Sanfilippo syndrome type D in two adolescent sisters.

abstract：:A case of partial trisomy 6p is reported with a review of the various characteristics of this syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Côté GB,Papadakou-Lagoyanni S,Sbyrakis S

更新日期：1978-12-01 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：:Since the advent of C-banding as a routine diagnostic procedure, the significance of heterochromatic polymorphism has been questioned. Some workers have considered variations in heterochromatin in chromosomes 1 and 9 to be associated with fetal wastage, recurrent abortions, and abnormal phenotypes. Over a 15-month per...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hemming L,Burns C

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nerve growth factor β (NGFβ) and tyrosine kinase receptor type A (TRKA) are a well studied neurotrophin/receptor duo involved in neuronal survival and differentiation. The only previously reported hereditary sensory neuropathy caused by an NGF mutation, c.661C>T (HSAN5), and the pathology caused by biallelic...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carvalho OP,Thornton GK,Hertecant J,Houlden H,Nicholas AK,Cox JJ,Rielly M,Al-Gazali L,Woods CG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate ABH-gene specified glycosyltransferases in the plasma of the Birmingham chimaera were estimated. These observatiions and the demonstration of A1Leb blood group specific glycosphingolipid in the plasma indicate that the minority population of red blood cells probably represents the true blood groups of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bird GW,Battey DA,Greenwell P,Mortimer CW,Watkins WM,Wingham J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl aged 14 years 9 months, overweight, with severe psychomotor retardation, short stature, a sheep-like face, malformed ears, skeletal and dermatoglyphic abnormalities, and partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 1 is presented. The karyotype was 46,XX,del(1)(qter to p22::p32 to pter). ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bene M,Duca-Marinescu A,Ioan D,Maximilian C

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) represent a heterogeneous group of diseases which may be characterised by one or more autosomal loci. A gene at 15q has recently been found to be responsible for a mild form of LGMD in a group of families from the isolated island of Réunion, now classifie...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Passos-Bueno MR,Richard I,Vainzof M,Fougerousse F,Weissenbach J,Broux O,Cohen D,Akiyama J,Marie SK,Carvalho AA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with Gaucher's disease diagnosed in the United Kingdom and two obligate carriers, all of non-Jewish origin, were screened for the two common disease causing mutations and two rarer mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene. These mutations are referred to as N370S, L444P, Ins84G, and 1066 + 1G-->A, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Walley AJ,Barth ML,Ellis I,Fensom AH,Harris A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The AZFc region on the human Y chromosome has been found to be functionally important in spermatogenesis. Complete AZFc deletion is one of the most frequent causes of male infertility and the roles of partial AZFc deletions (gr/gr and b2/b3 deletions) in spermatogenesis are controversial. METHODS:To further...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zhang F,Lu C,Li Z,Xie P,Xia Y,Zhu X,Wu B,Cai X,Wang X,Qian J,Wang X,Jin L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is associated with the expansion and instability of a trinucleotide (CTG) repeat at the DM locus on chromosome 19. Direct genomic analysis in the German population was carried out on 18 DM families, six families with equivocal diagnosis, 69 subjects with equivocal clinical diagnosis, and 100 co...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Meiner A,Wolf C,Carey N,Okitsu A,Johnson K,Shelbourne P,Kunath B,Sauermann W,Thiele H,Kupferling P

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：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：:A child is presented with a 49,XXXXX chromosomal constitution bringing to 12 the total number of children described with this karyotype. Comparison of this child's features with previously reported cases indicates a clinically recognisable specific pattern of malformations referred to as the penta-X syndrome. X chromo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Monheit A,Francke U,Saunders B,Jones KL

更新日期：1980-10-01 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：:A new dicentric X isochromosome i(X)(pter to q2102 to pter) of similar size to a normal X is described in a girl with gonadal dysgenesis. In this non-mosaic case with an X short arm duplication, most of the stigmata associated with Turner's syndrome were absent. This structure was compared with that of six i(Xq) and t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daniel A,Saville T,Southall DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of inherited retinal dystrophy, with a worldwide prevalence of 1 in 4000 persons. While in most cases of RP, the disease is limited to the eye (non-syndromic), over 40 forms of syndromic RP have been described. OBJECTIVES:To identify the genetic basis for sy...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tatour Y,Sanchez-Navarro I,Chervinsky E,Hakonarson H,Gawi H,Tahsin-Swafiri S,Leibu R,Lopez-Molina MI,Fernandez-Sanz G,Ayuso C,Ben-Yosef T

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of 200 antenatal diagnoses in pregnancies at risk for homozygous beta-thalassaemia, carried out on fetal blood samples obtained by placental aspiration in the second trimester, are described. Globin chain synthesis in the fetuses was measured by means of 3H-leucine incorporation and separation of the chain...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cao A,Furbetta M,Angius A,Ximenes A,Rosatelli C,Tuveri T,Scalas MT,Falchi AM,Angioni G,Caminiti F

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence that genetic and immunogenetic influences operate in the causation of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (gestosis) is reviewed. The problems of definitive diagnosis are discussed along with the possibility of a multifactorial aetiology. The difficulties of differentiating trigger and effector mechanisms are also co...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scott JS,Jenkins DM

更新日期：1976-06-01 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：:We report a female case of orofaciodigital syndrome type I (OFD I) associated with polycystic kidneys and agenesis of the corpus callosum. She had chronic renal failure requiring maintenance dialysis and significant neurological deficits. Her mother had less severe OFD I associated with polycystic kidneys but her rena...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Connacher AA,Forsyth CC,Stewart WK

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the ethnic distribution of families attending genetic clinics in Birmingham has shown a deficit of Afro-Caribbean and Pakistani families. The former may be because of a deficiency of autosomal recessive diseases other than sickle cell disease, but the numbers are too small to be certain of this. The deficit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roberts A,Cullen R,Bundey S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:Mutations in the TARDBP gene, which encodes the TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43), have been described in individuals with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We screened the TARDBP gene in 285 French sporadic ALS patients to assess the frequency of TARDBP mutations in ALS. RE...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daoud H,Valdmanis PN,Kabashi E,Dion P,Dupré N,Camu W,Meininger V,Rouleau GA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the locus encoding the major cartilage collagen gene (COL2A1) was studied in a total of 19 cases of achondroplasia. No gross rearrangements were seen. The segregation of COL2A1 was examined in three affected kindreds using restriction site and length variants as genetic markers. In two kindreds discor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogilvie D,Wordsworth P,Thompson E,Sykes B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for linkage has been sought, in four pedigrees with Crouzon syndrome, between polymorphic markers known to be linked to the Saethre-Chotzen locus on 7p and another form of autosomal dominant craniosynostosis on 5q. The data we present exclude Crouzon syndrome as an allelic variant at either of these known cra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W,van Herwerden L,Rose C,Jones B,Malcolm S,Winter RM

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:A female infant with thanatophoric dysplasia was found to have a de novo translocation involving chromosomes 1 and 10. The chromosome abnormality may represent an important clue in identifying the locus for the candidate gene responsible for this lethal skeletal dysplasia. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hersh JH,Yen FF,Peiper SC,Barch MJ,Yacoub OA,Voss DH,Roberts JL

更新日期：1995-04-01 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:The high prevalence of tobacco use in some developing nations, including Bangladesh, poses several public health challenges for these populations. Smoking behaviour is determined by genetic and environmental factors; however, the genetic determinants of smoking behaviour have not been previously examined in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Argos M,Tong L,Pierce BL,Rakibuz-Zaman M,Ahmed A,Islam T,Rahman M,Paul-Brutus R,Rahaman R,Roy S,Jasmine F,Kibriya MG,Ahsan H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The m.8993T-->C MTATP6 mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) usually causes mitochondrial disease in childhood, but was recently described in a family with adult onset ataxia and polyneuropathy. Cytochrome c oxidase muscle histochemistry, which is the standard clinical investigation for mitochondrial disease in adults...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Craig K,Elliott HR,Keers SM,Lambert C,Pyle A,Graves TD,Woodward C,Sweeney MG,Davis MB,Hanna MG,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00