DNA secondary structure is influenced by genetic variation and alters susceptibility to de novo translocation.

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a heterogeneous form of hematological cancer consisting of various subtypes. We are interested to study the genetic aberration in precursor B-cell ALL with specific t(12;21) translocation in childhood ALL patients. A high resolution 244K array-based Comparat...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Zakaria Z,Ahid MF,Ismail A,Keoh TS,Nor NM,Kamaluddin NR,Esa E,Yuen LK,Rahman EJ,Osman R

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is genetically characterized by the occurrence of a reciprocal translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11), resulting in a BCR/ABL gene fusion on the derivative chromosome 22, i.e. the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome. During CML progression 60-80% of the cases acquire additional genetic change...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Al-Achkar W,Moassass F,Ikhtiar A,Liehr T,Othman MA,Wafa A

更新日期：2014-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex chromosomal rearrangements (CCRs) are defined as structural chromosomal rearrangements with at least three breakpoints and exchange of genetic material between two or more chromosomes. Complex chromosomal translocations are rarely seen in the general population but the frequency of occurrence is anti...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Karadeniz N,Mrasek K,Weise A

更新日期：2008-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heterochromatic variants of pericentromere of chromosome 9 are reported and discussed since decades concerning their detailed structure and clinical meaning. However, detailed studies are scarce. Thus, here we provide the largest ever done molecular cytogenetic research based on >300 chromosome 9 heteromorph...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Kosyakova N,Grigorian A,Liehr T,Manvelyan M,Simonyan I,Mkrtchyan H,Aroutiounian R,Polityko AD,Kulpanovich AI,Egorova T,Jaroshevich E,Frolova A,Shorokh N,Naumchik IV,Volleth M,Schreyer I,Nelle H,Stumm M,Wegner RD,Rei

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deletion of 13q14 is the most common cytogenetic change in chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) and is detected in about 50 % of patients by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), which can reveal presence of del(13)(q14) and mono- or biallelic deletion status without informa...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Grygalewicz B,Woroniecka R,Rygier J,Borkowska K,Rzepecka I,Łukasik M,Budziłowska A,Rymkiewicz G,Błachnio K,Nowakowska B,Bartnik M,Gos M,Pieńkowska-Grela B

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 4q- syndrome is a well known genetic condition caused by a partial terminal or interstitial deletion in the long arm of chromosome 4. The great variability in the extent of these deletions and the possible contribution of additional genetic rearrangements, such as unbalanced translocations, lead to a wid...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Manolakos E,Kefalas K,Vetro A,Oikonomidou E,Daskalakis G,Psara N,Siomou E,Papageorgiou E,Sevastopoulou E,Konstantinidou A,Vrachnis N,Thomaidis L,Zuffardi O,Papoulidis I

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The uncultivated species Dasypyrum breviaristatum carries novel diseases resistance and agronomically important genes of potential use for wheat improvement. The development of new wheat-D. breviaristatum derivatives lines with disease resistance provides an opportunity for the identification and localizatio...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Li G,Gao D,Zhang H,Li J,Wang H,La S,Ma J,Yang Z

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pure interstitial duplications of chromosome band 4p16.3 represent an infrequent chromosomal finding with, to the best of our knowledge, only two patients to date reported. CASE PRESENTATION:We report on a 13-year-old boy showing a set of dysmorphic facial features, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Palumbo O,Palumbo P,Ferri E,Riviello FN,Cloroformio L,Carella M,Di Giacomo MC

更新日期：2015-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Roberts syndrome (RBS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder mainly characterized by growth retardation, limb defects and craniofacial anomalies. Characteristic cytogenetic findings are "railroad track" appearance of chromatids and premature centromere separation in metaphase spreads. Mutations in the ESCO2...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Dupont C,Bucourt M,Guimiot F,Kraoua L,Smiljkovski D,Le Tessier D,Lebugle C,Gerard B,Spaggiari E,Bourdoncle P,Tabet AC,Benzacken B,Dupont JM

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infertility is a natural mechanism of selection intended to prevent the delivery of a child with malformations or mental retardation. Male infertility is closely related to chromosomal abnormalities. This study was focused on the analysis of meiotic segregation involving a Robertsonian translocation, 45,XY,d...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Juchniuk de Vozzi MS,Santos SA,Pereira CS,Cuzzi JF,Laureano LA,Franco JG Jr,Martelli L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to identify candidate metastasis suppressor genes from a mouse allograft model of prostate cancer (NE-10). This allograft model originally developed metastases by twelve weeks after implantation in male athymic nude mice, but lost the ability to metastasize after a number of in ...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Yi Y,Nandana S,Case T,Nelson C,Radmilovic T,Matusik RJ,Tsuchiya KD

更新日期：2009-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Meningiomas are among the most frequent intracranial tumors. Although the majority of meningiomas can be cured by surgical resection, up to 20% of the patients develop an aggressive clinical course with tumor recurrence or progressive disease.Cytogenetically, meningiomas frequently harbour a normal karyotype ...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Hemmer S,Urbschat S,Oertel J,Ketter R

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Full or partial monosomy of chromosome (chr) 21 is a very rare abnormal cytogenetic finding. It is characterized by variable sizes and deletion breakpoints on the long arm (q) of chr 21 that lead to a broad spectrum of phenotypes that include an increased risk of birth defects, developmental delay and intell...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Azad AK,Yanakakis L,Issleb S,Turina J,Drabik K,Bonner C,Simi E,Wagner A,Fiddler M,Naeem R

更新日期：2020-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MYCN oncogene amplification is the most important prognostic factor in neuroblastoma. 25% neuroblastoma tumors have somatic amplifications at this locus but little is known about its constitutional aberrations and their potential role in carcinogenesis. Here, we have performed an array-CGH and qPCR character...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Lipska BS,Koczkowska M,Wierzba J,Ploszynska A,Iliszko M,Izycka-Swieszewska E,Adamkiewicz-Drozynska E,Limon J

更新日期：2013-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Partial duplications of the distal 9q have been rarely reported in literatures. The key features included characteristic facial appearance, long fingers and toes, slight psychomotor retardation, heart murmur et al. But rare severe congenital heart defects (CHD) such as TOF were reported to be associated with...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Liu J,Hu H,Ma N,Jia Z,Zhou Y,Hu J,Wang H

更新日期：2016-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variations (CNVs) analysis may reveal molecular biomarkers and provide information on the pathogenesis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We investigated the gene copy number in childhood ALL by microarray and select three new recurrent CNVs to evaluate by real-time PCR assay: DMBT1, KIAA0125 and PRDM1...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Batista-Gomes JA,Mello FAR Jr,de Oliveira EHC,de Souza MPC,Wanderley AV,da Costa Pantoja L,Dos Santos NPC,Khayat BCM,Khayat AS

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angelman syndrome is a rare neurogenetic disorder that results in intellectual and developmental disturbances, seizures, jerky movements and frequent smiling. Angelman syndrome is caused by two genetic disturbances: either genes on the maternally inherited chromosome 15 are deleted or inactivated or two pate...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Horváth E,Horváth Z,Isaszegi D,Gergev G,Nagy N,Szabó J,Sztriha L,Széll M,Endreffy E

更新日期：2013-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The heterogeneous group of small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMCs) presents serious counseling problems, especially if they are present de novo and diagnosed prenatally. The incidence has been estimated at 1 in 1000 prenatal samples. We present a case of mosaic sSMC diagnosed prenatally after amniocen...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Kitsiou-Tzeli S,Manolakos E,Lagou M,Kontodiou M,Kosyakova N,Ewers E,Weise A,Garas A,Orru S,Liehr T,Metaxotou A

更新日期：2009-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ring chromosomes are normally associated with developmental anomalies and are rarely inherited. An exception to this rule is provided by deletion/ring cases. We were provided with a unique opportunity to investigate the meiotic segregation at oogenesis in a woman who is a carrier of a deleted/ring 22 chromos...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Mantzouratou A,Mania A,Apergi M,Laver S,Serhal P,Delhanty J

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Uniparental disomy (UPD) is a rare condition in which a child inherits both copies of a chromosome or chromosome segment from one parent. Medical consequences of UPD may include abnormal imprinting, unmasking of genetic disease, and somatic mosaicism; alternatively, the condition may be clinically silent. We...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Kerr ER,Stuhlmiller GM,Maha GC,Ladd MA,Mikhail FM,Koester RP,Hurst ACE

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Complex chromosomal rearrangements are constitutive structural aberrations involving three or more breaks. They can be balanced or unbalanced and result in different outcomes, depending on deletion/duplication of genomic material, gene disruption, or position effects. Case presentation:We report on a patien...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Restaldi F,Alesi V,Aquilani A,Genovese S,Russo S,Coletti V,Pompili D,Falasca R,Dallapiccola B,Capolino R,Luciani M,Novelli A

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number variations (CNVs) having no (obvious) clinical effects were rediscovered as major part of human genome in 2004. However, for every cytogeneticist microscopically visible harmless CNVs (CG-CNVs) are well known since decades. Harmless CG-CNVs can be present as heterochromatic or even as euchromatic...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Liehr T

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GSTM1 gene deletion is one of the most known copy number polymorphisms in human genome. It is most likely caused by homologous recombination between the repeats flanking the gene. However, taking into account that the deletion has no crucial effects on human well-being, and the ability of other GSTMs to comp...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Khrunin AV,Filippova IN,Aliev AM,Tupitsina TV,Slominsky PA,Limborska SA

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the exciting new developments in solid tumor molecular cytogenetics impact classical and molecular pathology. Fluorescence in situ hybridization to identify specific DNA target sequences in nuclei of non-dividing cells in solid neoplasms has contributed to the integration of molecular cytogenetics into cytolog...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Caria P,Vanni R

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：: Inversion of the Williams syndrome (WS) region on chromosome 7q11.23 has previously been shown to occur at a higher frequency in the transmitting parents of children with WS than in the general population, suggesting that it predisposes to the WS deletion. Frohnauer et al. recently reported that the frequency of this...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Morris CA,Mervis CB,Osborne LR

更新日期：2011-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chromosomal rearrangements in addition to t(15;17) have been reported in 25-40% of APL patients, with a large predominance of trisomy 8. Other abnormalities are far less frequent, particularly as ider(17), and the prognostic significance is still unclear. Case presentation:We present the case of a patient w...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Liu Y,Xu J,Chu L,Yu L,Zhang Y,Ma L,Wang W,Zhang Y,Xu Y,Liu R

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonrandom clonal chromosomal aberrations can be detected in approximately 55% of adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities play an important role in diagnosis, classification and prognosis of AML. However, several chromosomal abnormalities have not been completely ...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Kjeldsen E

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Amphidiploids generated by distant hybridization are commonly used as genetic bridge to transfer desirable genes from wild wheat species into cultivated wheat. This method is typically used to enhance the resistance of wheat to biotic or abiotic stresses, and to increase crop yield and quality. Tetraploid Th...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Li D,Long D,Li T,Wu Y,Wang Y,Zeng J,Xu L,Fan X,Sha L,Zhang H,Zhou Y,Kang H

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Translocations of the IGH locus on 14q32.3 are present in about 8% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and contribute to leukemogenesis by deregulating the expression of the IGH-partner genes. Identification of these genes and investigation of the downstream effects of their deregulation can ...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Malli T,Rammer M,Haslinger S,Burghofer J,Burgstaller S,Boesmueller HC,Marschon R,Kranewitter W,Erdel M,Deutschbauer S,Webersinke G

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A new chimerism analysis based on automated interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) evaluation was established to detect residual cells after allogene sex-mismatched bone marrow or blood stem-cell transplantation.Cells of 58 patients were characterized as disease-associated due to presence of a ...

journal_title：Molecular cytogenetics

authors： Erlecke J,Hartmann I,Hoffmann M,Kroll T,Starke H,Heller A,Gloria A,Sayer HG,Johannes T,Claussen U,Liehr T,Loncarevic IF

更新日期：2009-05-29 00:00:00