Familial caudal regression anomalad and maternal diabetes.

abstract：:Oguchi disease is a rare autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness. The condition is associated with fundus discolouration and abnormally slow dark adaptation. Earlier studies suggested that the 48 kD protein S antigen may be involved in the recovery phase of light transduction. Previous cytoge...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maw MA,John S,Jablonka S,Müller B,Kumaramanickavel G,Oehlmann R,Denton MJ,Gal A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male infant, partially trisomic for a small segment of chromosomes 6 and 22 resulting from a maternal translocation, is described. Comparison of the phenotypic features of the proband with those noted in partial 6p and partial 22 trisomies revealed some common features found in both chromosome anomalies but especial...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scarbrough PR,Carroll AJ,Finley SC,Hamerick K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary hereditary microcephaly (MCPH) comprises a large group of autosomal recessive disorders mainly affecting cortical development and resulting in a congenital impairment of brain growth. Despite the identification of >25 causal genes so far, it remains a challenge to distinguish between different MCPH f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nasser H,Vera L,Elmaleh-Bergès M,Steindl K,Letard P,Teissier N,Ernault A,Guimiot F,Afenjar A,Moutard ML,Héron D,Alembik Y,Momtchilova M,Milani P,Kubis N,Pouvreau N,Zollino M,Guilmin Crepon S,Kaguelidou F,Gressens P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 20 year old man with short stature, microcephaly, unusual facies, numerous pigmented naevi, hypodontia, immunodeficiency, and a high pitched voice. Tympner et al had assumed that the patient had a new syndrome of "progressive combined immunodeficiency and ectomesodermal dysplasia". We show here that the co...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bartsch O,Tympner KD,Schwinger E,Gorlin RJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 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

authors： Wielders EA,Hettinger J,Dekker R,Kets CM,Ligtenberg MJ,Mensenkamp AR,van den Ouweland AM,Prins J,Wagner A,Dinjens WN,Dubbink HJ,van Hest LP,Menko F,Hogervorst F,Verhoef S,te Riele H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID) is a highly heterogeneous condition affecting 2% of the population worldwide. In a field study conducted in a highly inbred area of Northeastern Brazil, we investigated a consanguineous family in which seven adults presented syndromic ID. METHODS:Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Figueiredo T,Melo US,Pessoa AL,Nobrega PR,Kitajima JP,Correa I,Zatz M,Kok F,Santos S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tibial pseudarthrosis is associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and there is wide clinical variability of the tibial dysplasia in NF1, suggesting the possibility of genetic modifiers. Double inactivation of NF1 is postulated to be necessary for the development of tibial pseudarthrosis, but tissue or ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sant DW,Margraf RL,Stevenson DA,Grossmann AH,Viskochil DH,Hanson H,Everitt MD,Rios JJ,Elefteriou F,Hennessey T,Mao R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of cystic fibrosis (CF) genes (70 to 75%) share a single mutation, but the remaining 25 to 30% of defects are accounted for by more than 20 different mutations. One of the less frequent mutations, G551D, has been identified in the CF genes of two sibs and one unrelated adult patient. The adult patient also ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Curtis A,Nelson R,Porteous M,Burn J,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) has an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance and consists of at least three subtypes. FHL2 subtype with perforin (PRF1) mutation accounts for 30% of all FHL cases, while FHL with MUNC13-4 mutation was recently identified and designated as FHL3 subtype. OB...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamamoto K,Ishii E,Sako M,Ohga S,Furuno K,Suzuki N,Ueda I,Imayoshi M,Yamamoto S,Morimoto A,Takada H,Hara T,Imashuku S,Sasazuki T,Yasukawa M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VACTERL association is a condition comprising multisystem congenital malformations, causing severe physical disability in affected individuals. It is typically defined by the concurrence of at least three of the following component features: vertebral anomalies (V), anal atresia (A), cardiac malformations (C), tracheo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen Y,Liu Z,Chen J,Zuo Y,Liu S,Chen W,Liu G,Qiu G,Giampietro PF,Wu N,Wu Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic and quantitative relationship of red cell acid phosphatase with haemoglobin, haptoglobin, and G6PD phenotypes was investigated in three populations in the Sudan and one population in Nilgiris, India. No significant consistent association of red cell acid phosphatase phenotypes was observed with these po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Saha N,Patgunarajah N

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) type 2A has been shown to have a T to C missense mutation at nucleotide 547 of the VHL gene. This gives further support for the proposal to associate the 547 T to C mutation with phenotype VHL 2A. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen F,Slife L,Kishida T,Mulvihill J,Tisherman SE,Zbar B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our primary objective was to estimate, by one year and five year intervals, maternal age specific risk rates for Down syndrome among whites and among other races from two different populations, metropolitan Atlanta and south west Ohio, using live birth and prenatally diagnosed cases ascertained during 1970-1989. The f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Huether CA,Ivanovich J,Goodwin BS,Krivchenia EL,Hertzberg VS,Edmonds LD,May DS,Priest JH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentric inversions in chromosome 2 were traced in 2 unrelated North American black families. In the case of inv(2)(p13q11) no effect on reproduction was observed. In the case of inv(2)(p11q13) some reproductive abnormalities were noted which might be related to the inversion. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Phillips RB

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new dicentric X isochromosome i(X)(pter to q2102 to pter) of similar size to a normal X is described in a girl with gonadal dysgenesis. In this non-mosaic case with an X short arm duplication, most of the stigmata associated with Turner's syndrome were absent. This structure was compared with that of six i(Xq) and t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Daniel A,Saville T,Southall DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparently autosomal recessive syndrome of congenital renal tubular dysplasia and skull ossification defects is described in five infants from two separate, consanguineous, Pakistani Muslim kindreds. The clinical, pathological, and radiological features are similar to the phenotype associated with fetal exposure to...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kumar D,Moss G,Primhak R,Coombs R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensenbrenner syndrome is a heterogeneous ciliopathy that is characterised by skeletal and ectodermal anomalies, accompanied by chronic renal failure, heart defects, liver fibrosis and other features. OBJECTIVE:To identify an additional causative gene in Sensenbrenner syndrome. METHODS:Single nucleotide po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Arts HH,Bongers EM,Mans DA,van Beersum SE,Oud MM,Bolat E,Spruijt L,Cornelissen EA,Schuurs-Hoeijmakers JH,de Leeuw N,Cormier-Daire V,Brunner HG,Knoers NV,Roepman R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytokines tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha and interleukin (IL)10 have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), with increased concentrations reported in patients with active disease. However, limited data exist on their effects on disease phenotype in the same population. Certain si...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fowler EV,Eri R,Hume G,Johnstone S,Pandeya N,Lincoln D,Templeton D,Radford-Smith GL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders represent a group of developmental disorders with strong genetic underpinnings. Several cytogenetic abnormalities or de novo mutations able to cause autism have recently been uncovered. In this study, the literature was reviewed to highlight genotype-phenotype correlations between causal gene...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lintas C,Persico AM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Holoprosencephaly (HPE), the most common malformation of the human forebrain, may result from mutations in over 12 genes. Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) was the first such gene discovered; mutations in SHH remain the most common cause of non-chromosomal HPE. The severity spectrum is wide, ranging from incompatibility ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Solomon BD,Bear KA,Wyllie A,Keaton AA,Dubourg C,David V,Mercier S,Odent S,Hehr U,Paulussen A,Clegg NJ,Delgado MR,Bale SJ,Lacbawan F,Ardinger HH,Aylsworth AS,Bhengu NL,Braddock S,Brookhyser K,Burton B,Gaspar H,Gr

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Antley-Bixler syndrome has been thought to be caused by an autosomal recessive gene. However, patients with this phenotype have been reported with a new dominant mutation at the FGFR2 locus as well as in the offspring of mothers taking the antifungal agent fluconazole during early pregnancy. In addition to the cra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W,Smith A,Honour JW,Hindmarsh P,Das D,Rumsby G,Nelson I,Malcolm S,Adès L,Sillence D,Kumar D,DeLozier-Blanchet C,McKee S,Kelly T,McKeehan WL,Baraitser M,Winter RM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal akinesia refers to a broad spectrum of disorders in which the unifying feature is a reduction or lack of fetal movement. Fetal akinesias may be caused by defects at any point along the motor system pathway including the central and peripheral nervous system, the neuromuscular junction and the muscle, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ravenscroft G,Sollis E,Charles AK,North KN,Baynam G,Laing NG

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of unilateral giant breasts from two unrelated families are described. Three of the patients were managed surgically. It is speculated from a review of available published reports that this condition may be genetic with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Badejo OA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of C-banding as a routine diagnostic procedure, the significance of heterochromatic polymorphism has been questioned. Some workers have considered variations in heterochromatin in chromosomes 1 and 9 to be associated with fetal wastage, recurrent abortions, and abnormal phenotypes. Over a 15-month per...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hemming L,Burns C

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described to investigate the inheritance of disease predisposition in cancer families. It is an extension of classic genetic linkage analysis, which enables information on loss of constitutional heterozygosity (LOCH) to be incorporated into the model. This adapted model treats LOCH data as additional obser...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Teare MD,Rohde K,Santibáñez Koref MF

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 15-50% of the population experiences pain at any given time, at great personal and societal cost. Pain is the most common reason patients seek medical attention, and there is a high degree of individual variability in reporting the incidence and severity of symptoms. Research suggests that pain sensitivit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young EE,Lariviere WR,Belfer I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a supernumerary metacentric small chromosome, diagnosed at birth, is described. The cytogenetic findings support its identification as i(18p). The clinical development from birth to 12 months is reported, with particular attention given to the psychomotor retardation and to the immunological aspect. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rocchi M,Stormi M,Archidiacono N,Filippi G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple vertebral segmentation defects occur in a group of conditions variably associated with anomalies of other organ systems. This report describes a female child in whom a deletion of chromosome 18 (18q22.2-->qter) is associated with congenital anomalies including multiple vertebral segmentation defects resemblin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dowton SB,Hing AV,Sheen-Kaniecki V,Watson MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant chromosome 4 with a large G positive heterochromatic block is described and discussed in relation to chromosome 4 heteromorphisms observed with other banding techniques. The extra heterochromatin is C positive and fluoresces brilliantly with Q banding, but differs from Yqh with some methods of staining. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Docherty Z,Bowser-Riley SM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dyslipidaemia, a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), is strongly influenced by genetic factors. OBJECTIVE:To identify genetic factors affecting blood lipid concentrations and CVD risk factors in the Korean population by a candidate gene association analysis. METHODS:21 single nucleotide polym...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Park MH,Kim N,Lee JY,Park HY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00