Estimation of the age at onset of Huntington's disease from factors associated with the affected parent.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), resulting from occlusion of small pulmonary arteries, is a devastating condition. Mutations of the bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II gene (BMPR2), a component of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) family which plays a key role in cell growth, have r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Thomson JR,Machado RD,Pauciulo MW,Morgan NV,Humbert M,Elliott GC,Ward K,Yacoub M,Mikhail G,Rogers P,Newman J,Wheeler L,Higenbottam T,Gibbs JS,Egan J,Crozier A,Peacock A,Allcock R,Corris P,Loyd JE,Trembath RC,Nic

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with features of trisomy 10p syndrome was found to have an abnormal chromosome 10: 46, XY, rec(10), dup p, inv(10) (p11q26) mat. The infant's mother was heterozygous for a pericentric inversion involving chromosome 10 (46, XX, inv (10) (p11q26). The infant's derivative chromosome was apparently produced by m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lansky-Shafer SC,Daniel WL,Ruiz L

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the G-allele of MDM2 SNP309 (T/G) in the p53 tumour suppressor pathway can accelerate tumorigenesis and alter the risk of various cancers in women and not in men. In this report, data are presented from two independent groups of patients that suggest that the G-allele of SNP309 accelerat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bond GL,Menin C,Bertorelle R,Alhopuro P,Aaltonen LA,Levine AJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous reports cite high costs of clinical cancer genetic testing as main barriers to patient's willingness to test. We report findings of a pilot study that evaluates how different subsidy schemes impact genetic testing uptake and total cost of cancer management. METHODS:We included all patients who attende...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Li ST,Yuen J,Zhou K,Binte Ishak ND,Chen Y,Met-Domestici M,Chan SH,Tan YP,Allen JC Jr,Lim ST,Soo KC,Ngeow J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous and mitomycin C (MMC) induced sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were examined in five adults with myotonic dystrophy (MD). There was no significant difference in the spontaneous incidence of SCE between MD patients and controls. However, a significantly enhanced response to the induction of S...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Vijayalaxmi,Emery AE,Evans HJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a large tuberous sclerosis pedigree confirmed linkage to a locus on the long arm of chromosome 9, with recombination events placing the disease gene distal to gelsolin and proximal to dopamine beta-hydroxylase. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nellist M,Brook-Carter PT,Connor JM,Kwiatkowski DJ,Johnson P,Sampson JR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of abnormalities have been demonstrated at chromosome 11p15 in individuals with overgrowth and growth retardation. The identification of these abnormalities is clinically important but often technically difficult. Methylation-specific multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MS-MLPA) is a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scott RH,Douglas J,Baskcomb L,Nygren AO,Birch JM,Cole TR,Cormier-Daire V,Eastwood DM,Garcia-Minaur S,Lupunzina P,Tatton-Brown K,Bliek J,Maher ER,Rahman N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were previously reported to be associated with thyroid cancer in European populations in two genome-wide association studies (GWAS): rs965513 (9q22.33), rs944289 (14q13.3), rs116909374 (14q13.3), rs966423 (2q35) and rs2439302 (8p12). Only the first two SNPs have be...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang YL,Feng SH,Guo SC,Wei WJ,Li DS,Wang Y,Wang X,Wang ZY,Ma YY,Jin L,Ji QH,Wang JC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The APC gene was investigated in 31 unrelated polyposis coli families by SSCP analysis and the protein truncation test. Twenty-three germline mutations were identified which gave rise to a variety of different phenotypes. Some of these mutations have already been described; however we report six previously unpublished...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dobbie Z,Spycher M,Mary JL,Häner M,Guldenschuh I,Hürliman R,Amman R,Roth J,Müller H,Scott RJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Medullary cystic kidney disease 2 (MCKD2) and familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy (FJHN) are both autosomal dominant renal diseases characterised by juvenile onset of hyperuricaemia, gout, and progressive renal failure. Clinical features of both conditions vary in presence and severity. Often defi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hart TC,Gorry MC,Hart PS,Woodard AS,Shihabi Z,Sandhu J,Shirts B,Xu L,Zhu H,Barmada MM,Bleyer AJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the detection of a heterozygous deletion at chromosome 12q14 in three unrelated patients with a similar phenotype consisting of mild mental retardation, failure to thrive in infancy, proportionate short stature and osteopoikilosis as the most characteristic features. In each case, this interstitia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Menten B,Buysse K,Zahir F,Hellemans J,Hamilton SJ,Costa T,Fagerstrom C,Anadiotis G,Kingsbury D,McGillivray BC,Marra MA,Friedman JM,Speleman F,Mortier G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an autosomal dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome predisposing to retinal and central nervous system haemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma, and phaeochromocytoma. VHL disease shows variable expression and interfamilial differences in predisposition to phaeochromocytoma. In a pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maher ER,Webster AR,Richards FM,Green JS,Crossey PA,Payne SJ,Moore AT

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-month-old infant was examined because of minor multiple malformations. He was found to have a de novo blanced reciprocal translocation 46,XY,t(6;8(q13;q22). On follow-up at the age of 17 months his mental development was found to be within normal limits. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fried K,Rosenblatt M,Mundel G

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：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:The genetic complexity of infantile cardiomyopathies is remarkable, and the importance of mitochondrial translation defects as a causative factor is only starting to be recognised. We investigated the genetic basis for infantile onset recessive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in two siblings. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carroll CJ,Isohanni P,Pöyhönen R,Euro L,Richter U,Brilhante V,Götz A,Lahtinen T,Paetau A,Pihko H,Battersby BJ,Tyynismaa H,Suomalainen A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the earliest and most severe inherited retinal degeneration. Isolated forms of LCA frequently result from mutation of the CEP290 gene which is expressed in various ciliated tissues. METHODS:Seven LCA patients with CEP290 mutations were investigated to study otorhinolaryng...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Papon JF,Perrault I,Coste A,Louis B,Gérard X,Hanein S,Fares-Taie L,Gerber S,Defoort-Dhellemmes S,Vojtek AM,Kaplan J,Rozet JM,Escudier E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of inexpensive high throughput methods to identify individual DNA sequence differences is important to the future growth of medical genetics. This has become increasingly apparent as epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinical geneticists focus more attention on the molecular basis of complex multifact...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hacia JG,Collins FS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rare variants in hundreds of genes have been implicated in developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID) and neurobehavioural phenotypes. TNRC6B encodes a protein important for RNA silencing. Heterozygous truncating variants have been reported in three patients from large cohorts with autism, but no...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Granadillo JL,P A Stegmann A,Guo H,Xia K,Angle B,Bontempo K,Ranells JD,Newkirk P,Costin C,Viront J,Stumpel CT,Sinnema M,Panis B,Pfundt R,Krapels IPC,Klaassens M,Nicolai J,Li J,Jiang Y,Marco E,Canton A,Latronico

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosome 9 with a pericentric inversion involving the qh region is considered normal. It has probably evolved through breakage and reunion and is retained through mendelian inheritance without any apparent phenotypic consequences. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) technique using alpha, beta, and satell...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ramesh KH,Verma RS

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on three Dutch children with a clinical diagnosis of oculoauriculovertebral spectrum (OAVS) and hydrocephalus. The clinical features are compared to 15 published cases of OAVS and hydrocephalus. Several other cerebral abnormalities were present in the whole group. About half of the cases had cleft lip/palate...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schrander-Stumpel CT,de Die-Smulders CE,Hennekam RC,Fryns JP,Bouckaert PX,Brouwer OF,da Costa JJ,Lommen EJ,Maaswinkel-Mooy PD

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in technology have led to a massive expansion in the capacity for genomic analysis, with a commensurate fall in costs. The clinical indications for genomic testing have evolved markedly; the volume of clinical sequencing has increased dramatically; and the range of clinical professionals involved in the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Garrett A,Callaway A,Durkie M,Cubuk C,Alikian M,Burghel GJ,Robinson R,Izatt L,Talukdar S,Side L,Cranston T,Palmer-Smith S,Baralle D,Berry IR,Drummond J,Wallace AJ,Norbury G,Eccles DM,Ellard S,Lalloo F,Evans DG,W

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Fragile X syndrome is caused by mutations in the FMR1 gene and is one of the most frequent forms of inherited mental retardation in males. Postnatal and prenatal diagnosis of fragile X syndrome is feasible by direct DNA analysis. A new approach to prenatal diagnosis of fragile X syndrome in amniotic fluid cells is des...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willemsen R,Los F,Mohkamsing S,van den Ouweland A,Deelen W,Galjaard H,Oostra B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a life-threatening congenital disorder in which the enteric nervous system is completely missing from the distal gut. Recent studies have shown that miR-4516 markedly inhibits cell migration, and as one of its potential targets, MAPK10 functions as a modifier for developing HSC...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang Y,Jiang Q,Chakravarti A,Cai H,Xu Z,Wu W,Gu B,Li L,Cai W

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a group of genetic diseases characterised by tooth enamel defects. AI was recently described in patients with familial hypercalciuria and hypomagnesaemia with nephrocalcinosis (FHHNC) caused by CLDN16 mutations. In the kidney, claudin-16 interacts with claudin-19 to control th...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamaguti PM,Neves FA,Hotton D,Bardet C,de La Dure-Molla M,Castro LC,Scher MD,Barbosa ME,Ditsch C,Fricain JC,de La Faille R,Figueres ML,Vargas-Poussou R,Houillier P,Chaussain C,Babajko S,Berdal A,Acevedo AC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic causes of the majority of male and female infertility caused by human non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) with meiotic arrest are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To identify the genetic cause of NOA and POI in two affected members from a consanguineous Chinese family. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： He WB,Tu CF,Liu Q,Meng LL,Yuan SM,Luo AX,He FS,Shen J,Li W,Du J,Zhong CG,Lu GX,Lin G,Fan LQ,Tan YQ

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Schneckenbecken dysplasia (SBD) is an autosomal recessive lethal skeletal dysplasia that is classified into the severe spondylodysplastic dysplasias (SSDD) group in the international nosology for skeletal dysplasias. The radiological hallmark of SBD is the snail-like configuration of the hypoplastic iliac bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Furuichi T,Kayserili H,Hiraoka S,Nishimura G,Ohashi H,Alanay Y,Lerena JC,Aslanger AD,Koseki H,Cohn DH,Superti-Furga A,Unger S,Ikegawa S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with unilateral radial aplasia, asymmetry, other malformations, and severe physical and mental retardation is reported. In blood and bone marrow cultures a low mosaicism for trisomy 22 was found. In a few cells a chromosome 22 was missing. The importance of early cytogenetic analysis on large numbers of cells ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dulitzky F,Shabtal F,Zlotogora J,Halbrecht I,Elian E

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00