Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups and type 2 diabetes: a study of 897 cases and 1010 controls.

abstract：:G band cytogenetic analysis often leads to the discovery of unbalanced karyotypes that require further characterisation by molecular cytogenetic studies. In particular, G band analysis usually does not show the chromosomal origin of small marker chromosomes or of a small amount of extra material detected on otherwise ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Breen CJ,Barton L,Carey A,Dunlop A,Glancy M,Hall K,Hegarty AM,Khokhar MT,Power M,Ryan K,Green AJ,Stallings RL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 200 families were reviewed with directly transmitted, cytogenetically visible unbalanced chromosome abnormalities (UBCAs) or euchromatic variants (EVs). Both the 130 UBCA and 70 EV families were divided into three groups depending on the presence or absence of an abnormal phenotype in parents and offspring. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Barber JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the clinical and cytogenetic findings in a child with retinoblastoma and a translocation between chromosomes X and 13. The X;13 translocation in this patient does not involve band 13q14, the assigned locus for retinoblastoma. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ponzio G,Savin E,Cattaneo G,Ghiotti MP,Marra A,Zuffardi O,Danesino C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A marker chromosome is defined as a structurally abnormal chromosome that cannot be identified by routine cytogenetics. The risk for phenotypic abnormalities associated with a marker chromosome depends on several factors, including inheritance, mode of ascertainment, chromosomal origin, and the morphology, c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Graf MD,Christ L,Mascarello JT,Mowrey P,Pettenati M,Stetten G,Storto P,Surti U,Van Dyke DL,Vance GH,Wolff D,Schwartz S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deletions of the HOXC gene cluster result in variable phenotypes in mice, but have been rarely described in humans. OBJECTIVE:To report chromosome 12q13.13 microdeletions ranging from 13 to 175 kb and involving the 5' HOXC genes in four families, segregating congenital lower limb malformations, including cl...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Alvarado DM,McCall K,Hecht JT,Dobbs MB,Gurnett CA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desbuquois dysplasia is a rare autosomal recessive chondrodysplasia characterised by short stature, joint laxity, facial dysmorphism, a "Swedish key" appearance of the proximal femur, advanced carpal and tarsal bone age, and hand anomalies consisting of phalangeal dislocations and an extra ossification centre distal t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Faivre L,Le Merrer M,Al-Gazali LI,Ausems MG,Bitoun P,Bacq D,Maroteaux P,Munnich A,Cormier-Daire V

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Usher syndrome, a devastating recessive disorder which combines hearing loss with retinitis pigmentosa, is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. Usher syndrome type 1 (USH1) is the most severe form, characterised by profound congenital hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. OBJECTIVE:To describe an ef...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roux AF,Faugère V,Le Guédard S,Pallares-Ruiz N,Vielle A,Chambert S,Marlin S,Hamel C,Gilbert B,Malcolm S,Claustres M,French Usher Syndrome Collaboration.

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular characterisation of chromosomal aberrations in Xp22.3 has established the map position of several genes with mutations resulting in diverse phenotypes such as short stature (SS), chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX), mental retardation (MRX), ichthyosis (XLI), and Kallmann syndrome (KAL). We describe the cli...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Meindl A,Hosenfeld D,Brückl W,Schuffenhauer S,Jenderny J,Bacskulin A,Oppermann HC,Swensson O,Bouloux P,Meitinger T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chiasma distribution of bivalents 15 and 16 identified at diakinesis by a quadruple staining technique including DA-DAPI fluorescence has been investigated in two human males. The study has shown that chiasmata are not distributed at random. Both chromosomes have distally localised chiasmata, but in the long arm o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Saadallah N,Hultén M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10 1/2 year old female with skeletal abnormalities was referred for genetic consultation because of learning disabilities and a suggestion of 'Turner-like' stigmata. Cytogenetic analysis revealed a paracentric inversion of an X(q13.1q26.1) chromosome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Herr HM,Horton SJ,Scott CI Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is significant evidence for genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in X linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP). We have studied the linkage of XLRP in four Irish families to a number of polymorphic DNA markers. We report linkage between the DXS7 (L1.28) locus and the XLRP locus (Z = 3.445, theta = 0.00). Combined with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Farrar GJ,Geraghty MT,Moloney JM,McConnell DJ,Humphries P

更新日期：1988-04-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inherited abnormalities of complement are found in ∼60% of patients with atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS). Such abnormalities are not fully penetrant. In this study, we have estimated the penetrance of the disease in three families with a CFH mutation (c.3643C>G; p. Arg1215Gly) in whom a common li...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sansbury FH,Cordell HJ,Bingham C,Bromilow G,Nicholls A,Powell R,Shields B,Smyth L,Warwicker P,Strain L,Wilson V,Goodship JA,Goodship TH,Turnpenny PD

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 33 people at risk for Huntington's disease (HD), applying for genetic testing, were tested with a battery of neuropsychological tests covering attentional, visuospatial, learning, memory, and planning functions. A psychiatric rating scale, SCL-90R, was also applied, mainly as a control, since cognitive dys...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rosenberg NK,Sørensen SA,Christensen AL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that subjects homozygous for a rare silent allele of ADA may experience a severe combined immunodeficiency. By analogy we have investigated the possible relationship of normal ADA polymorphism with some situations, such as reproductive defects and fetomaternal interactions, in which immunological mech...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bottini E,Carapella E,Cataldi L,Nicotra M,Lucarelli P,Lucarini N,Pascone R,Gloria-Bottini F

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VACTERL association is a condition comprising multisystem congenital malformations, causing severe physical disability in affected individuals. It is typically defined by the concurrence of at least three of the following component features: vertebral anomalies (V), anal atresia (A), cardiac malformations (C), tracheo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen Y,Liu Z,Chen J,Zuo Y,Liu S,Chen W,Liu G,Qiu G,Giampietro PF,Wu N,Wu Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with limb-body wall complex (LBWC) and complete absence of the external genitalia are presented. Our patients are the sixth and seventh cases of complete absence of the external genitalia recorded in English publications and the first two cases associated with LBWC. The incidence of complete absence of th...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Litwin A,Merlob P,Grunebaum M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with hypertrichosis cubiti who were referred for investigation of short stature. Two males, whose height was on and just below the 3rd centile respectively, were sporadic cases and two females with disproportionate short stature were mother and daughter. Radiological changes present in the fami...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： MacDermot KD,Patton MA,Williams MJ,Winter RM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocerebroside beta-glucosidase (glucocerebrosidase) activity was determined from peripheral blood lymphocytes and cultured skin fibroblasts of eight full sibs in a French-Canadian family at risk for Gaucher disease, an autosomal recessive sphingolipidosis resulting from deficient glucocerebrosidase activity. The di...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Choy FY

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage of the anonymous marker D3S2 at 3p21 has been shown in three British families with dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa with a combined lod score of 6.75 at theta = 0. This locus is close to the collagen type VII locus implying that abnormalities of this gene cause dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullos...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： al-Imara L,Richards AJ,Eady RA,Leigh IM,Farrall M,Pope FM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of primary lymphoedema with distichiasis is well recognised, but that the form of lymphoedema appears restricted to bilateral hyperplasia, as defined by lymphography, has not been reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dale RF

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex linked recessive deafness is a rare cause of male genetic deafness, estimated to account for 6.2% of male genetic deafness in 1966. A male excess was found in the deaf population of Ireland in 1851. Reevaluation of this survey of 1851 confirms sex linked deafness as a factor in the disproportionate number of deaf ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inheritance of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for two fibrillar collagen genes (COL1A2 and COL3A1) has been studied in a large Marfan syndrome kindred. We are able to show discordant segregation between the Marfan syndrome and each of the two collagen gene markers. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dalgleish R,Hawkins JR,Keston M

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old boy with mental and growth retardation is presented; he has a 46,XY,r(10)(p15q26) chromosome complement. Five previously reported cases of ring chromosome 10 were reviewed and compared with the present case in an attempt to delineate a clinical syndrome. Since the first description, identified by Giemsa b...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nakai H,Adachi M,Katsushima N,Yamazaki N,Sakamoto M,Tada K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple vertebral segmentation defects occur in a group of conditions variably associated with anomalies of other organ systems. This report describes a female child in whom a deletion of chromosome 18 (18q22.2-->qter) is associated with congenital anomalies including multiple vertebral segmentation defects resemblin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dowton SB,Hing AV,Sheen-Kaniecki V,Watson MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase activity was determined in serum, liver, and kidney in alloxan treated Swiss mice and in homozygous (Ob/Ob, Db/Db) and heterozygous (Ob/+, Db/m+) diabetic mice. Both alloxan and genetic diabetic mice exhibited a large increase in serum and liver trehalase activity with no change in kidney trehalase activity....

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Baumann FC,Boizard-Callais F,Labat-Robert J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoriasis is an immune-mediated skin disorder that is inherited as a multifactorial trait. Linkage analyses have clearly mapped a primary disease susceptibility locus to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region on chromosome 6p21. More recently, whole-genome association studies have identified two n...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wolf N,Quaranta M,Prescott NJ,Allen M,Smith R,Burden AD,Worthington J,Griffiths CE,Mathew CG,Barker JN,Capon F,Trembath RC

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic linkage studies were performed in 16 British families affected by X linked ocular albinism (XLOA) using RFLPs from the Xp22.3 region. Linkage was confirmed between the XLOA locus (OA1) and the loci DXS143 (dic56; Zmax = 15.90 at theta = 0.0, confidence interval (CI) 0-0.035), DXS85 (782; Zmax = 15.67 at theta ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Charles SJ,Moore AT,Yates JR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) 3243A>G variant is the most common pathogenic variant of the mDNA. To interpret results of clinical trials in mitochondrial disease, it is important to have a clear understanding of the natural course of disease. To obtain more insight into the disease burden and the progression ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Laat P,Rodenburg RR,Roeleveld N,Koene S,Smeitink JA,Janssen MC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HLA-DRB1 is the strongest susceptibility gene to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). HLA-DRB1 alleles showed significant non-additive and interactive effects on susceptibility to RA in the European population, but these effects on RA susceptibility should vary between populations due to the difference in allelic dist...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Terao C,Okada Y,Ikari K,Kochi Y,Suzuki A,Ohmura K,Matsuo K,Taniguchi A,Kubo M,Raychaudhuri S,Yamamoto K,Yamanaka H,Kamatani Y,Mimori T,Matsuda F

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00