Marfan syndrome in a large family: response of family members to a screening programme.

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：:Costello syndrome is characterised by postnatal growth deficiency, coarse facies, redundant skin on the neck, palms, soles, and fingers, dark skin, acanthosis nigricans, and papillomata. The natural history evolves in two phases, a severe failure to thrive during the first months contrasting with a normal weight gain ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Philip N,Sigaudy S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with hypertrichosis cubiti who were referred for investigation of short stature. Two males, whose height was on and just below the 3rd centile respectively, were sporadic cases and two females with disproportionate short stature were mother and daughter. Radiological changes present in the fami...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： MacDermot KD,Patton MA,Williams MJ,Winter RM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late onset Huntington's disease is characterised by onset of symptoms after the age of 50 and is usually associated with a milder course. We have analysed the CAG trinucleotide repeat within the HD gene in 133 late onset patients from 107 extended families. The median upper allele size for the CAG repeat was 42 with a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kremer B,Squitieri F,Telenius H,Andrew SE,Theilmann J,Spence N,Goldberg YP,Hayden MR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Brazilian family of Italian descent is described in which the beta-thalassaemia gene is interacting with an alpha chain variant Hb Hasharon (alpha 47 Asp leads to His). One patient who was affected by homozygous beta 0-thalassaemia and heterozygous alpha Hasharon displayed the clinical picture of thalassaemia interm...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zago MA,Costa FF,Bottura C

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 Gaucher disease families were studied in an attempt to establish a phenotype/genotype correlation in affected persons and also to identify carriers accurately. In the Portuguese type 1 Gaucher patients, screening for mutations N370S, L444P, R463C, and 1066 + 1 G-->A allowed the identification of 85% of the alle...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Amaral O,Fortuna AM,Lacerda L,Pinto R,Sa Miranda MC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is one of the most common inherited disorders with an incidence of 1 in 3000. The search for NF1 mutations has been hampered by the overall size of the gene, the large number of exons, and the high mutation rate. To date, fewer than 90 mutations have been reported to the NF1 mutation analysis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Upadhyaya M,Maynard J,Osborn M,Huson SM,Ponder M,Ponder BA,Harper PS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report on the molecular defect underlying apolipoprotein CII (apoCII) deficiency in an Italian kindred. ApoCII serves as cofactor for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in triglyceride hydrolysis of chylomicrons and very low density lipoproteins. Homozygous apoCII deficiency manifests with type I hyperlipoprote...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tuzgöl S,Bijvoet SM,Bruin T,Kastelein JJ,Hayden MR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrophage resistance gene NRAMP1 regulates priming/activation of macrophages for enhanced TNF alpha, IL 1 beta, and MHC class II expression. Since all of these functions are of potential importance in the induction or maintenance or both of autoimmune disease, samples from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council's r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Shaw MA,Clayton D,Atkinson SE,Williams H,Miller N,Sibthorpe D,Blackwell JM

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Hirschsprung disease, mental retardation, microcephaly, and specific craniofacial dysmorphism were observed in three children from a large, consanguineous, Moroccan family. A fourth child showed similar clinical features, with the exception of Hirschsprung disease. The association of these abnormalities in these child...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brooks AS,Breuning MH,Osinga J,vd Smagt JJ,Catsman CE,Buys CH,Meijers C,Hofstra RM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with suspected hereditary liability to pressure palsies. Neurophysiological studies showed a mixed axonal-demyelinating sensory-motor polyneuropathy with focal slowing of conduction velocities at the common sites of entrapment. Morphological studies on sural nerve biopsy from the proband showed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sessa M,Nemni R,Quattrini A,Del Carro U,Wrabetz L,Canal N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the genetic linkage data between the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) gene and 57 markers on various autosomes, we have constructed an exclusion map for this disorder. The maximum likelihood location of the FSHD gene and the percentage of the excluded areas on each chromosome are presented here. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sarfarazi M,Upadhyaya M,Padberg G,Pericak-Vance M,Siddique T,Lucotte G,Lunt P

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selection for genetic testing of BRCA1/BRCA2 is an important area of healthcare. Although testing costs for mutational analysis are falling, costs in North America remain in excess of US$3000 (UK price can be 690 pounds). Guidelines in most countries use a 10-20% threshold of detecting a mutation in BRCA1/2 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Evans DG,Lalloo F,Cramer A,Jones EA,Knox F,Amir E,Howell A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND METHODS:Since the concept of the "two hit hypothesis" was introduced over 20 years ago, a wealth of genetic data has accumulated on the mutations found at tumour suppressor loci. Perhaps surprisingly, these data conceal large gaps in our knowledge which genetic and functional studies are beginning to u...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tomlinson IP,Roylance R,Houlston RS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register of families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been maintained in Wales since 1973. Since 1986 we have attempted to refine carrier status, and when necessary offer prenatal diagnosis, for those at significant risk by using intragenic probes. cDNA probes were included from the beginning of 1988. Thir...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Norman AM,Upadhyaya M,Thomas NS,Roberts K,Harper PS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a study of 138 index patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and their families, in which the selection of index patients was solely on the basis of their residence in Birmingham. Clinical analysis showed that severe disease was as likely to indicate dominant or non-genetic RP as to indicate recessive disease,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bundey S,Crews SJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New techniques of DNA analysis have been applied to the prenatal diagnosis of the common haemoglobin disorders. Currently, it is possible to provide a comprehensive programme for the prevention of these conditions, although this entails the use of several different techniques including globin chain synthesis analysis,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Weatherall DJ,Old JM,Thein SL,Wainscoat JS,Clegg JB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of breast cancer for unaffected men who test positive for a BRCA2 mutation is based on very few retrospective studies. We have used both retrospective and prospective analysis in 321 families with pathogenic BRCA2 mutations. Three breast cancers occurred in male first-degree relatives after family ascertainme...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Evans DG,Susnerwala I,Dawson J,Woodward E,Maher ER,Lalloo F

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5 day old male with bilateral anophthalmos, hypospadias, bifid scrotum, micrognathia, and cleft palate with normal chromosomes is described. There have been two case reports with similar clinical manifestations but associated with interstitial deletion of 14q (q22q23). We propose that either our patient represents a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Phadke SR,Sharma AK,Agarwal SS

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family study is presented in which the father of a girl with severe cystic fibrosis (CF) was also found to have CF but was mildly affected. He was diagnosed with three positive sweat tests including one after suppression with fludrocortisone. Genetic analysis showed that he is a compound heterozygote with the delta ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Barreto C,Pinto LM,Duarte A,Lavinha J,Ramsay M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a female case of orofaciodigital syndrome type I (OFD I) associated with polycystic kidneys and agenesis of the corpus callosum. She had chronic renal failure requiring maintenance dialysis and significant neurological deficits. Her mother had less severe OFD I associated with polycystic kidneys but her rena...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Connacher AA,Forsyth CC,Stewart WK

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing interest in the influence of host genetic factors on hepatic fibrosis, and whether genetic markers can reliably identify subjects at risk of developing severe disease. We hypothesised that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected subjects with progressive fibrosis, classified using strict criteri...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Richardson MM,Powell EE,Barrie HD,Clouston AD,Purdie DM,Jonsson JR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the clinical and cytogenetic findings of two patients with deletions of the long arm of chromosome 2. One has an interstitial deletion identical to that found in a previously reported patient, although they are phenotypically dissimilar. The other patient has a terminal deletion, the first such deletion re...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young RS,Shapiro SD,Hansen KL,Hine LK,Rainosek DE,Guerra FA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a tumour predisposition syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. The condition is characterised by predisposition to benign leiomyomas of the skin and the uterus, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and uterine leiomyosar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehtonen HJ,Kiuru M,Ylisaukko-Oja SK,Salovaara R,Herva R,Koivisto PA,Vierimaa O,Aittomäki K,Pukkala E,Launonen V,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XHED) affects many epithelial functions, including sweat gland formation. Female carriers who manifest XHED may have defective dentition or a patchy distribution of sweating or both, as determined by starch and iodine sweat testing. Such sweat testing can be useful in assign...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Clarke A,Burn J

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21-hydroxylase deficiency is a recessively inherited disorder of steroidogenesis, resulting from mutations in the CYP21 gene. This 3.5 kb gene and a highly related CYP21P pseudogene reside on tandemly duplicated 30 kb segments of DNA in the class III HLA region, and the great majority of pathogenic mutations result fr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lako M,Ramsden S,Campbell RD,Strachan T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a multisystem disease with a prevalence of 1/4000. Variable expression of congenital and later onset features contributes to its under-recognition. Longevity in those surviving childhood is believed to be normal but data are limited. METHODS:We prospectively followed...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bassett AS,Chow EW,Husted J,Hodgkinson KA,Oechslin E,Harris L,Silversides C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In hereditary cancer syndrome families with an identified cancer associated mutation, mutation testing changes the carrier risk status of the tested person and may change the carrier risk status of relatives. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to describe the change in the distribution of carrier risk status resulting...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Watson P,Narod SA,Fodde R,Wagner A,Lynch JF,Tinley ST,Snyder CL,Coronel SA,Riley B,Kinarsky Y,Lynch HT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In phenylketonuria, genetic heterogeneity, frequent compound heterozygosity, and the lack of functional data for phenylalanine hydroxylase genotypes hamper reliable phenotype prediction and individualised treatment. METHODS:A literature search revealed 690 different phenylalanine hydroxylase genotypes in 30...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Danecka MK,Woidy M,Zschocke J,Feillet F,Muntau AC,Gersting SW

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00