A unique genome-wide association analysis in extended Utah high-risk pedigrees identifies a novel melanoma risk variant on chromosome arm 10q.

abstract：:We have calculated the relative frequency and the birth prevalence of lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) in The Netherlands based on all 963 enzymatically confirmed cases diagnosed during the period 1970-1996. The combined birth prevalence for all LSDs is 14 per 100,000 live births. Glycogenosis type II is the most fre...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Poorthuis BJ,Wevers RA,Kleijer WJ,Groener JE,de Jong JG,van Weely S,Niezen-Koning KE,van Diggelen OP

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel heterozygous TGG-->TAG (Trp-29-->Term) substitution was detected in three members of a family with inherited type 1 protein C deficiency and recurrent venous thrombosis. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Millar DS,Grundy CB,Bignell P,Mitchell DC,Corden D,Woods P,Kakkar VV,Cooper DN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a novel human globin gene mutation that produced in a Japanese family the beta-thalassemia phenotype through a post-translational mechanism. Substitution of proline for leucine at position 110 in the G-helix of the beta-globin chain greatly reduced the molecular stability of the beta-globin subunit, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Naritomi Y,Naito Y,Nakashima H,Yokota E,Imamura T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with hyperphenylalaninaemia and hyperphenylalaninaemic mothers are presented. At least one of the affected children was a compound heterozygote for hyperphenylalaninaemia and phenylketonuria. The families were examined by an L-phenylalanine loading test, by direct determination of phenylalanine hydroxyl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bartholomé K,Olek K,Trefz F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorders of the anterior segment of the eye encompass a variety of clinical presentations including aniridia, Axenfeld and Rieger anomalies, primary congenital glaucoma, Peters anomaly, as well as syndromal associations. These conditions have a significant impact on vision due to disruption of the visual axis, and al...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ma AS,Grigg JR,Jamieson RV

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric illness with a lifetime prevalence of 0.4 %. A disturbance of energy metabolism has been suggested as part of the etiopathogenesis of the disorder. Several lines of evidence have proposed a connection between etiopathogenesis of SCZ and human brain evolution, which was chara...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gonçalves VF,Andreazza AC,Kennedy JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms in the apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene have been reported to be associated with altered serum lipids and susceptibility to cholesterol gallstones (GS). Gallstones are among the well-known risk factors for carcinoma of the gallbladder (GBC). In the present study, the association between the XbaI poly...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Singh MK,Pandey UB,Ghoshal UC,Srivenu I,Kapoor VK,Choudhuri G,Mittal B

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-related disorders are due to a dynamic mutation of the CGG repeat at the 5' UTR of the FMR1 gene, coding for the RNA-binding protein FMRP. As the CGG sequence expands from premutation (PM, 56-200 CGGs) to full mutation (> 200 CGGs), FMRP synthesis decreases until it is practically abolished in fragile X synd...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nobile V,Palumbo F,Lanni S,Ghisio V,Vitali A,Castagnola M,Marzano V,Maulucci G,De Angelis C,De Spirito M,Pacini L,D'Andrea L,Ragno R,Stazi G,Valente S,Mai A,Chiurazzi P,Genuardi M,Neri G,Tabolacci E

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple routine method for detecting individuals who are heterozygous for the silent gene Gt 0 is presented. This method consists of a combination of electrophoresis and densitometry. The results confirm the theoretical expectation that these individuals would exhibit about 50% of the enzyme activity found in the cor...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Siebert G,Kömpf J,Ritter H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well defined polymorphism of vitamin D-binding/group-specific component (GC) residues in exon 11. To characterize the molecular basis of GC*1A2 and GC*1A3, common in some Asian populations, we analyzed all coding exons amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. GC*1F was divided into GC*1FC and GC*1FT by a C-T tran...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yuasa I,Kofler A,Braun A,Umetsu K,Bichlmaier R,Kammerer S,Cleve H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to viral bronchiolitis, the commonest cause of infant admissions to hospital in the industrialised world, is associated with polymorphism at the IL8 locus. Here we map the genomic boundaries of the disease association by case-control analysis and TDT in 580 affected UK infants. Markers for association m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hull J,Rowlands K,Lockhart E,Sharland M,Moore C,Hanchard N,Kwiatkowski DP

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the identification of an increasing number of genes involved in sex determination and differentiation, no cause can be attributed to most cases of 46, XY gonadal dysgenesis, approximately 20% of 46, XX males and the majority of subjects with 46, XX true hermaphroditism. Perhaps the most interesting candidate f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lim HN,Berkovitz GD,Hughes IA,Hawkins JR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type I is a generalized connective tissue disorder, the major manifestations of which are soft, velvety hyperextensible skin and moderately severe joint hypermobility. The gene defect or defects causing EDS type I have not yet been defined, but previous observations suggested that the synd...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sokolov BP,Prytkov AN,Tromp G,Knowlton RG,Prockop DJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta F508 mutation and cystic fibrosis (CF) haplotypes with the markers KM19, pMP6d-9 and J3.11 are described in 54 adult British CF patients. delta F508 was found on 70% of all CF chromosomes, on none of the normal chromosomes and on only 37.5% of pancreatic sufficient CF chromosomes. All patients with meconium ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santis G,Osborne L,Knight R,Ramsay M,Williamson R,Hodson M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease leading to global dementia. The familial form (FAD) has been linked to markers on chromosome 21 in some families, most tightly to the loci D21S16 and D21S13 located close to the centromere of the long arm. In other families the FAD mutation has been exc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pulst SM,Fain P,Cohn V,Nee LE,Polinsky RJ,Korenberg JR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1278insTATC is the most prevalent beta-hexosaminidase A ( HEXA) gene mutation causing Tay-Sachs disease (TSD), one of the four lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) occurring at elevated frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews (AJs). To investigate the genetic history of this mutation in the AJ population, a conserved haplot...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Frisch A,Colombo R,Michaelovsky E,Karpati M,Goldman B,Peleg L

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic studies were carried out on 150 oocytes obtained in a human in vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Although all cells lacked signs of fertilization at light microscopy, 46 (30.7%) appeared to show cytological evidence of fertilization. At least one-third of these cells (with development arrested before firs...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pieters MH,Geraedts JP,Dumoulin JC,Evers JL,Bras M,Kornips FH,Menheere PP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is caused by mutations in LMNA gene encoding lamins A and C. The disease is characterized by early onset joint contractures during childhood associated with humero-peroneal muscular wasting and weakness, and by the development of a cardiac disease in adulthood. Impo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Granger B,Gueneau L,Drouin-Garraud V,Pedergnana V,Gagnon F,Ben Yaou R,Tezenas du Montcel S,Bonne G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accessory auricular anomaly is a small excrescence of skin that contains elastic cartilage on different regions of the helix and the face. Previous work has shown that the genetic trait of some patients with the isolated symptom of accessory auricular anomaly is autosomal dominant. To map the gene for autosomal domina...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yang Y,Guo J,Liu Z,Tang S,Li N,Yang M,Pang Q,Fan F,Bu J,Yuan ST,Xiao X,Chen Y,Zhao K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two additional mutations in the ferrochelatase gene in two Swiss patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). Ferrochelatase cDNA from patients was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subjected to mutation analysis by sequencing PCR products either directly or after subcloning. The...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schneider-Yin X,Schäfer BW,Möhr P,Burg G,Minder EI

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a dominantly inherited neuromuscular disorder characterised by muscle weakness and wasting. There are two forms of DM; both of which are caused by the expansion of repeated DNA sequences. DM1 is associated with a CTG repeat located in the 3' untranslated region of a gene, DMPK and DM2 with a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Machuca-Tzili L,Thorpe H,Robinson TE,Sewry C,Brook JD

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a lymphocyte chromosome survey of retinoblastoma (Rb) patients using a method able to detect a relatively low proportion mosaicism of 13q14 deletion are presented. Three out of 42 Rb patients had abnormal karyotypes; two mosaic cases with the karyotype 46,XY,del(13) (q14.1q14.3)/46,XY and 46,XX,del(13)(...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Motegi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetically determined polymorphism of human pancreatic amylase (E.C. 3.2.1.1), AMY2, is demonstrated in serum specimens by agarose gel electrophoresis. We investigated 325 mother-child pairs and 2594 unrelated individuals from southwestern Germany. This study confirms the formal hypothesis of two common alleles A...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kömpf J,Siebert G,Ritter H

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：:Genetics-associated asthenoteratozoospermia is often seen in patients with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF). Although 24 causative genes have been identified, these explain only approximately half of patients with MMAF. Since sperm flagella and motile cilia (especially respiratory cili...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Guo T,Tu CF,Yang DH,Ding SZ,Lei C,Wang RC,Liu L,Kang X,Shen XQ,Yang YF,Tan ZP,Tan YQ,Luo H

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In certain segments of human DNA, the methylation of deoxycytidine residues has been found to be highly specific and interindividually conserved. Imprinted DNA sequences in diploid primary cells show allele-specific differences in DNA methylation, usually with the active chromosomal regions being unmethylated and the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kochanek S,Renz D,Doerfler W

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are heterogeneous disorders with a high heritability and complex genetic architecture. Due to the central role of the fragile X mental retardation gene 1 protein (FMRP) pathway in ASD we investigated common functional variants of ASD risk genes regulating FMRP. We genotyped ten SNPs in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Waltes R,Duketis E,Knapp M,Anney RJ,Huguet G,Schlitt S,Jarczok TA,Sachse M,Kämpfer LM,Kleinböck T,Poustka F,Bölte S,Schmötzer G,Voran A,Huy E,Meyer J,Bourgeron T,Klauck SM,Freitag CM,Chiocchetti AG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of parental age data from 225 sporadic cases of bilateral retinoblastoma, plus ten sporadic cases of chromosome deletion or translocation involving 13q14 that was identified as of paternal origin, revealed no evidence of paternal or maternal age effect. Parental exposure to ionizing radiation or c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsunaga E,Minoda K,Sasaki MS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum is partially mediated through binding of malaria-specific IgG to Fc gamma (γ) receptors. Variations in human FcγRIIA-H/R-131 and FcγRIIIB-NA1/NA2 affect differential binding of IgG sub-classes. Since variability in FcγR may play an important role in seve...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ouma C,Davenport GC,Garcia S,Kempaiah P,Chaudhary A,Were T,Anyona SB,Raballah E,Konah SN,Hittner JB,Vulule JM,Ong'echa JM,Perkins DJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple rapid reproducible polymerase chain reaction based technique, termed amplified product length polymorphism (APLP), as a new strategy for primer design for ABO genotyping. The method involves the use of primers differing in length and permits the identification of the major ABO genotypes (A1, A2, B,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Watanabe G,Umetsu K,Yuasa I,Suzuki T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00