Cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in humans as a recessive trait mapping to chromosome 17p.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The development of colorectal cancer and a variable range of extracolonic manifestations in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is the result of the dominant inheritance of adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene mutations. In this study, direct mutation analysis of the APC gene was performed to determin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wallis YL,Morton DG,McKeown CM,Macdonald F

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:To define the PKD1 locus further, the gene involved in the most frequent form of adult polycystic kidney disease, probes from 16 polymorphic loci were mapped on 16p13.1-pter with the combined use of cell lines containing rearranged chromosomes and family studies. Five breakpoints in the distal part of 16p arbitrarily ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Breuning MH,Snijdewint FG,Brunner H,Verwest A,Ijdo JW,Saris JJ,Dauwerse JG,Blonden L,Keith T,Callen DF

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed all known UK cases of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Among 49 cases with proven 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase deficiency, half had been terminated or had died in infancy. The minimum incidence is 1 in 60,000. The frequent occurrence of hypospadias may account for 71% of recognised cases being male. Impo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ryan AK,Bartlett K,Clayton P,Eaton S,Mills L,Donnai D,Winter RM,Burn J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13 year old boy with fragile X syndrome resulting from a de novo deletion of the FMR1 and FMR2 genes extending from (and including) DXS7536 proximally to FMR2 distally. The patient has severe developmental delay, epilepsy, and behavioural difficulties, including autistic features. He has epicanthic folds, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Strain L,Cole GF,Miedzybrodzka Z,Kelly KF,Dean JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DIDMOAD is usually considered an autosomal recessive condition, with wide phenotypic variation, but the possibility of mitochondrial mutations occurring in this condition has been considered. A 19 year old man presented with long standing diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and grand mal seizures. Further investigations...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pilz D,Quarrell OW,Jones EW

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mild, non-transfusion dependent, beta thalassaemia phenotype is described in a Dutch patient homozygous for a mutation in the cleavage-polyadenylation sequence of the beta globin gene. The molecular basis of the mutation, AATAAA greater than AATGAA, was determined using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Losekoot M,Fodde R,Harteveld CL,van Heeren H,Giordano PC,Went LN,Bernini LF

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for linkage has been sought, in four pedigrees with Crouzon syndrome, between polymorphic markers known to be linked to the Saethre-Chotzen locus on 7p and another form of autosomal dominant craniosynostosis on 5q. The data we present exclude Crouzon syndrome as an allelic variant at either of these known cra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W,van Herwerden L,Rose C,Jones B,Malcolm S,Winter RM

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Noël S,Balériaux D,Telerman-Toppet N

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of iduronate-2-sulphatase (IDS) results in the X linked recessive lysosomal storage disorder Hunter syndrome. Determination of carrier status in families affected by this disorder has been performed using a variety of enzymatic tests. None of these tests has proved to be 100% effective at identifying carrie...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Timms KM,Edwards FJ,Belmont JW,Yates JR,Gibbs RA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female with the Weaver syndrome is reported. In addition to the characteristic manifestations of overgrowth and advanced bone age, the facies were typical, with a broad forehead, hypertelorism, a long philtrum, micrognathia, and large ears. Like most other patients with Weaver syndrome, she was developmentally delay...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Thompson EM,Hill S,Leonard JV,Pembrey ME

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the data supports the suggestion of Knox (1974) that the sex ratio and incidence of anencephalics vary together within populations, as they are known to do between populations. There seems some doubts, though, whether Knox was correct in hypothesising that the sex ratio of anencephalics varies with their i...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： James WH

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pysiological tremor was measured in 14 pairs of monozygotic twins, 14 pairs of dizygotic twins, and 14 pairs of control subjects matched for age and sex. Postural finger tremor was measured in each pair using a sub-miniature accelerometer and subjecting the amplified signals to power spectral analysis. Significant gen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tyrer PJ,Kasriel J

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infertility affects approximately 15% of couples worldwide with male infertility being responsible for approximately 50% of cases. Although accumulating evidence demonstrates the critical role of the X chromosome in spermatogenesis during the last few decades, the expression patterns and potential impact of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lu C,Zhang Y,Qin Y,Xu Q,Zhou R,Cui Y,Zhu Y,Zhang X,Zhang J,Wei X,Wang M,Hang B,Mao JH,Snijders AM,Liu M,Hu Z,Shen H,Zhou Z,Guo X,Wu X,Wang X,Xia Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations of the LKB1 (STK11) serine/threonine kinase gene (chromosome 19p13.3) cause Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, which is characterised by hamartomas of the gastrointestinal tract and typical pigmentation. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome carries an overall risk of cancer that may be up to 20 times that of the general pop...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang ZJ,Churchman M,Avizienyte E,McKeown C,Davies S,Evans DG,Ferguson A,Ellis I,Xu WH,Yan ZY,Aaltonen LA,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:The search for the genes responsible for many complex genetic diseases is well under way and has already been successful in some cases. The study of cancer as a complex genetic disease has lagged behind other conditions, largely because of particular problems that are associated with malignant disease. Cancer also, ho...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Houlston RS,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:A family study of hidradenitis suppurativa was undertaken based on 26 subjects with the disease. The probands were obtained from Hospital Activity Analysis (HAA) records for a three year period (1980 to 1983) and by direct referral from hospital specialists over a six month period (1983 to 1984). Family pedigree infor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fitzsimmons JS,Guilbert PR

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：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：:PurposeThe purpose of this document is to provide guidance for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS, also known as massively parallel sequencing or MPS) in Canadian clinical genetic laboratories for detection of genetic variants in genomic DNA and mitochondrial DNA for inherited disorders, as well as somatic var...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hume S,Nelson TN,Speevak M,McCready E,Agatep R,Feilotter H,Parboosingh J,Stavropoulos DJ,Taylor S,Stockley TL,Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG).

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Structural variants (SVs) affecting non-coding cis-regulatory elements are a common cause of congenital limb malformation. Yet, the functional interpretation of these non-coding variants remains challenging. The human Liebenberg syndrome is characterised by a partial transformation of the arms into legs and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kragesteen BK,Brancati F,Digilio MC,Mundlos S,Spielmann M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant chromosome 4 with a large G positive heterochromatic block is described and discussed in relation to chromosome 4 heteromorphisms observed with other banding techniques. The extra heterochromatin is C positive and fluoresces brilliantly with Q banding, but differs from Yqh with some methods of staining. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Docherty Z,Bowser-Riley SM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in highly penetrant autosomal dominant genes explain about 5% of all breast cancer, and heritable mutations in the BRCA1 breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene account for 2-3% of breast cancer in the general population. Nevertheless, the presence of such mutations is highly predictive of dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chang-Claude J,Dong J,Schmidt S,Shayeghi M,Komitowski D,Becher H,Stratton MR,Royer-Pokora B

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the coexistence of genetically determined reduced cholinesterase activity and congenital distichiasis in the same family. The pedigree suggests that these two autosomal dominant diseases are segregated independently and do not show evidence of linkage. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Shammas HF,Tabbara KF,der Kaloustian VM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Craniosynostosis (CRS) is a premature closure of calvarial sutures caused by gene mutation or environmental factors or interaction between the two. Only a small proportion of non-syndromic CRS (NSC) patients have a known genetic cause, and thus, it would be meaningful to search for a causative gene disruptio...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kim J,Won HH,Kim Y,Choi JR,Yu N,Lee KA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKHL7 gene has been implicated in the pathogenesis of glaucoma/autosomal dominant iridogoniodysgenesis (IGDA) (IRID1). This has been supported by mutations in some glaucoma and IGDA patients and the development of anterior eye chamber anomalies in patients with 6p deletions affecting the 6p25 region. We report a c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Davies AF,Mirza G,Flinter F,Ragoussis J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00