Linkage analysis of two families with X-linked recessive congenital motor nystagmus.

abstract：:As the mouse nasal embryonic LHRH factor gene (Nelf) encodes a guidance molecule for the migration of the olfactory axon and gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons, its human homolog, NELF, is a candidate gene for Kallmann syndrome, a disease of idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) with anosmia or hyposmia. ...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Miura K,Acierno JS Jr,Seminara SB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a common debilitating primary headache disorder with significant mental, physical and social health implications. The brain neurotransmitter 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; serotonin) is involved in nociceptive pathways and has been implicated in the pathophysiology of migraine. With few genetic studies investi...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Johnson MP,Griffiths LR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of epigenetic control in the development of the central nervous system has recently been attracting attention. Methylation patterns of lysine 4 and lysine 36 in histone H3 (H3K4 and H3K36) in the central nervous system are highly conserved among species. Numerous complications of body malformations and ...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Yokotsuka-Ishida S,Nakamura M,Tomiyasu Y,Nagai M,Kato Y,Tomiyasu A,Umehara H,Hayashi T,Sasaki N,Ueno SI,Sano A

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a novel de novo heterozygous missense mutation in the NEDD4L gene (NM_015277: c.2617G>A; p.Glu873Lys) through whole-exome sequencing in a 3-year-old girl showing severe global developmental delay, infantile spasms, cleft palate, periventricular nodular heterotopia and polymicrogyria. Mutations in the HEC...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Kato K,Miya F,Hori I,Ieda D,Ohashi K,Negishi Y,Hattori A,Okamoto N,Kato M,Tsunoda T,Yamasaki M,Kanemura Y,Kosaki K,Saitoh S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol response is a genetically influenced trait, and there is significant variation in the patterns of alcohol consumption between Māori and Caucasians in New Zealand. Previous studies have found that a variant of the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) gene (ADH1B*47His) is associated with protection against alcohol depen...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Hall DA,Chambers GK,Lea RA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential hypersomnia (EHS) is a lifelong disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness without cataplexy. EHS is associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQB1*06:02, similar to narcolepsy with cataplexy (narcolepsy). Previous studies suggest that DQB1*06:02-positive and -negative EHS are different in te...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Miyagawa T,Khor SS,Toyoda H,Kanbayashi T,Imanishi A,Sagawa Y,Kotorii N,Kotorii T,Ariyoshi Y,Hashizume Y,Ogi K,Hiejima H,Kamei Y,Hida A,Miyamoto M,Ikegami A,Wada Y,Takami M,Higashiyama Y,Miyake R,Kondo H,Fujimura

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to understand the tissue specificity of DNA methylation and the relationship between methylation and expression of genes with essential roles in neurodevelopment and brain function. We chose dopamine receptor genes (DRD1 and DRD2), NCAM, and COMT as examples of genes with CpG islan...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Shen HM,Nakamura A,Sugimoto J,Sakumoto N,Oda T,Jinno Y,Okazaki Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of anticipation in schizophrenia is a recent focus in the genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia, although it involves some controversial methodological issues. We explored the evidence of anticipation among 44 Japanese two-generation pairs with schizophrenia found by reviewing nine years of admissio...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Imamura A,Honda S,Nakane Y,Okazaki Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inborn errors of metabolism can cause epileptic encephalopathies. Biallelic loss-of-function variants in the ITPA gene, encoding inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase (ITPase), have been reported in epileptic encephalopathies with lack of myelination of the posterior limb of the internal capsule, brainstem tracts, and ...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Sakamoto M,Kouhei D,Haniffa M,Silva S,Troncoso M,Santander P,Schonstedt V,Stecher X,Okamoto N,Hamanaka K,Mizuguchi T,Mitsuhashi S,Miyake N,Matsumoto N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous disruptions in FOXP1 are responsible for developmental delay, intellectual disability and speech deficit. Heterozygous germline PTCH1 disease-causing variants cause Gorlin syndrome. We describe a girl with extreme megalencephaly, developmental delay and severe intellectual disability. Dysmorphic features ...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Zombor M,Kalmár T,Maróti Z,Zimmermann A,Máté A,Bereczki C,Sztriha L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated the murine counterpart of the human P2XM gene (mP2XM), a P2X purinoceptor that is expressed predominantly in skeletal muscle. The mP2XM gene, consisting of 12 exons that span 10 kb of genomic DNA, encodes a 379-amino-acid product with 83% identity to the human homologue. Two potential transmembrane do...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Nawa G,Urano T,Tokino T,Ochi T,Miyoshi Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO) is a red blood cell abnormality common in malaria-endemic regions and caused by a 27 nt deletion of the band 3 protein gene. Since band 3 protein, also known as anion exchanger 1, is expressed in renal distal tubules, the incidence of SAO was examined in distal renal tubular acidosis...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Yusoff NM,Van Rostenberghe H,Shirakawa T,Nishiyama K,Amin N,Darus Z,Zainal N,Isa N,Nozu H,Matsuo M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of the erythropoietin (Epo) 3' enhancer in the activation of gene expression in response to hypoxia were investigated. The enhancer contains hypoxia-inducible enhancer binding site 1 (HIF-1 element) and two direct repeats of hexanucleotide consensus nuclear receptor half site (HNF-4 element). HIF-1, which is...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Zhang W,Tsuchiya T,Yasukochi Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In successive reports from 2014 to 2015, X-ray repair cross-complementing protein 4 (XRCC4) has been identified as a novel causative gene of primordial dwarfism. XRCC4 is indispensable for non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), the major pathway for repairing DNA double-strand breaks. As NHEJ is essential for V(D)J recomb...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Saito S,Kurosawa A,Adachi N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple genomic disorders result from recurrent deletions or duplications between low copy repeat (LCR) clusters, mediated by nonallelic homologous recombination. These copy number variants (CNVs) often exhibit variable expressivity and/or incomplete penetrance. However, the population prevalence of many genomic diso...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Gillentine MA,Lupo PJ,Stankiewicz P,Schaaf CP

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of outbred populations were first shown in 2006 to contain regions of homozygosity (ROHs) of several megabases. Further studies have also investigated the characteristics of ROHs in healthy individuals in various populations but there are no studies on Singapore populations to date. This study aims to iden...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Teo SM,Ku CS,Salim A,Naidoo N,Chia KS,Pawitan Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is one of the most common subtypes of mitochondrial disease. Mutations in encoding genes of oxidative phosphorylation complexes have been frequently reported, of which, MTATP6 was one of the most frequently reported genes for Leigh syndrome. In this study, by using next-generation sequencing targeted to...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Lou X,Shi H,Wen S,Li Y,Wei X,Xie J,Ma L,Yang Y,Fang H,Lyu J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Japanese Genetic Research Group for Eating Disorders (JGRED) is a multisite collaborative study group that was organized for the systematic recruitment of patients with an eating disorder for the purpose of genetic study in Japan. We conducted a genome-wide case-control association study using 23 465 highly polymo...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Nakabayashi K,Komaki G,Tajima A,Ando T,Ishikawa M,Nomoto J,Hata K,Oka A,Inoko H,Sasazuki T,Japanese Genetic Research Group for Eating Disorders (JGRED).,Shirasawa S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) has been shown to be due to mutations in the LMNA gene encoding nuclear lamins A and C, indicating that defective structure of the nuclear envelope can produce this unique phenotype. Some patients with inherited partial lipodystrophy have normal LMNA coding, promoter, and 3'-untra...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Hegele RA,Yuen J,Cao H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vinyl chloride (VC) is a human carcinogen known to undergo metabolism by cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) to reactive intermediates that can cause oncogene and tumor suppressor gene mutations and that are further metabolized by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) and glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs) to non-mutagenic end p...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Schindler J,Li Y,Marion MJ,Paroly A,Brandt-Rauf PW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA encoding a novel protein was isolated and sequenced from a human placental cDNA library. This cDNA consists of 1,735 base pairs and has a predicted open reading frame (ORF) encoding 354 amino acids. It possesses a putative signal sequence, a long extracellular domain, a transmembrane region, a short...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Ichigotani Y,Matsuda S,Machida K,Oshima K,Iwamoto T,Yamaki K,Hayakawa T,Hamaguchi M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PlexinA is a neuronal receptor protein that facilitates axon guidance during embryogenesis. This gene is associated with several neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and autism. However, the effect of variants of PlexinA on brain structure remains unclear. We demonstrate that singl...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Belyk M,Kraft SJ,Brown S,Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics Study.

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, X-linked gene products can be dosage compensated between males and females by inactivation of one of the two X chromosomes in the developing female embryos. X inactivation choice is usually random in embryo mammals, but several mechanisms can influence the choice determining skewed X inactivation. As a con...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Cau M,Addis M,Congiu R,Meloni C,Cao A,Santaniello S,Loi M,Emma F,Zuffardi O,Ciccone R,Sole G,Melis MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human minisatellite B6.7 shows extensive allele length and structural variability in north Europeans. We analysed this locus in the Japanese population. Allele size distributions showed that Japanese retain extensive allele length variability but have significantly smaller alleles compared with north Europeans. In con...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Mizukoshi T,Tamaki K,Azumi J,Matsumoto H,Imai K,Jeffreys AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genetic loci (JAZF1, CDC123/CAMK1D, TSPAN8/LGR5, ADAMTS9, VEGFA and HHEX-IDE) were identified to be significantly related to the risk of type 2 diabetes and quantitative metabolic traits in European populations. Here, we aimed to evaluate the impacts of these novel loci on type 2 diabetes risk in a population-...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Zhou DZ,Liu Y,Zhang D,Liu SM,Yu L,Yang YF,Zhao T,Chen Z,Kan MY,Zhang ZF,Feng GY,Xu H,He L

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name Fon-Jou Hsieh was inadvertently omitted from the list of authors. The name should be added as the third author of the article. ...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Lai LP,Su YN,Hsieh FJ,Chiang FT,Juang JM,Liu YB,Ho YL,Chen WJ,Yeh SJ,Wang CC,Ko YL,Wu TJ,Ueng KC,Lei MH,Tsao HM,Chen SA,Lin TK,Wu MH,Lo HM,Huang SKS,Lin JL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To conduct a long-term birth cohort study that includes genetic analysis, it is crucial to understand the attitudes of participants to genetic analysis and then take appropriate approaches for addressing their ambiguous and negative attitudes. This study aimed to explore participants' attitudes toward genetic analysis...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Yamamoto M,Sakurai K,Mori C,Hata A

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that is clinically characterized by cerebellar ataxia and various associated symptoms. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion of the CAG repeat in the MJD gene. This gene is mapped to chromosome 14q32.1. To determine its genomic s...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Ichikawa Y,Goto J,Hattori M,Toyoda A,Ishii K,Jeong SY,Hashida H,Masuda N,Ogata K,Kasai F,Hirai M,Maciel P,Rouleau GA,Sakaki Y,Kanazawa I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygosity for the C677T mutation in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase ( MTHFR) gene is a risk factor for neural tube defects (NTDs) in many populations, including Italians. Another common mutation on the MTHFR gene, A1298C, has also been described as a risk mutation. Furthermore, several studies have suggeste...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： De Marco P,Calevo MG,Moroni A,Arata L,Merello E,Finnell RH,Zhu H,Andreussi L,Cama A,Capra V

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple testing occurs commonly in genome-wide association studies with dense SNPs map. With numerous SNPs, not only the genotyping cost and time increase dramatically, many family wise error rate (FWER) controlling methods may fail for being too conservative and of less power when detecting SNPs associated with dise...

journal_title：Journal of human genetics

authors： Wen SH,Hsiao CK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00