Mutations in FKBP10 can cause a severe form of isolated Osteogenesis imperfecta.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graves disease (GD) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease characterized by hyperthyroidism, diffuse goiter, autoantibodies against thyroid-specific antigens, and dermopathy. Studies of GD have demonstrated the importance of the Th2 and Th17 immune responses in mediating disease progression. In the present ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Tsai KH,Tsai FJ,Lin HJ,Lin HJ,Liu YH,Liao WL,Wan L

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CHARGE syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterized by ocular Coloboma, congenital Heart defects, choanal Atresia, Retardation, Genital anomalies and Ear anomalies. Over 90 % of typical CHARGE patients are mutated in the CHD7 gene, 65 %-70 % of the cases for all typical and suspected cases combi...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Pisaneschi E,Sirleto P,Lepri FR,Genovese S,Dentici ML,Petrocchi S,Angioni A,Digilio MC,Dallapiccola B

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) recently obtained initial results from the first genome-wide association scan for renal traits. The study of 70,987 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 1,010 FHS participants provides a list of SNPs showing the strongest associations with renal traits which need to be v...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Kottgen A,Kao WH,Hwang SJ,Boerwinkle E,Yang Q,Levy D,Benjamin EJ,Larson MG,Astor BC,Coresh J,Fox CS

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, meaning patients would benefit from different treatment strategies based on their molecular stratification. In recent years, several genomic studies have identified prostate cancers with defects in DNA repair genes. It is known that the PARP inhibitor, olaparib, ha...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Ma Y,He L,Huang Q,Zheng S,Zhang Z,Li H,Liu S

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteodysplasia of the oral and maxillofacial bone is generally accompanied by systemic bone abnormalities (such as short stature, joint contracture) or other systemic abnormalities (such as renal, dermatological, cardiovascular, optic, or hearing disorders). However, it does not always present this way. Rece...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Aoyama KI,Kimura M,Yamazaki H,Uchibori M,Kojima R,Osawa Y,Hosomichi K,Ota Y,Tanaka M,Yamada S,Nishimura G

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Damaging variants in TRIO have been associated with moderate to severe neurodevelopmental disorders in humans. While recent work has delineated the positional effect of missense variation on the resulting phenotype, the clinical spectrum associated with loss-of-function variation has yet to be fully defined....

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Schultz-Rogers L,Muthusamy K,Pinto E Vairo F,Klee EW,Lanpher B

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations of the autoimmune regulator gene (AIRE), located on chromosome 21q22.3, are recognized as the cause of a rare monogenic organ-specific autoimmune disorder called autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 (APS-1). Three major components of this syndrome include chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC)...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Sajjadi-Jazi SM,Soltani A,Enayati S,Kakavand Hamidi A,Amoli MM

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing dramatically in sub-Saharan Africa, and genetic predisposition is likely involved in that. Yet, genetic variants known to confer increased susceptibility among Caucasians are far from being established in African populations. In Ghanaian adults, we examined associations...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Danquah I,Othmer T,Frank LK,Bedu-Addo G,Schulze MB,Mockenhaupt FP

更新日期：2013-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome (HFS) is a rare heritable multi-systemic disorder with significant dermatologic manifestations. It is caused by mutations in ANTXR2, which encodes a transmembrane receptor involved in collagen VI regulation in the extracellular matrix. Over 40 mutations in the ANTXR2 gene have b...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Youssefian L,Vahidnezhad H,Touati A,Ziaee V,Saeidian AH,Pajouhanfar S,Zeinali S,Uitto J

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to assess the association between 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in six genes (IRF8, TMEM39A, IKZF3, ORMDL3, GSDMB, and ZPBP2) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a Chinese Han population sample. METHODS:We carried out a case-control study of 415 patients with SLE and 470 h...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Cai X,Huang W,Liu X,Wang L,Jiang Y

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) might play a role in cardiac disease (heart failure (HF) and ischemia). Mutations within several genes are HH-associated, the most common being the HFE gene. In a large cohort of HF patients, we sought to determine the etiological role and the prognostic si...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Møller DV,Pecini R,Gustafsson F,Hassager C,Hedley P,Jespersgaard C,Torp-Pedersen C,Christiansen M,Køber LV,EchoCardiography and Heart Outcome Study Investigators.

更新日期：2010-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inactivating mutations of CDC73 cause Hyperparathyroidism-Jaw Tumour syndrome (HPT-JT), Familial Isolated Hyperparathyroidism (FIHP) and sporadic parathyroid carcinoma. We conducted CDC73 mutation analysis in an HPT-JT family and confirm carrier status of the proband's daughter. METHODS:The proband had prim...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Guarnieri V,Seaberg RM,Kelly C,Jean Davidson M,Raphael S,Shuen AY,Baorda F,Palumbo O,Scillitani A,Hendy GN,Cole DEC

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important small non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression in cellular processes related to the pathogenesis of cancer. Genetic variation in miRNA genes could impact their synthesis and cellular effects and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are one example of genetic v...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Chacon-Cortes D,Smith RA,Haupt LM,Lea RA,Youl PH,Griffiths LR

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is increasingly recognized as an inherited arterial disease leading to a step-wise decline and eventually to dementia. CADASIL is caused by mutations in NOTCH3 epidermal growth factor-like repeat that maps to...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Bohlega S,Al Shubili A,Edris A,Alreshaid A,Alkhairallah T,AlSous MW,Farah S,Abu-Amero KK

更新日期：2007-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial function is impaired in Parkinson's disease (PD) and may contribute to the pathogenesis of PD, but the causes of mitochondrial impairment in PD are unknown. Mitochondrial dysfunction is recapitulated in cell lines expressing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from PD patients, implicating mtDNA variants...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Simon DK,Pankratz N,Kissell DK,Pauciulo MW,Halter CA,Rudolph A,Pfeiffer RF,Nichols WC,Foroud T,Parkinson Study Group-PROGENI Investigators.

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations of EFNB1 cause the X-linked malformation syndrome craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS). CFNS is characterized by an unusual phenotypic pattern of inheritance, because it affects heterozygous females more severely than hemizygous males. This sex-dependent inheritance has been explained by random X-inac...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Makarov R,Steiner B,Gucev Z,Tasic V,Wieacker P,Wieland I

更新日期：2010-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visceral obesity and metabolic syndrome are commonly associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The progression of steatosis to NASH depends on a number of metabolic and patient-related factors. The mechanisms of genetic predisposition towards the development of NASH and related fibrosis rema...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Mehta R,Jeiran K,Koenig AB,Otgonsuren M,Goodman Z,Baranova A,Younossi Z

更新日期：2016-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a severe inherited cardiac disorder caused by mutations predominantly in the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) gene. We sought to identify mutations in genes affecting cardiac calcium cycling in patients with CPVT and in less typical familial exercise-r...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Marjamaa A,Laitinen-Forsblom P,Lahtinen AM,Viitasalo M,Toivonen L,Kontula K,Swan H

更新日期：2009-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial disorders are difficult to diagnose due to extreme genetic and phenotypic heterogeneities. METHODS:We explored the utility of targeted next-generation sequencing for the diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders in 148 patients submitted for clinical testing. A panel of 447 nuclear genes encoding m...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： DaRe JT,Vasta V,Penn J,Tran NT,Hahn SH

更新日期：2013-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variants in the FTO gene have been associated with obesity in children, but this association has not been shown with other biomarkers. We assessed the association of 52 FTO polymorphisms, spanning the whole gene, with obesity and estimated the influence of these polymorphisms on anthropometric, clinical and ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Olza J,Ruperez AI,Gil-Campos M,Leis R,Fernandez-Orth D,Tojo R,Cañete R,Gil A,Aguilera CM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPD) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disease that is characterized by pain, stiffness and enlargement of multiple joints with an age of onset between 3 and 8 years old. Mutations in the WISP3 (Wnt1-inducible signal pathway) gene are known to be the cause of PPD. ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Hu Q,Liu J,Wang Y,Wang J,Shi H,Sun Y,Wu X,Yang C,Teng J

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Six asthma candidate genes, ADAM33, NPSR1, PHF11, DPP10, HLA-G, and CYFIP2, located at different chromosome regions have been positionally cloned following the reported linkage studies. For ADAM33, NPSR1, and CYFIP2, the associations with asthma or asthma-related phenotypes have been studied in East Asian po...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Zhou H,Hong X,Jiang S,Dong H,Xu X,Xu X

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia is a frequent complication of pregnancy and a leading cause of perinatal mortality. Both genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified. Lipid metabolism, particularly cholesterol metabolism, is associated with this disease. Liver X receptors alpha (NR1H3, also known as LXRalpha) an...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Mouzat K,Mercier E,Polge A,Evrard A,Baron S,Balducchi JP,Brouillet JP,Lumbroso S,Gris JC

更新日期：2011-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cohen syndrome (CS) is an uncommon developmental disease with evident clinical heterogeneity. VPS13B is the only gene responsible for CS. Only few sporadic cases of CS have been reported in China. CASE PRESENTATION:A Chinese family with two offspring-patients affected by developmental delay and intellectual...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Zhao S,Luo Z,Xiao Z,Li L,Zhao R,Yang Y,Zhong Y

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Krüppel-like factor (KLF) family consists of transcription factors that can activate or repress different genes implicated in processes such as differentiation, development, and cell cycle progression. Moreover, several of these proteins have been implicated in glucose homeostasis, making them candidate ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Gutiérrez-Aguilar R,Benmezroua Y,Vaillant E,Balkau B,Marre M,Charpentier G,Sladek R,Froguel P,Neve B

更新日期：2007-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Propionic acidemia (PA)(OMIM#606054) is an inborn error of branched-chain amino acid metabolism, caused by defects in the propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) enzyme which encoded by the PCCA and PCCB genes. CASE PRESENTATION:Here we report a Chinese neonate diagnosed with suspected PA based on the clinical symp...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Wang HR,Liu YQ,He XL,Sun J,Zeng FW,Yan CB,Li H,Gao SY,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The chromosome 7q32 region is linked to metabolic syndrome and obesity related traits in the Family Heart Study. As part of a fine mapping study of the region, we evaluated the relationship of polymorphisms to fasting glucose levels and Type 2 diabetes. METHODS:Thirty-nine HapMap defined tag SNPs in a 1.08 ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Laramie JM,Wilk JB,Williamson SL,Nagle MW,Latourelle JC,Tobin JE,Province MA,Borecki IB,Myers RH

更新日期：2008-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations account for at least 5% of cases of postlingual, nonsyndromic hearing impairment. Among them, mutation A1555G is frequently found associated with aminoglycoside-induced and/or nonsyndromic hearing loss in families presenting with extremely variable clinical phenotypes. Bio...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Ballana E,Mercader JM,Fischel-Ghodsian N,Estivill X

更新日期：2007-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amyloidoses are a heterogeneous group of progressive diseases caused by tissue deposition of misfolded proteins. According to the International Classification of Diseases, hereditary amyloidosis is divided into neuropathic and non-neuropathic forms. In Sweden, neuropathic heredofamilial amyloidosis has been ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Hemminki K,Li X,Försti A,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a vascular multi-organ system disorder. Its diagnostic criteria include epistaxis, telangiectases in mucocutaneous sites, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), and familial inheritance. HHT is transmitted as an autosomal dominant condition, caused in 85% of cases ...

journal_title：BMC medical genetics

authors： Albiñana V,Zafra MP,Colau J,Zarrabeitia R,Recio-Poveda L,Olavarrieta L,Pérez-Pérez J,Botella LM

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00