Microdeletion/duplication at 15q13.2q13.3 among individuals with features of autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

abstract：:An infant with congenital chondrodysplasia punctata with a secondary deformation of umbilical cord hernia is reported. The paper discusses deformation syndromes as anomalies due to unusual mechanical or intrinsic factors. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chandavasu O,Desposito F

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-month-old infant was examined because of minor multiple malformations. He was found to have a de novo blanced reciprocal translocation 46,XY,t(6;8(q13;q22). On follow-up at the age of 17 months his mental development was found to be within normal limits. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fried K,Rosenblatt M,Mundel G

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13 year old boy with fragile X syndrome resulting from a de novo deletion of the FMR1 and FMR2 genes extending from (and including) DXS7536 proximally to FMR2 distally. The patient has severe developmental delay, epilepsy, and behavioural difficulties, including autistic features. He has epicanthic folds, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Strain L,Cole GF,Miedzybrodzka Z,Kelly KF,Dean JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously mapped autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 16 to 3p26, overlapping with the locus of SCA15. Recently, partial deletions of ITPR1 and the neighbouring SUMF1 in the SCA15 and two additional families were reported. In the present study we determined the copy number of these genes by real ti...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Iwaki A,Kawano Y,Miura S,Shibata H,Matsuse D,Li W,Furuya H,Ohyagi Y,Taniwaki T,Kira J,Fukumaki Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in BRAF have recently been identified in a significant percentage of primary and metastatic cutaneous malignant melanomas. As ultraviolet (UV) exposure may play a role in the development of cutaneous melanoma lesions with BRAF mutations, BRAF mutation frequency in melanomas arising in sites protect...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edwards RH,Ward MR,Wu H,Medina CA,Brose MS,Volpe P,Nussen-Lee S,Haupt HM,Martin AM,Herlyn M,Lessin SR,Weber BL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder. Due to the various manifestations of TSC and their potential complications, a multidisciplinary care approach is recommended by consensus guidelines. OBJECTIVES:Our study aimed to give a complete description of our TSC adult coh...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pfirmann P,Aupy J,Jambon E,Idier L,Prezelin-Reydit M,Fermis M,Devillard R,Grenier N,Combe C,Rigothier C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adoptees are a population that could benefit from genetic testing to fill gaps in family health history (FHH). Elective genomic testing (EGT) provides adoptees with clinical genetic testing options to learn about genetic health risks in the absence of FHH. We assessed adoptees' interests in, motivations for and...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edgar J,Bao A,Maga T,Schwartz M,Yates C,Spencer S

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with the unusual association of cleft palate, bilateral choanal atresia, curly hair, and congenital hypothyroidism. This association has been reported before in two brothers and may represent a new syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Buntincx IM,Van Overmeire B,Desager K,Van Hauwaert J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been emphasised that a subset of patients with type 2 Gaucher disease die in the neonatal period. This report describes an Afghani family with two conceptuses having severe, prenatally detected Gaucher disease. Mutational analysis showed that the family carried a known complex allele which included mut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sidransky E,Tayebi N,Stubblefield BK,Eliason W,Klineburgess A,Pizzolato GP,Cox JN,Porta J,Bottani A,DeLozier-Blanchet CD

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Azoospermia is the absence of a measurable level of spermatozoa in the semen. It affects approximately 1% of all men, and the genetic basis of the majority of idiopathic cases is unknown. We investigated two unrelated consanguineous families with idiopathic azoospermia. In family 1, there were three azoosper...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ayhan Ö,Balkan M,Guven A,Hazan R,Atar M,Tok A,Tolun A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are vascular malformations mostly located within the central nervous system. Most deleterious variants are loss of function mutations in one of the three CCM genes. These genes code for proteins that form a ternary cytosolic complex with CCM2 as a hub. Very few CCM2 mi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bergametti F,Viot G,Verny C,Brechard MP,Denier C,Labauge P,Petit P,Nouet A,Viallet F,Chaussenot A,Hervé D,Tournier-Lasserve E,Riant F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl sought medical advice, saying that for two years it had been increasingly difficult for her to extend her little finger. An examination revealed that all her fingers, with the exception of her thumbs, had no interphalangeal fold. Her mother had less pronounced signs of the same type. This abnormalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lambert D,Nivelon-Chevallier A,Chapuis JL

更新日期：1977-12-01 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：:Pysiological tremor was measured in 14 pairs of monozygotic twins, 14 pairs of dizygotic twins, and 14 pairs of control subjects matched for age and sex. Postural finger tremor was measured in each pair using a sub-miniature accelerometer and subjecting the amplified signals to power spectral analysis. Significant gen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tyrer PJ,Kasriel J

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary fibrosis is a complex disease for which the predisposing genetic variants remain unknown. In a prior study, susceptibility to bleomycin induced pulmonary fibrosis was mapped to loci Blmpf1 and Blmpf2 on chromosomes 17 and 11, respectively, in a C57BL/6J (B6, susceptible) and C3Hf/KAM (C3H, resistan...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Haston CK,Tomko TG,Godin N,Kerckhoff L,Hallett MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Germline mutations in four human mismatch repair genes (MSH2, MLH1, PMS1, and PMS2) have been reported to cause hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer syndrome (HNPCC). The identification of germline mutations in HNPCC kindreds allows precise diagnosis and accurate predictive testing. To investigate further the genetic...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Froggatt NJ,Brassett C,Koch DJ,Evans DG,Hodgson SV,Ponder BA,Maher ER

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentric inversions in chromosome 2 were traced in 2 unrelated North American black families. In the case of inv(2)(p13q11) no effect on reproduction was observed. In the case of inv(2)(p11q13) some reproductive abnormalities were noted which might be related to the inversion. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Phillips RB

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Newfoundland kindred in which ocular albinism and deutan colour blindness are segregating provides strong evidence against the loci for these two X-borne characters being within direct measurable distance of each other. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pearce WG,Sanger R

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several different missense mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel subunit gene SCN1A have been identified in epileptic patients with benign phenotype and patients with severe phenotype. However, the reason why similar missense mutations in SCN1A result in different phenotypes has not yet been fully cl...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kanai K,Yoshida S,Hirose S,Oguni H,Kuwabara S,Sawai S,Hiraga A,Fukuma G,Iwasa H,Kojima T,Kaneko S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress has been made in identifying mutations that confer susceptibility to complex diseases, with the prospect that these genetic risks might be used in determining individual disease risk. AIM:To use Crohn disease (CD) as a model of a common complex disorder, and to develop methods to estimate disease r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lewis CM,Whitwell SC,Forbes A,Sanderson J,Mathew CG,Marteau TM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-month-old male infant with type I Klein-Waardenburg syndrome with an imperforated anus and a perineal fistula is reported. The possible association of this gastrointestinal malformation with the KW syndrome is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nutman J,Nissenkorn I,Varsano I,Mimouni M,Goodman RM

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of data on segregating families is used to generate specific recurrence risks conditional on sex and birth order for the best-fitting model of polygenes plus maternal effect. The method is general for diseases of complex inheritance, and lies within the competence of any serious genetic clinic. The questi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lalouel JM,Morton NE,MacLean CJ,Jackson J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a genetically male infant with impaired male sex development and partial 9p monosomy. The external genitalia were ambiguous with microphallus (penile length at birth 10 mm, mean age matched normal length 29 mm (SD 5)), hypospadias, and hypoplastic scrotum. The tests were undescended and severely h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogata T,Muroya K,Matsuo N,Hata J,Fukushima Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations of the LKB1 (STK11) serine/threonine kinase gene (chromosome 19p13.3) cause Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, which is characterised by hamartomas of the gastrointestinal tract and typical pigmentation. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome carries an overall risk of cancer that may be up to 20 times that of the general pop...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang ZJ,Churchman M,Avizienyte E,McKeown C,Davies S,Evans DG,Ferguson A,Ellis I,Xu WH,Yan ZY,Aaltonen LA,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True isochromosomes for Xp probably do not exist in a liveborn. We describe a rare case of complete Xp duplication and retention of the inactivation centre at Xq13. Cytogenetically, it is described as a nonmosaic 46,X,psu idic(X)(q13). Complete duplication of Xpter-->Xq13 was confirmed by banded analysis and FISH prob...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jalal SM,Dahl R,Erickson L,Zimmerman D,Lindor N

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic analysis, fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH), and molecular amplification have been used to characterise the transfer of Yp fragments to Xp22.3 in six XX males. PCR amplification of the genes SRY, RPS4Y, ZFY, AMELY, KALY, and DAZ and of several other markers along the Y chromosome short and long arms...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Margarit E,Soler A,Carrió A,Oliva R,Costa D,Vendrell T,Rosell J,Ballesta F

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal photoreceptor dystrophies (RD) are a highly heterogeneous group of genetic disorders of the retina, representing the most frequently inherited form of visual handicap, affecting approximately 1.5 million people world wide. To date, more than 40 genetic loci have been implicated in RD. One of them, the CORD2 lo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Papaioannou M,Bessant D,Payne A,Bellingham J,Rougas C,Loutradis-Anagnostou A,Gregory-Evans C,Balassopoulou A,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetic investigation of a female infant with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) showed loss of IGF2 imprinting but no evidence of uniparental disomy. In addition, a deletion of chromosome 18q22.1 was identified in this infant without clinical features of 18q-syndrome (microcephaly, short stature, hypotonia)....

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brewer CM,Lam WW,Hayward C,Grace E,Maher ER,FitzPatrick DR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE AND SCOPE:The aim of this Position Statement is to provide recommendations for Canadian medical geneticists, clinical laboratory geneticists, genetic counsellors and other physicians regarding the use of genome-wide sequencing of germline DNA in the context of clinical genetic diagnosis. This statement has been...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Boycott K,Hartley T,Adam S,Bernier F,Chong K,Fernandez BA,Friedman JM,Geraghty MT,Hume S,Knoppers BM,Laberge AM,Majewski J,Mendoza-Londono R,Meyn MS,Michaud JL,Nelson TN,Richer J,Sadikovic B,Skidmore DL,Stockley T,

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00