Normal and aberrant splicing of LMNA.

abstract：:Prolidase deficiency (PD) is a rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in the prolidase gene. The PD patients show a wide range of clinical outcomes characterised mainly by intractable skin ulcers, mental retardation and recurrent respiratory infections. Here we describe five different ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lupi A,Rossi A,Campari E,Pecora F,Lund AM,Elcioglu NH,Gultepe M,Di Rocco M,Cetta G,Forlino A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten useful two allele restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the low density lipoprotein receptor gene were used for haplotype analysis in 45 unrelated familial hypercholesterolaemic (FH) patients, 60 normal controls, and 32 FH homozygotes, all of whom were white Afrikaners. Pedigree analysis in 27 informative h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kotze MJ,Langenhoven E,Retief AE,Seftel HC,Henderson HE,Weich HF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Newfoundland kindred in which ocular albinism and deutan colour blindness are segregating provides strong evidence against the loci for these two X-borne characters being within direct measurable distance of each other. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pearce WG,Sanger R

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with partial monosomy of the short arm of chromosome 8 are described. Their clinical features were very similar. Comparison with previously reported patients confirms the existence of an 8p- syndrome. The importance of cytogenetic investigations in all infants with major congenital heart defect and facial...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bröcker-Vriends AH,Mooij PD,van Bel F,Beverstock GC,van de Kamp JJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a life-threatening congenital disorder in which the enteric nervous system is completely missing from the distal gut. Recent studies have shown that miR-4516 markedly inhibits cell migration, and as one of its potential targets, MAPK10 functions as a modifier for developing HSC...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang Y,Jiang Q,Chakravarti A,Cai H,Xu Z,Wu W,Gu B,Li L,Cai W

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 102 families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been studied with linked DNA polymorphisms as an aid to estimating carrier risks for female relatives. Early work using probes RC8, L1.28, and pXUT23 gave very little clinically useful information because of the high recombination rates between these probes ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Read AP,Kerzin-Storrar L,Mountford RC,Elles RG,Harris R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex and heterogeneous neurological condition characterised mainly by bradykinesia, resting tremor, rigidity and postural instability, symptoms that together comprise the parkinsonian syndrome. Non-motor symptoms preceding and following clinical onset are also helpful diagnostic marker...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zhang PL,Chen Y,Zhang CH,Wang YX,Fernandez-Funez P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clubfoot is a common congenital birth defect with complex inheritance patterns. Currently, the genetic and morphological basis of clubfoot is poorly understood. To identify genetic risk factors associated with clubfoot, we performed a genome-wide association study of common genetic variants. METHODS:The DNA...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zhang TX,Haller G,Lin P,Alvarado DM,Hecht JT,Blanton SH,Stephens Richards B,Rice JP,Dobbs MB,Gurnett CA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with hypertrichosis cubiti who were referred for investigation of short stature. Two males, whose height was on and just below the 3rd centile respectively, were sporadic cases and two females with disproportionate short stature were mother and daughter. Radiological changes present in the fami...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： MacDermot KD,Patton MA,Williams MJ,Winter RM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV (EDS IV) resulting from a mutation in one COL3A1 allele were studied. The child was heterozygous for a G- to A-transition at the splice donor site of intron 41. It resulted in the splicing out of the exon 41 encoded sequence from alpha 1(III) mRNA and the del...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sillence DO,Chiodo AA,Campbell PE,Cole WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a group of genetic diseases characterised by tooth enamel defects. AI was recently described in patients with familial hypercalciuria and hypomagnesaemia with nephrocalcinosis (FHHNC) caused by CLDN16 mutations. In the kidney, claudin-16 interacts with claudin-19 to control th...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamaguti PM,Neves FA,Hotton D,Bardet C,de La Dure-Molla M,Castro LC,Scher MD,Barbosa ME,Ditsch C,Fricain JC,de La Faille R,Figueres ML,Vargas-Poussou R,Houillier P,Chaussain C,Babajko S,Berdal A,Acevedo AC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM) is a heterogeneous group of disorders that may be associated with other anomalies. The association of a CFEOM syndrome with ulnar hand abnormalities (CFEOM/U) has not been reported to date. OBJECTIVE:To describe a new autosomal recessive syndrome of CFE...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tukel T,Uzumcu A,Gezer A,Kayserili H,Yuksel-Apak M,Uyguner O,Gultekin SH,Hennies HC,Nurnberg P,Desnick RJ,Wollnik B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Deficiency of α-galactosidase A (αGal-A) in Fabry disease leads to the accumulation mainly of globotriaosylceramide (GL3) in multiple renal cell types. Glomerular podocytes are relatively resistant to clearance of GL3 inclusions by enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Migalastat, an orally bioavailable small mol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mauer M,Sokolovskiy A,Barth JA,Castelli JP,Williams HN,Benjamin ER,Najafian B

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and haematological findings in 19 Liberians probably homozygous for beta thalassaemia are described. The haemoglobin patterns were similar with Hb F levels in the 30-50% range and a raised level of Hb A2 and, although the clinical severity varied widely, over half the cases were symptomless and even the m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willcox MC,Weatherall DJ,Clegg JB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed published reports on patients with segmental aneusomy for chromosome 1p36 to help geneticists and other health professionals in the recognition of this emerging chromosomal syndrome. Terminal deletions of the short arm of chromosome 1 are associated with hypotonia and developmental delay (usually seve...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Slavotinek A,Shaffer LG,Shapira SK

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described to investigate the inheritance of disease predisposition in cancer families. It is an extension of classic genetic linkage analysis, which enables information on loss of constitutional heterozygosity (LOCH) to be incorporated into the model. This adapted model treats LOCH data as additional obser...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Teare MD,Rohde K,Santibáñez Koref MF

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital chromosome abnormalities are relatively common in our species and among structural abnormalities the most common class is balanced reciprocal translocations. Determining the parental origin of de novo balanced translocations may provide insights into how and when they arise. While there is a gener...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Thomas NS,Morris JK,Baptista J,Ng BL,Crolla JA,Jacobs PA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13 year old girl was referred with congenital microcephaly, developmental delay, a prominent nose, highly arched palate, and an apparently low set left ear. She was found to have a pericentric inversion of one chromosome 7 and a ring chromosome 8, 46,XX,inv(7) (pter----p22::q11.23----p22::q11.23----qter), r(8) (p23q...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Verma RS,Conte RA,Pitter JH,Luke S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a tumour predisposition syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. The condition is characterised by predisposition to benign leiomyomas of the skin and the uterus, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and uterine leiomyosar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehtonen HJ,Kiuru M,Ylisaukko-Oja SK,Salovaara R,Herva R,Koivisto PA,Vierimaa O,Aittomäki K,Pukkala E,Launonen V,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentric inversions in chromosome 2 were traced in 2 unrelated North American black families. In the case of inv(2)(p13q11) no effect on reproduction was observed. In the case of inv(2)(p11q13) some reproductive abnormalities were noted which might be related to the inversion. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Phillips RB

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predisposition to malignancy that is dominantly inherited in Li-Fraumeni syndrome is associated with germline mutations of the tumour suppressor gene p53. Although second malignant neoplasms have been described in children with p53 mutations, the synchronous occurrence of two embryologically different tumours in t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pivnick EK,Furman WL,Velagaleti GV,Jenkins JJ,Chase NA,Ribeiro RC

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple genes have been provisionally associated with Alzheimer's disease, including the coding polymorphisms in exons 8 and 13 in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR), situated on chromosome 19p13.2. METHODS:The sample groups consisted of 180 AD patients and 141 control spouses. We carried out...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cheng D,Huang R,Lanham IS,Cathcart HM,Howard M,Corder EH,Poduslo SE

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biallelic germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2 cause a recessive childhood cancer syndrome characterised by early-onset malignancies and signs reminiscent of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Alluding to the underlying genetic defect, we refer to this syndrome as constitutio...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kratz CP,Holter S,Etzler J,Lauten M,Pollett A,Niemeyer CM,Gallinger S,Wimmer K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress has been made in identifying mutations that confer susceptibility to complex diseases, with the prospect that these genetic risks might be used in determining individual disease risk. AIM:To use Crohn disease (CD) as a model of a common complex disorder, and to develop methods to estimate disease r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lewis CM,Whitwell SC,Forbes A,Sanderson J,Mathew CG,Marteau TM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a stillborn male infant with premaxillary agenesis, bilateral microphthalmos, alobar holoprosencephaly, hydrocephalus, ventricular and atrial septal defects, small penis, bilateral cryptorchidism, and bilateral upper limb postaxial polydactyly. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young ID,Madders DJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant sacral agenesis is characterised by a partial agenesis of the sacrum typically involving sacral vertebrae S2-S5 only. Associated features include anorectal malformation, a presacral mass, and urogenital malformation. Together, these features have been defined as the Currarino syndrome. Recently, HLX...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lynch SA,Wang Y,Strachan T,Burn J,Lindsay S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in TSC1 or TSC2 cause the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a disorder characterised by the development of hamartomas or benign tumours in various organs as well as the variable presence of epilepsy, intellectual disability (ID) and autism. TSC1, TSC2 and the recently described protein TBC1D7 form ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Capo-Chichi JM,Tcherkezian J,Hamdan FF,Décarie JC,Dobrzeniecka S,Patry L,Nadon MA,Mucha BE,Major P,Shevell M,Bencheikh BO,Joober R,Samuels ME,Rouleau GA,Roux PP,Michaud JL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5 day old male with bilateral anophthalmos, hypospadias, bifid scrotum, micrognathia, and cleft palate with normal chromosomes is described. There have been two case reports with similar clinical manifestations but associated with interstitial deletion of 14q (q22q23). We propose that either our patient represents a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Phadke SR,Sharma AK,Agarwal SS

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl sought medical advice, saying that for two years it had been increasingly difficult for her to extend her little finger. An examination revealed that all her fingers, with the exception of her thumbs, had no interphalangeal fold. Her mother had less pronounced signs of the same type. This abnormalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lambert D,Nivelon-Chevallier A,Chapuis JL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the ethnic distribution of families attending genetic clinics in Birmingham has shown a deficit of Afro-Caribbean and Pakistani families. The former may be because of a deficiency of autosomal recessive diseases other than sickle cell disease, but the numbers are too small to be certain of this. The deficit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roberts A,Cullen R,Bundey S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00