Inbreeding in recessive diseases.

abstract：:Lower plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are associated with the metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension) and higher cardiovascular risk. Recent association studies have suggested rare alleles responsible for very low HDL-C levels. However, for individual cardiovascular...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Harrap SB,Wong ZY,Scurrah KJ,Lamantia A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-chromosome inactivation and the size of the CGG repeat number are assumed to play a role in the clinical, physical, and behavioral phenotype of female carriers of a mutated FMR1 allele. In view of the tight relationship between replication timing and the expression of a given DNA sequence, we have examined the repli...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yeshaya J,Shalgi R,Shohat M,Avivi L

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stargardt disease (STGD) is one of the most frequent causes of macular degeneration in childhood. Linkage analysis in families with recessive STGD has recently shown genetic homogeneity and a location of the underlying gene at 1p22-p21 in a 4-cM interval. Haplotype analysis in seven Dutch STGD families with 11 highly ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hoyng CB,Poppelaars F,van de Pol TJ,Kremer H,Pinckers AJ,Deutman AF,Cremers FP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae and is classified clinically into paucibacillary (PB) or multibacillary (MB) subtypes based on the number of skin lesions and the bacillary index detected in skin smears. We previously identified a major PB susceptibility locus on chromosome region 10p13 in Viet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Grant AV,Cobat A,Van Thuc N,Orlova M,Huong NT,Gaschignard J,Alter A,Ba NN,Thai VH,Abel L,Alcaïs A,Schurr E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xq27.3 fragile site was found to be expressed in an XXX woman, who was mentally and physically normal, and in her son who was mentally retarded and showed behavioural and physical features characteristic of the fragile X syndrome. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fuster C,Templado C,Miró R,Barrios L,Egozcue J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies of quantitative and disease traits in human genetics rely upon self-reported measures. Such measures are based on questionnaires or interviews and are often cheaper and more readily available than alternatives. However, the precision and potential bias cannot usually be assessed. Here we report a detailed...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Macgregor S,Cornes BK,Martin NG,Visscher PM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred four HLA-A : HLA-B : Bf haplotypes of the Japanese population as deduced by family analysis are described. Several linkage disequilibriums were observed in the following two-factor haplotypes: HLA-A and HLA-B, HLA-A and Bf, and HLA-B and Bf. Positive linkage disequilibriums between HLA-A and HLA-B noted ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Horai S,Juji T,Nakajima H

更新日期：1979-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Family-based candidate gene and genome-wide association studies are a logical progression from linkage studies for the identification of gene and polymorphisms underlying complex traits. An efficient way to analyse phenotypic and genotypic data is to model linkage and association simultaneously. An important result fr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gordon S,Visscher PM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and other free radicals is involved in a number of pathological conditions including cancer. In a population-based case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) (n = 518 cases, 597 controls) among women in Connecticut, we analyzed one or more single nucleotid...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lan Q,Zheng T,Shen M,Zhang Y,Wang SS,Zahm SH,Holford TR,Leaderer B,Boyle P,Chanock S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are genetically heterogenous conditions, often characterized by early onset, EEG interictal epileptiform abnormalities, polymorphous and drug-resistant seizures, and neurodevelopmental impairments. In this study, we investigated the genetic defects in two siblings wh...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fichera M,Failla P,Saccuzzo L,Miceli M,Salvo E,Castiglia L,Galesi O,Grillo L,Calì F,Greco D,Amato C,Romano C,Elia M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearranged human chromosomes carrying segments of chromosome 11 were separated from the normal chromosome 11 by high-resolution chromosome sorting. Sorted chromosomes were tested with parathyroid hormone, beta-globin, insulin, and LDH-A gene-specific probes to determine the genes carried by each chromosome segment. Ba...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lebo RV,Cheung MC,Bruce BD,Riccardi VM,Kao FT,Kan YW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High hyperopia is a common and severe form of refractive error. Genetic factors play important roles in the development of high hyperopia but the exact gene responsible for this condition is mostly unknown. We identified a large Chinese family with autosomal dominant high hyperopia. A genome-wide linkage scan mapped t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Xiao X,Sun W,Ouyang J,Li S,Jia X,Tan Z,Hejtmancik JF,Zhang Q

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns two new mutations in the sterol 27-hydroxylase gene in two patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX). In a Surinam-Creole patient (patient A), a G deletion on position cDNA 546/547 in exon 3 led to a frameshift and the introduction of a premature termination codon. In a Dutch patient (pat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Verrips A,Steenbergen-Spanjers GC,Luyten JA,van den Heuvel LP,Keyser A,Gabreëls FJ,Wevers RA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muenke syndrome, also known as FGFR3-associated coronal synostosis, is defined molecularly by the presence of a heterozygous nucleotide transversion, c.749C>G, encoding the amino acid substitution Pro250Arg, in the fibroblast growth factor receptor type 3 gene (FGFR3). This frequently occurs as a new mutation, manifes...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rannan-Eliya SV,Taylor IB,De Heer IM,Van Den Ouweland AM,Wall SA,Wilkie AO

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonucleases have been recently proved to be active on fixed chromosomes, thus they are useful in chromatin structure studies. Within this class of enzymes, Alu I is able to detect the presence and localization of highly repetitive DNA sequences in human and in other mammalian and dipteran species. In thi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： De Stefano GF,Romano E,Ferrucci L

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na+/H+ antiporter is a ubiquitous membrane-associated protein that plays an important role in the regulation of intracellular pH. APNH, a gene encoding the antiporter, has been cloned and mapped to the short arm of chromosome 1 by in situ hybridization. Using the polymerase chain reaction, we have amplified a 376 ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dudley CR,Giuffra LA,Tippett P,Kidd KK,Reeders ST

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) presented with Wilms' tumour. Examination of the nephrectomy specimen showed, in addition to the tumour, the presence of nephrogenic rests. Nephrogenic rests are thought to be precursor lesions from which a Wilms' tumour may develop. A molecular analysis examining the l...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hoban PR,Heighway J,White GR,Baker B,Gardner J,Birch JM,Morris-Jones P,Kelsey AM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate molecular and clinical aspects of conotruncal anomaly face (CAF), we studied the correlation between deletion size and phenotype and the mode of inheritance in 183 conotruncal anomaly face syndrome (CAFS) patients. Hemizygosity for a region of 22ql1.2 was found in 180 (98%) of the patients with CAFS by ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsuoka R,Kimura M,Scambler PJ,Morrow BE,Imamura S,Minoshima S,Shimizu N,Yamagishi H,Joh-o K,Watanabe S,Oyama K,Saji T,Ando M,Takao A,Momma K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate genetic abnormalities in type I CD36 deficiency, we analyzed 28 Japanese subjects whose platelets and monocytes/macrophages lacked CD36 on their surface. We identified two novel mutations in the CD36 gene. One was a complex deletion/insertion mutation, in which 3 bp, GAG, were deleted at nucleotide (nt) 8...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kashiwagi H,Tomiyama Y,Nozaki S,Kiyoi T,Tadokoro S,Matsumoto K,Honda S,Kosugi S,Kurata Y,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated. Thirty-five per cent of mutations were found to have occurred within CpG dinucleotides. Over 90% of these mutations were C----T or G----A transitions, which thus occur within coding regions at a frequency 42-f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Youssoufian H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a mutation in the gene for methylmalonyl CoA mutase in a patient with the mut- phenotype of methylmalonic aciduria. This mutation (G717V) interferes with the binding of the deoxyadenosylcobalamin cofactor to the apoenzyme producing a mutant holoenzyme that is defective, but not completely...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crane AM,Martin LS,Valle D,Ledley FD

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographical distribution of 49 mtDNA sequences from 22 localities in Southern Tuscany, Italy, was studied by molecular analysis of variance, by a new spatial autocorrelation statistic specifically designed for sequence data and by reconstructing genealogies of haplotypes. All these methods indicated a high homoge...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bertorelle G,Calafell F,Francalacci P,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An new type of translocation, t(10;13)(q25;q11), is observed in a phenotypically normal male who was examined for subfertility. The meiotic behavior of the rearranged chromosomes indicates that crossing-over is very frequent in a rather small segment such as the short arm of chromosome 13 and constant in the distal ba...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Laurent C,Biemont MC,Cognat M,Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1977-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments have been performed to determine whether human lymphocytes in primary cultures can show an "adaptive" response to the induction of cellular lesions (manifested as a production of sister chromatid exchanges, SCEs) as previously found in bacteria and established human and mammalian cell lines. Human lymphocy...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Morimoto K,Sato-Mizuno M,Koizumi A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA patterns from a pseudoautosomal variable number tandem repeat-like minisatellite (locus DXYS20) were compared in two samples: a Caucasian and a Black sample. We defined 3 types of DNA patterns named A, B and C, and found that these patterns have different frequencies in the Caucasian and Black groups. A set of all...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rappold GA,Henke A,Pohlschmid M,Huisman TH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes two families in which four boys and two girls were affected with geroderma osteodysplastica. The major features of this syndrome include a droopy, jowly, prematurely aged appearance that has been likened by previous authors to the dwarfs in Walt Disney's 'Snow White.' Also, their skin lacks normal...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hunter AG,Martsolf JT,Baker CG,Reed MH

更新日期：1978-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality. PTB pathophysiology overlaps with those of adult cardiovascular, immune and metabolic disorders (CIMD), with mechanisms including inflammation, immunotolerance, thrombosis, and nutrient metabolism. Whereas many genetic factors for CIMD have been identified,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Falah N,McElroy J,Snegovskikh V,Lockwood CJ,Norwitz E,Murray JC,Kuczynski E,Menon R,Teramo K,Muglia LJ,Morgan T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postprandial triglyceridemia is an emerging risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, most of the genes that influence postprandial triglyceridemia are not known. We evaluated whether a common nonsynonymous SNP rs1260326/P446L in the glucokinase regulatory protein (GCKR) gene influenced variation in the postpra...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shen H,Pollin TI,Damcott CM,McLenithan JC,Mitchell BD,Shuldiner AR

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the molecular characterization of a ring X chromosome that was transmitted from a mother to a male who has short stature and minor dysmorphic features. This represents only the second reported ring X chromosome in a male. The ring is derived from breakage within the Xp pseudoautosomal region (PAR) and just p...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ellison JW,Tekin M,Sikes KS,Yankowitz J,Shapiro L,Rappold GA,Neely KE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia is the most common serious medical disorder of human pregnancy. The human endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene is a candidate for pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) susceptibility. A linkage study was performed on Australian PE/E families using 25 microsatellite markers from chromosome 7, one o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Guo G,Lade JA,Wilton AN,Moses EK,Grehan M,Fu Y,Qiu H,Cooper DW,Brennecke SP

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00