Tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome. The first case in Japan.

abstract：:A new G6PD variant has been detected in a Cuban male and there is no evidence of associated hematological abnormalities. The main characteristics of this variant, moderate deficiency, slow electrophoretic mobility, increased utilization of the substrate analogues, and a different chromatographic behavior, indicate tha...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： González R,Estrada M,García M,Gutierrez A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and chimpanzee karyotypes differ by virtue of nine pericentric inversions that serve to distinguish human chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, and 18 from their chimpanzee orthologues. In this study, we have analysed the breakpoints of the pericentric inversion characteristic of chimpanzee chromosome 4, the h...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Szamalek JM,Goidts V,Chuzhanova N,Hameister H,Cooper DN,Kehrer-Sawatzki H

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal studies of the bone marrow and cultured peripheral blood cells in a 42-year-old female with the clinical and laboratory features typical for CML revealed a previously undescribed variant translocation involving chromosomes 12 and 22. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： van der Blij-Philipsen M,Breed WP,Hustinx TW

更新日期：1977-11-10 00:00:00

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：:CAG/CTG repeat expansions cause at least 12 different neurological disorders, and additional disorders of this type probably exist. Using the repeat expansion detection (RED) assay, we identified an expanded CAG/CTG repeat in a 50-year-old woman with an autosomal dominant syndrome with prominent progressive sensory ne...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Holmes SE,Wentzell JS,Seixas AI,Callahan C,Silveira I,Ross CA,Margolis RL

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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：:Field inversion gel electrophoresis (FIGE) of SfiI-digested chromosomal DNA was used to demonstrate a 50-kb deletion in one allele of the gene encoding the beta subunit of human hexosaminidase (HEXB at 5q13) of two apparently unrelated patients with Sandhoff disease. In conventional electrophoretic restriction analysi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bikker H,van den Berg FM,Wolterman RA,de Vijlder JJ,Bolhuis PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Basal levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) have been associated with disease, particularly future cardiovascular events. Twin studies estimate 50% CRP heritability, so the identification of genetic variants influencing CRP expression is important. Existing studies in populations of European ancestry have identified nume...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rhodes B,Morris DL,Subrahmanyan L,Aubin C,de Leon CF,Kelly JF,Evans DA,Whittaker JC,Oksenberg JR,De Jager PL,Vyse TJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a dominantly inherited neuromuscular disorder characterised by muscle weakness and wasting. There are two forms of DM; both of which are caused by the expansion of repeated DNA sequences. DM1 is associated with a CTG repeat located in the 3' untranslated region of a gene, DMPK and DM2 with a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Machuca-Tzili L,Thorpe H,Robinson TE,Sewry C,Brook JD

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that a defect of the interleukin common gamma subunit (gamma c) in X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) previously known as a missense mutation resulted instead in exon skipping in a Japanese XSCID patient. The phenotype of the patient was consistent with that of typical XSCID, and his Epst...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kanai N,Yanai F,Hirose S,Nibu K,Izuhara K,Tani T,Kubota T,Mitsudome A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell morphology of long-term cultures of amniotic fluid cells from 10 fetuses with a neural tube defect (NTD) and three with omphalocele was examined and compared to 30 long-term cultures of normal amniotic fluids as well as a long-term culture of human fetal brain. Cultures from the amniotic fluids of the fetuses...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Medina-Gómez P,Johnston TH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have calculated the relative frequency and the birth prevalence of lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) in The Netherlands based on all 963 enzymatically confirmed cases diagnosed during the period 1970-1996. The combined birth prevalence for all LSDs is 14 per 100,000 live births. Glycogenosis type II is the most fre...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Poorthuis BJ,Wevers RA,Kleijer WJ,Groener JE,de Jong JG,van Weely S,Niezen-Koning KE,van Diggelen OP

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that, whereas the Sardinian population as a whole is comparable to outbred populations for linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping of common variants, LD in Sardinian sub-isolates is more extended, making these populations particularly suitable for this approach. To evaluate the extent of LD betwee...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Angius A,Bebbere D,Petretto E,Falchi M,Forabosco P,Maestrale B,Casu G,Persico I,Melis PM,Pirastu M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various genetic loci harboring oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and genes for calcium receptors have been implicated in the development of parathyroid tumors. We have carried out loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies in chromosomes 1p, 1q, 3q, 6q, 11q, 13q, 15q, and X in a total of 89 benign parathyroid tumors. Of th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Farnebo F,Teh BT,Dotzenrath C,Wassif WS,Svensson A,White I,Betz R,Goretzki P,Sandelin K,Farnebo LO,Larsson C

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:A case of complete trisomy 5p due to a de novo translocation t(2;5)(q36;p11) with an isochromosome 5p is described. Complete trisomy 5p has been reported only once (Brimblecombe et al., 1977). The confusing literature relating to partial trisomy 5p is reviewed. Comparison of our case with the patients reported by Brim...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Leschot NJ,Lim KS

更新日期：1979-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of trisomy 21q223 with the Down's phenotype were analysed by in situ hybridization with specific probes previously located in the sub-bands 21q221 (SOD-A) and 21q223 (BCEI and COL6A). These studies give evidence that the clinical picture of Down's syndrome is at least to a great extent correlated with trisom...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pellissier MC,Laffage M,Philip N,Passage E,Mattei MG,Mattei JF

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The male-specific part of the human Y chromosome is widely used in forensic DNA analysis, particularly in cases where standard autosomal DNA profiling is not informative. A Y-chromosomal gene fragment is applied for inferring the biological sex of a crime scene trace donor. Haplotypes composed of Y-chromosomal short t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kayser M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair morphology is a highly divergent phenotype among human populations. We recently reported that a nonsynonymous SNP in the ectodysplasin A receptor (EDAR 1540T/C) is associated with head hair fiber thickness in an ethnic group in Thailand (Thai-Mai) and an Indonesian population. However, these Southeast Asian popul...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fujimoto A,Ohashi J,Nishida N,Miyagawa T,Morishita Y,Tsunoda T,Kimura R,Tokunaga K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are cytoplasmic proteins involved in intracellular fatty acid transport and metabolism. FABP2, the intestinal-type FABP, is expressed exclusively in enterocytes in the small intestine. In previous studies of an Ala54Thr substitution in FABP2, the Thr-allele showed association wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Damcott CM,Feingold E,Moffett SP,Barmada MM,Marshall JA,Hamman RF,Ferrell RE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pachytene chromomere map of bivalent 10 is presented. Recent results from high-resolution metaphase banding document a similar pattern of intrachromosomal differentiation. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hungerford DA,Hungerford AM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been suggested that short expansions of CAG repeat in the gene ATXN-2 causing SCA2 (spinocerebellar ataxia type 2) are associated with an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the populations of the USA and northern Europe. In this study, we investigated the role of ATXN-2 in Italian...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Corrado L,Mazzini L,Oggioni GD,Luciano B,Godi M,Brusco A,D'Alfonso S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several single-gene disorders with clinical and radiological characteristics similar to those observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients have been described. To evaluate whether this phenotypic overlap can be ascribed to a common genetic etiology, 28 genes known to present pathogenic mutations for 24 of these disord...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Traboulsee AL,Sadovnick AD,Encarnacion M,Bernales CQ,Yee IM,Criscuoli MG,Vilariño-Güell C

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previous single case reports from the literature showed the presence or absence of centromeric antigens at the site of the inactive centromeres in one (X;X) and in one (9;11) dicentric chromosome. We studied nine different dicentric chromosomes using anticentromeric antibodies and immunofluorescence techniques. In...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Peretti D,Maraschio P,Lambiase S,Lo Curto F,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained so far on the C3 polymorphism suggest that the system should be a valuable marker in population studies. The instability of the complement component C3 may, however, cause some practical problems in population genetic fieldwork, since a certain fraction of serum samples may be difficult to type with c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Seth PK,Seth S

更新日期：1976-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the role of the insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS2) gene (chromosome region: 13q34) in obesity, a complex disorder associated with insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, we determined single nucleotide polymorphims (SNPs) and complex haplotypes in women with morbid obesity and a body mass i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lautier C,El Mkadem SA,Renard E,Brun JF,Gris JC,Bringer J,Grigorescu F

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum has been shown to be a useful material for fetal gender determination and for screening tests for abnormal pregnancies except during early gestational ages. Maternal serum samples were obtained from 81 pregnant women during the 5th-10th weeks of gestation. Fetal gender was determ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Honda H,Miharu N,Ohashi Y,Samura O,Kinutani M,Hara T,Ohama K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old girl with classical Prader-Willi Syndrome was found to have a 14;15 Robertsonian translocation--45,XX,t(14;15)(p11;q11). This type of Robertsonian translocation was not found in any patient from 8 surveys covering 6144 patients with mental retardation. Chromosome 15 has been involved in translocations in...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Smith A,Noel M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00