Modifier locus of the skeletal muscle involvement in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

abstract：:In order to investigate the molecular basis of phenylketonuria (PKU) in Spain, we analyzed the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) haplotypes and common mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene in 32 unrelated Spanish PKU families. The distribution of RFLP haplotypes differs from that of north...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Desviat LR,Pérez B,Ugarte M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in Turkish, Native American, European American, and African American (AA) families have linked chromosome 18q21.1-23 to susceptibility for diabetes-associated nephropathy. In this study, we have carried out fine linkage mapping in the 18q region previously linked to diabetic nephropathy in AAs by genot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McDonough CW,Bostrom MA,Lu L,Hicks PJ,Langefeld CD,Divers J,Mychaleckyj JC,Freedman BI,Bowden DW

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Congenital atrichia is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of hair development, characterized by complete loss of hair shortly after birth. Evidence of linkage to chromosome 8p12 has been established, implicating the human homolog of the mouse hairless (hr) gene as a candidate gene. We have previously identified misse...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zlotogorski A,Ahmad W,Christiano AM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic heterogeneity of severe von Willebrand disease (vWd) type III was estimated by analysing extended haplotypes of eleven intragenic restriction fragment length polymorphisms and one variable number of tandem repeat polymorphism in 32 patients from 28 families from Germany or of German origin. All patients we...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schneppenheim R,Krey S,Bergmann F,Bock D,Budde U,Lange M,Linde R,Mittler U,Meili E,Mertes G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven families segregating for the X-linked recessive immune deficiency disorder, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), were studied by linkage analysis with an alpha satellite DNA probe, pBamX-7, which detects polymorphisms at the X chromosome centromere, locus DXZ1, as well as three other polymorphic markers defining loc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Greer WL,Mahtani MM,Kwong PC,Rubin LA,Peacocke M,Willard HF,Siminovitch KA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric cataracts are observed in 1-15 per 10,000 births with 10-25 % of cases attributed to genetic causes; autosomal dominant inheritance is the most commonly observed pattern. Since the specific cataract phenotype is not sufficient to predict which gene is mutated, whole exome sequencing (WES) was utilized to con...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reis LM,Tyler RC,Muheisen S,Raggio V,Salviati L,Han DP,Costakos D,Yonath H,Hall S,Power P,Semina EV

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The "out-of-Taiwan" model proposes a major Late Holocene expansion of Neolithic Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. An alternative, proposing that Late Glacial/postglacial se...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Soares PA,Trejaut JA,Rito T,Cavadas B,Hill C,Eng KK,Mormina M,Brandão A,Fraser RM,Wang TY,Loo JH,Snell C,Ko TM,Amorim A,Pala M,Macaulay V,Bulbeck D,Wilson JF,Gusmão L,Pereira L,Oppenheimer S,Lin M,Richards MB

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human height is a complex trait regulated by multiple genetic and environmental factors. CYP19 (cytochrome P450 19) encodes aromatase, which catalyses the rate-limiting step in the conversion of androgens to estrogens. Deleterious mutations in CYP19 can result in estrogen deficiency that will influence adult height to...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yang TL,Xiong DH,Guo Y,Recker RR,Deng HW

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New germline mutations in the human retinoblastoma gene are known to arise preferentially on paternally derived chromosomes, but the magnitude of that bias has not been measured. We evaluated 49 cases with a new germline mutation and found that in 40 cases (82%) the mutation arose on the paternally derived allele. We ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dryja TP,Morrow JF,Rapaport JM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex-chromosomal origin of the ring chromosome in a pre-pubertal non-virilized female patient presenting with a 45,X/46,X,r(?) karyotype could not be resolved by conventional cytogenetic (including G11) methods. Non-autoradiographic in situ hybridization of biotinylated X and Y centromere-specific alphoid repetitiv...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crolla JA,Llerena JC Jr

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-chromosome inactivation and the size of the CGG repeat number are assumed to play a role in the clinical, physical, and behavioral phenotype of female carriers of a mutated FMR1 allele. In view of the tight relationship between replication timing and the expression of a given DNA sequence, we have examined the repli...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yeshaya J,Shalgi R,Shohat M,Avivi L

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the past two decades has generated unequivocal evidence that host genetic variations substantially account for the heterogeneous outcomes following human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. In particular, genes encoding human leukocyte antigens (HLA) have various alleles, haplotypes, or specif...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Li X,Price MA,He D,Kamali A,Karita E,Lakhi S,Sanders EJ,Anzala O,Amornkul PN,Allen S,Hunter E,Kaslow RA,Gilmour J,Tang J,IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership.

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reciprocal translocation involving chromosomes Nos. 3 and 22 has been found in a patient with seemingly Ph-negative chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). G-band analysis revealed, that deletion in No. 22 occurred at the same point, as in the typical cases of the disease. It was concluded, that breakage in No. 22 at a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pravtcheva D,Andreeva P,Tsaneva R

更新日期：1976-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA patterns from a pseudoautosomal variable number tandem repeat-like minisatellite (locus DXYS20) were compared in two samples: a Caucasian and a Black sample. We defined 3 types of DNA patterns named A, B and C, and found that these patterns have different frequencies in the Caucasian and Black groups. A set of all...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rappold GA,Henke A,Pohlschmid M,Huisman TH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanism of lipid metabolism in the genesis of essential hypertension (EH), we linked blood pressure (BP) phenotypes with the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene. Variance component and sib-pair linkage models were used to test the relationship of the polymorphisms in the LPL gene region and EH in 148 Chin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yang W,Huang J,Ge D,Yao C,Duan X,Shen Y,Qiang B,Gu D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analyzing c-myc specific fragments from white blood cell DNAs of 98 gastric cancer patients and 46 control subjects, we observed 6 unexpected patterns due to presence of a variant c-myc gene in addition to the normal gene. Restriction enzyme mapping indicated that the variant c-myc gene was the result of a 5' delet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pellegata NS,Bergamaschi G,Amadori D,Aloia A,Ballarini P,Del Senno L,Amaducci L,Ranzani GN

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:A Drosophila-related expressed sequence tag (DRES) with sequence similarity to the peanut gene has previously been localized to human chromosome 22q11. We have isolated the cDNA corresponding to this DRES and show that it is a novel member of the family of septin genes, which encode proteins with GTPase activity thoug...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McKie JM,Sutherland HF,Harvey E,Kim UJ,Scambler PJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sickle-cell gene contributes substantially to the presentation of anaemia in certain areas of the Arabian Peninsula. However, the clinical presentation of the homozygous state of Hb S is less severe than that observed in other ethnic groups, such as American negroes. In the present paper, biosynthesis studies perf...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： El-Hazmi MA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albumin is a developmentally regulated serum protein synthesized in the liver mainly during adulthood. Family studies using variant forms of albumin established autosomal linkage between albumin and group-specific component protein (GS). Since GC has been assigned to human chromosome 4, albumin can be indirectly assig...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kao FT,Hawkins JW,Law ML,Dugaiczyk A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined the association of SNPs in the adiponectin (ADIPOQ) and adiponectin receptor 1 and 2 (ADIPOR1, ADIPOR2) genes with the euglycemic clamp, i.e. the gold standard measure of insulin sensitivity. The association of comprehensive tag SNPs in these genes with insulin sensitivity was examined in a c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rasmussen-Torvik LJ,Pankow JS,Jacobs DR Jr,Steinberger J,Moran A,Sinaiko AR

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Our purpose is to assess whether genotypes of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and estrogen receptor (ER) and their interaction influence changes in bone mass in postmenopausal Caucasian women with and without hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A population of 108 US Mid-West women who participated in a study of low-dose ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Deng HW,Li J,Li JL,Johnson M,Gong G,Davis KM,Recker RR

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been suggested that short expansions of CAG repeat in the gene ATXN-2 causing SCA2 (spinocerebellar ataxia type 2) are associated with an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the populations of the USA and northern Europe. In this study, we investigated the role of ATXN-2 in Italian...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Corrado L,Mazzini L,Oggioni GD,Luciano B,Godi M,Brusco A,D'Alfonso S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herlitz disease (H-JEB), the lethal form of junctional epidermolysis bullosa, is a rare genodermatosis presenting from birth with widespread erosions and blistering of skin and mucosae because of tissue cleavage within the epidermal basement membrane. Mutations in any of the three genes encoding the alpha3, beta3 and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mühle C,Jiang QJ,Charlesworth A,Bruckner-Tuderman L,Meneguzzi G,Schneider H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite markers RS46 (DXS548) and FRAXAC2 flanking the fragile X mutation, an expansion of a (CGG)n repeat within the FMR-1 gene, were typed in 60 unrelated northern and eastern Finnish fragile X families and in a control population from the same geographical region. A significant difference was found in alleli...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Haataja R,Väisänen ML,Li M,Ryynänen M,Leisti J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of two genomic EcoRI fragments as probes is discussed. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chen LZ,Easteal S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2). As female somatic cells are mosaic for expression of mutant MECP2, we performed single cell cloning of T lymphocytes from four RTT patients with MECP2 mutations to isolat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Balmer D,Arredondo J,Samaco RC,LaSalle JM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel polymorphic sites within the coding region of the human coagulation factor XIII A-subunit (F13A) gene and their haplotypic combinations with the other polymorphic sites thus far reported are presented. Polymorphic bands were detected in exons 2, 5, 8, 12 and 14 by using single strand conformational polymorphism ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Suzuki K,Henke J,Iwata M,Henke L,Tsuji H,Fukunaga T,Ishimoto G,Szekelyi M,Ito S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00