Family in which Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and protan colour blindness are segregating.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The development of colorectal cancer and a variable range of extracolonic manifestations in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is the result of the dominant inheritance of adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene mutations. In this study, direct mutation analysis of the APC gene was performed to determin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wallis YL,Morton DG,McKeown CM,Macdonald F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) variants classified ambiguously as variants of uncertain significance (VUS) are a major challenge for clinical genetic testing in breast cancer; their relevance to the cancer risk is unclear and the association with the response to specific BRCA1/2-targeted agents is uncertain. To m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lee JS,Oh S,Park SK,Lee MH,Lee JW,Kim SW,Son BH,Noh DY,Lee JE,Park HL,Kim MJ,Cho SI,Lee YK,Park SS,Seong MW

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DLG5 p.R30Q has been reported to be associated with Crohn disease (CD), but this association has not been replicated in most studies. A recent analysis of gender-stratified data from two case-control studies and two population cohorts found an association of DLG5 30Q with increased risk of CD in men but not ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Browning BL,Annese V,Barclay ML,Bingham SA,Brand S,Büning C,Castro M,Cucchiara S,Dallapiccola B,Drummond H,Ferguson LR,Ferraris A,Fisher SA,Gearry RB,Glas J,Henckaerts L,Huebner C,Knafelz D,Lakatos L,Lakatos PL,La

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 7 and postnatal growth failure has been reported in four cases and suggests the presence of genomic imprinting of one or more growth related genes on chromosome 7. However, in the reported cases, the possibility of homozygosity for a recessive mutation coul...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Langlois S,Yong SL,Wilson RD,Kwong LC,Kalousek DK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HLA-DRB1 is the strongest susceptibility gene to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). HLA-DRB1 alleles showed significant non-additive and interactive effects on susceptibility to RA in the European population, but these effects on RA susceptibility should vary between populations due to the difference in allelic dist...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Terao C,Okada Y,Ikari K,Kochi Y,Suzuki A,Ohmura K,Matsuo K,Taniguchi A,Kubo M,Raychaudhuri S,Yamamoto K,Yamanaka H,Kamatani Y,Mimori T,Matsuda F

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term decline in the incidence of the neural tube malformations, anencephaly and spina bifida (ASB), ended in the mid-1950's in New York State. Since that time, the rate of these birth defects has remained between 1 and 1.5/1000 births. In this low incidence population, we tested the basic tenets which support...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Janerich DT,Piper J

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is significant evidence for genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in X linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP). We have studied the linkage of XLRP in four Irish families to a number of polymorphic DNA markers. We report linkage between the DXS7 (L1.28) locus and the XLRP locus (Z = 3.445, theta = 0.00). Combined with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Farrar GJ,Geraghty MT,Moloney JM,McConnell DJ,Humphries P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first comprehensive study, to our knowledge, on genomic chromosomal analysis in syndromic craniosynostosis. In total, 45 patients with craniosynostotic disorders were screened with a variety of methods including conventional karyotype, microsatellite segregation analysis, subtelomeric multiplex ligation...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jehee FS,Krepischi-Santos AC,Rocha KM,Cavalcanti DP,Kim CA,Bertola DR,Alonso LG,D'Angelo CS,Mazzeu JF,Froyen G,Lugtenberg D,Vianna-Morgante AM,Rosenberg C,Passos-Bueno MR

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that epidermal rather than dermal mosaicism determines Blaschko's lines in hypomelanosis of Ito (HI), we studied the distribution of chromosomal mosaicism in four patients. In two, mosaicism had not been detected in lymphocytes or dermal fibroblasts, but was clearly shown in epidermal keratinocy...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moss C,Larkins S,Stacey M,Blight A,Farndon PA,Davison EV

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease results, in most patients, from mutations in the gene encoding glucocerebrosidase. Mutation D409H is the third most frequent in Spanish patients, accounting for 5.7% of all mutated alleles. This allele is associated mainly with the neurological forms of the disease. Recently, homozygosity for the D409H...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chabás A,Gort L,Montfort M,Castelló F,Domínguez MC,Grinberg D,Vilageliu L

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of the increasing use of genome wide telomere screening, it has become evident that a significant proportion of people with idiopathic mental retardation have subtle abnormalities involving the telomeres of human chromosomes. However, during the course of these studies, there have also been telomeric imbal...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Martin CL,Waggoner DJ,Wong A,Uhrig S,Roseberry JA,Hedrick JF,Pack SD,Russell K,Zackai E,Dobyns WB,Ledbetter DH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory chain complex I deficiency represents a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases resulting from mutations in mitochondrial or nuclear genes. Mutations have been reported in 13 of the 14 subunits encoding the core of complex I (seven mitochondrial and six nuclear genes) and these result in Leigh or Leigh...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bénit P,Slama A,Cartault F,Giurgea I,Chretien D,Lebon S,Marsac C,Munnich A,Rötig A,Rustin P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costello syndrome is characterised by postnatal growth deficiency, coarse facies, redundant skin on the neck, palms, soles, and fingers, dark skin, acanthosis nigricans, and papillomata. The natural history evolves in two phases, a severe failure to thrive during the first months contrasting with a normal weight gain ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Philip N,Sigaudy S

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:A limited number of studies aimed at investigating the possible association of Y-chromosome haplogroups with microdeletions of the azoospermia factors (AZFs) or with particular infertile phenotypes, but definitive conclusions have not been attained. The main confounding elements in these association studies ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Arredi B,Ferlin A,Speltra E,Bedin C,Zuccarello D,Ganz F,Marchina E,Stuppia L,Krausz C,Foresta C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) can occur due to deletions or mutations in the DAX 1 (NR0B1) gene on the X chromosome (OMIM 300200). This form of AHC is therefore predominantly seen in boys. Deletion of the DAX 1 gene can also be part of a larger contiguous deletion including the centromeric dystrophin and glycerol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Shaikh MG,Boyes L,Kingston H,Collins R,Besley GT,Padmakumar B,Ismayl O,Hughes I,Hall CM,Hellerud C,Achermann JC,Clayton PE

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Girls and women with Turner syndrome are at risk for catastrophic aortic dissection and rupture, but the clinical profile for those at risk is not well described. In addition to reporting two new cases, we performed an electronic search to identify all reported cases of aortic dissection associated with Turner syndrom...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carlson M,Silberbach M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND BACKGROUND:Mutations in the TARDBP gene, which encodes the TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43), have been described in individuals with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We screened the TARDBP gene in 285 French sporadic ALS patients to assess the frequency of TARDBP mutations in ALS. RE...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daoud H,Valdmanis PN,Kabashi E,Dion P,Dupré N,Camu W,Meininger V,Rouleau GA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of Campbell and Price in 1979 that their Unit had diagnosed four subjects with both Klinefelter's syndrome and congenital hypothyroidism raised the suspicion of an association between the two conditions. This, and the published reports of an XX male, five XXY males, and one mosaic XY/XXY with congenita...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sarri C,Côté GB,Mengreli C,Lambadaridis I,Pantelakis S

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with suspected hereditary liability to pressure palsies. Neurophysiological studies showed a mixed axonal-demyelinating sensory-motor polyneuropathy with focal slowing of conduction velocities at the common sites of entrapment. Morphological studies on sural nerve biopsy from the proband showed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sessa M,Nemni R,Quattrini A,Del Carro U,Wrabetz L,Canal N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 30-50% of patients with colorectal adenomatous polyposis, no germline mutation in the known genes APC, causing familial adenomatous polyposis, MUTYH, causing MUTYH-associated polyposis, or POLE or POLD1, causing polymerase-proofreading-associated polyposis can be identified, although a hereditary aetiolog...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Spier I,Drichel D,Kerick M,Kirfel J,Horpaopan S,Laner A,Holzapfel S,Peters S,Adam R,Zhao B,Becker T,Lifton RP,Perner S,Hoffmann P,Kristiansen G,Timmermann B,Nöthen MM,Holinski-Feder E,Schweiger MR,Aretz S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior polar cataract is a clinically distinctive opacity located at the back of the lens. It is commonly acquired in age related cataract, and may infrequently occur in pedigrees with congenital cataract. To date, five loci for autosomal dominant congenital posterior polar cataract have been identified. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pras E,Mahler O,Kumar V,Frydman M,Gefen N,Pras E,Hejtmancik JF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late onset Huntington's disease is characterised by onset of symptoms after the age of 50 and is usually associated with a milder course. We have analysed the CAG trinucleotide repeat within the HD gene in 133 late onset patients from 107 extended families. The median upper allele size for the CAG repeat was 42 with a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kremer B,Squitieri F,Telenius H,Andrew SE,Theilmann J,Spence N,Goldberg YP,Hayden MR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with congenital chondrodysplasia punctata with a secondary deformation of umbilical cord hernia is reported. The paper discusses deformation syndromes as anomalies due to unusual mechanical or intrinsic factors. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chandavasu O,Desposito F

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowden syndrome, or the multiple hamartoma syndrome, is a familial cancer syndrome with involvement of various organ systems. Inheritance is autosomal dominant with variable expression. Progressive macrocephaly, scrotal tongue, and mild to moderate mental retardation are important signs indicating the syndrome in youn...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hanssen AM,Fryns JP

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital deletions affecting 3q11q23 have rarely been reported and only five cases have been molecularly characterised. Genotype-phenotype correlation has been hampered by the variable sizes and breakpoints of the deletions. In this study, 14 novel patients with deletions in 3q11q23 were investigated and c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Molin AM,Andrieux J,Koolen DA,Malan V,Carella M,Colleaux L,Cormier-Daire V,David A,de Leeuw N,Delobel B,Duban-Bedu B,Fischetto R,Flinter F,Kjaergaard S,Kok F,Krepischi AC,Le Caignec C,Ogilvie CM,Maia S,Mathieu-Drama

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fabry disease is characterised by the progressive accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and related glycosphingolipids in vascular endothelial cells. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) clears this accumulation. We analysed plasma proteome profiles before and after ERT to characterise its molecular pathol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heo SH,Kang E,Kim YM,Go H,Kim KY,Jung JY,Kang M,Kim GH,Kim JM,Choi IH,Choi JH,Jung SC,Desnick RJ,Yoo HW,Lee BH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed linkage analysis in seven Italian families, in which mild osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) segregated as a dominant trait, by means of six DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of type I collagen genes. OI type I was linked to the alpha 1(I) gene (COL1A1) in two families, and to the alpha...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mottes M,Cugola L,Cappello N,Pignatti PF

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 200 families were reviewed with directly transmitted, cytogenetically visible unbalanced chromosome abnormalities (UBCAs) or euchromatic variants (EVs). Both the 130 UBCA and 70 EV families were divided into three groups depending on the presence or absence of an abnormal phenotype in parents and offspring. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Barber JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome, Noonan syndrome (NS), and Costello syndrome (CS) are clinically related developmental disorders that have been recently linked to mutations in the RAS/MEK/ERK signalling pathway. This study was a mutation analysis of the KRAS, BRAF, MEK1 and MEK2 genes in a total of 130 patients ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nava C,Hanna N,Michot C,Pereira S,Pouvreau N,Niihori T,Aoki Y,Matsubara Y,Arveiler B,Lacombe D,Pasmant E,Parfait B,Baumann C,Héron D,Sigaudy S,Toutain A,Rio M,Goldenberg A,Leheup B,Verloes A,Cavé H

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00