A non-alphoid repetitive DNA sequence from human chromosome 21.

abstract：:A case of partial trisomy 9 is described in a mentally retarded and dysmorphic child, confirming that this chromosome unbalance results in a characteristic clinical entity. This trisomy arose through aberrant segregation of translocation chromosome during meiosis in the patient's mother, who is a balanced heterozygote...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dallapiccola B,Bollea G,Mazzilli C,Gandini E

更新日期：1976-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common inherited disease affecting one in 3,500 individuals. The mutation rate in the NF1 gene is one of the highest known for human genes. Compared to other methods, the protein truncation test (PTT) and subsequent sequence analysis of cloned cDNA provides improved efficiency in de...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wimmer K,Eckart M,Rehder H,Fonatsch C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature ovarian failure (POF) is an unexplained amenorrhoea (>6 months) with raised levels of gonadotropins (FSH>40 U/L) occurring before the age of 40 years. Recent studies have elucidated the role of oocyte derived growth factors (BMP15 and GDF9) in maintenance of folliculogenesis, granulosa cell (GC) proliferatio...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dixit H,Rao LK,Padmalatha VV,Kanakavalli M,Deenadayal M,Gupta N,Chakrabarty B,Singh L

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population and family studies have confirmed the existence of a plasma alpha-L-fucosidase polymorphism in humans and the autosomal recessive inheritance of the low activity trait. The frequency of the latter is estimated at 11%. The low activity individuals or variants can also be distinguished by the fact that their ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Willems PJ,Romeo E,Den Tandt WR,Van Elsen AF,Leroy JG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the clinical and cytogenetic findings in a female patient with secondary amenorrhea and normal phenotype. Some difficulties related to karyotype-phenotype correlation are discussed. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Branković S,Laća Z,Dramusić V,Ivanović M,Morić-Petrović S

更新日期：1979-04-17 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：:N-acetylation polymorphism is one of the representative pharmacogenetic traits that underlie interindividual and interethnic differences in response to xenobiotics. To develop a practical genotyping method to predict acetylator phenotype, we studied the conditions for accurate phenotyping, and identified the phenotype...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mashimo M,Suzuki T,Abe M,Deguchi T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human height is a complex trait regulated by multiple genetic and environmental factors. CYP19 (cytochrome P450 19) encodes aromatase, which catalyses the rate-limiting step in the conversion of androgens to estrogens. Deleterious mutations in CYP19 can result in estrogen deficiency that will influence adult height to...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yang TL,Xiong DH,Guo Y,Recker RR,Deng HW

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to investigate beta-globin gene polymorphism in the Saudi population, DNA samples were analysed using restriction endonucleases, Mst II and Hpa I. Both beta A and beta S genes showed extensive polymorphism and were found to be linked to 13.0 kb, 7.6 kb, 7.0 kb, and 5.6 kb Hpa I fragments. Three DNA sampl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： el-Hazmi MA,Jabbar FA,Al-Swailem AR,Warsy AS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipid activator protein (SAP) deficiency, previously described in two sibs and shown to be caused by the absence of the common saposin precursor (prosaposin), was further characterized by biochemical lipid and enzyme studies and by ultrastructural analysis. The 20-week-old fetal sib had increased concentrations...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bradová V,Smíd F,Ulrich-Bott B,Roggendorf W,Paton BC,Harzer K

更新日期：1993-09-01 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 girl with 46, XX, del (11) (q23), inv (9) (p13, q13) is described. The patient shows many dysplastic signs mainly of the face and skull. The pericentric inversion of chromosome 9 has been inherited from the mother (46, XX, inv (9) (p13, q13)). ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zabel B,Hansen S,Hilig U,Gröting-Imhof H

更新日期：1977-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The "out-of-Taiwan" model proposes a major Late Holocene expansion of Neolithic Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. An alternative, proposing that Late Glacial/postglacial se...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Soares PA,Trejaut JA,Rito T,Cavadas B,Hill C,Eng KK,Mormina M,Brandão A,Fraser RM,Wang TY,Loo JH,Snell C,Ko TM,Amorim A,Pala M,Macaulay V,Bulbeck D,Wilson JF,Gusmão L,Pereira L,Oppenheimer S,Lin M,Richards MB

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic disease with complex genetic background. It is characterized by necrotizing granulomatous inflammation of the upper and lower respiratory tract, glomerulonephritis, vasculitis and the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmatic autoantibodies (C-ANCAs) in sera of patients. Here...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jagiello P,Gencik M,Arning L,Wieczorek S,Kunstmann E,Csernok E,Gross WL,Epplen JT

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High resolution cytogenetics, microsatellite marker analyses, and fluorescence in situ hybridization were used to define Xq deletions encompassing the fragile X gene, FMR1, detected in individuals from two unrelated families. In Family 1, a 19-year-old male had facial features consistent with fragile X syndrome; howev...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wolff DJ,Gustashaw KM,Zurcher V,Ko L,White W,Weiss L,Van Dyke DL,Schwartz S,Willard HF

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown several risk alleles to be associated with breast cancer. However, the variants identified so far contribute to only a small proportion of disease risk. The objective of our GWAS was to identify additional novel breast cancer susceptibility variants and to rep...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sehrawat B,Sridharan M,Ghosh S,Robson P,Cass CE,Mackey JR,Greiner R,Damaraju S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to viral bronchiolitis, the commonest cause of infant admissions to hospital in the industrialised world, is associated with polymorphism at the IL8 locus. Here we map the genomic boundaries of the disease association by case-control analysis and TDT in 580 affected UK infants. Markers for association m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hull J,Rowlands K,Lockhart E,Sharland M,Moore C,Hanchard N,Kwiatkowski DP

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIG-A, the gene encoding the glycoinositol phospholipid anchor synthetic element that is defective in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), resides on the X chromosome. In the course of analyses of PIG-A genetic alterations in PNH patients, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of reverse-transcribed RNA ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nagarajan S,Brown CJ,Medof ME

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular twin nevi, i.e., telangiectatic nevus and nevus anemicus occurring together and adjacent to each other, can be explained as twin spots resulting from a somatic recombination. It is so far unclear, however, whether the postulated underlying autosomal recessive mutations are allelic. This problem can be approac...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Happle R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the frequency of an SstI polymorphism in 70 patients with chronic B-cell leukaemia (CLL) and 100 normal controls. There was a highly significant difference in the distribution of the three genotypes between the CLL patients and the normal controls (chi 2 = 13.46, 2 df, P < 0.001). The C2 allele was found mo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crossen PE,Morrison MJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified at least 133 ulcerative colitis (UC) associated loci. The role of genetic factors in clinical practice is not clearly defined. The relevance of genetic variants to disease pathogenesis is still uncertain because of not characterized gene-gene and gene-environment ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wang MH,Fiocchi C,Zhu X,Ripke S,Kamboh MI,Rebert N,Duerr RH,Achkar JP

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most commonly inherited renal diseases. ADPKD is a genetically heterogeneous disorder involving at least three different genes. PKD1, the major locus mapped to chromosome 16p13.3 accounts for approximately 85% of ADPKD cases. The search for mutations i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Perrichot RA,Mercier B,Simon PM,Whebe B,Cledes J,Ferec C

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex-chromosomal origin of the ring chromosome in a pre-pubertal non-virilized female patient presenting with a 45,X/46,X,r(?) karyotype could not be resolved by conventional cytogenetic (including G11) methods. Non-autoradiographic in situ hybridization of biotinylated X and Y centromere-specific alphoid repetitiv...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crolla JA,Llerena JC Jr

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new variants of erythrocyte glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase are discovered in 3 unrelated Ashkenazi Jew patients with severe deficiency of enzyme. Both variants have a resemblance to 2 other variants in Ashkenazi: G6PD Boston and G6PD Kilgore, but have a significantly higher affinity for substrates and their ana...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shatskaya TL,Krasnopolskaya KD,Idelson LJ

更新日期：1976-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®) constitutes a comprehensive collection of published germline mutations in nuclear genes that underlie, or are closely associated with human inherited disease. At the time of writing (March 2017), the database contained in excess of 203,000 different gene lesions identified in o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Stenson PD,Mort M,Ball EV,Evans K,Hayden M,Heywood S,Hussain M,Phillips AD,Cooper DN

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung inflammation is the major pathogenetic feature for both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. The nuclear factor-kappa B (NFκB) and its inhibitor (IκB) play crucial roles in inflammatory. Here, we tested the hypothesis that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in NFκB/IκB confer consiste...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Huang D,Yang L,Liu Y,Zhou Y,Guo Y,Pan M,Wang Y,Tan Y,Zhong H,Hu M,Lu W,Ji W,Wang J,Ran P,Zhong N,Zhou Y,Lu J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred four HLA-A : HLA-B : Bf haplotypes of the Japanese population as deduced by family analysis are described. Several linkage disequilibriums were observed in the following two-factor haplotypes: HLA-A and HLA-B, HLA-A and Bf, and HLA-B and Bf. Positive linkage disequilibriums between HLA-A and HLA-B noted ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Horai S,Juji T,Nakajima H

更新日期：1979-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X syndrome is characterized by X-linked mental retardation with additional features such as a long face with large protruding ears, macroorchidism, and eye-gaze avoidance. The disorder is caused by an abnormally expanded CGG repeat within the first exon of the fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) gene that ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Vries BB,Mohkamsing S,van den Ouweland AM,Halley DJ,Niermeijer MF,Oostra BA,Willemsen R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An easy-to-use, simulation-based power calculator (ASP) for linkage analysis using sib-pair designs (concordant or discordant) has been developed and made publicly available via the Internet. The program employs a diallelic model for the trait locus, at which parental/offspring genotypes are simulated, assuming Hardy-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Krawczak M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently observed a significantly increased risk for lung cancer in carriers of p53 germline mutations. Because cigarette smoking is known to play an important role in increasing the risk for lung cancer in the general population, we wanted to determine the role of cigarette smoking in lung cancer risk in people wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hwang SJ,Cheng LS,Lozano G,Amos CI,Gu X,Strong LC

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00