Abstract:
:A 10 1/2 year old female with skeletal abnormalities was referred for genetic consultation because of learning disabilities and a suggestion of 'Turner-like' stigmata. Cytogenetic analysis revealed a paracentric inversion of an X(q13.1q26.1) chromosome.
journal_name
J Med Genetjournal_title
Journal of medical geneticsauthors
Herr HM,Horton SJ,Scott CI Jrdoi
10.1136/jmg.22.2.140subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-04-01 00:00:00pages
140-2issue
2eissn
0022-2593issn
1468-6244journal_volume
22pub_type
杂志文章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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103468
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A family with juvenile proximal spinal muscular atrophy with dominant inheritance and complete penetrance is reported. The disease occurred in three generations and showed high variations in the age of onset and progression among the affected members. A characteristic feature was the constant involvement of facial nuc...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.13.2.131
更新日期:1976-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:There are few empirical data to inform the debate surrounding the use and regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genome-wide disease risk tests. This study aimed to determine the long term psychological, behavioural, and clinical impacts of genomic risk testing for common disease. METHODS:The Scripps Genomi...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2012-101207
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::A family with the EEC syndrome is reported. Two sibs have the classical form of the condition with ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and clefting. Their mother, however, has only minimal evidence, with preaxial polydactyly of the right hand and duplication of the terminal phalanx of the second toe of the left foot w...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.27.12.752
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A Familial Ovarian Cancer Register has been established which has recruited primarily through media publicity. In depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with 20 women who had volunteered in order to explore (1) knowledge about the disease, (2) motivations for contacting the Register, and (3) expectations. W...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.7.575
更新日期:1993-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an autosomal dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome predisposing to retinal and central nervous system haemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma, and phaeochromocytoma. VHL disease shows variable expression and interfamilial differences in predisposition to phaeochromocytoma. In a pr...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.33.4.328
更新日期:1996-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The occurrence of primary lymphoedema with distichiasis is well recognised, but that the form of lymphoedema appears restricted to bilateral hyperplasia, as defined by lymphography, has not been reported. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.24.3.170
更新日期:1987-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A child with ambiguous genitalia, brought up phenotypically male, had a 46,XX/46,XY karyotype. At laparotomy, he had a left sided ovary and uterus, and a right sided scrotal testis. The 46,XX line made up 50% of cells in the blood and 90% of cells in a skin biopsy. There were no cytogenetic polymorphisms. Analysis of ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.31.10.816
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Azoospermia is the absence of a measurable level of spermatozoa in the semen. It affects approximately 1% of all men, and the genetic basis of the majority of idiopathic cases is unknown. We investigated two unrelated consanguineous families with idiopathic azoospermia. In family 1, there were three azoosper...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2013-102102
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The occurrence in a family of an isolated case of an autosomal dominant disorder with reduced penetrance presents a difficult problem in genetic counselling. It is shown that in such a situation the risk of recurrence in subsequent offspring is given by: (formula; see text) where P is the penetrance (0 less than P les...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.23.4.316
更新日期:1986-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) with developmental delay and seizures are a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases caused by at least 700 different genes. Still, a number of cases remain genetically undiagnosed. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to identify and characterise pathogenic varian...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105927
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) has long been considered to be genetically determined, but the pattern of inheritance has been unclear. It has been suggested that inheritance may differ in Jews and non-Jews. In the present study, data gathered in a nationwide survey of ITD in Israel were analysed. Between 1969 and 1...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.21.1.13
更新日期:1984-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.069716
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) 3243A>G variant is the most common pathogenic variant of the mDNA. To interpret results of clinical trials in mitochondrial disease, it is important to have a clear understanding of the natural course of disease. To obtain more insight into the disease burden and the progression ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106800
更新日期:2021-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of true hermaphroditism is reported in which a 46,XY karyotype was associated with a testis and an ovotestis. The dual presence of a Fallopian tube and a vas deferens on the side of the ovotestis is documented as a previously unreported finding. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.25.3.206
更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The chiasma distribution of bivalents 15 and 16 identified at diakinesis by a quadruple staining technique including DA-DAPI fluorescence has been investigated in two human males. The study has shown that chiasmata are not distributed at random. Both chromosomes have distally localised chiasmata, but in the long arm o...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.20.4.290
更新日期:1983-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::In 1986, a population study of school children in the city of Coventry gave an overall prevalence in males and females for fragile X syndrome of 1/952. The 29 children diagnosed as having fragile X syndrome in this study have been re-evaluated with molecular diagnostic techniques. Eighteen of the original 29 children ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.1.1
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The development of inexpensive high throughput methods to identify individual DNA sequence differences is important to the future growth of medical genetics. This has become increasingly apparent as epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinical geneticists focus more attention on the molecular basis of complex multifact...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmg.36.10.730
更新日期:1999-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2013-101680
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::A patient with a typical Down syndrome (DS) phenotype and a normal karyotype was studied by FISH. Using painting probes, we found that the patient had partial trisomy of chromosome 21 owing to an unbalanced translocation t(15;21) (q26; q22.1) of paternal origin. To correlate genotype with phenotype as accurately as po...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.1.50
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with thyroid cancer (TC) risk have been reported: rs2910164 (5q24); rs6983267 (8q24); rs965513 and rs1867277 (9q22); and rs944289 (14q13). Most of these associations have not been replicated in independent populations and the combined effects of the SNPs on risk h...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100586
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Heart-hand syndromes are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterised by the association of congenital cardiac disease and limb deformities. Laminopathies are a group of diseases caused by mutations in the LMNA gene encoding A-type lamins. RESULTS:We report a new LMNA mutation (c.1609-12T>G, IVS...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1136/jmg.2008.060020
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three sibs out of four, born to unrelated parents, developed early cutaneous photosensitivity and severe colitis. All of them died from untreatable diarrhoea. A fourth boy, whose father was different, did not have the same symptoms. The origin of this syndrome remains unclear and, in particular, no metabolic defect co...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.28.2.114
更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Batten disease is the most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder of childhood in western countries. A novel cDNA responsible for Batten disease has recently been identified. We have developed a rapid diagnostic solid phase minisequencing test to detect the major 1.02 kb deletion which is responsible for 81% of...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.33.12.1041
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Lynch syndrome, an autosomal-dominant disorder characterised by high colorectal and endometrial cancer risks, is caused by inherited mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Mutations fully abrogating gene function are unambiguously disease causing. However, missense mutations often have unknown functio...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2013-101987
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Treacher Collins syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder of facial development, the features of which include conductive hearing loss and cleft palate. In the current investigation, linkage analysis has been used to make first trimester diagnostic predictions in a pregnancy at high risk of producing an affected chi...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.33.7.603
更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (Hurler's syndrome) was diagnosed in an 18 week old fetus of a woman with 1 affected child by direct assay of glycosaminoglycans in amniotic fluid. Subsequently the fetus was aborted by hysterotomy and diagnosis was confirmed by analyzing glycosaminoglycans in fetal liver, electron microg...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.10.2.144
更新日期:1973-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::BACKGROUND: The clinical severity of disease in neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is variable. Patients affected with a constitutional truncating NF2 mutation have severe disease, while missense mutations or mosaic mutations present with a milder attenuated phenotype. Genotype-derived natural history data are important ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-104519
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.29.3.200
更新日期:1992-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.33.1.56
更新日期:1996-01-01 00:00:00