Segregation analysis of dominant osteogenesis imperfecta in Italy.

abstract：:An 18 month old girl with dysmorphic features, severe developmental delay, multiple strawberry naevi, and capillary naevi is described. No previous report of a similar association of features has been identified. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Upton CJ,Young ID

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between Gaucher disease and Parkinson disease has been demonstrated by the concurrence of Gaucher disease and parkinsonism in rare patients and the identification of glucocerebrosidase mutations in probands with sporadic Parkinson disease. Using a different and complementary approach, we describe 10 unr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Goker-Alpan O,Schiffmann R,LaMarca ME,Nussbaum RL,McInerney-Leo A,Sidransky E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accidental discovery, in an inguinal hernia, of a male gonad in a 67-year-old woman is reported. The association of an unambiguous female phenotype with a purely male karyotype and a male gonad suggests the diagnosis of testicular feminisation. The differential diagnosis, particularly of testicular feminisation wi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schindler AM,Csank-Brassert J

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a typical Down syndrome (DS) phenotype and a normal karyotype was studied by FISH. Using painting probes, we found that the patient had partial trisomy of chromosome 21 owing to an unbalanced translocation t(15;21) (q26; q22.1) of paternal origin. To correlate genotype with phenotype as accurately as po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nadal M,Moreno S,Pritchard M,Preciado MA,Estivill X,Ramos-Arroyo MA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of male limited gonadotrophin independent precocious puberty was examined for activating mutation of the LH receptor. A transition of A to G in nucleotide 1733 of the human LH receptor gene was identified in all affected males and in an unaffected carrier female. The mutation was shown by identifying a new re...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kawate N,Kletter GB,Wilson BE,Netzloff ML,Menon KM

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：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：:The 64Cu incorporation into uncloned fibroblast cultures from 16 Menkes disease mothers and 19 first and second degree female relatives was examined. The mean incorporation for the Menkes disease mothers (36.2 +/- 3.6 SEM) differed significantly from that of 25 normal subjects (21.7 +/- 0.9 SEM) suggesting the presenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Horn N

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bedouin infant born to consanguineous parents and grandparents is reported. She had Müllerian aplasia and the phenotypic features of the limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome (MIM 276820). Phenotypic variability of this newly recognised syndrome is briefly discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Farag TI,al-Awadi SA,Marafie MJ,Bastaki L,al-Othman SA,Mohammed FM,AlSuliman IS,Murthy DS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infertility affects approximately 15% of couples worldwide with male infertility being responsible for approximately 50% of cases. Although accumulating evidence demonstrates the critical role of the X chromosome in spermatogenesis during the last few decades, the expression patterns and potential impact of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lu C,Zhang Y,Qin Y,Xu Q,Zhou R,Cui Y,Zhu Y,Zhang X,Zhang J,Wei X,Wang M,Hang B,Mao JH,Snijders AM,Liu M,Hu Z,Shen H,Zhou Z,Guo X,Wu X,Wang X,Xia Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) has long been considered to be genetically determined, but the pattern of inheritance has been unclear. It has been suggested that inheritance may differ in Jews and non-Jews. In the present study, data gathered in a nationwide survey of ITD in Israel were analysed. Between 1969 and 1...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zilber N,Korczyn AD,Kahana E,Fried K,Alter M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome 13q deletion is associated with varying phenotypes, which seem to depend on the location of the deleted segment. Although various attempts have been made to link the 13q deletion intervals to distinct phenotypes, there is still no acknowledged consensus correlation between the monosomy of distinct...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ballarati L,Rossi E,Bonati MT,Gimelli S,Maraschio P,Finelli P,Giglio S,Lapi E,Bedeschi MF,Guerneri S,Arrigo G,Patricelli MG,Mattina T,Guzzardi O,Pecile V,Police A,Scarano G,Larizza L,Zuffardi O,Giardino D

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:A family is reported which a diabetic woman gave birth to two children with the caudal regression anomalad (CRA). There were no obvious genetic factors. This is the first reported familial case of CRA with maternal diabetes. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Stewart JM,Stoll S

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid PCR based assay was used to ascertain the presence of maternal cell contamination (MCC) in amniotic fluid cell cultures and to exclude MCC in cases where cytogenetic analysis was possible only from one primary cell culture. Six 6-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) and three 6-carboxyfluorescein hexachloride (HEX) labell...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Smith GW,Graham CA,Nevin J,Nevin NC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital overgrowth syndrome associated with a characteristic pattern of visceromegaly and predisposition to childhood tumours. BWS is a genetically heterogeneous disorder; most cases are sporadic but approximately 15% are familial and a small number of BWS patients have cytoge...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Catchpoole D,Lam WW,Valler D,Temple IK,Joyce JA,Reik W,Schofield PN,Maher ER

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients affected with progressive myoclonus epilepsy of the Lafora type present during late adolescence with a characteristic EEG pattern and Lafora bodies seen on skin biopsy. The critical region for the Lafora gene has been localised to chromosome 6q24 flanked by the dinucleotide repeat markers D6S292 and D6S420. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maddox LO,Descartes M,Collins J,Keating J,Rosenfeld S,Palmer C,Carroll AJ,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cenani-Lenz syndrome (CLS) is an autosomal recessive condition characterised by a unique pattern of syndactyly, and variable penetrance of renal agenesis and facial dysmorphism. LRP4 mutations were identified in most, but not all patients with this syndrome, suggesting the presence of at least one additional...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Patel N,Faqeih E,Anazi S,Alfawareh M,Wakil SM,Colak D,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last few years, array-comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) has considerably improved our ability to detect cryptic unbalanced rearrangements in patients with syndromic mental retardation. METHOD:Molecular karyotyping of six patients with syndromic mental retardation was carried out using whole-g...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Le Meur N,Holder-Espinasse M,Jaillard S,Goldenberg A,Joriot S,Amati-Bonneau P,Guichet A,Barth M,Charollais A,Journel H,Auvin S,Boucher C,Kerckaert JP,David V,Manouvrier-Hanu S,Saugier-Veber P,Frébourg T,Dubourg C,Andr

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominantly inherited osteogenesis imperfecta is consistently linked to the two loci encoding the alpha 1 and alpha 2 subunits of collagen 1, the predominant bone collagen. We have performed several prenatal diagnoses based on identification of the segregating allele at the concordant locus in chorionic villus samples ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lynch JR,Ogilvie D,Priestley L,Baigrie C,Smith R,Farndon P,Sykes B

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:A cytogenetic survey of the complete population of mentally subnormal in the North-East of Scotland has been undertaken. A register for the mentally subnormal within the region already existed, and all persons recorded, whether they resided at home or in subnormality hospitals or other institutional care, were include...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Speed RM,Johnston AW,Evans HJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the detection of a heterozygous deletion at chromosome 12q14 in three unrelated patients with a similar phenotype consisting of mild mental retardation, failure to thrive in infancy, proportionate short stature and osteopoikilosis as the most characteristic features. In each case, this interstitia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Menten B,Buysse K,Zahir F,Hellemans J,Hamilton SJ,Costa T,Fagerstrom C,Anadiotis G,Kingsbury D,McGillivray BC,Marra MA,Friedman JM,Speleman F,Mortier G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of a child with osteogenesis imperfecta type III (OI III) resulting from the heterozygous substitution of glycine 1006 by alanine in the pro alpha 2(I) chain of type I procollagen were studied. He was born at term with the clinical features of severe OI, including deep grey-blue sclerae. He had severe ost...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cole WG,Lam TP

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were previously reported to be associated with thyroid cancer in European populations in two genome-wide association studies (GWAS): rs965513 (9q22.33), rs944289 (14q13.3), rs116909374 (14q13.3), rs966423 (2q35) and rs2439302 (8p12). Only the first two SNPs have be...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang YL,Feng SH,Guo SC,Wei WJ,Li DS,Wang Y,Wang X,Wang ZY,Ma YY,Jin L,Ji QH,Wang JC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intelligence levels and intelligence profiles were investigated in 52 members of a large family with the fragile X syndrome. The mental abilities were evaluated by the three Wechsler intelligence tests (WAIS, WISC-R, and WPPSI). Chromosomal and psychological data were then compared. In 22 non-retarded fra(X) negative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Veenema H,Veenema T,Geraedts JP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the publication of evidence of the existence of a DNA polymorphism closely linked to the gene for Huntington's disease, attitudes towards predictive testing for Huntington's disease were evaluated in Belgium in a group of persons who are at risk for the disease and in a smaller group of their partners. The perce...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Evers-Kiebooms G,Cassiman JJ,van den Berghe H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented to support the recent suggestion that human neural tube closure is similar to that observed in mice, and comprises several regionally distinct closure sites rather than being a simple zipping up process. Seven subjects, each with more than one neural tube defect (NTD), are described. Comparative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Seller MJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Homozygous deletions/mutations of the SMN1 gene cause infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The presence of at least one SMN2 gene copy is required for normal embryogenesis. Lack of SMN protein results in degeneration of motor neurons, while extraneuronal manifestations have been regarded as a chance assoc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rudnik-Schöneborn S,Heller R,Berg C,Betzler C,Grimm T,Eggermann T,Eggermann K,Wirth R,Wirth B,Zerres K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00