Further dicentric X isochromosomes and deletions, and a new structure i(X)(pter to q2102 to pter).

abstract：:Two cases are reported of patients with deletions of chromosome 5q. Both have familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and mild mental retardation. In both, macroscopic polyposis was confined to the proximal colon in adult life (in their thirties) although microscopic adenomatosis was shown in the more distal colon with o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hodgson SV,Coonar AS,Hanson PJ,Cottrell S,Scriven PN,Jones T,Hawley PR,Wilkinson ML

更新日期：1993-05-01 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

authors： Hacia JG,Collins FS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three sisters and their father with a reciprocal balanced translocation, rcp t(8;11)(q24.3;p15.1) and the same abnormal phenotypes, including mental retardation, growth disturbance, and amblyopia. It is considered that the abnormal phenotypes in our four cases might result from a tiny deletion or gene mutati...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sato H,Takaya K,Nihira S,Fujita H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with Gaucher's disease diagnosed in the United Kingdom and two obligate carriers, all of non-Jewish origin, were screened for the two common disease causing mutations and two rarer mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene. These mutations are referred to as N370S, L444P, Ins84G, and 1066 + 1G-->A, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Walley AJ,Barth ML,Ellis I,Fensom AH,Harris A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in technology have led to a massive expansion in the capacity for genomic analysis, with a commensurate fall in costs. The clinical indications for genomic testing have evolved markedly; the volume of clinical sequencing has increased dramatically; and the range of clinical professionals involved in the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Garrett A,Callaway A,Durkie M,Cubuk C,Alikian M,Burghel GJ,Robinson R,Izatt L,Talukdar S,Side L,Cranston T,Palmer-Smith S,Baralle D,Berry IR,Drummond J,Wallace AJ,Norbury G,Eccles DM,Ellard S,Lalloo F,Evans DG,W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis using conventional staining, G banding, and, after BUdR incorporation, two R banding methods, one using Hoechst and one acridine orange, were performed on lymphocytes from a pair of female monozygotic twins. The culture conditions were designed to show the presence of the fragile X (q27-28) which h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tuckerman E,Webb T,Bundey SE

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with the unusual association of cleft palate, bilateral choanal atresia, curly hair, and congenital hypothyroidism. This association has been reported before in two brothers and may represent a new syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Buntincx IM,Van Overmeire B,Desager K,Van Hauwaert J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The families of 102 index patients with bladder exstrophy treated at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street were studied in an attempt to arrive at an empirical risk of recurrence for sibs. Of the 102 patients, 89 had complete exstrophy, eight had partial exstrophy (variant), and five had exstrophy of the...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ives E,Coffey R,Carter CO

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a large French-Canadian family with 21 cases of breast cancer, including two affected brothers. Segregation of markers from chromosome 13q in this family showed linkage to the BRCA2 gene locus (lod = 3.67 at D13S289). A number of cancers of other types occurred in this family, including three cases of pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tonin P,Ghadirian P,Phelan C,Lenoir GM,Lynch HT,Letendre F,Belanger D,Monté M,Narod SA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary fibrosis is a complex disease for which the predisposing genetic variants remain unknown. In a prior study, susceptibility to bleomycin induced pulmonary fibrosis was mapped to loci Blmpf1 and Blmpf2 on chromosomes 17 and 11, respectively, in a C57BL/6J (B6, susceptible) and C3Hf/KAM (C3H, resistan...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Haston CK,Tomko TG,Godin N,Kerckhoff L,Hallett MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with speech delay and mild mental retardation (IQ 82) was found to have a complex double translocation involving four chromosomes and a total of five breakpoints, two being on the same arm. This resulted in the karyotype 46,XY,t(2;4;7)(7;8)(q14;q31;q11q22;q13). As far as the authors are aware this is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Couzin DA,Watt JL,Auchterlonie IA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) affects 1% of women under 40 years and is a public health problem. The genetic causes of POI are highly heterogeneous with isolated or syndromic forms. Recently, variants in genes involved in DNA repair have been shown to cause POI. Notably, syndromic POI with Fanconi anae...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Caburet S,Heddar A,Dardillac E,Creux H,Lambert M,Messiaen S,Tourpin S,Livera G,Lopez BS,Misrahi M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 200 families were reviewed with directly transmitted, cytogenetically visible unbalanced chromosome abnormalities (UBCAs) or euchromatic variants (EVs). Both the 130 UBCA and 70 EV families were divided into three groups depending on the presence or absence of an abnormal phenotype in parents and offspring. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Barber JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the G-allele of MDM2 SNP309 (T/G) in the p53 tumour suppressor pathway can accelerate tumorigenesis and alter the risk of various cancers in women and not in men. In this report, data are presented from two independent groups of patients that suggest that the G-allele of SNP309 accelerat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bond GL,Menin C,Bertorelle R,Alhopuro P,Aaltonen LA,Levine AJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BglII polymorphism near the constant region of the T cell receptor beta chain (TCR c beta) has been investigated in normal controls, patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and CF carriers. A significant increase was found in the frequency of the 10.0:9.2 kb heterozygous genotype in the CF carrier group (71%) as compa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： McMillan SA,Hill AJ,Graham CA,Nevin NC,Fay AC

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Members of two seemingly unrelated kindreds of Arab Moslem origin presented with pronounced early onset spastic paraparesis of upper and lower limbs, mild intellectual disability, kyphosis, pectus carinatum and hypertrichosis. METHODS:The authors performed neurological and developmental examinations on the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zivony-Elboum Y,Westbroek W,Kfir N,Savitzki D,Shoval Y,Bloom A,Rod R,Khayat M,Gross B,Samri W,Cohen H,Sonkin V,Freidman T,Geiger D,Fattal-Valevski A,Anikster Y,Waters AM,Kleta R,Falik-Zaccai TC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An X-linked pattern of transmission observed in four families with familial mental retardation in several generations was associated with a probable secondary constriction at the distal end of the q arms of the X chromosome. Twenty retarded males and no retarded females were observed. All available live retarded males...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Harvey J,Judge C,Wiener S

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alport syndrome is a clinically heterogeneous, progressive nephropathy caused by mutations in collagen IV genes, namely COL4A3 and COL4A4 on chromosome 2 and COL4A5 on chromosome X. The wide phenotypic variability and the presence of incomplete penetrance suggest that a simple Mendelian model cannot complete...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mencarelli MA,Heidet L,Storey H,van Geel M,Knebelmann B,Fallerini C,Miglietti N,Antonucci MF,Cetta F,Sayer JA,van den Wijngaard A,Yau S,Mari F,Bruttini M,Ariani F,Dahan K,Smeets B,Antignac C,Flinter F,Renieri A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intelligence levels and intelligence profiles were investigated in 52 members of a large family with the fragile X syndrome. The mental abilities were evaluated by the three Wechsler intelligence tests (WAIS, WISC-R, and WPPSI). Chromosomal and psychological data were then compared. In 22 non-retarded fra(X) negative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Veenema H,Veenema T,Geraedts JP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pysiological tremor was measured in 14 pairs of monozygotic twins, 14 pairs of dizygotic twins, and 14 pairs of control subjects matched for age and sex. Postural finger tremor was measured in each pair using a sub-miniature accelerometer and subjecting the amplified signals to power spectral analysis. Significant gen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tyrer PJ,Kasriel J

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high prevalence of tobacco use in some developing nations, including Bangladesh, poses several public health challenges for these populations. Smoking behaviour is determined by genetic and environmental factors; however, the genetic determinants of smoking behaviour have not been previously examined in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Argos M,Tong L,Pierce BL,Rakibuz-Zaman M,Ahmed A,Islam T,Rahman M,Paul-Brutus R,Rahaman R,Roy S,Jasmine F,Kibriya MG,Ahsan H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 64Cu incorporation into uncloned fibroblast cultures from 16 Menkes disease mothers and 19 first and second degree female relatives was examined. The mean incorporation for the Menkes disease mothers (36.2 +/- 3.6 SEM) differed significantly from that of 25 normal subjects (21.7 +/- 0.9 SEM) suggesting the presenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Horn N

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:Evidence is presented to support the recent suggestion that human neural tube closure is similar to that observed in mice, and comprises several regionally distinct closure sites rather than being a simple zipping up process. Seven subjects, each with more than one neural tube defect (NTD), are described. Comparative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Seller MJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) is a severe autosomal recessive inborn error of glyoxylate metabolism caused by deficiency of the hepatic peroxisomal enzyme alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase. This enzyme is encoded by the AGXT gene on chromosome 2q37.3. DNA samples from 79 PH1 patients were studied using single s...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： von Schnakenburg C,Rumsby G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of inherited retinal dystrophy, with a worldwide prevalence of 1 in 4000 persons. While in most cases of RP, the disease is limited to the eye (non-syndromic), over 40 forms of syndromic RP have been described. OBJECTIVES:To identify the genetic basis for sy...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tatour Y,Sanchez-Navarro I,Chervinsky E,Hakonarson H,Gawi H,Tahsin-Swafiri S,Leibu R,Lopez-Molina MI,Fernandez-Sanz G,Ayuso C,Ben-Yosef T

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a tumour predisposition syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. The condition is characterised by predisposition to benign leiomyomas of the skin and the uterus, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and uterine leiomyosar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehtonen HJ,Kiuru M,Ylisaukko-Oja SK,Salovaara R,Herva R,Koivisto PA,Vierimaa O,Aittomäki K,Pukkala E,Launonen V,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infertility affects approximately 15% of couples worldwide with male infertility being responsible for approximately 50% of cases. Although accumulating evidence demonstrates the critical role of the X chromosome in spermatogenesis during the last few decades, the expression patterns and potential impact of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lu C,Zhang Y,Qin Y,Xu Q,Zhou R,Cui Y,Zhu Y,Zhang X,Zhang J,Wei X,Wang M,Hang B,Mao JH,Snijders AM,Liu M,Hu Z,Shen H,Zhou Z,Guo X,Wu X,Wang X,Xia Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique connective tissue disorder characterised by the triad of dentinogenesis imperfecta, blue sclerae, and multiple wormian bones has been identified in 20 members of three generations of a large kindred of mixed ancestry in South Africa. The skeletons of affected subjects were moderately osteoporotic but, apart f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Beighton P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial monosomy 10q25.2----qter, detected in a newborn baby with multiple congenital abnormalities, was found to be derived from a balanced maternal translocation t(6;10)(q27;q25.2). The pedigree of six generations of the family is presented. In an extensive cytogenetic study of this family, the chromosome complement...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brusnický J,van Heerden KM,de Jong G,Cronjé AS,Retief AE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00