal bridge, small mouth, sacral dimple, and systolic murmur. Other anomalies might have been ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bernheim A,Berger R,Vaugier G,Thieffry JC,Matet Y

更新日期：1979-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangement of the breakpoint cluster region (bcr) and the chromosomal location of c-abl and 3'-bcr were studied in two patients with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1)-negative chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML). One patient (patient 1) had a normal karyotype and the other (patient 2), 46,XY,inv(3)(q21q26). Both patients...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Inazawa J,Nishigaki H,Takahira H,Nishimura J,Horiike S,Taniwaki M,Misawa S,Abe T

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium-dependent hypocalcaemia (HSH), a rare inherited disease, is caused by selective disorders of magnesium absorption. Both X-linked and autosomal recessive modes of inheritance have been reported for HSH; this suggests a genetically heterogeneous condition. A balanced de novo t(X;9)(p22;q12) translocation has b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chery M,Biancalana V,Philippe C,Malpuech G,Carla H,Gilgenkrantz S,Mandel JL,Hanauer A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a common disabling neurovascular brain disorder typically characterised by attacks of severe headache and associated with autonomic and neurological symptoms. Migraine is caused by an interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over a dozen genetic...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Eising E,Huisman SMH,Mahfouz A,Vijfhuizen LS,Anttila V,Winsvold BS,Kurth T,Ikram MA,Freilinger T,Kaprio J,Boomsma DI,van Duijn CM,Järvelin MR,Zwart JA,Quaye L,Strachan DP,Kubisch C,Dichgans M,Davey Smith G,Stefansso

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data for 27 cases of retinoblastoma that developed in patients with 13q- were collected from the literature and analyzed. The distribution of unilateral and bilateral cases of retinoblastoma differed significantly from the expectation that the degree of expressivity does not differ between the retinoblastoma gene and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsunaga E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased incidence of cystic fibrosis (CF) has been reported in some populations of Native Americans of the Southwest such as the Pueblo, which is a genetic isolate. As the most common mutation found in Caucasians (delta F508) was absent and only one chromosome carried the G542X mutation, we decided to analyze the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mercier B,Raguénès O,Estivill X,Morral N,Kaplan GC,McClure M,Grebe TA,Kessler D,Pignatti PF,Marigo C

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene frequency of beta-thalassemia among Filipinos is estimated to be 0.02, although little is known about the mutations involved. Recently, an extensive beta-thalassemia deletion was reported in several unrelated individuals of Filipino descent. The deletion begins approximately 4 kb upstream of the beta-globin g...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Waye JS,Eng B,Hunt JA,Chui DH

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of using TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the HLA-B locus and the HLA-DR-DQ subregions, flanking the 21-hydroxylase genes, for predicting disease in siblings of children with 21-hydroxylase deficiency was analyzed in 12 nuclear families with at least one affected child a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Olerup O,Luthman H,Ritzén EM,Haglund-Stengler B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00