Increased risk of cancer in patients with fumarate hydratase germline mutation.

abstract：:A child with the Tel Hashomer camptodactyly syndrome is reported. Although muscle weakness and hypoplasia are reported features of this syndrome, further investigation of muscle function has not previously been carried out. We report a raised creatine kinase and an abnormal electromyogram and muscle biopsy in this syn...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Patton MA,McDermot KD,Lake BD,Baraitser M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of a baby with lethal perinatal osteogenesis imperfecta (OI-II), resulting from the substitution of tryptophan 94 by cysteine in the carboxyl-terminal propeptide of pro alpha 1 (I) chains of type I procollagen, were studied. The limbs and torso were of normal length, shape, and proportion. Similarly, all ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cole WG,Chow CW,Bateman JF,Sillence DO

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical genetic theory, based on assumed equal mutation rates in males and females, predicts that one-third of all cases of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a generation are born as new mutants to non-carrier mothers. Furthermore, less than half the mothers of apparently isolated cases appear to be carriers on t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lane RJ,Robinow M,Roses AD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal akinesia refers to a broad spectrum of disorders in which the unifying feature is a reduction or lack of fetal movement. Fetal akinesias may be caused by defects at any point along the motor system pathway including the central and peripheral nervous system, the neuromuscular junction and the muscle, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ravenscroft G,Sollis E,Charles AK,North KN,Baynam G,Laing NG

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) affects 1% of women under 40 years and is a public health problem. The genetic causes of POI are highly heterogeneous with isolated or syndromic forms. Recently, variants in genes involved in DNA repair have been shown to cause POI. Notably, syndromic POI with Fanconi anae...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Caburet S,Heddar A,Dardillac E,Creux H,Lambert M,Messiaen S,Tourpin S,Livera G,Lopez BS,Misrahi M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Mutations in SCN1A can cause genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+, inherited missense mutations) or Dravet syndrome (DS, de novo mutations of all types). Although the mutational spectra are distinct, these disorders share major features and 10% of DS patients have an inherited SCN1A mutation. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Depienne C,Trouillard O,Gourfinkel-An I,Saint-Martin C,Bouteiller D,Graber D,Barthez-Carpentier MA,Gautier A,Villeneuve N,Dravet C,Livet MO,Rivier-Ringenbach C,Adam C,Dupont S,Baulac S,Héron D,Nabbout R,Leguern E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate ABH-gene specified glycosyltransferases in the plasma of the Birmingham chimaera were estimated. These observatiions and the demonstration of A1Leb blood group specific glycosphingolipid in the plasma indicate that the minority population of red blood cells probably represents the true blood groups of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bird GW,Battey DA,Greenwell P,Mortimer CW,Watkins WM,Wingham J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple genes have been provisionally associated with Alzheimer's disease, including the coding polymorphisms in exons 8 and 13 in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR), situated on chromosome 19p13.2. METHODS:The sample groups consisted of 180 AD patients and 141 control spouses. We carried out...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cheng D,Huang R,Lanham IS,Cathcart HM,Howard M,Corder EH,Poduslo SE

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 7 and postnatal growth failure has been reported in four cases and suggests the presence of genomic imprinting of one or more growth related genes on chromosome 7. However, in the reported cases, the possibility of homozygosity for a recessive mutation coul...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Langlois S,Yong SL,Wilson RD,Kwong LC,Kalousek DK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a prominent finding in the setting of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). OBJECTIVE:The present study was designed to compare cystic lung changes consistent with LAM in patients with a TSC1 disease-causing mutation, TSC2 disease-causing mutation, or no mutation identified (NM...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Muzykewicz DA,Sharma A,Muse V,Numis AL,Rajagopal J,Thiele EA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oguchi disease is a rare autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness. The condition is associated with fundus discolouration and abnormally slow dark adaptation. Earlier studies suggested that the 48 kD protein S antigen may be involved in the recovery phase of light transduction. Previous cytoge...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maw MA,John S,Jablonka S,Müller B,Kumaramanickavel G,Oehlmann R,Denton MJ,Gal A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three sisters and their father with a reciprocal balanced translocation, rcp t(8;11)(q24.3;p15.1) and the same abnormal phenotypes, including mental retardation, growth disturbance, and amblyopia. It is considered that the abnormal phenotypes in our four cases might result from a tiny deletion or gene mutati...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sato H,Takaya K,Nihira S,Fujita H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male infant, partially trisomic for a small segment of chromosomes 6 and 22 resulting from a maternal translocation, is described. Comparison of the phenotypic features of the proband with those noted in partial 6p and partial 22 trisomies revealed some common features found in both chromosome anomalies but especial...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scarbrough PR,Carroll AJ,Finley SC,Hamerick K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split hand-split foot malformation (SHFM) is a genetically heterogeneous limb developmental defect characterised by the absence of digital rays and syndactyly of the remaining digits. Three disease loci have recently been mapped to chromosomes 7q21 (SHFM1), Xq26 (SHFM2), and 10q25 respectively (SHFM3). We report the m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Raas-Rothschild A,Manouvrier S,Gonzales M,Farriaux JP,Lyonnet S,Munnich A

更新日期：1996-12-01 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

abstract：:This paper describes a genetically male infant with impaired male sex development and partial 9p monosomy. The external genitalia were ambiguous with microphallus (penile length at birth 10 mm, mean age matched normal length 29 mm (SD 5)), hypospadias, and hypoplastic scrotum. The tests were undescended and severely h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogata T,Muroya K,Matsuo N,Hata J,Fukushima Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:We describe the clinical and cytogenetic findings in a child with retinoblastoma and a translocation between chromosomes X and 13. The X;13 translocation in this patient does not involve band 13q14, the assigned locus for retinoblastoma. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ponzio G,Savin E,Cattaneo G,Ghiotti MP,Marra A,Zuffardi O,Danesino C

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:World wide data on presymptomatic testing for Huntington's disease using closely linked DNA markers show that 1479 persons at risk received completed test results up to the end of 1991. Testing has been carried out in 19 countries, with at least 88 centres involved, and numbers have levelled off after a peak in 1990. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors：

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term decline in the incidence of the neural tube malformations, anencephaly and spina bifida (ASB), ended in the mid-1950's in New York State. Since that time, the rate of these birth defects has remained between 1 and 1.5/1000 births. In this low incidence population, we tested the basic tenets which support...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Janerich DT,Piper J

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X linked spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED) is caused by a growth defect of the vertebral bodies leading to characteristic changes in the vertebral bodies and a short trunk. The gene responsible for this disorder has previously been mapped to Xp22, with a maximum likelihood location between markers DXS16 and DXS92. We...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bernard LE,Chitayat D,Weksberg R,Van Allen MI,Langlois S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Succinate-CoA ligase deficiency is responsible for encephalomyopathy with mitochondrial DNA depletion and mild methylmalonic aciduria. Mutations in SUCLA2, the gene encoding a β subunit of succinate-CoA ligase, have been reported in 17 patients until now. Mutations in SUCLG1, encoding the α subunit of the en...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rouzier C,Le Guédard-Méreuze S,Fragaki K,Serre V,Miro J,Tuffery-Giraud S,Chaussenot A,Bannwarth S,Caruba C,Ostergaard E,Pellissier JF,Richelme C,Espil C,Chabrol B,Paquis-Flucklinger V

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DLG5 p.R30Q has been reported to be associated with Crohn disease (CD), but this association has not been replicated in most studies. A recent analysis of gender-stratified data from two case-control studies and two population cohorts found an association of DLG5 30Q with increased risk of CD in men but not ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Browning BL,Annese V,Barclay ML,Bingham SA,Brand S,Büning C,Castro M,Cucchiara S,Dallapiccola B,Drummond H,Ferguson LR,Ferraris A,Fisher SA,Gearry RB,Glas J,Henckaerts L,Huebner C,Knafelz D,Lakatos L,Lakatos PL,La

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is an inherited autosomal genodermatosis characterised by fibrofolliculomas of the skin, renal tumours and multiple lung cysts. Genetic studies have disclosed that the clinical picture as well as responsible germline FLCN mutations are diverse. OBJECTIVES:BHDS may be caused by...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kunogi M,Kurihara M,Ikegami TS,Kobayashi T,Shindo N,Kumasaka T,Gunji Y,Kikkawa M,Iwakami S,Hino O,Takahashi K,Seyama K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomes of a male patient who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with a molecular deletion were examined with an improved high resolution R type replication banding technique. High resolution cytogenetic analysis of the proband revealed a deletion of the Xp21.13 subband. His healthy mother was hete...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Werner W,Spiegler AW

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brother and two sisters of remotely consanguineous parents had congenital laryngeal abductor paralysis and moderate mental retardation. In the two older sibs, mental deficiency could have resulted from birth asphyxia, but the youngest girl was already microcephalic at birth and had no apparent asphyxia. The mother, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schinzel A,Hof E,Dangel P,Robinson W

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two sisters with macrocephaly, epilepsy, and severe mental retardation. The first child was a 14 year old girl born at term after a normal pregnancy, with birth weight 3600 g and occipitofrontal circumference (OFC) 36 cm (75th centile). Her head size increased markedly during the first six months of life, an...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Orstavik KH,Strømme P,Ek J,Torvik A,Skjeldal OH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aland Island eye disease (AIED) and X linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) have been mapped to Xp11.3. Patients have been described with deletions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene who also had a negative electroretinogram (ERG) similar to that seen in patients with CSNB and AIED. This seems...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jensen H,Warburg M,Sjö O,Schwartz M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00