A microduplication of the long range SHH limb regulator (ZRS) is associated with triphalangeal thumb-polysyndactyly syndrome.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID) is one of the most common forms of disability worldwide, displaying a wide range of aetiologies and affecting nearly 2% of the global population. OBJECTIVE:To describe a novel autosomal recessive form of ID with strabismus and its underlying aetiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Aut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Alazami AM,Hijazi H,Al-Dosari MS,Shaheen R,Hashem A,Aldahmesh MA,Mohamed JY,Kentab A,Salih MA,Awaji A,Masoodi TA,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:DNA from 20 Italian haemophilia B patients was analysed by the Southern blotting technique and hybridisation to a factor IX cDNA probe. A large deletion of factor IX gene was detected in one patient with antibodies to the infused factor; the EcoRI pattern of the other 19 subjects examined was normal. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bernardi F,del Senno L,Barbieri R,Buzzoni D,Gambari R,Marchetti G,Conconi F,Panicucci F,Positano M,Pitruzzello S

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:A female child with multiple vertebral and rib abnormalities is described. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young ID,Moore JR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an autosomal dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome predisposing to retinal and central nervous system haemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma, and phaeochromocytoma. VHL disease shows variable expression and interfamilial differences in predisposition to phaeochromocytoma. In a pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maher ER,Webster AR,Richards FM,Green JS,Crossey PA,Payne SJ,Moore AT

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fabry disease is characterised by the progressive accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and related glycosphingolipids in vascular endothelial cells. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) clears this accumulation. We analysed plasma proteome profiles before and after ERT to characterise its molecular pathol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heo SH,Kang E,Kim YM,Go H,Kim KY,Jung JY,Kang M,Kim GH,Kim JM,Choi IH,Choi JH,Jung SC,Desnick RJ,Yoo HW,Lee BH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique connective tissue disorder characterised by the triad of dentinogenesis imperfecta, blue sclerae, and multiple wormian bones has been identified in 20 members of three generations of a large kindred of mixed ancestry in South Africa. The skeletons of affected subjects were moderately osteoporotic but, apart f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Beighton P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XHED) affects many epithelial functions, including sweat gland formation. Female carriers who manifest XHED may have defective dentition or a patchy distribution of sweating or both, as determined by starch and iodine sweat testing. Such sweat testing can be useful in assign...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Clarke A,Burn J

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report a 34-year-old Japanese female with a Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS)-like phenotype and a mosaic Turner syndrome karyotype (45,X/46,XX). METHODS/RESULTS:Molecular studies including methylation analysis of 17 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) on the autosomes and the XIST-DMR on the X chromo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamazawa K,Nakabayashi K,Kagami M,Sato T,Saitoh S,Horikawa R,Hizuka N,Ogata T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new variant of G6PD associated with chronic non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia (CNSHA) in an Irish male is described. This variant is unique in that it has a normal electrophoretic mobility, Michaelis constant for G6P and NADP, and a normal pH optimum, together with a marked increase in utilisation of the substrate ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： McCann SR,Smithwick AM,Temperley IJ,Tipton K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the costs and benefits associated with DNA diagnosis of subjects who are at risk of having a child with a monogenic disease and who seek genetic counselling because of their reproductive plans are predicted under various assumptions using a mathematical model. Four monogenic diseases have been considered...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： van der Riet AA,van Hout BA,Rutten FF

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Recessive forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) may be caused by mutations in LEPRE1, encoding prolyl 3-hydroxylase-1 (P3H1) or in CRTAP, encoding cartilage associated protein. These proteins constitute together with cyclophilin B (CyPB) the prolyl 3-hydroxylation complex that hydroxylates the Pro986 residue...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willaert A,Malfait F,Symoens S,Gevaert K,Kayserili H,Megarbane A,Mortier G,Leroy JG,Coucke PJ,De Paepe A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the KIAA2022 gene have been reported in male patients with X-linked intellectual disability, and related female carriers were unaffected. Here, we report 14 female patients who carry a heterozygous de novo KIAA2022 mutation and share a phenotype characterised by intellectual disability and epile...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Lange IM,Helbig KL,Weckhuysen S,Møller RS,Velinov M,Dolzhanskaya N,Marsh E,Helbig I,Devinsky O,Tang S,Mefford HC,Myers CT,van Paesschen W,Striano P,van Gassen K,van Kempen M,de Kovel CG,Piard J,Minassian BA,Nezar

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with features of trisomy 10p syndrome was found to have an abnormal chromosome 10: 46, XY, rec(10), dup p, inv(10) (p11q26) mat. The infant's mother was heterozygous for a pericentric inversion involving chromosome 10 (46, XX, inv (10) (p11q26). The infant's derivative chromosome was apparently produced by m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lansky-Shafer SC,Daniel WL,Ruiz L

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) with developmental delay and seizures are a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases caused by at least 700 different genes. Still, a number of cases remain genetically undiagnosed. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to identify and characterise pathogenic varian...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hubert L,Cannata Serio M,Villoing-Gaudé L,Boddaert N,Kaminska A,Rio M,Lyonnet S,Munnich A,Poirier K,Simons M,Besmond C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic testing for hereditary cancer predisposition has evolved rapidly in recent years with the discovery of new genes, but there is much debate over the clinical utility of testing genes for which there are currently limited data regarding the degree of associated cancer risk. To address the discrepancies that have...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Taylor A,Brady AF,Frayling IM,Hanson H,Tischkowitz M,Turnbull C,Side L,UK Cancer Genetics Group (UK-CGG).

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four studies reported an increasing incidence of pyloric stenosis during the late 1970s from geographically diverse areas of the United Kingdom. It was suggested that the increased incidence might be related to changes in infant feeding practices. We used data from the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lammer EJ,Edmonds LD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed 40 marker loci on 13 chromosomes for linkage with Marfan syndrome. None of the loci was linked to the Marfan syndrome locus at theta = 0.00. This study provides a basis for an exclusion map and for further collaboration in mapping of the locus. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schwartz RC,Blanton SH,Hyde CA,Sottile TR Jr,Hudgins L,Sarfarazi M,Tsipouras P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The non-POU domain containing octamer-binding gene (NONO) is located on chromosome Xq13.1 and encodes a member of a small family of RNA-binding and DNA-binding proteins that perform a variety of tasks involved in RNA synthesis, transcriptional regulation and DNA repair. Loss-of-function variants in NONO have...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scott DA,Hernandez-Garcia A,Azamian MS,Jordan VK,Kim BJ,Starkovich M,Zhang J,Wong LJ,Darilek SA,Breman AM,Yang Y,Lupski JR,Jiwani AK,Das B,Lalani SR,Iglesias AD,Rosenfeld JA,Xia F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of cystic fibrosis (CF) genes (70 to 75%) share a single mutation, but the remaining 25 to 30% of defects are accounted for by more than 20 different mutations. One of the less frequent mutations, G551D, has been identified in the CF genes of two sibs and one unrelated adult patient. The adult patient also ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Curtis A,Nelson R,Porteous M,Burn J,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a central role in the secretion of insulin by pancreatic beta-cells, and pathogenic mutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can cause diabetes. The aetiology of type 2 diabetes has a strong genetic component, raising the possibility that genetic variants of mtDNA alter the risk of developing the disor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chinnery PF,Mowbray C,Patel SK,Elson JL,Sampson M,Hitman GA,McCarthy MI,Hattersley AT,Walker M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the majority of patients, familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is caused by different mutations affecting the well defined low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene. However, 3% of patients in Munich with a clinical diagnosis of FH have a particular mutation in the apolipoprotein B gene causing familial defective...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schuster H,Rauh G,Gerl C,Keller C,Wolfram G,Zöllner N

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:A Familial Ovarian Cancer Register has been established which has recruited primarily through media publicity. In depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with 20 women who had volunteered in order to explore (1) knowledge about the disease, (2) motivations for contacting the Register, and (3) expectations. W...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Green J,Murton F,Statham H

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Succinate-CoA ligase deficiency is responsible for encephalomyopathy with mitochondrial DNA depletion and mild methylmalonic aciduria. Mutations in SUCLA2, the gene encoding a β subunit of succinate-CoA ligase, have been reported in 17 patients until now. Mutations in SUCLG1, encoding the α subunit of the en...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rouzier C,Le Guédard-Méreuze S,Fragaki K,Serre V,Miro J,Tuffery-Giraud S,Chaussenot A,Bannwarth S,Caruba C,Ostergaard E,Pellissier JF,Richelme C,Espil C,Chabrol B,Paquis-Flucklinger V

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous linkage studies in tuberous sclerosis have implicated three disease determining loci at 9q, 11q, and 12q. We have collated phenotypic and genotypic data on 1622 members of 128 families with tuberous sclerosis in order to evaluate simultaneously the evidence for these putative loci. Affection status in the fam...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sampson JR,Janssen LA,Sandkuijl LA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00