Genetical components of physiological tremor.

abstract：:A family study of 32 patients with torsion dystonia has shown at least two forms of generalized dystonia with onset in childhood. These two forms, an autosomal dominant and an autosomal recessive, are clinically indistinguishable. There were at least three families and probably about six to eight patients with the aut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bundey S,Harrison MJ,Marsden CD

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An interstitial deletion of the region q22.1-->q22.3 of chromosome 14 is described in a child with bilateral anophthalmia, dysmorphic features including micrognathia, small tongue, and high arched palate, developmental and growth retardation, undescended testes with a micropenis, and hypothyroidism. Interstitial delet...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Elliott J,Maltby EL,Reynolds B

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-syndromic X linked mental retardation (MRX) is a heterogeneous group of conditions in which all patients have mental retardation as the only constant phenotypic feature. We have identified a female patient with mental retardation and a balanced translocation involving chromosomes X and 21, t(X;21)(p11.2;q22.3). Ph...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lossi AM,Laugier-Anfossi F,Depetris D,Gecz J,Gedeon A,Kooy F,Schwartz C,Mattei MG,Croquette MF,Villard L

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The m.8993T-->C MTATP6 mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) usually causes mitochondrial disease in childhood, but was recently described in a family with adult onset ataxia and polyneuropathy. Cytochrome c oxidase muscle histochemistry, which is the standard clinical investigation for mitochondrial disease in adults...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Craig K,Elliott HR,Keers SM,Lambert C,Pyle A,Graves TD,Woodward C,Sweeney MG,Davis MB,Hanna MG,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with developmental delay, mild dysmorphic features, and monosomy of 7q35. Only one other patient with an interstitial deletion of this band has been previously reported. A review of clinical features of these two children did not show similarities in dysmorphic features. Reports of patients with ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fagan K,Kennedy C,Roddick L,Colley A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of iduronate-2-sulphatase (IDS) results in the X linked recessive lysosomal storage disorder Hunter syndrome. Determination of carrier status in families affected by this disorder has been performed using a variety of enzymatic tests. None of these tests has proved to be 100% effective at identifying carrie...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Timms KM,Edwards FJ,Belmont JW,Yates JR,Gibbs RA

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:DNA from 20 Italian haemophilia B patients was analysed by the Southern blotting technique and hybridisation to a factor IX cDNA probe. A large deletion of factor IX gene was detected in one patient with antibodies to the infused factor; the EcoRI pattern of the other 19 subjects examined was normal. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bernardi F,del Senno L,Barbieri R,Buzzoni D,Gambari R,Marchetti G,Conconi F,Panicucci F,Positano M,Pitruzzello S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VACTERL association is a condition comprising multisystem congenital malformations, causing severe physical disability in affected individuals. It is typically defined by the concurrence of at least three of the following component features: vertebral anomalies (V), anal atresia (A), cardiac malformations (C), tracheo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen Y,Liu Z,Chen J,Zuo Y,Liu S,Chen W,Liu G,Qiu G,Giampietro PF,Wu N,Wu Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a stillborn male infant with premaxillary agenesis, bilateral microphthalmos, alobar holoprosencephaly, hydrocephalus, ventricular and atrial septal defects, small penis, bilateral cryptorchidism, and bilateral upper limb postaxial polydactyly. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young ID,Madders DJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present clinical data on 558 patients with deletions within the DiGeorge syndrome critical region of chromosome 22q11. Twenty-eight percent of the cases where parents had been tested had inherited deletions, with a marked excess of maternally inherited deletions (maternal 61, paternal 18). Eight percent of the pati...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ryan AK,Goodship JA,Wilson DI,Philip N,Levy A,Seidel H,Schuffenhauer S,Oechsler H,Belohradsky B,Prieur M,Aurias A,Raymond FL,Clayton-Smith J,Hatchwell E,McKeown C,Beemer FA,Dallapiccola B,Novelli G,Hurst JA,Ignatius

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the PKD1 locus further, the gene involved in the most frequent form of adult polycystic kidney disease, probes from 16 polymorphic loci were mapped on 16p13.1-pter with the combined use of cell lines containing rearranged chromosomes and family studies. Five breakpoints in the distal part of 16p arbitrarily ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Breuning MH,Snijdewint FG,Brunner H,Verwest A,Ijdo JW,Saris JJ,Dauwerse JG,Blonden L,Keith T,Callen DF

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, a patient with maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 16 (UPD(16)mat) presenting with Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) phenotype was reported. SRS is characterised by growth failure and dysmorphic features. OBJECTIVE:To clarify the prevalence of UPD(16)mat in aetiology-unknown patients with SRS ph...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Inoue T,Yagasaki H,Nishioka J,Nakamura A,Matsubara K,Narumi S,Nakabayashi K,Yamazawa K,Fuke T,Oka A,Ogata T,Fukami M,Kagami M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13 year old boy with fragile X syndrome resulting from a de novo deletion of the FMR1 and FMR2 genes extending from (and including) DXS7536 proximally to FMR2 distally. The patient has severe developmental delay, epilepsy, and behavioural difficulties, including autistic features. He has epicanthic folds, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Strain L,Cole GF,Miedzybrodzka Z,Kelly KF,Dean JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk prediction models are widely used in clinical genetic counselling. Despite their frequent use, the genetic risk models BOADICEA, BRCAPRO, IBIS and extended Claus model (eCLAUS), used to estimate BRCA1/2 mutation carrier probabilities, have never been comparatively evaluated in a large sample from centra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fischer C,Kuchenbäcker K,Engel C,Zachariae S,Rhiem K,Meindl A,Rahner N,Dikow N,Plendl H,Debatin I,Grimm T,Gadzicki D,Flöttmann R,Horvath J,Schröck E,Stock F,Schäfer D,Schwaab I,Kartsonaki C,Mavaddat N,Schlegelberg

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical genetic theory, based on assumed equal mutation rates in males and females, predicts that one-third of all cases of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a generation are born as new mutants to non-carrier mothers. Furthermore, less than half the mothers of apparently isolated cases appear to be carriers on t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lane RJ,Robinow M,Roses AD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Current technologies for delivering gene testing are labour-intensive and expensive. Over the last 3 years, new high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques (next generation sequencing; NGS), with the capability to analyse multiple genes or entire genomes, have been rapidly adopted into research. This study exa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： O'Sullivan J,Mullaney BG,Bhaskar SS,Dickerson JE,Hall G,O'Grady A,Webster A,Ramsden SC,Black GC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predisposition to malignancy that is dominantly inherited in Li-Fraumeni syndrome is associated with germline mutations of the tumour suppressor gene p53. Although second malignant neoplasms have been described in children with p53 mutations, the synchronous occurrence of two embryologically different tumours in t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pivnick EK,Furman WL,Velagaleti GV,Jenkins JJ,Chase NA,Ribeiro RC

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is the major cause of inherited mental retardation. The molecular basis for the expression of the fragile X phenotype is the expansion of an unstable CGG repeat element which inhibits transcription of the FMR1 gene. The fragile X syndrome shows great diversity in its phenotype as well as in its cyto...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pintado E,de Diego Y,Hmadcha A,Carrasco M,Sierra J,Lucas M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agenesis of corpus callosum has been associated with several defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and the citric acid cycle. We now report the results of the biochemical and molecular studies of a patient with severe neurodevelopmental disease manifesting by agenesis of corpus callosum and optic ne...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edvardson S,Porcelli V,Jalas C,Soiferman D,Kellner Y,Shaag A,Korman SH,Pierri CL,Scarcia P,Fraenkel ND,Segel R,Schechter A,Frumkin A,Pines O,Saada A,Palmieri L,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy presenting with an incomplete form of the acrocallosal syndrome is described. The syndrome shows clinical variability and it is stressed that none of the components is constant and facial dysmorphism is not always characteristic. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Turolla L,Clementi M,Tenconi R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:Mutations in the TARDBP gene, which encodes the TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43), have been described in individuals with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We screened the TARDBP gene in 285 French sporadic ALS patients to assess the frequency of TARDBP mutations in ALS. RE...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daoud H,Valdmanis PN,Kabashi E,Dion P,Dupré N,Camu W,Meininger V,Rouleau GA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Azoospermia is the absence of a measurable level of spermatozoa in the semen. It affects approximately 1% of all men, and the genetic basis of the majority of idiopathic cases is unknown. We investigated two unrelated consanguineous families with idiopathic azoospermia. In family 1, there were three azoosper...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ayhan Ö,Balkan M,Guven A,Hazan R,Atar M,Tok A,Tolun A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subtelomere fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) analysis has increasingly been used as an adjunct to routine cytogenetic testing in order to detect small rearrangements. Previous reports have estimated an overall abnormality rate of 6%, with a range of 2-29% because of different inclusion criteria. ME...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ravnan JB,Tepperberg JH,Papenhausen P,Lamb AN,Hedrick J,Eash D,Ledbetter DH,Martin CL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA and Gm typing were carried out in 16 families. Seven families included 10 sib pairs with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) respectively, and nine families included 16 sib pairs with RA and circulating thyroid autoantibodies respectively. Eight, 11, and seven sib pairs with either RA or...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sanders PA,Grennan DM,Dyer PA,de Lange GG,Harris R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most useful markers for the prenatal diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy (DM) are APOC2 and CKM, both of which map proximal to DM. In order to produce other markers useful for DM, we have screened genomic DNA libraries constructed from cell line 20XP3542-1-4, which contains 20 to 30 Mb of human material including APOC...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brook JD,Harley HG,Walsh KV,Rundle SA,Siciliano MJ,Harper PS,Shaw DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Craniosynostosis (CRS) is a premature closure of calvarial sutures caused by gene mutation or environmental factors or interaction between the two. Only a small proportion of non-syndromic CRS (NSC) patients have a known genetic cause, and thus, it would be meaningful to search for a causative gene disruptio...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kim J,Won HH,Kim Y,Choi JR,Yu N,Lee KA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is characterised by brittle bones and caused by mutations in the type I collagen genes, COL1A1 and COL1A2. We identified a mutation in the carboxyl-terminal propeptide coding region of one COL1A1 allele in an infant who died with an OI phenotype that differed from the usual lethal form and...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pace JM,Chitayat D,Atkinson M,Wilcox WR,Schwarze U,Byers PH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder caused by thymidine phosphorylase (TP) deficiency, resulting in severe gastrointestinal dysmotility and skeletal muscle abnormalities. A patient is reported with a classical MNGIE clinical presentation but with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Szigeti K,Wong LJ,Perng CL,Saifi GM,Eldin K,Adesina AM,Cass DL,Hirano M,Lupski JR,Scaglia F

更新日期：2004-02-01 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