Variation in the FABP2 promoter alters transcriptional activity and is associated with body composition and plasma lipid levels.

abstract：:A male patient with mental retardation and typical clinical features of 10p trisomy syndrome was found to have a duplication of the short arm of chromosome 10 attached to the short arm of the Y chromosome. Quantitative evaluation of nine red cell enzymes showed significantly increased activity levels of HK1 and, to a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dallapiccola B,Chessa L,Vignetti P,Ferrante E,Gandini E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive method presented, using an "air culturing" technique, is capable of enriching for fetal cells in lymphocyte cultures of maternal blood. Through a combination of Y-body fluorescence and chromosomal heteromorphisms in the maternal blood, the fetal cells can be detected and used for the prenatal diagnosis...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Selypes A,Lorencz R

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperinsulinism-hyperammonemia syndrome (HHS) has been shown to result from 'gain-of-function' mutations of the glutamate dehydrogenase (GlDH) gene, GLUD1. In the original report, all mutations were found in a narrow range of 27 base pairs within exons 11 and 12 which predicted an effect on the presumed allosteric...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santer R,Kinner M,Passarge M,Superti-Furga A,Mayatepek E,Meissner T,Schneppenheim R,Schaub J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it is widely appreciated that prostate cancers vary substantially in their propensity to progress to a life-threatening stage, the molecular events responsible for this progression have not been identified. Understanding these molecular mechanisms could provide important prognostic information relevant to more e...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schaid DJ,McDonnell SK,Zarfas KE,Cunningham JM,Hebbring S,Thibodeau SN,Eeles RA,Easton DF,Foulkes WD,Simard J,Giles GG,Hopper JL,Mahle L,Moller P,Badzioch M,Bishop DT,Evans C,Edwards S,Meitz J,Bullock S,Hope Q,G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the occurrence of bladder cancer is common, the molecular events underlying the pathogenesis of this cancer remain ill-defined. A loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at specific chromosomal loci may predispose individuals to the development of bladder cancer but this has not been examined in detail. Furthermore, the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shipman R,Schraml P,Colombi M,Raefle G,Ludwig CU

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HPS-1 gene is the first gene found to be responsible for the autosomal recessive disorder Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS). HPS is characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, a platelet storage pool deficiency, and ceroid lipofuscinosis. The HPS-1 gene has been mapped to chromosome 10q23.1-23.3 and encodes a 79-kDa p...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Huizing M,Anikster Y,Gahl WA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new polymorphism upstream of the gene for monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), an important enzyme in human physiology and behavior. The polymorphism, which is located 1.2 kb upstream of the MAOA coding sequences, consists of a 30-bp repeated sequence present in 3, 3.5, 4, or 5 copies. The polymorphism is in link...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sabol SZ,Hu S,Hamer D

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase (PTPS) activity is the major cause of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-deficient phenylketonuria. Two single base alterations of PTPS cDNA, a C-to-T transition at nucleotide 259 and a novel A-to-G transition at nucleotide 155 (according to cDNA sequence), were identified in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Liu TT,Hsiao KJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difference in DNA content of peripheral lymphocytes from normal males, normal females, and an individual with a 48 (xxxy) chromosome constitution was determined by rapid flow microfluorometric techniques. A similar comparison was performed using tissue culture fibroblasts derived from an individual with a 49 (xxxx...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cram LS,Lehman JM

更新日期：1977-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins of three anodal Gc1 variants, Gc1A16, 1A11, and 1A17, are characterized by the most acidic isoelectric points observed so far among the different Gc mutants. Stepwise removal of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) by treatment with neuraminidase was performed to estimate the degree of sialilation of these Gc v...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Thymann M,Hoste B,Scheffrahn W,Constans J,Cleve H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Thalassemia, a heterogeneous group of human anemias affecting the expression of beta-globin, is caused by a number of molecular defects. Restriction endonuclease mapping of ethnic populations has revealed many polymorphisms within and around the beta-like globin genes, combinations of which are assigned as haplot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beldjord C,Lapouméroulie C,Baird ML,Girot R,Adjrad L,Lenoir G,Benabadji M,Labie D

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteromorphisms of chromosomes 1, 9, and 16 were studied by C-banding in a population of 403 mentally retarded individuals from diverse ethnic groups. A significant difference in the distribution of heteromorphisms was found among the different racial groups. The Orientals had a larger C-band on chromosome 1 and a sma...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsuura J,Mayer M,Jacobs P

更新日期：1978-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Confined chorionic mosaicism, detected commonly on chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and occasionally in cultured amniotic fluid cells, is described in five pregnancies that showed confined chorionic mosaicism for trisomies 12, 13, 14, 17 and a marker chromosome. Cytogenetic findings in these pregnancies support the con...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kalousek DK,Dill FJ,Pantzar T,McGillivray BC,Yong SL,Wilson RD

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a systematic screening for mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator among Danish cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, we identified a mutation in exon 3 (394delTT); this mutation was found to be relatively common in Denmark. We therefore screened for 394delTT in Sweden and Norway, where ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schwartz M,Anvret M,Claustres M,Eiken HG,Eiklid K,Schaedel C,Stolpe L,Tranebjaerg L

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a polymorphic microsatellite (IVS17BCA) in intron 17B of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. It consists of an 11 to 20 CA/GT dinucleotide repeat, located 424 bp from exon 17B. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Morral N,Girbau E,Zielenski J,Nunes V,Casals T,Tsui LC,Estivill X

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 12 mutations associated with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) have been detected in the porphobilinogen deaminase gene in Swedish AIP families. Three of them are newly discovered and unique to the Swedish population: a splice mutation in intron 6 (int6+1), a missense mutation in exon 11 (Gly216Asp) and a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lundin G,Lee JS,Thunell S,Anvret M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single base substitution is responsible for the PI-Z mutation in alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency. The Z mutation, which is in exon V of the AAT gene, was analysed directly using a primer designed with a single base substitution in the DNA sequence. During the polymerase chain reaction with this primer, a restri...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dry PJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laird et al. (1987) hypothesized that there are at least four cis-acting alleles or 'chromosome states' at Xq27 that increasingly delay replication at this chromosomal area resulting in its increasing fragility in vitro. When on the inactive X chromosome, the proposed third ('mutated') allele can permanently block rea...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yu WD,Wenger SL,Steele MW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-causing mutations have been identified in various entities of autosomal dominant ataxia and in Friedreich's ataxia. However, no molecular pathogenic factor is known to cause idiopathic cerebellar ataxias. We investigated the CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats causing spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 an...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schöls L,Szymanski S,Peters S,Przuntek H,Epplen JT,Hardt C,Riess O

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest class of de novo chromosomal rearrangements in Down syndrome are rea(21q21q). Classically, these rearrangements have been termed Robertsonian translocations, implying an attachment of two different chromosome 21 homologues. Additionally, a Robertsonian translocation between two chromosomes 21 cannot be dis...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shaffer LG,Jackson-Cook CK,Meyer JM,Brown JA,Spence JE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:De novo chromosome structural abnormalities cannot always be diagnosed by the use of standard cytogenetic techniques. We applied a previously developed chromosome-band-specific painting method to the diagnosis of such rearrangements. The diagnostic procedures consisted of microdissection of an aberrant chromosomal reg...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ohta T,Tohma T,Soejima H,Fukushima Y,Nagai T,Yoshiura K,Jinno Y,Niikawa N

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that a large number of candidate genes coding for a tendency toward obesity have been identified and some findings have been replicated, we explored characteristics of those who would be most likely to obtain future genetic testing for this tendency. During a series of focus groups, obese respondents rated their...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Segal ME,Polansky M,Sankar P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex investigation of a spontaneous abortus with monosomy 21 was carried out. Phenotypic expression at the organism and tissue level was characterized by the pathology of the external form of the embryo and by abnormalities of the embryonic facial structures, the stomodeum, the anterior part of the primary gut, and...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuliev AM,Grinberg KN,Kukharenko VI,Kulazenko VP,Bogomazov EA

更新日期：1977-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA, also known as Rogers syndrome, OMIM 249270) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a triad of megaloblastic anemia, diabetes mellitus, and sensorineural deafness. Patients respond, to varying degrees, to treatment with megadoses of thiamine. We have rece...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Raz T,Barrett T,Szargel R,Mandel H,Neufeld EJ,Nosaka K,Viana MB,Cohen N

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since nine patients with infantile liver cirrhosis or hepatopathy associated with the Pi ZZ phenotype had been observed in recent years in the Children's Hospital of the University of Innsbruck, Tyrol, the distribution of the Pi types and the PiM subtypes was determined in the Tyrolean population. Apparently healthy b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Böhme A,Cleve H,Schönitzer D,Reissigl H,Kazda S,Müller W

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a mutation in the gene for methylmalonyl CoA mutase in a patient with the mut- phenotype of methylmalonic aciduria. This mutation (G717V) interferes with the binding of the deoxyadenosylcobalamin cofactor to the apoenzyme producing a mutant holoenzyme that is defective, but not completely...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crane AM,Martin LS,Valle D,Ledley FD

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown by discontinuous sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of human red cell membranes, followed by periodic acid Schiff (PAS) staining and densitometry, that the band PAS-3 (monomeric Ss glycoprotein) exhibits a polymorphism with respect to its staining intensity. In membranes of the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dahr W,Uhlenbruck G,Schmalisch R,Janssen E

更新日期：1976-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the segregation of the red blood cell determinant Xg in 12 families with X-linked inheritance of agammaglobulinemia (XLA) in 3-4 generations suggested linkage of Xg with XLA. One extensive pedigree of a Dutch family with XLA in eight generations was investigated for Xg and the quantitative polymorphism 12E7...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mensink EJ,Schot JD,Tippett P,Ott J,Schuurman RK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality. PTB pathophysiology overlaps with those of adult cardiovascular, immune and metabolic disorders (CIMD), with mechanisms including inflammation, immunotolerance, thrombosis, and nutrient metabolism. Whereas many genetic factors for CIMD have been identified,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Falah N,McElroy J,Snegovskikh V,Lockwood CJ,Norwitz E,Murray JC,Kuczynski E,Menon R,Teramo K,Muglia LJ,Morgan T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female child with mild dysmorphisms, motor and mental retardation had a 45,XX,-8,-8,+psu dic(8)(p23.3) karyotype in blood lymphocytes, skin fibroblasts and in a lymphoblastoid cell line. DNA analysis showed that the proposita was nullisomic for the 8pter region distal to D8S264, at less than 1 cM from the telomere. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Piantanida M,Dellavecchia C,Floridia G,Giglio S,Hoeller H,Dordi B,Danesino C,Schinzel A,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00