A novel locus for distal motor neuron degeneration maps to chromosome 7q34-q36.

abstract：:Basal levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) have been associated with disease, particularly future cardiovascular events. Twin studies estimate 50% CRP heritability, so the identification of genetic variants influencing CRP expression is important. Existing studies in populations of European ancestry have identified nume...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rhodes B,Morris DL,Subrahmanyan L,Aubin C,de Leon CF,Kelly JF,Evans DA,Whittaker JC,Oksenberg JR,De Jager PL,Vyse TJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Serum samples from 170 unrelated individuals from the Suceava District of Roumania and from 199 unrelated individuals from Bucharest, Roumania were tested fro Gm(1,2,3,5,6,13,14,17,21) and Km(1)[Inv(1)]. Selected samples were also tested for Gm(15) and Gm(16). The frequencies of the three common Caucasoid haplotypes, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Johnson WE,Kohn PH,Steinberg AG

更新日期：1977-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with Shwachman syndrome, a high incidence of chromosome breakage was found. Chromosome studies done on three occasions on the patient's PHA-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes showed elevated frequencies of spontaneous chromosome aberrations compared with those in normal individuals. The patient's lym...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tada H,Ri T,Yoshida H,Ishimoto K,Kaneko M,Yamashiro Y,Shinohara T

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA methodology has greatly increased our knowledge of the molecular pathology of the human genome at the same time as providing the means of diagnosing inherited disease at the DNA level. Direct detection and analysis of a wide range of genetic lesions are now possible using cloned gene or oligonucleotide...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Schmidtke J

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based analyses of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene encompassing exons 1-15 revealed a complex pattern of products that were due to alternative splicing of exons 9, 10A and 14. The multiplicity of polypeptide chains obtained from T7-promoter-directed in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bala S,Kraus C,Wijnen J,Meera Khan P,Ballhausen WG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophin mRNA transcripts from the P (Purkinje) promoter were shown to be differentially expressed in human skeletal muscle, heart, and brain. The expression pattern was characteristic of tissue type and developmental stage. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the P promoter transcripts in adult skeletal mus...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Holder E,Maeda M,Bies RD

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five DNA probes known to originate from the region 7q22-q31 were sublocalized by in situ hybridization to metaphase preparations of fibroblasts having besides a normal chromosome 7, a homologue 7 with an apparent interstitial deletion of a large part of band q22. A flow cytometric chromosome analysis confirmed a loss ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： van der Hout AH,van der Veen AY,Aten JA,Buys CH

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of constitutional reciprocal translocations appear to be unique rearrangements arising from independent events. However, a small number of translocations are recurrent, most significantly the t(11;22)(q23;q11). Among large series of translocations there may be multiple independently ascertained cases with...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Thomas NS,Maloney V,Bryant V,Huang S,Brewer C,Lachlan K,Jacobs PA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive K+ (K(ATP)) channels maintain cardiac homeostasis under stress, as revealed by murine gene knockout models of the KCNJ11-encoded Kir6.2 pore. However, the translational significance of K(ATP) channels in human cardiac physiology remains largely unknown. Here, the frequency of the minor K23 allele of the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reyes S,Park S,Johnson BD,Terzic A,Olson TM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidylate synthase (TYMS) and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) may compete for their common cofactor 5,10-methylenetetrahyhdrofolate (5,10-meTHF). Limiting 5,10-meTHF results in elevated homocysteine, especially in individuals homozygous for the T allele of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism. The TYMS gene...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brown KS,Kluijtmans LA,Young IS,McNulty H,Mitchell LE,Yarnell JW,Woodside JV,Boreham CA,McMaster D,Murray L,Strain JJ,Whitehead AS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cosmid library was constructed from genomic DNA of a human-mouse somatic cell hybrid containing an 11q-16q translocation chromosome as the only human DNA. Cosmids with human inserts were prehybridized with total human DNA and were screened to find probes that revealed highly polymorphic loci. From one such cosmid, C...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bufton L,Mohandas TK,Magenis RE,Sheehy R,Bestwick RK,Litt M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained so far on the C3 polymorphism suggest that the system should be a valuable marker in population studies. The instability of the complement component C3 may, however, cause some practical problems in population genetic fieldwork, since a certain fraction of serum samples may be difficult to type with c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Seth PK,Seth S

更新日期：1976-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox is a deadly and debilitating disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the past century alone. The use of Vaccinia virus-based smallpox vaccines led to the eradication of smallpox. These vaccines are remarkably effective, inducing the characteristic pustule or "take" at the vaccine site in >97 % o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kennedy RB,Ovsyannikova IG,Pankratz VS,Haralambieva IH,Vierkant RA,Jacobson RM,Poland GA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human females, both X chromosomes are equivalent in size and genetic content, and pairing and recombination can theoretically occur anywhere along their entire length. In human males, however, only small regions of sequence identity exist between the sex chromosomes. Recombination and genetic exchange is restricted...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rappold GA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the past two decades has generated unequivocal evidence that host genetic variations substantially account for the heterogeneous outcomes following human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. In particular, genes encoding human leukocyte antigens (HLA) have various alleles, haplotypes, or specif...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Li X,Price MA,He D,Kamali A,Karita E,Lakhi S,Sanders EJ,Anzala O,Amornkul PN,Allen S,Hunter E,Kaslow RA,Gilmour J,Tang J,IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership.

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization using a probe specific for the human ZFX and ZFY loci assigns the ZFX gene to Xp21.3 and the ZFY gene to Yp11.32. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Müller G,Schempp W

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three common alleles, epsilon2, epsilon3, and epsilon4, of the gene coding for apolipoprotein E (apoE) have been identified as predictors of interindividual variation in measures of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, and ultimately risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), within many populations. Here we evaluated the uti...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Stengård JH,Weiss KM,Sing CF

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic anticipation is the increased incidence, earlier onset, or increased severity of a disease in successive generations. Before the biological basis of anticipation had been demonstrated, the phenomenon was thought to be due to sampling bias, epigenetic effects, gene conversion, or recombinant events. Since then,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brown BW,Costello TJ,Hwang SJ,Strong LC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing technology is increasingly demonstrating the impact of genomic copy number variation (CNV) on phenotypes. Opposing variation in growth, head size, cognition and behaviour is known to result from deletions and reciprocal duplications of some genomic regions. We propose normative inversion of face shape, oppo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hammond P,McKee S,Suttie M,Allanson J,Cobben JM,Maas SM,Quarrell O,Smith AC,Lewis S,Tassabehji M,Sisodiya S,Mattina T,Hennekam R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for early-onset familial breast cancer has recently been mapped to the chromosome 17q12-23 region. In order to confirm the gene location, we have tested an extensive early-onset breast cancer family with 4 markers in this chromosome region. Linkage was negative with all 4 markers. This study suggests that there...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sobol H,Mazoyer S,Narod SA,Smith SA,Black DM,Kerbrat P,Jamot B,Solomon E,Ponder BA,Guerin D

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Databases of disease-associated or disease-causing mutations allow the study, not only of the molecular mechanisms underlying the primary lesions at the DNA level, but also of the functional consequences of mutation at the phenotypic level. The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) and the bioinformatics analyses of its...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Knecht C,Krawczak M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl, who died at 14 years of age from a rapidly progressive mitochondrial myopathy, was found to be heteroplasmic for a mutation in the mitochondrial tRNALeu(UUR) gene at position 3251. A large proportion of muscle fibres contained accumulations of abnormal mitochondria but no cytochrome c oxidase deficient fibres ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Houshmand M,Larsson NG,Oldfors A,Tulinius M,Holme E

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the GJB2 gene have been identified in many patients with childhood deafness, 35delG being the most common mutation in Caucasoid populations. We have analyzed a total of 576 families/unrelated patients with recessive or sporadic deafness from Italy and Spain, 193 of them being referred as autosomal recessi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rabionet R,Zelante L,López-Bigas N,D'Agruma L,Melchionda S,Restagno G,Arbonés ML,Gasparini P,Estivill X

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromas, benign tumors that originate from the peripheral nerve sheath, are a hallmark of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Although loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is a common phenomenon in this neoplasia, it only accounts for part of the somatic NF1 mutations found. Somatic point mutations or the presence of "two h...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Serra E,Ars E,Ravella A,Sánchez A,Puig S,Rosenbaum T,Estivill X,Lázaro C

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) had discovered a new locus at 8p23 (rs2738048) associated with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) in Chinese Han patients, implicating the DEFA gene family within this locus as susceptibility genes. However, it is still unknown whether there are additional variations within these ge...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Xu R,Feng S,Li Z,Fu Y,Yin P,Ai Z,Liu W,Yu X,Li M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hypothyroidism affects 1/3000-4000 newborns and it has been estimated that 10-20% are familial cases with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Previous studies of mostly individual cases have led to the identification of mutations in a number of genes, indicating that it is a genetically heterogeneou...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ahlbom BE,Yaqoob M,Gustavsson P,Abbas HG,Annerén G,Larsson A,Wadelius C

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While liability to schizophrenia (Scz) is due to genetic and environmental factors, specific factors are largely unknown. We postulate a two-hit model for Scz, in which initial liability is generated during fetal brain development: this "hit" is precipitated by environmental stressors biologically interacting with mat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Devlin B,Klei L,Myles-Worsley M,Tiobech J,Otto C,Byerley W,Roeder K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a male child with autism found to have maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) of chromosome 1. The child met diagnostic criteria for the three symptom domains of autism: language impairment, deficient social communication and excessively rigid and repetitive behaviours. He also had a variety of features often ass...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wassink TH,Losh M,Frantz RS,Vieland VJ,Goedken R,Piven J,Sheffield VC

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioridazine (Mellaril), a psychotropic drug belonging to the phenothiazine group of drugs, was evaluated for its in vivo clastogenic effect on human chromosomes in lymphocyte cultures. Lymphocyte cultures were set up with peripheral blood samples of psychiatric patients (diagnosis: schizophrenia, mania, manic depress...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Saxena R,Ahuja YR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00