Contribution of TARDBP mutations to sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

abstract：:A family is recorded in which Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and protan colour blindness are segregating. Of 4 members of the second generation at least one is a recombinant. The lod scores have been calculated and added to those already published. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Greig DN

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease associated balanced chromosomal rearrangements (DBCRs), which truncate, delete, or otherwise inactivate specific genes, have been instrumental for positional cloning of many disease genes. A network of cytogenetic laboratories, Mendelian Cytogenetics Network (MCN), has been established to facilitate the identi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bugge M,Bruun-Petersen G,Brøndum-Nielsen K,Friedrich U,Hansen J,Jensen G,Jensen PK,Kristoffersson U,Lundsteen C,Niebuhr E,Rasmussen KR,Rasmussen K,Tommerup N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in highly penetrant autosomal dominant genes explain about 5% of all breast cancer, and heritable mutations in the BRCA1 breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene account for 2-3% of breast cancer in the general population. Nevertheless, the presence of such mutations is highly predictive of dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chang-Claude J,Dong J,Schmidt S,Shayeghi M,Komitowski D,Becher H,Stratton MR,Royer-Pokora B

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X linked (IPEX, OMIM 304790) is a rare, recessive disorder resulting in aggressive autoimmunity and early death. Mutations in FOXP3 have been identified in 13 of 14 patients tested. Research in the mouse model, scurfy, suggests that autoimmunity may stem from a lac...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wildin RS,Smyk-Pearson S,Filipovich AH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there have been several molecular studies of trisomic fetuses and liveborns which have examined the parent and meiotic stage of origin of nondisjunction. However, little is known about the possible phenotypic effects of the origin of trisomy. For trisomic spontaneous abortions, no distinct phenotype has been...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zaragoza MV,Millie E,Redline RW,Hassold TJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common missense mutation in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene, a C to T substitution at nucleotide 677, is responsible for reduced MTHFR activity and associated with modestly increased plasma homocysteine concentrations. Since underlying maternal vascular disease increases the risk of pre-eclampsi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sohda S,Arinami T,Hamada H,Yamada N,Hamaguchi H,Kubo T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome type I is an autosomal recessive disease characterised by congenital sensorineural deafness, involvement of the vestibular system, and progressive visual loss owing to retinitis pigmentosa. Here we report the association of this disease with bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and reduced nasal mucocilia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bonneau D,Raymond F,Kremer C,Klossek JM,Kaplan J,Patte F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21-hydroxylase deficiency is a recessively inherited disorder of steroidogenesis, resulting from mutations in the CYP21 gene. This 3.5 kb gene and a highly related CYP21P pseudogene reside on tandemly duplicated 30 kb segments of DNA in the class III HLA region, and the great majority of pathogenic mutations result fr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lako M,Ramsden S,Campbell RD,Strachan T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ubiquitination has a central role in numerous biological processes, including cell development, stress responses and ageing. Perturbed ubiquitination has been implicated in human diseases ranging from cancer to neurodegenerative diseases. SIAH1 encodes a RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase involved in protein ubiq...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Buratti J,Ji L,Keren B,Lee Y,Booke S,Erdin S,Kim SY,Palculict TB,Meiner V,Chae JH,Woods CG,Tam A,Héron D,Cong F,Harel T

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) variants classified ambiguously as variants of uncertain significance (VUS) are a major challenge for clinical genetic testing in breast cancer; their relevance to the cancer risk is unclear and the association with the response to specific BRCA1/2-targeted agents is uncertain. To m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lee JS,Oh S,Park SK,Lee MH,Lee JW,Kim SW,Son BH,Noh DY,Lee JE,Park HL,Kim MJ,Cho SI,Lee YK,Park SS,Seong MW

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C9orf72 repeat expansions is a major cause of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) worldwide. Sizes of <20 hexanucleotide repeats are observed in controls, while up to thousands associate with disease. Intermediate C9orf72 repeat lengths, however, remain uncertain. We systemat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ng ASL,Tan EK

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a study of 138 index patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and their families, in which the selection of index patients was solely on the basis of their residence in Birmingham. Clinical analysis showed that severe disease was as likely to indicate dominant or non-genetic RP as to indicate recessive disease,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bundey S,Crews SJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene-targeting studies in mice have revealed a key role for EVI1 protein in the maintenance of haematopoiesis, and argue in favour of a gene dosage requirement for EVI1 in the regulation of haematopoietic stem cells. Furthermore, a fusion transcript of MDS1 and EVI1 has been shown to play a critical role in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nielsen M,Vermont CL,Aten E,Ruivenkamp CA,van Herrewegen F,Santen GW,Breuning MH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biallelic germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2 cause a recessive childhood cancer syndrome characterised by early-onset malignancies and signs reminiscent of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Alluding to the underlying genetic defect, we refer to this syndrome as constitutio...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kratz CP,Holter S,Etzler J,Lauten M,Pollett A,Niemeyer CM,Gallinger S,Wimmer K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease results, in most patients, from mutations in the gene encoding glucocerebrosidase. Mutation D409H is the third most frequent in Spanish patients, accounting for 5.7% of all mutated alleles. This allele is associated mainly with the neurological forms of the disease. Recently, homozygosity for the D409H...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chabás A,Gort L,Montfort M,Castelló F,Domínguez MC,Grinberg D,Vilageliu L

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:The extent which universally common or population-specific alleles can explain between-population variations in phenotypes is unknown. The heritable coronary heart disease risk factor lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) level provides a useful case study of between-population variation, as the aetiology of twofold higher...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chretien JP,Coresh J,Berthier-Schaad Y,Kao WH,Fink NE,Klag MJ,Marcovina SM,Giaculli F,Smith MW

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cole-Carpenter syndrome (CCS) is commonly classified as a rare Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) disorder. This was following the description of two unrelated patients with very similar phenotypes who were subsequently shown to have a heterozygous missense mutation in P4HB. OBJECTIVES:Here, we report a 3-year ol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Balasubramanian M,Padidela R,Pollitt RC,Bishop NJ,Mughal MZ,Offiah AC,Wagner BE,McCaughey J,Stephens DJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 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:Congenital hereditary non-progressive hypoplasia of the cerebellum is a rare condition, frequently associated with other neuropathology such as lissencephaly. Clinically, the condition is associated with variable degrees of mental retardation, microcephaly, seizures, and movement disorders due to ataxia. In ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Türkmen S,Demirhan O,Hoffmann K,Diers A,Zimmer C,Sperling K,Mundlos S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child was brought to us with multiple anomalies. On examination we found an interstitial deletion in the long arms of chromosome 1. We studied genetic and chromosome markers, comparing our clinical and cytogenetic findings with other reported cases of chromosome 1 interstitial deletion. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Pablo CE,García Sagredo JM,Ferro MT,Ferrando P,San Román C

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：: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：:Four different Waardenburg syndromes have been defined based upon observed phenotypes. These syndromes are responsible for approximately 2% of subjects with profound congenital hearing loss. At present, Waardenburg syndromes have not been mapped to particular human chromosomes. One or more of the mouse mutant alleles,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Asher JH Jr,Friedman TB

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a supernumerary metacentric small chromosome, diagnosed at birth, is described. The cytogenetic findings support its identification as i(18p). The clinical development from birth to 12 months is reported, with particular attention given to the psychomotor retardation and to the immunological aspect. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rocchi M,Stormi M,Archidiacono N,Filippi G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X mental retardation syndrome is caused by unstable expansion of a CGG repeat. Two main types of mutation have been categorised. Clinical expression is associated with the presence of the full mutation, while subjects who carry only a premutation do not have mental retardation. Premutations have a high ris...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heitz D,Devys D,Imbert G,Kretz C,Mandel JL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acrocallosal syndrome (ACLS) is a rare recessive disorder characterised by corpus callosum agenesis or hypoplasia, craniofacial dysmorphism, duplication of the hallux, postaxial polydactyly, and severe mental retardation. Recently, we identified mutations in KIF7, a key component of the Sonic hedgehog pathwa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Putoux A,Nampoothiri S,Laurent N,Cormier-Daire V,Beales PL,Schinzel A,Bartholdi D,Alby C,Thomas S,Elkhartoufi N,Ichkou A,Litzler J,Munnich A,Encha-Razavi F,Kannan R,Faivre L,Boddaert N,Rauch A,Vekemans M,Attié-Bitac

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Brazilian family of Italian descent is described in which the beta-thalassaemia gene is interacting with an alpha chain variant Hb Hasharon (alpha 47 Asp leads to His). One patient who was affected by homozygous beta 0-thalassaemia and heterozygous alpha Hasharon displayed the clinical picture of thalassaemia interm...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zago MA,Costa FF,Bottura C

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sisters are described with a disorder characterised by mental retardation, congenital cataract, progressive spinocerebellar ataxia, sensorineural deafness, and signs of peripheral neuropathy. Progressive hearing loss, ataxia, and polyneuropathy became evident in the third decade. The differential diagnosis of this...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Begeer JH,Scholte FA,van Essen AJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00