Molecular diagnosis of the Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes by detection of parent-of-origin specific DNA methylation in 15q11-13.

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：:This paper summarizes previous chromosomal studies in patients with the Cornelia de Lange syndrome showing abnormal karyotypes. We report on 45 cases of the Cornelia de Lange syndrome clinically examined by one of us (B.B.) and chromosomally studied using several different methods. Two abnormal karyotypes were found: ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beck B,Mikkelsen M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive fibrotic lung disorder of unknown etiology and unclear pathogenesis. Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) is strongly upregulated and may contribute to the abnormal remodeling that characterizes the disease. We conducted a case-control study of 130 IPF pat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Checa M,Ruiz V,Montaño M,Velázquez-Cruz R,Selman M,Pardo A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old Hungarian boy (B.J.Jr.) with congenital haemolytic anaemia (CHA) and hyperkinetic torsion dyskinesia was found to have severe triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency. One of his two brothers (A.J.), a 23-year-old amateur wrestler, has CHA as well, but no neurological symptoms. Both have less than 10%...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hollán S,Fujii H,Hirono A,Hirono K,Karro H,Miwa S,Harsányi V,Gyódi E,Inselt-Kovács M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sanfilippo syndrome type B (mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the inability to degrade heparan sulfate because of a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme alpha-N-acetylglucosaminidase (NAGLU). We performed mutation screening in a group of 20 patients, identyifing 28 mutat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tessitore A,Villani GR,Di Domenico C,Filocamo M,Gatti R,Di Natale P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1108 tribal and 1062 non-tribal individuals from three districts of Andhra Pradesh were examined for serum albumin variants. A slow-moving variant, identical to Albumin Kashmir was found in a single Muslim individual. Another new slow-moving variant, faster than Albumin Kashmir found in a single individual of a Koya D...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rao PR,Goud JD,Swamy BR

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus (TNDM) is characterised by intra-uterine growth retardation, while Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a clinically heterogeneous overgrowth syndrome. Both TNDM and BWS may be caused by aberrant loss of methylation (LOM) at imprinted loci on chromosomes 6q24 and 11p15.5 respective...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mackay DJ,Hahnemann JM,Boonen SE,Poerksen S,Bunyan DJ,White HE,Durston VJ,Thomas NS,Robinson DO,Shield JP,Clayton-Smith J,Temple IK

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a genetic polymorphism of cytosol polypeptide with mol. wt. of 38,000 detected in phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Three different electrophoretic phenotypes (type 1-1, 2-1, 2-2) of the polypeptide have been identified in a Japanese po...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kondo I,Yamamoto T,Yamakawa K,Shibasaki M,Hamaguchi H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has been reported that recombination hotspots appear to be highly variable between humans and chimpanzees, and there is evidence for between-person variability in hotspots, and evolutionary transience. To understand the nature of variation in human recombination rates, it is important to describe patterns ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Graffelman J,Balding DJ,Gonzalez-Neira A,Bertranpetit J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened fourteen kindreds with X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets with four microsatellite markers, viz AFM163yh2, DXS999 (AFM234yf12), DXS443 and DXS365, in order to refine the genetic map flanking the gene, and to define a close flanking interval for the construction of a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rowe PS,Goulding J,Read A,Lehrach H,Francis F,Hanauer A,Oudet C,Biancalana V,Kooh SW,Davies KE

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：: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：:The GLI3 gene encodes a putative zinc finger transcription factor that is important in early vertebrate development. Haploinsufficiency of this gene has been associated with the Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome and truncation mutations cause Pallister-Hall syndrome. In the course of studies to determine the etiolo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kang S,Rosenberg M,Ko VD,Biesecker LG

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is characterized by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Two loci implicated in the disease have previously been mapped (PKD1 on chromosome 16 and PKD2 on chromosome 4). By two point and multipoint linkage analysis, negative lod scores have been found for both chromosome 16 ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Almeida S,de Almeida E,Peters D,Pinto JR,Távora I,Lavinha J,Breuning M,Prata MM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COCH is the most abundantly expressed gene in the cochlea. Unsurprisingly, mutations in COCH underly hearing loss in mice and humans. Two forms of hearing loss are linked to mutations in COCH, the well-established autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss, with or without vestibular dysfunction (DFNA9) via a gain-o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Booth KT,Ghaffar A,Rashid M,Hovey LT,Hussain M,Frees K,Renkes EM,Nishimura CJ,Shahzad M,Smith RJ,Ahmed Z,Azaiez H,Riazuddin S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographical distribution of 49 mtDNA sequences from 22 localities in Southern Tuscany, Italy, was studied by molecular analysis of variance, by a new spatial autocorrelation statistic specifically designed for sequence data and by reconstructing genealogies of haplotypes. All these methods indicated a high homoge...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bertorelle G,Calafell F,Francalacci P,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight unrelated patients with Hunter syndrome were investigated for expression of iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) mRNA by reverse transcription (RT) linked to polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or RT-PCR. The entire coding region was studied by amplification of two overlapping segments of 0.7 and 1.1 kb. Seven children with...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crotty PL,Whitley CB

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1278insTATC is the most prevalent beta-hexosaminidase A ( HEXA) gene mutation causing Tay-Sachs disease (TSD), one of the four lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) occurring at elevated frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews (AJs). To investigate the genetic history of this mutation in the AJ population, a conserved haplot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Frisch A,Colombo R,Michaelovsky E,Karpati M,Goldman B,Peleg L

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Glycogen storage disease type IIIa (GSD IIIa) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficiency of the glycogen-debranching enzyme (AGL). Recent studies of the AGL gene have revealed the prevalent mutations in North African Jewish and Caucasian populations, but whether these common mutations are present in other...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Okubo M,Horinishi A,Takeuchi M,Suzuki Y,Sakura N,Hasegawa Y,Igarashi T,Goto K,Tahara H,Uchimoto S,Omichi K,Kanno H,Hayasaka K,Murase T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic preparations from oocytes remaining unfertilised after in vitro fertilisation revealed single chromatids (as opposed to whole chromosomes) in 4 out of 38 meiosis II metaphases. In one oocyte, a single chromatid was present in addition to the normal 23,X complement, and in three oocytes, two identical but s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Angell RR

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are genetically heterogenous conditions, often characterized by early onset, EEG interictal epileptiform abnormalities, polymorphous and drug-resistant seizures, and neurodevelopmental impairments. In this study, we investigated the genetic defects in two siblings wh...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fichera M,Failla P,Saccuzzo L,Miceli M,Salvo E,Castiglia L,Galesi O,Grillo L,Calì F,Greco D,Amato C,Romano C,Elia M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumor cells, after x-irradiation during the G2 phase of the cell cycle, show an abnormally high frequency of persistent chromatid breaks and gaps resulting from deficient DNA repair. Addition of a single human chromosome 11 from normal fibroblasts by micro-cell fusion to cell lines from six different tumors resu...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Parshad R,Price FM,Oshimura M,Barrett JC,Satoh H,Weissman BE,Stanbridge EJ,Sanford KK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 195 random chromosome 22-specific probes, equivalent to approximately 1% of the size of this chromosome, have been isolated from a chromosome 22-specific bacteriophage lambda genomic library. These probes were mapped to four different regions of chromosome 22 on a panel of five somatic cell hybrids. Restri...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dumanski JP,Geurts van Kessel AH,Ruttledge M,Wladis A,Sugawa N,Collins VP,Nordenskjöld M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last few years, much progress has been made in the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. In the past, no specific therapy was available for the affected patients, and management consisted solely of supportive care and treatment of complications. Since enzyme replacement therapy has been successfully int...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beck M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is introduced for simultaneously using multiple loci to estimate admixture and test goodness of fit of the model of admixture. Deviation of observed frequencies from expectation caused by sources of error such as sampling and/or drift is allowed for all loci in all populations. This allows investigation of th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wijsman EM

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can significantly contribute to the characterization of the genes predisposing to iron overloads or deficiencies. We report an SNP survey of coding and non-coding regions of eight genes involved in iron metabolism, by two successive methods. First, we made use of the public domai...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Douabin-Gicquel V,Soriano N,Ferran H,Wojcik F,Palierne E,Tamim S,Jovelin T,McKie AT,Le Gall JY,David V,Mosser J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique two allele polymorphism for both HpaII and SmaI is described in the second intron of the human atrial natriuretic peptide gene. It should be a useful marker of this candidate gene in familial susceptibility to hypertension. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ramasawmy R,Kotea N,Lu C,Sayada C,Baligadoo S,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00