Redefining the risks of prenatally ascertained supernumerary marker chromosomes: a collaborative study.

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：:In this report we describe two families with variable manifestations of the EEC syndrome. The findings in these families confirm that no symptom is obligatory for the diagnosis of EEC syndrome. In the absence of cleft lip/palate, EEC patients have a characteristic facial morphology with maxillary hypoplasia, short phi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fryns JP,Legius E,Dereymaeker AM,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which 16 individuals in 3 generations have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. At least 6 family members also have the naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. In addition, 1 subject with both disorders has 2 young daughters with the naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heimler A,Friedman E,Rosenthal AD

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital hereditary non-progressive hypoplasia of the cerebellum is a rare condition, frequently associated with other neuropathology such as lissencephaly. Clinically, the condition is associated with variable degrees of mental retardation, microcephaly, seizures, and movement disorders due to ataxia. In ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Türkmen S,Demirhan O,Hoffmann K,Diers A,Zimmer C,Sperling K,Mundlos S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is characterised by hundreds of colorectal adenomas. Endocrine neoplasms have occasionally been reported, as have gastric polyps, which are usually hamartomatous in the fundus of the stomach and adenomatous in the antrum. A 57 year old man with colorectal, gastric, and periampullar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kartheuser A,Walon C,West S,Breukel C,Detry R,Gribomont AC,Hamzehloei T,Hoang P,Maiter D,Pringot J,Rahier J,Khan PM,Curtis A,Burn J,Fodde R,Verellen-Dumoulin C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent genetic study in mice and humans revealed the modulatory effect of MC1R (melanocortin-1 receptor) gene variants on kappa-opioid receptor mediated analgesia. It is unclear whether this gene affects basal pain sensitivity or the efficacy of analgesics acting at the more clinically relevant mu-opioid r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mogil JS,Ritchie J,Smith SB,Strasburg K,Kaplan L,Wallace MR,Romberg RR,Bijl H,Sarton EY,Fillingim RB,Dahan A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An interstitial deletion of the region q22.1-->q22.3 of chromosome 14 is described in a child with bilateral anophthalmia, dysmorphic features including micrognathia, small tongue, and high arched palate, developmental and growth retardation, undescended testes with a micropenis, and hypothyroidism. Interstitial delet...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Elliott J,Maltby EL,Reynolds B

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) is a kind of severe teratozoospermia. Patients with the MMAF phenotype are infertile and present aberrant spermatozoa with absent, short, coiled, bent and/or irregular flagella. Mutations in several genes can explain approximately 30%-50% of M...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Liu W,Sha Y,Li Y,Mei L,Lin S,Huang X,Lu J,Ding L,Kong S,Lu Z

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graves' disease is a female preponderant autoimmune illness and the contribution of the X chromosome to its risk has long been appreciated. However, no X-linked susceptibility loci have been indentified from recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS). METHODS:We re-examined the X chromosome data from our...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chu X,Shen M,Xie F,Miao XJ,Shou WH,Liu L,Yang PP,Bai YN,Zhang KY,Yang L,Hua Q,Liu WD,Dong Y,Wang HF,Shi JX,Wang Y,Song HD,Chen SJ,Chen Z,Huang W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder. Due to the various manifestations of TSC and their potential complications, a multidisciplinary care approach is recommended by consensus guidelines. OBJECTIVES:Our study aimed to give a complete description of our TSC adult coh...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pfirmann P,Aupy J,Jambon E,Idier L,Prezelin-Reydit M,Fermis M,Devillard R,Grenier N,Combe C,Rigothier C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of connective tissue disorders. Recently mutations have been found in the genes for type V collagen in a small number of people with the most common forms of EDS, types I and II. Here we characterise a COL5A2 mutation in an EDS II family. Cultured dermal fibroblast...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Richards AJ,Martin S,Nicholls AC,Harrison JB,Pope FM,Burrows NP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Male infertility is a prevalent issue worldwide, mostly due to the impaired sperm motility. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) present aberrant spermatozoa with absent, short, coiled, bent and irregular-calibre flagella resulting in severely decreased motility. Previous studies...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Li W,Wu H,Li F,Tian S,Kherraf ZE,Zhang J,Ni X,Lv M,Liu C,Tan Q,Shen Y,Amiri-Yekta A,Cazin C,Zhang J,Liu W,Zheng Y,Cheng H,Wu Y,Wang J,Gao Y,Chen Y,Zha X,Jin L,Liu M,He X,Ray PF,Cao Y,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new dicentric X isochromosome i(X)(pter to q2102 to pter) of similar size to a normal X is described in a girl with gonadal dysgenesis. In this non-mosaic case with an X short arm duplication, most of the stigmata associated with Turner's syndrome were absent. This structure was compared with that of six i(Xq) and t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daniel A,Saville T,Southall DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schneckenbecken dysplasia (SBD) is an autosomal recessive lethal skeletal dysplasia that is classified into the severe spondylodysplastic dysplasias (SSDD) group in the international nosology for skeletal dysplasias. The radiological hallmark of SBD is the snail-like configuration of the hypoplastic iliac bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Furuichi T,Kayserili H,Hiraoka S,Nishimura G,Ohashi H,Alanay Y,Lerena JC,Aslanger AD,Koseki H,Cohn DH,Superti-Furga A,Unger S,Ikegawa S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of array comparative genome hybridisation (CGH) analyses for investigation of children with mental retardation has led to the identification of a growing number of new microdeletion and microduplication syndromes, some of which have become clinically well characterised and some that await further del...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roos L,Jønch AE,Kjaergaard S,Taudorf K,Simonsen H,Hamborg-Petersen B,Brøndum-Nielsen K,Kirchhoff M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cohesin complex plays an essential role in genome organisation and cell division. A full complement of the cohesin complex and its regulators is important for normal development, since heterozygous mutations in genes encoding these components can be sufficient to produce a disease phenotype. The implicat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schierding W,Horsfield JA,O'Sullivan JM

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:Mutations in the TARDBP gene, which encodes the TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43), have been described in individuals with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We screened the TARDBP gene in 285 French sporadic ALS patients to assess the frequency of TARDBP mutations in ALS. RE...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daoud H,Valdmanis PN,Kabashi E,Dion P,Dupré N,Camu W,Meininger V,Rouleau GA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with congenital chondrodysplasia punctata with a secondary deformation of umbilical cord hernia is reported. The paper discusses deformation syndromes as anomalies due to unusual mechanical or intrinsic factors. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chandavasu O,Desposito F

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensenbrenner syndrome is a heterogeneous ciliopathy that is characterised by skeletal and ectodermal anomalies, accompanied by chronic renal failure, heart defects, liver fibrosis and other features. OBJECTIVE:To identify an additional causative gene in Sensenbrenner syndrome. METHODS:Single nucleotide po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Arts HH,Bongers EM,Mans DA,van Beersum SE,Oud MM,Bolat E,Spruijt L,Cornelissen EA,Schuurs-Hoeijmakers JH,de Leeuw N,Cormier-Daire V,Brunner HG,Knoers NV,Roepman R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new case of postaxial acrofacial dysostosis (Miller) syndrome. This syndrome consists of mandibulofacial dysostosis, similar to that seen in Treacher Collins syndrome, and postaxial limb deficiency. The mode of inheritance remains uncertain. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Vigneron J,Stricker M,Vert P,Rousselot JM,Levy M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an extended family with Li-Fraumeni syndrome characterised by gastric and breast carcinoma, glioma, sarcoma, and leukaemia. This family showed strong evidence of linkage to TP53, and three of four tumours analysed showed loss of the wild type allele. A codon 175 missense mutation was identified in exon 5 in...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Varley JM,McGown G,Thorncroft M,Tricker KJ,Teare MD,Santibanez-Koref MF,Martin J,Birch JM,Evans DG

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:The results of the present investigation have failed to confirm the suggestion that there is a significant increase in the proportion of echinocytes in preparation of fresh erythrocytes in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and heterozygous carriers of this disorder. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Soltan HC

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two brothers and one maternal cousin with severe mental retardation, microcephaly, short stature, cryptorchidism, and spastic diplegia. The patients were born to normal and non-consanguineous parents. All other members of the family, almost exclusively females, were clinically normal, suggesting X linked ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Martínez F,Tomás M,Millán JM,Fernández A,Palau F,Prieto F

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosidosis is a rare, autosomal recessive, lysosomal storage disease, resulting from a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-fucosidase (EC 3.2.1.51). It is characterised clinically by progressive mental and motor deterioration, growth retardation, coarse facies, and often recurrent infections, but the course of the disease...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Williamson M,Cragg H,Grant J,Kretz K,O'Brien J,Willems PJ,Young E,Winchester B

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-syndromic isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NCL/P) is a common congenital anomaly in humans, the aetiology of which is complex and associated with both genetic and environmental factors. It has been reported that maternal nutritional factors are likely to play a major role in development o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mostowska A,Hozyasz KK,Wojcicki P,Dziegelewska M,Jagodzinski PP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequential silver-Giemsa (SG) procedure is presented, initially to stain the p11 and q11 euchromatic bands and subsequently the q12 heterochromatic band of the human Y chromosomes. A three sub-band division of the q11 band can be identified. The same technique differentially stains the secondary constriction of chro...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Goyanes VJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the detection of a heterozygous deletion at chromosome 12q14 in three unrelated patients with a similar phenotype consisting of mild mental retardation, failure to thrive in infancy, proportionate short stature and osteopoikilosis as the most characteristic features. In each case, this interstitia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Menten B,Buysse K,Zahir F,Hellemans J,Hamilton SJ,Costa T,Fagerstrom C,Anadiotis G,Kingsbury D,McGillivray BC,Marra MA,Friedman JM,Speleman F,Mortier G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with Gaucher's disease diagnosed in the United Kingdom and two obligate carriers, all of non-Jewish origin, were screened for the two common disease causing mutations and two rarer mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene. These mutations are referred to as N370S, L444P, Ins84G, and 1066 + 1G-->A, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Walley AJ,Barth ML,Ellis I,Fensom AH,Harris A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a supernumerary metacentric small chromosome, diagnosed at birth, is described. The cytogenetic findings support its identification as i(18p). The clinical development from birth to 12 months is reported, with particular attention given to the psychomotor retardation and to the immunological aspect. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rocchi M,Stormi M,Archidiacono N,Filippi G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00