Cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene haplotypes, plasma high-density lipoprotein levels and the risk of coronary heart disease.

abstract：:We have studied the effects of cocultivation on the frequency of mitomycin C (MMC)-induced chromosomal aberrations. This was carried out by cocultivating Fanconi anemia (FA) cells from the genetic complementation groups A and B with both normal mouse lymphoma L5178Y cells and the derived "FA-like" mutant cells, MCN-15...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rosselli F,Moustacchi E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in Turkish, Native American, European American, and African American (AA) families have linked chromosome 18q21.1-23 to susceptibility for diabetes-associated nephropathy. In this study, we have carried out fine linkage mapping in the 18q region previously linked to diabetic nephropathy in AAs by genot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McDonough CW,Bostrom MA,Lu L,Hicks PJ,Langefeld CD,Divers J,Mychaleckyj JC,Freedman BI,Bowden DW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type I (TRPS I) is a rare autosomal dominant syndrome caused by haploinsufficiency of TRPS1 due to point mutations or deletions. Here, we report the first familial TRPS I due to a t(8;13)(q23.3;q21.31) translocation breakpoint <100 kb from the 5' end of TRPS1. Based on the additional abn...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： David D,Marques B,Ferreira C,Araújo C,Vieira L,Soares G,Dias C,Pinto M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with the "happy puppet" syndrome are presented. Their clinical features are quite similar and closely resemble those of previously reported cases. These features include severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures, easily provoked and prolonged paroxysms of laughter, atactic jerky movements, hypotonia, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuroki Y,Matsui I,Yamamoto Y,Ieshima A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex diseases are far more common than diseases that follow simple Mendelian patterns of inheritance. Difficulties are experienced in the designing of experiments to dissect out the contribution of a single allele to a complex phenotype. We review the literature regarding a point mutation in methylenetetrahydrofola...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fletcher O,Kessling AM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery that the extra chromosome in about 30% of cases of 47, trisomy 21 is of paternal origin has revived interest in the possibility of paternal age as a risk factor for a Down syndrome birth, independent of maternal age. Parental age distribution for 611 Down's syndrome 47, +21 cases was studied. The ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Roth MP,Feingold J,Baumgarten A,Bigel P,Stoll C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly polymorphic CA repeat was identified in a cosmid containing the 5' end of the NF2 tumour suppressor gene. This marker has proved useful in presymptomatic diagnosis in affected families. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bourn D,Strachan T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of ring chromosome 15 passed on to the index patient's two children is reported, and possible reasons for the infrequent records of inheritance of ring chromosome are suggested. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fujimaki W,Baba K,Tatara K,Umezu R,Kusakawa S,Mashima Y

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase D levels from 200 retinoblastoma patients have been measured in an attempt to identify individuals carrying deletions of chromosome region 13q14. In this series 75% had bilateral tumours and 23% were familial. Of nine patients identified as having low esterase D levels, five had not previously been diagnosed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cowell JK,Rutland P,Jay M,Hungerford J

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the defective gene locus in seven Caucasian families with the Romano-Ward form of long QT syndrome (LQT) has been mapped to chromosome 11p. To understand the molecular basis of LQT in Chinese, a three-generation family was investigated. Fourteen family members were studied and five individuals were diagnosed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ko YL,Chen SA,Tang TK,Lin JL,Chiang CE,Chen JJ,Teng MS,Chang MS,Lien WP,Wu CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most individuals with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) are heterozygous for dominant mutations in one of the genes that encode the chains of type I collagen. Each of the more than 30 mutations characterized to date has been unique to the affected member(s) of the family. We have determined that two individuals with a prog...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pruchno CJ,Cohn DH,Wallis GA,Willing MC,Starman BJ,Zhang XM,Byers PH

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5'-Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) present in the course of late S and G2 phases of the cell cycle in PHA-stimulated human lymphocyte cultures causes the despiralization and elongation of some chromosome regions, including short arms of acrocentric chromosomes. BrdU present at a concentration of 250 microM during the last 10...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Musilová J,Michalová K,Hoffmanová H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known for some 40 years that lactase production persists into adult life in some people but not in others. However, the mechanism and evolutionary significance of this variation have proved more elusive, and continue to excite the interest of investigators from different disciplines. This genetically deter...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ingram CJ,Mulcare CA,Itan Y,Thomas MG,Swallow DM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COCH is the most abundantly expressed gene in the cochlea. Unsurprisingly, mutations in COCH underly hearing loss in mice and humans. Two forms of hearing loss are linked to mutations in COCH, the well-established autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss, with or without vestibular dysfunction (DFNA9) via a gain-o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Booth KT,Ghaffar A,Rashid M,Hovey LT,Hussain M,Frees K,Renkes EM,Nishimura CJ,Shahzad M,Smith RJ,Ahmed Z,Azaiez H,Riazuddin S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first use of amnion epithelium for prenatal diagnosis. Prenatal diagnosis of recessive epidermolysis bullosa atrophicans generalisata gravis Herlitz type can at present be achieved with safety by detailed ultrastructural analysis of fetal skin. Because of the close developmental origin of amnion and skin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hausser I,Anton-Lamprecht I

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a systematic screening for mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator among Danish cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, we identified a mutation in exon 3 (394delTT); this mutation was found to be relatively common in Denmark. We therefore screened for 394delTT in Sweden and Norway, where ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schwartz M,Anvret M,Claustres M,Eiken HG,Eiklid K,Schaedel C,Stolpe L,Tranebjaerg L

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is a syndromic form of mental retardation caused by loss of function mutations in the X-linked RPS6KA3 gene, which encodes RSK2, a serine/threonine kinase acting in the MAPK/ERK pathway. The mouse invalidated for the Rps6ka3 (Rsk2-KO) gene displays learning and long-term spatial memory defi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mehmood T,Schneider A,Sibille J,Marques Pereira P,Pannetier S,Ammar MR,Dembele D,Thibault-Carpentier C,Rouach N,Hanauer A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by branchial arch anomalies, hearing loss and renal dysmorphology. Although haploinsufficiency of EYA1 and SIX1 are known to cause BOR, copy number variation analysis has only been performed on a limited number of BOR patients. In this s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brophy PD,Alasti F,Darbro BW,Clarke J,Nishimura C,Cobb B,Smith RJ,Manak JR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma methylumbelliferyl tetra-N-acetylchitotetraoside hydrolase or chitinase (CHIT) might play a role in degrading the chitin wall of some microorganisms. In about 6% of Caucasian people the enzyme shows pseudodeficiency (defined as very low activity without apparent symptoms). We have mapped this locus by linkage a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Eiberg H,Den Tandt WR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective function of the Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling pathway is the most frequent alteration underlying holoprosencephaly (HPE) or its various clinical microforms. We performed an extensive mutational analysis of the entire human DISP1 gene, required for secretion of all hedgehog ligand(s) and which maps to the HP...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Roessler E,Ma Y,Ouspenskaia MV,Lacbawan F,Bendavid C,Dubourg C,Beachy PA,Muenke M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing experimental evidence supports a connection between inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction. Both acute and chronic inflammatory diseases course with elevated free radicals production that may affect mitochondrial proteins, lipids, and mtDNA. The subsequent mitochondrial impairment produces more reactive...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Escames G,López LC,García JA,García-Corzo L,Ortiz F,Acuña-Castroviejo D

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile sites are nonrandom, heritable sites on chromosomes that can be induced to form gaps, breaks, and rearrangements under specific conditions. There is currently no established criterion to define a common fragile site. We applied seven published criteria to our data from three groups of subjects: (1) three pairs...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jordan DK,Burns TL,Divelbiss JE,Woolson RF,Patil SR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent observations that Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PGC1A) is responsible for the induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxifying agents and that ROS triggers insulin resistance, support the role that this gene could play in the onset of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bhat A,Koul A,Rai E,Sharma S,Dhar MK,Bamezai RN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X chromosomes of individuals with isolated steroid sulphatase deficiency (X-linked ichthyosis) from ten families were studied by flow karyotype analysis. In four of the families, a small but significant reduction in the relative fluorescence of the X chromosome was detected consistent with a deletion ranging from ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooke A,Gillard EF,Yates JR,Mitchell MJ,Aitken DA,Weir DM,Affara NA,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed a T-->C mutation at position +96 of the untranslated region 3' to the terminating codon of the beta-globin gene in members of two Czech families and one black family. Data from initial studies suggested that this change was the cause of a beta-thalassemia, but continued analyses have provided convinci...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Divoky V,Baysal E,Oner R,Cürük MA,Walker EL 3rd,Indrak K,Huisman TH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) gene was found to be mutated in patients presenting with WAS and in patients showing X-linked thrombocytopenia. Mutation analysis in 19 families of German, Swiss and Turkish descent by single-strand conformation polymorphism and sequencing resulted in the detection of seven ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schindelhauer D,Weiss M,Hellebrand H,Golla A,Hergersberg M,Seger R,Belohradsky BH,Meindl A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is a severe form of polycystic kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys and congenital hepatic fibrosis. Given the poor prognosis for the majority of children with the severe perinatal ARPKD phenotype, there is a regular request for prenatal testing. ARPKD ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Losekoot M,Haarloo C,Ruivenkamp C,White SJ,Breuning MH,Peters DJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations of the adenomatous polyposis coli ( APC) gene cause familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal, dominantly inherited disease that predisposes patients to colorectal cancer. The APC gene is composed of 15 coding exons and encodes an open reading frame of 8.5 kb. The 3' 6.5 kb of the APCopen r...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Su LK,Kohlmann W,Ward PA,Lynch PM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptoglobin types were determined on 211 patients with leukemia of the four most common types: acute lymphatic (ALL), chronic lymphatic (CLL), acute myeloid (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Frequency distributions of the three common Hp types in patients differed significantly from the control population. A ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nevo S,Tatarsky I

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of liver arginase (AI) is characterized clinically by hyperargininemia, progressive mental impairment, growth retardation, spasticity, and periodic episodes of hyperammonemia. The rarest of the inborn errors of urea cycle enzymes, it has been considered the least life-threatening, by virtue of the typical a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Grody WW,Kern RM,Klein D,Dodson AE,Wissman PB,Barsky SH,Cederbaum SD

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00