Three cases of ring chromosome 2, one derived from a paternal 2/6 translocation.

abstract：:We have analysed the spread of X inactivation in an individual with an unbalanced 46,X,der(X)t(X;10)(q26.3;q23.3) karyotype. Despite being trisomic for the region 10q23.3-qter, both the proband and her aunt with the same karyotype presented only with secondary amenorrhoea and lacked any features normally associated wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sharp A,Robinson DO,Jacobs P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairs of cultured amniotic cells and maternal fibroblasts ("feto-maternal pairs") were studied for hexosaminidase A (HXA) and arylsulfatase A (ASA) activity. These lysosomal enzyme activities are genetically deficient in Tay-Sachs disease and metachromatic leukodystrophy, respectively. After HXA was standardized by re...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Harzer K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase D levels from 200 retinoblastoma patients have been measured in an attempt to identify individuals carrying deletions of chromosome region 13q14. In this series 75% had bilateral tumours and 23% were familial. Of nine patients identified as having low esterase D levels, five had not previously been diagnosed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cowell JK,Rutland P,Jay M,Hungerford J

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwannomas may develop sporadically or in association with NF2 and schwannomatosis. The fundamental aberration in schwannomas is the bi-allelic inactivation of the NF2 gene. However, clinical and molecular data suggest that these tumors share a common pathogenetic mechanism related to as yet undefined 22q-loci. Linka...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Díaz de Ståhl T,Hansson CM,de Bustos C,Mantripragada KK,Piotrowski A,Benetkiewicz M,Jarbo C,Wiklund L,Mathiesen T,Nyberg G,Collins VP,Evans DG,Ichimura K,Dumanski JP

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:By a general survey in the hopitals of northeast Italy, Duchenne cases have been located and identified over a 20-year period. In a more restricted area screening for Duchenne carriers has been carried out in affected families. This procedure made possible an exact estimate of the incidence rate, prevalence rate, and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Danieli GA,Mostacciuolo ML,Bonfante A,Angelini C

更新日期：1977-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectodermal dysplasia syndromes are genetically heterogeneous group of disorders involving one or more of the classical ectodermal appendages (hair, nail, teeth, sweat glands) in association with anomalies of other organs or systems. In the present study a novel form of ectodermal dysplasia syndrome, ectodermal dysplas...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tariq M,Khan MN,Ahmad W

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cystinuria disease gene (rBAT) has recently been identified, but evidence strongly suggests that only Type-I cystinuria is due to mutations in this gene. Sixteen point mutations and a large deletion causing the disease have so far been described in the rBAT gene sequence. To identify new mutated alleles, genomic DNA...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bisceglia L,Calonge MJ,Dello Strologo L,Rizzoni G,de Sanctis L,Gallucci M,Beccia E,Testar X,Zorzano A,Estivill X,Zelante L,Palacin M,Gasparini P,Nunes V

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author engages in further debate between numerous signatories of a letter who disputes that the author has put forward that the anticipated benefits of a personalised program for cancer prevention and screening are unwarranted. In the event that a cancer screening program is an effective means of mortality reducti...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Narod SA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings with the "happy puppet" syndrome are presented. Their clinical features are quite similar and closely resemble those of previously reported cases. These features include severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures, easily provoked and prolonged paroxysms of laughter, atactic jerky movements, hypotonia, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuroki Y,Matsui I,Yamamoto Y,Ieshima A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA probe of the human COL5A1 gene detects a frequent biallelic PstI polymorphism. Allele A has a frequency of 54% whereas that of allele B is 46%. This restriction fragment length polymorphism provides a useful marker for linkage analysis in 9q34.3. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cappa F,Caridi G,Gimelli G,Ghiggeri GM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of chromosome 21 specific yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones after Alu-PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplification has been used to find new region-specific DNA probes for the heterochromatic region of chromosome 21. Six overlapping YAC clones from a pericentromeric co...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yurov YB,Laurent AM,Marcais B,Vorsanova SG,Roizes G

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most commonly inherited renal diseases. ADPKD is a genetically heterogeneous disorder involving at least three different genes. PKD1, the major locus mapped to chromosome 16p13.3 accounts for approximately 85% of ADPKD cases. The search for mutations i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Perrichot RA,Mercier B,Simon PM,Whebe B,Cledes J,Ferec C

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five sequence polymorphisms at the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene locus were observed to be in tight association with specific alleles of this locus. Since these polymorphisms can be detected using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology, application of a combination of these polymorphisms reduces the effort...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lichter-Konecki U,Schlotter M,Konecki DS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlation between the amount of rDNA and the frequency of participation in satellite associations is observed in a double-satellited human acrocentric chromosome. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Henderson AS,Atwood KC

更新日期：1976-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The ERM proteins, ezrin, radixin, and moesin, act as linkers between the plasma membrane and actin cytoskeleton. They are involved in a variety of cellular functions, such as cell adhesion, migration, and the organization of cell surface structures, and are highly homologous, both in protein sequence and in functional...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Majander-Nordenswan P,Sainio M,Turunen O,Jääskeläinen J,Carpén O,Kere J,Vaheri A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tai-Kadai (TK) language family is thought to have originated in southern China and spread to Thailand and Laos, but it is not clear if TK languages spread by demic diffusion (i.e., a migration of people from southern China) or by cultural diffusion, with native Austroasiatic (AA) speakers switching to TK languages...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kutanan W,Kampuansai J,Srikummool M,Kangwanpong D,Ghirotto S,Brunelli A,Stoneking M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization using a probe specific for the human ZFX and ZFY loci assigns the ZFX gene to Xp21.3 and the ZFY gene to Yp11.32. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Müller G,Schempp W

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is characterized by a high risk of sarcomas, early onset of breast cancer, and a diversity of other cancers occurring as multiple primary tumors in multiple family members. In many families with LFS, germline mutations within the tumor-suppressor gene p53 have been identified. However, mutat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Evans SC,Mims B,McMasters KM,Foster CJ,deAndrade M,Amos CI,Strong LC,Lozano G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise chromosomal localization of the gene for dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) was detected by deletion mapping. Segregation patterns of genotypes of polymerase chain reaction products of DRPLA, von Willebrand factor (F8vWF), antigen CD4(p55) (CD4) and parathyroid hormone-like hormone (PTHLH) loci w...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuwano A,Morimoto Y,Nagai T,Fukushima Y,Ohashi H,Hasegawa T,Kondo I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible influence of the fragile X mutation at Xq27 on the expression of the neighbouring gene (at Xq26) for hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) was studied by determination of the levels of HPRT-RNA and HPRT enzyme activity in fibroblast cell cultures from 7 fragile X patients. These levels were lower...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Steen AM,Marcus S,Sahlén S,Nielsen KB,Lambert B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidylate synthase (TYMS) and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) may compete for their common cofactor 5,10-methylenetetrahyhdrofolate (5,10-meTHF). Limiting 5,10-meTHF results in elevated homocysteine, especially in individuals homozygous for the T allele of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism. The TYMS gene...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brown KS,Kluijtmans LA,Young IS,McNulty H,Mitchell LE,Yarnell JW,Woodside JV,Boreham CA,McMaster D,Murray L,Strain JJ,Whitehead AS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major obstetric diseases, preeclampsia (PE), a pregnancy-induced endothelial dysfunction leading to hypertension and proteinuria, and intra-uterine growth-restriction (IUGR), a failure of the fetus to acquire its normal growth, are generally triggered by placental dysfunction. Many studies have evaluated gene expr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ruano CSM,Apicella C,Jacques S,Gascoin G,Gaspar C,Miralles F,Méhats C,Vaiman D

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the coding region of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 ( MECP2) gene cause Rett syndrome and have also been reported in a number of X-linked mental retardation syndromes. Furthermore, such mutations have recently been described in a few autistic patients. In this study, a large sample of individuals with a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beyer KS,Blasi F,Bacchelli E,Klauck SM,Maestrini E,Poustka A,International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium (IMGSAC).

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatoglyphics of 11 patients with Wilson's disease and 16 of their clinically asymptomatic relatives of first degree were investigated; 11 of the latter ones were heterozygous in agreement with the turn over rates of Cu-67, 12 under the assumption of autosomal recessive inheritance. On the finger tips the Mb. Wilson...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vormittag W,Weninger M,Willvonseder R,Wewalka F

更新日期：1976-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Disomy and diploidy frequencies for autosomes 1-22 and the gonosomes were assessed in 299,442 sperm nuclei from four normal fertile men by chromosome painting. This novel approach allowed us to perform a specific and sensitive detection of each chromosome. A minimum of 5000 sperm nuclei per subject were evaluated for ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rives N,Mazurier S,Bellet D,Joly G,Macé B

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：: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：:We have isolated cDNA clones from a human NK cell cDNA library that encode the serine protease granzyme B. Although the sequence of the entire coding region for the mature protein and the 3' untranslated region of the clone are identical to other cDNA isolates of this gene obtained from human T cell cDNA libraries, th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dahl CA,Bach FH,Chan W,Huebner K,Russo G,Croce CM,Herfurth T,Cairns JS

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acetylation polymorphism is one of the representative pharmacogenetic traits that underlie interindividual and interethnic differences in response to xenobiotics. To develop a practical genotyping method to predict acetylator phenotype, we studied the conditions for accurate phenotyping, and identified the phenotype...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mashimo M,Suzuki T,Abe M,Deguchi T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00