A haplotype at chromosome Xq27.2 confers susceptibility to prostate cancer.

abstract：:Amplification of the beta-globin gene by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing were used for a fast and reliable identification of the beta-globin variant Hb D Los Angeles and revealed the predicted G----C substitution in codon 121. The same method showed the molecular defect in Hb Presbyterian to ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schnee J,Aulehla-Scholz C,Eigel A,Horst J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of the 13 exons and intron/exon boundaries of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene has detected two base transitions, resulting in mis-sense mutations, in the genomic DNA of a Turkish patient (E1) with phenylketonuria (PKU). The Leu48----Ser amino acid substitution was associated with the mut...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Konecki DS,Schlotter M,Trefz FK,Lichter-Konecki U

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a lymphocyte chromosome survey of retinoblastoma (Rb) patients using a method able to detect a relatively low proportion mosaicism of 13q14 deletion are presented. Three out of 42 Rb patients had abnormal karyotypes; two mosaic cases with the karyotype 46,XY,del(13) (q14.1q14.3)/46,XY and 46,XX,del(13)(...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Motegi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) deficiency causes a variety of neuromuscular and non-neuromuscular disorders in childhood and adulthood and can theoretically undergo either a nuclear or a mitochondrial (mt) mode of inheritance, making genetic counseling in COX deficiency particularly hazardous. In an attempt to determine t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Parfait B,Percheron A,Chretien D,Rustin P,Munnich A,Rötig A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data for 27 cases of retinoblastoma that developed in patients with 13q- were collected from the literature and analyzed. The distribution of unilateral and bilateral cases of retinoblastoma differed significantly from the expectation that the degree of expressivity does not differ between the retinoblastoma gene and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsunaga E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is based on a thorough description of the structure and sequence organization of tandemly organized repetitive DNA sequence families in the human genome; it is aimed at revealing the locus-specific sequence organization of tandemly repetitive sequence structures as a highly conserved DNA sequence code. The...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vogt P

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated. Thirty-five per cent of mutations were found to have occurred within CpG dinucleotides. Over 90% of these mutations were C----T or G----A transitions, which thus occur within coding regions at a frequency 42-f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Youssoufian H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness in the world. A number of mutations in the myocilin gene have been identified that predispose to glaucoma. The most frequent of these is the Glutamine368STOP (Q368STOP) mutation. It has been postulated that individuals with the Q368STOP mutation are de...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Baird PN,Craig JE,Richardson AJ,Ring MA,Sim P,Stanwix S,Foote SJ,Mackey DA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45,X male individual was shown to have a translocation of Y-chromosome material to the short arm or proximal long arm of chromosome 15. This translocation was detected by genomic DNA blotting and in situ hybridization with Y-chromosome-specific DNA probes. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Disteche CM,Brown L,Saal H,Friedman C,Thuline HC,Hoar DI,Pagon RA,Page DC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 491 patients with femur-fibula-ulna (FFU) complex is presented. The term FFU complex has been proposed for cases in which the femur, fibula and/or ulna show defects, which tend to be associated. These cases are usually sporadic. Some rare anomalies of the arms which are present are particularly frequent in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lenz W,Zygulska M,Horst J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper surveys the current state of knowledge about the relationship between different national publics and biobanks, how different publics perceive biobanks, and which issues are identified as important by various stakeholders. We discuss existing studies and emerging governance strategies dealing with the bioban...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gottweis H,Chen H,Starkbaum J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well defined polymorphism of vitamin D-binding/group-specific component (GC) residues in exon 11. To characterize the molecular basis of GC*1A2 and GC*1A3, common in some Asian populations, we analyzed all coding exons amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. GC*1F was divided into GC*1FC and GC*1FT by a C-T tran...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yuasa I,Kofler A,Braun A,Umetsu K,Bichlmaier R,Kammerer S,Cleve H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of small peptides with a typical cysteine-rich domain (termed trefoil motif or P-domain) is abundantly expressed at mucosal surfaces of specific normal and neoplastic tissues. Their association with the maintenance of surface integrity was suggested. The first known human trefoil peptide (pS2) was isolated fro...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beck S,Schmitt H,Shizuya H,Blin N,Gött P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a pilot study, the possible influence of the inherited electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern on aspects of psychologic maturation was investigated. The twin sample consisted of 208 pairs, 110 monozygotic (MZ) and 98 dizygotic (DZ), mostly children and adolescents. The study showed a greater similarity between MZ compa...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vogel F,Schalt E,Krüger J,Klarich G

更新日期：1982-01-01 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

abstract：:We have identified a Tsp509I polymorphism in the 3' UTR of the human tyrosinase related protein-1 gene (TYRP). TYRP is one of several genes involved in melanin pigment production. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wildenberg SC,King RA,Oetting WS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects in the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry of 31,848 male twin veterans were followed for mortality from 1 January 1946, or from the date of entry into military service if that was later, to 31 December 1978. During this time 3,573 deaths occurred among them, 837 due to trauma...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hrubec Z,Neel JV

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a genetic polymorphism of cytosol polypeptide with mol. wt. of 38,000 detected in phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Three different electrophoretic phenotypes (type 1-1, 2-1, 2-2) of the polypeptide have been identified in a Japanese po...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kondo I,Yamamoto T,Yamakawa K,Shibasaki M,Hamaguchi H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivated X chromosome has a site of unusually frequent folding in region Xq1, whereas a fold in Xq1 is uncommon on the active X. We investigated the pattern of X chromosome folding in high-resolution GTG- and RBG-stained preparations from four women. In early metaphase cells, slightly more than 50% of late-repl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Van Dyke DL,Worsham M,Weiss L

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactose tolerance tests with conventional blood glucose determination and with breath hydrogen analysis after storage of breath samples in aluminium aerosol cans were simultaneously performed in 60 healthy adult subjects. Both tests were equally reliable in the diagnosis of the lactase phenotype in healthy persons. In...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Howell JN,Schockenhoff T,Flatz G

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern African Bantu-speaking negroid and San populations were examined with regard to the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) PvuII restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) showing alleles of 4 kb and 1.6 kb, called Type 1 and Type 2, respectively. The standardized disequilibrium coefficient for the ele...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Coetzee MJ,Bartleet SC,Ramsay M,Jenkins T

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:The identification of a novel CYP2D6 allele from a healthy Caucasian poor metabolizer was achieved by using a previously described polymerase chain reaction/single-strand conformation polymorphism strategy. Among the four point mutations that this allele carries, a missense mutation in exon 1 (212 G-->A or D6-H) seems...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Marez D,Legrand M,Sabbagh N,Lo-Guidice JM,Boone P,Broly F

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality. PTB pathophysiology overlaps with those of adult cardiovascular, immune and metabolic disorders (CIMD), with mechanisms including inflammation, immunotolerance, thrombosis, and nutrient metabolism. Whereas many genetic factors for CIMD have been identified,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Falah N,McElroy J,Snegovskikh V,Lockwood CJ,Norwitz E,Murray JC,Kuczynski E,Menon R,Teramo K,Muglia LJ,Morgan T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe form of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (arRP) was identified in a large Pakistani family ascertained in the Punjab province of Pakistan. All affected individuals in the family had night blindness in early childhood, early complete loss of useful vision, and typical RP fundus changes plus macular deg...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zhang Q,Zulfiqar F,Xiao X,Riazuddin SA,Ayyagari R,Sabar F,Caruso R,Sieving PA,Riazuddin S,Hejtmancik JF

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During population genetic studies in Korea a new variant in the 6-phosphogluconate (6-PGD) system preliminary called 6-PGDKorea was observed. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Benkmann HG,Paik YK,Chen LZ,Goedde HW

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variation has emerged as an important cause of phenotypic variation, particularly in relation to some complex disorders. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one such disorder, in which evidence is emerging for an etiological role for some rare penetrant de novo and rare inherited copy number variants (CNVs)....

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Woodbury-Smith M,Paterson AD,Thiruvahindrapduram B,Lionel AC,Marshall CR,Merico D,Fernandez BA,Duku E,Sutcliffe JS,O'Conner I,Chrysler C,Thompson A,Kellam B,Tammimies K,Walker S,Yuen RK,Uddin M,Howe JL,Parlier M,Whi

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient with mental retardation and typical clinical features of 10p trisomy syndrome was found to have a duplication of the short arm of chromosome 10 attached to the short arm of the Y chromosome. Quantitative evaluation of nine red cell enzymes showed significantly increased activity levels of HK1 and, to a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dallapiccola B,Chessa L,Vignetti P,Ferrante E,Gandini E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we performed an in-depth analysis of the neurologic and ophthalmologic phenotype in a patient with Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PTHS), a disorder characterized by severe mental and motor retardation, carrying a uniallelic TCF4 deletion, and studied a zebrafish model. The PTHS-patient was characterized by high...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brockschmidt A,Filippi A,Charbel Issa P,Nelles M,Urbach H,Eter N,Driever W,Weber RG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a dominantly inherited neuromuscular disorder characterised by muscle weakness and wasting. There are two forms of DM; both of which are caused by the expansion of repeated DNA sequences. DM1 is associated with a CTG repeat located in the 3' untranslated region of a gene, DMPK and DM2 with a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Machuca-Tzili L,Thorpe H,Robinson TE,Sewry C,Brook JD

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00