Rare variant association testing in the non-coding genome.

abstract：:Vitamin D inadequacy, assessed by 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], affects around 50% of adults in the United States and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. Blood 25(OH)D concentrations are influenced by genetic factors that may determine how much vitamin D intake is required to reach optimal 25(OH)D. D...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hatchell KE,Lu Q,Hebbring SJ,Michos ED,Wood AC,Engelman CD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population study of Gd- allele distribution was made in similar (age-sex) samples of schoolchildren and students from different ethnic groups: Russians, Ashkenazi Jews, and Azerbaijanians. Both the frequency and the spectrum of the Gd- alleles were quite different. The Gd- frequency in Russians (Kostroma region) was...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Krasnopolskaya XD,Shatskaya TL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 12 mutations associated with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) have been detected in the porphobilinogen deaminase gene in Swedish AIP families. Three of them are newly discovered and unique to the Swedish population: a splice mutation in intron 6 (int6+1), a missense mutation in exon 11 (Gly216Asp) and a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lundin G,Lee JS,Thunell S,Anvret M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently obtained evidence that the locus corresponding to three groups of partial tracheobronchial cDNAs (A = Jer47, B = Jer57, C = Jer58) which mapped to chromosome 11p15 and was given the symbol MUC5 corresponds to two distinct genes which we have provisionally called MUC5B and MUC5AC. Here we describe the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pigny P,Pratt WS,Laine A,Leclercq A,Swallow DM,Nguyen VC,Aubert JP,Porchet N

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) region on chromosome 5q13 contains an inverted duplication of about 500 kb, and deleterious mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene cause SMA, a common lethal childhood neuropathy. We have used a number of approaches to probe the evolutionary history of these genes and sh...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rochette CF,Gilbert N,Simard LR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two antitubercular drugs, viz., isoniazid (INH) and para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS), in combination, were evaluated for their in vivo clastogenic effects of human lymphocyte chromosomes. Lymphocyte cultures from tuberculosis patients taking a therapeutic dose of INH and PAS for a period of not less than 3 months and fr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jaju M,Jaju M,Ahuja YR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitance of four fragile sites (at 16p13, 16q22, 16q23, Yq12) in the lymphocyte cultures of two brothers is reported. The expression of each of these fragile sites was enhanced (or induced) by different culture conditions. Some of the inducing conditions are already known and others are reported here for the first...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shabtai F,Orlin J,Hart J,Halbrecht I,Klar D,Friedman J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X chromosomes of individuals with isolated steroid sulphatase deficiency (X-linked ichthyosis) from ten families were studied by flow karyotype analysis. In four of the families, a small but significant reduction in the relative fluorescence of the X chromosome was detected consistent with a deletion ranging from ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooke A,Gillard EF,Yates JR,Mitchell MJ,Aitken DA,Weir DM,Affara NA,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic analysis of a 20-year-old sterile male revealed a 45,X0 karyotype with no evidence for Y-chromosomal material on any of the chromosomes analysed by Q-, G- and C-banding. DNA analysis with 17 different Y chromosome-derived probes revealed the presence of Yp DNA sequences in the patient's genome. In situ hyb...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Arnemann J,Schnittger S,Hinkel GK,Tolkendorf E,Schmidtke J,Hansmann I

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive studies have been conducted on the analysis of genome function, especially on the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). These studies offered promising results for characterization of the functional sequencing variation and understanding of the basic processes of gene regulation. Parent of origin effect...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Deng S,Hardin J,Amos CI,Xiao F

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female infant with total monosomy 21 identified by Q banding is described. The main clinical features were hypertonia, prominent occiput, hypertelorism, antimongoloid slant of the eyes, broad nose, "antimongoloid", character of dermatoglyphics. Both parents are phenotypically as well as karyotypically normal. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dziuba P,Dziekanowska D,Hübner H

更新日期：1976-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder caused by homozygous mutations of the SMN1 gene. SMN1 interacts with multiple proteins with functions in snRNP biogenesis, pre-mRNA splicing and presumably neural transport. SMN2, a nearly identical copy of SMN1, produces predominantly exon 7-skipped t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Helmken C,Hofmann Y,Schoenen F,Oprea G,Raschke H,Rudnik-Schöneborn S,Zerres K,Wirth B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency is the major cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Genotyping for deletions and nine point mutations in the CYP21 gene has been performed in 38 Spanish patients and their relatives by Southern blot analysis and allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization. Three clinical variants ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ezquieta B,Oliver A,Gracia R,Gancedo PG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consanguinity of parents (born in France) of individuals who have a recessive disease has been studied. The frequency of first cousin marriages is less than 0.2% in the general French population. Among the parents of affected individuals the following frequencies of first cousin matings were observed: cystic fibro...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tchen P,Bois E,Feingold J,Feingold N,Kaplan J

更新日期：1977-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia retardation associated with chromosome16 (ATR-16 syndrome) is defined as a contiguous gene syndrome resulting from haploinsufficiency of the alpha-globin gene cluster and genes involved in mental retardation (MR). To date, only few cases have been described which result from pure monosomy for a delet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Harteveld CL,Kriek M,Bijlsma EK,Erjavec Z,Balak D,Phylipsen M,Voskamp A,di Capua E,White SJ,Giordano PC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite markers RS46 (DXS548) and FRAXAC2 flanking the fragile X mutation, an expansion of a (CGG)n repeat within the FMR-1 gene, were typed in 60 unrelated northern and eastern Finnish fragile X families and in a control population from the same geographical region. A significant difference was found in alleli...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Haataja R,Väisänen ML,Li M,Ryynänen M,Leisti J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new case of "free" trisomy for the short arm of No. 9 chromosome identified by Giemsa staining and "Giemsa-11 technique" is reported. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Käosaar ME,Mikelsaar AV,Talvik TA,Mikelsaar RV

更新日期：1976-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical exome sequencing (CES) has become an increasingly popular diagnostic tool in patients with heterogeneous genetic disorders, especially in those with neurocognitive phenotypes. Utility of CES in consanguineous populations has not yet been determined on a large scale. A clinical cohort of 149 probands from Qata...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yavarna T,Al-Dewik N,Al-Mureikhi M,Ali R,Al-Mesaifri F,Mahmoud L,Shahbeck N,Lakhani S,AlMulla M,Nawaz Z,Vitazka P,Alkuraya FS,Ben-Omran T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM1 Gangliosidosis is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder due to deficiency of the lysosome enzyme beta-galactosidase, with consequent tissue accumulation of glycolipids, oligosaccharides, and especially GM1 ganglioside. In the present paper we report the clinical and laboratory findings obtained for eight familie...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Giugliani R,Dutra JC,Pereira ML,Rotta N,Drachler Mde L,Ohlweiller L,Pina Neto JM,Pinheiro CE,Breda DJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the effects of the interaction between genetic polymorphisms and obesity on the risk of hypertriglyceridemia (HTG), two polymorphisms, an SstI polymorphism on the apolipoprotein CIII gene and a HindIII polymorphism on the lipoprotein lipase gene, were analyzed in 339 Chinese subjects with (82 cases in th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ko YL,Ko YS,Wu SM,Teng MS,Chen FR,Hsu TS,Chiang CW,Lee YS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the pathogenesis of ovarian dysgenesis in individuals with abnormalities such as 45,X Turner syndrome, trisomy 13, and trisomy 18, we have examined microscopically the ovaries of 36 infants with a number of chromosomal abnormalities confirmed by karyotype analysis. All infants with trisomy 13, tri...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cunniff C,Jones KL,Benirschke K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparently different chromosome abnormality was observed in unstimulated blood cultures from an acute non-lymphocytic leukemic child: 11q- with G banding techniques and 17q- with R banding techniques. The abnormality is explained as a t(11;17) translocation, and the discrepancy between the G- and R-band patterns di...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Berger R,Bernheim A,Schaison G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of chromosome 9p have been reported in human leukemias and lymphomas, and in cell lines lacking the enzyme methylthioadenosine phosphorylase. It has been shown pCN2, the 3' nontranslated region of the N-ras oncogene, crosshybridizes with unknown DNA segments on chromosome 6, 9p, and 22, in addition to th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nobori T,Hexdall LE,Carson DA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective function of the Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling pathway is the most frequent alteration underlying holoprosencephaly (HPE) or its various clinical microforms. We performed an extensive mutational analysis of the entire human DISP1 gene, required for secretion of all hedgehog ligand(s) and which maps to the HP...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Roessler E,Ma Y,Ouspenskaia MV,Lacbawan F,Bendavid C,Dubourg C,Beachy PA,Muenke M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific enzyme immunoassay of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase was developed and applied to the detection of the human enzyme in man-rodent somatic cell hybrids. This method allowed to assign the gene for uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase to human chromosome 1. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Verneuil H,Grandchamp B,Foubert C,Weil D,N'Guyen VC,Gross MS,Sassa S,Nordmann Y

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) patients, mutations in a single gene, ATM, result in an autosomal recessive syndrome that embraces a variety of clinical features and manifests extreme radiosensitivity and a strong pre-disposition to malignancy. Heterozygotes for the ATM gene have no clinical expression of A-T but may b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tchirkov A,Bay JO,Pernin D,Bignon YJ,Rio P,Grancho M,Kwiatkowski F,Giollant M,Malet P,Verrelle P

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the human-sperm/hamster-egg system to compare the frequencies of structural and numerical chromosomal aberrations in 909 sperm karyotypes from four normal healthy men. The frequency of structural aberrations was 1.3, 4.8, 9.0, and 10.4% respectively in the four donors. Certain specific breakpoints were se...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brandriff B,Gordon L,Ashworth L,Watchmaker G,Carrano A,Wyrobek A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactase is the intestinal enzyme responsible for digestion of the milk sugar lactose. Lactase gene expression declines dramatically upon weaning in mammals and during early childhood in humans (lactase nonpersistence). In various ethnic groups, however, lactase persists in high levels throughout adulthood (lactase per...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fang L,Ahn JK,Wodziak D,Sibley E

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young female was diagnosed as having X-linked muscular dystrophy of the Duchenne type. Chromosome studies, including trypsin-Giemsa banding, Quinacrine fluorescence, and nucleolus organizer region (NOR) silver staining revealed an X-autosome reciprocal translocation t(X;21) (p21;p12). Utilizing both [3H] thymidine a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Verellen-Dumoulin C,Freund M,De Meyer R,Laterre C,Frédéric J,Thompson MW,Markovic VD,Worton RG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in the enzyme steroid 21-hydroxylase (21-OH) result in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a frequent disorder of steroid biosynthesis. The gene encoding the enzyme, 21-OHB, has been mapped adjacent to the complement component C4B gene in the human HLA gene complex. DNA-level analyses of patients with CAH ha...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Partanen J,Koskimies S,Sipilä I

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00