An estimate of genetic risk from 8-methoxypsoralen photochemotherapy.

abstract：:Serum samples from 170 unrelated individuals from the Suceava District of Roumania and from 199 unrelated individuals from Bucharest, Roumania were tested fro Gm(1,2,3,5,6,13,14,17,21) and Km(1)[Inv(1)]. Selected samples were also tested for Gm(15) and Gm(16). The frequencies of the three common Caucasoid haplotypes, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Johnson WE,Kohn PH,Steinberg AG

更新日期：1977-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary coproporphyria (HCP) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by a deficiency of coproporphyrinogen oxidase. To date, four mutations of the gene have been reported. We report here another mutation in two Japanese families with HCP, which was revealed by analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-ampl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Daimon M,Gojyou E,Sugawara M,Yamatani K,Tominaga M,Sasaki H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based analyses of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene encompassing exons 1-15 revealed a complex pattern of products that were due to alternative splicing of exons 9, 10A and 14. The multiplicity of polypeptide chains obtained from T7-promoter-directed in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bala S,Kraus C,Wijnen J,Meera Khan P,Ballhausen WG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa is a genetically heterogeneous form of retinal degeneration, which has X-linked, autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant forms. The disease genes in families with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) have been linked to six loci, on 3q, 6p, 7p, 7q, 8q and 19q. In a large American fami...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McGuire RE,Gannon AM,Sullivan LS,Rodriguez JA,Daiger SP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary paraganglioma type 1 (PGL1) is characterized by slow-growing and vascularized tumors that often develop in the carotid body (CB) and is caused by mutations in the gene for succinate dehydrogenase D ( SDHD) of mitochondrial complex II. The mechanisms of tumorigenesis and the factors affecting penetrance and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Astrom K,Cohen JE,Willett-Brozick JE,Aston CE,Baysal BE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-month-old female child with the 9p- karyotype: 46,XX,del(9) (p22) is presented, being the first case from among Oriental people. She has many clinical features similar to those described in Caucasian cases. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuroki Y,Yokota S,Nakai H,Yamamoto Y,Matsui I

更新日期：1977-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease leading to global dementia. The familial form (FAD) has been linked to markers on chromosome 21 in some families, most tightly to the loci D21S16 and D21S13 located close to the centromere of the long arm. In other families the FAD mutation has been exc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pulst SM,Fain P,Cohn V,Nee LE,Polinsky RJ,Korenberg JR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2). As female somatic cells are mosaic for expression of mutant MECP2, we performed single cell cloning of T lymphocytes from four RTT patients with MECP2 mutations to isolat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Balmer D,Arredondo J,Samaco RC,LaSalle JM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper surveys the current state of knowledge about the relationship between different national publics and biobanks, how different publics perceive biobanks, and which issues are identified as important by various stakeholders. We discuss existing studies and emerging governance strategies dealing with the bioban...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gottweis H,Chen H,Starkbaum J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with 45,X/46,XYnf mosaicism were investigated by Southern hybridization using both X- and Y-specific DNA probes. Our patients seem to be hemizygous for the X chromosomal loci tested. Single-copy and low-copy repeated Y chromosomal sequences assigned to the short arm, centromere, and euchromatin of the l...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gänshirt-Ahlert D,Pawlowitzki IH,Gal A

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular origin of trisomy 7 in non-neoplastic kidney tissue specimens from 10 patients, seven with malignant tumors and three with non-neoplastic kidney diseases, was studied by the MAC (morphology antibody chromosomes) technique, which allows analysis of cellular morphology/histology, immunophenotype, and chromo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Knuutila S,Larramendy ML,Elfving P,el-Rifai W,Miettinen A,Mitelman F

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variations (CNVs) have provided a dynamic aspect to the apparently static human genome. We have analyzed CNVs larger than 100 kb in 477 healthy individuals from 26 diverse Indian populations of different linguistic, ethnic and geographic backgrounds. These CNVRs were identified using the Affymetrix 50K Xba...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gautam P,Jha P,Kumar D,Tyagi S,Varma B,Dash D,Mukhopadhyay A,Indian Genome Variation Consortium.,Mukerji M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteromorphisms of chromosomes 1, 9, and 16 were studied by C-banding in a population of 403 mentally retarded individuals from diverse ethnic groups. A significant difference in the distribution of heteromorphisms was found among the different racial groups. The Orientals had a larger C-band on chromosome 1 and a sma...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsuura J,Mayer M,Jacobs P

更新日期：1978-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Xq28 microduplications of MECP2 are a prominent cause of a severe syndromic form of intellectual disability (ID) in males. Females are usually unaffected through near to complete X-inactivation of the aberrant X chromosome (skewing). In rare cases, affected females have been described due to random X-inactivation. Her...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fieremans N,Bauters M,Belet S,Verbeeck J,Jansen AC,Seneca S,Roelens F,De Baere E,Marynen P,Froyen G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of parental age data from 225 sporadic cases of bilateral retinoblastoma, plus ten sporadic cases of chromosome deletion or translocation involving 13q14 that was identified as of paternal origin, revealed no evidence of paternal or maternal age effect. Parental exposure to ionizing radiation or c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsunaga E,Minoda K,Sasaki MS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeodomain transcription factors (TFs) Pax6 (OMIM: 607108) and Prox1 (OMIM: 601546) critically regulate gene expression in lens development. While PAX6 mutations in humans can cause cataract, aniridia, microphthalmia, and anophthalmia, among other defects, Prox1 deletion in mice causes severe lens abnormalities, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Aryal S,Viet J,Weatherbee BAT,Siddam AD,Hernandez FG,Gautier-Courteille C,Paillard L,Lachke SA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the allele frequency distribution at the highly polymorphic variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) locus D1S80 (pMCT118) in seven ethnic populations (namely, New Guinea Highlanders of Papua New Guinea, Dogrib Indians of Canada, Pehuenche Indians of Chile, American and Western Samoans, Kacharis of Nor...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Deka R,DeCroo S,Jin L,McGarvey ST,Rothhammer F,Ferrell RE,Chakraborty R

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inv dup(15) is a clinically significant bisatellited derivative of chromosome 15. Five unrelated patients with this abnormality are described and compared with ten confirmed and nine suspected cases in the literature. Mental and developmental retardation, hypotonia, behavioral disturbances, seizures, abnormal dermatog...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wisniewski L,Hassold T,Heffelfinger J,Higgins JV

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation studies of steroid sulphatase were carried out in the heterokaryon population of fibroblasts derived from patients with X-linked ichthyosis and multiple sulphatase deficiency. The activity of steroid sulphatase of the fused cell population was constantly higher (approximately 2-5 fold) than that of the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ballabio A,Parenti G,Napolitano E,Di Natale P,Andria G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta F508 mutation and cystic fibrosis (CF) haplotypes with the markers KM19, pMP6d-9 and J3.11 are described in 54 adult British CF patients. delta F508 was found on 70% of all CF chromosomes, on none of the normal chromosomes and on only 37.5% of pancreatic sufficient CF chromosomes. All patients with meconium ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santis G,Osborne L,Knight R,Ramsay M,Williamson R,Hodson M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper observations are summarized and speculations discussed, and it is suggested that some loci on the distal short arm of the X chromosome (Xp) are not randomly inactivated in the female, because they are within the proximal part of the pairing segment between Xp and Yp. This peculiarity of gene expression m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Polani PE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid technique is described whereby the nucleolus organizer regions (NORs) of human chromosomes can be differentially stained with silver. This staining is followed by trypsin-Giemsa banding on the same metaphase chromosomes. The metaphases simultaneously exhibit silver-stained NORs and G bands, allowing...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Howell WM,Black DA

更新日期：1978-07-12 00:00:00

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：:We have identified a rare polymorphism (G to C at nucleotide 1102) in CYBB, which codes for gp91-phox, a component of NADPH oxidase. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes with this enzyme produced normal amounts of superoxide anion. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kuribayashi F,de Boer M,Leusen JH,Verhoeven AJ,Roos D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High resolution cytogenetics, microsatellite marker analyses, and fluorescence in situ hybridization were used to define Xq deletions encompassing the fragile X gene, FMR1, detected in individuals from two unrelated families. In Family 1, a 19-year-old male had facial features consistent with fragile X syndrome; howev...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wolff DJ,Gustashaw KM,Zurcher V,Ko L,White W,Weiss L,Van Dyke DL,Schwartz S,Willard HF

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactase gene expression declines with aging (lactase non-persistence) in the majority of humans worldwide. Lactase persistence is a heritable autosomal dominant condition and has been strongly correlated with several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located ~14-kb upstream (-13907, -13910 and -13915) of the lact...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Olds LC,Ahn JK,Sibley E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and position of the heterochromatic regions of chromosome 9 were examined in a group of women with histories of recurrent miscarriage and a control group of fertile women. Measurements were made on whole chromosomes (variability between chromosomes was taken to reflect differences in heterochromatin), and cor...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ford JH,Callen DF,Jahnke AB,Roberts CG

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive method presented, using an "air culturing" technique, is capable of enriching for fetal cells in lymphocyte cultures of maternal blood. Through a combination of Y-body fluorescence and chromosomal heteromorphisms in the maternal blood, the fetal cells can be detected and used for the prenatal diagnosis...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Selypes A,Lorencz R

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An easy-to-use, simulation-based power calculator (ASP) for linkage analysis using sib-pair designs (concordant or discordant) has been developed and made publicly available via the Internet. The program employs a diallelic model for the trait locus, at which parental/offspring genotypes are simulated, assuming Hardy-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Krawczak M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism haplotyping of mutated and normal phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) alleles in 49 Dutch phenylketonuria (PKU) families was performed. All mutant PAH chromosomes identified by haplotyping (n = 98) were screened for eight of the most predominant mutations. Compound heterozygosity w...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Meijer H,Jongbloed RJ,Hekking M,Spaapen LJ,Geraedts JP

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00