Sequence of centromere separation another mechanism for the origin of nondisjunction.

abstract：:The decade since the publication of the Human Genome Project draft has ended with the discovery of hundreds of genomic markers related to diseases and phenotypes. However, the project has not yet delivered on its promise to tailor treatments for individuals. The number of genomic markers in clinical practice is very s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tajik P,Bossuyt PM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CAG/CTG repeat expansions cause at least 12 different neurological disorders, and additional disorders of this type probably exist. Using the repeat expansion detection (RED) assay, we identified an expanded CAG/CTG repeat in a 50-year-old woman with an autosomal dominant syndrome with prominent progressive sensory ne...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Holmes SE,Wentzell JS,Seixas AI,Callahan C,Silveira I,Ross CA,Margolis RL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has been reported that recombination hotspots appear to be highly variable between humans and chimpanzees, and there is evidence for between-person variability in hotspots, and evolutionary transience. To understand the nature of variation in human recombination rates, it is important to describe patterns ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Graffelman J,Balding DJ,Gonzalez-Neira A,Bertranpetit J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report clinical and molecular findings in 15 Japanese mosaic females with r(X) chromosomes, 45,X/46,X,r(X), confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis for DXZ1 and whole X chromosome painting. Cases 1-3, 5-7, and 11-13 had mental retardation (MR), the remaining cases being free from MR. FISH an...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsuo M,Muroya K,Adachi M,Tachibana K,Asakura Y,Nakagomi Y,Hanaki K,Yokoya S,Yoshizawa A,Igarashi Y,Hanew K,Matsuo N,Ogata T

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the analysis of parentage testing with the additional technique of DNA polymorphisms, the usefulness of probe YNH24 was studied. The allele frequency distribution of restriction fragments detected by probe YNH24 on TaqI-digested genomic DNA from 100 unrelated individuals was determined. For this purpose, th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： van Eede PH,Cuypers TM,de Lange GG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased incidence of cystic fibrosis (CF) has been reported in some populations of Native Americans of the Southwest such as the Pueblo, which is a genetic isolate. As the most common mutation found in Caucasians (delta F508) was absent and only one chromosome carried the G542X mutation, we decided to analyze the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mercier B,Raguénès O,Estivill X,Morral N,Kaplan GC,McClure M,Grebe TA,Kessler D,Pignatti PF,Marigo C

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a novel human globin gene mutation that produced in a Japanese family the beta-thalassemia phenotype through a post-translational mechanism. Substitution of proline for leucine at position 110 in the G-helix of the beta-globin chain greatly reduced the molecular stability of the beta-globin subunit, ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Naritomi Y,Naito Y,Nakashima H,Yokota E,Imamura T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several single-gene disorders with clinical and radiological characteristics similar to those observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients have been described. To evaluate whether this phenotypic overlap can be ascribed to a common genetic etiology, 28 genes known to present pathogenic mutations for 24 of these disord...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Traboulsee AL,Sadovnick AD,Encarnacion M,Bernales CQ,Yee IM,Criscuoli MG,Vilariño-Güell C

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:Cytogenetic analysis of a 20-year-old sterile male revealed a 45,X0 karyotype with no evidence for Y-chromosomal material on any of the chromosomes analysed by Q-, G- and C-banding. DNA analysis with 17 different Y chromosome-derived probes revealed the presence of Yp DNA sequences in the patient's genome. In situ hyb...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Arnemann J,Schnittger S,Hinkel GK,Tolkendorf E,Schmidtke J,Hansmann I

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal age distribution of 45,X abortuses was significantly lower than that of chromosomally normal abortuses in two co-ordinated studies. One, carried out in Geneva, included 44 X-monosomic abortuses and the other, in Hiroshima, was based on 38 abortuses with a 45,X karyotype. It was deduced that 45,X conceptus...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kajii T,Ohama K

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locus (CPX) responsible for X-linked cleft palate and ankyloglossia was previously mapped to the proximal long arm of the X chromosome through DNA marker linkage studies in two large kindred: an Icelandic family and a British Columbia (B.C.) Native family. In this study, additional linkage analyses have been perform...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gorski SM,Adams KJ,Birch PH,Chodirker BN,Greenberg CR,Goodfellow PJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), an autosomal dominant disease characterized by hamartomatous polyposis of the gastrointestinal tract, are thought to be predisposed to malignancies of the digestive tract, genital tract, and other organs. Using microsatellite markers on chromosome 19p, we have closely define...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nakagawa H,Koyama K,Tanaka T,Miyoshi Y,Ando H,Baba S,Watatani M,Yasutomi M,Monden M,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional intronless gene coding for a calmodulin-like protein (CLP) has been localized to human chromosome 10p13-ter. Chromosomal assignment was performed by Southern blot analysis of DNA from human-rodent somatic cell hybrids and amplification of a CLP gene-specific 1090-bp DNA fragment by the polymerase chain ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Berchtold MW,Koller M,Egli R,Rhyner JA,Hameister H,Strehler EE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been suggested that short expansions of CAG repeat in the gene ATXN-2 causing SCA2 (spinocerebellar ataxia type 2) are associated with an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the populations of the USA and northern Europe. In this study, we investigated the role of ATXN-2 in Italian...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Corrado L,Mazzini L,Oggioni GD,Luciano B,Godi M,Brusco A,D'Alfonso S

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:The fragile X syndrome is characterized by X-linked mental retardation with additional features such as a long face with large protruding ears, macroorchidism, and eye-gaze avoidance. The disorder is caused by an abnormally expanded CGG repeat within the first exon of the fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) gene that ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Vries BB,Mohkamsing S,van den Ouweland AM,Halley DJ,Niermeijer MF,Oostra BA,Willemsen R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte loss has a significant impact on fertility and somatic health. Yet, we know little about factors that impact this process. We sought to identify genetic variants associated with ovarian reserve (oocyte number as measured by antral follicle count, AFC). Based on recently published genome-wide scans that identifi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schuh-Huerta SM,Johnson NA,Rosen MP,Sternfeld B,Cedars MI,Reijo Pera RA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a series of 53 patients with ataxia telangiectasia, two large clones with a t tan or tct(14;14) and two with an inv(14) were observed among phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated lymphocytes. Smaller clones with the same inv(14) were observed in two other cases. Similar breakpoints may exist, both for t(14;14) and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Aurias A,Croquette MF,Nuyts JP,Griscelli C,Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric cataracts are observed in 1-15 per 10,000 births with 10-25 % of cases attributed to genetic causes; autosomal dominant inheritance is the most commonly observed pattern. Since the specific cataract phenotype is not sufficient to predict which gene is mutated, whole exome sequencing (WES) was utilized to con...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reis LM,Tyler RC,Muheisen S,Raggio V,Salviati L,Han DP,Costakos D,Yonath H,Hall S,Power P,Semina EV

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) were studied and subgroups of cases with similar chromosomal abnormalities in terminal stage were defined. Certain correlations were observed between the type of chromosomal changes, and clinical and morphologic manifestations of the disease: (1) It seems that, in cases wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prigogina EL,Fleischman EW,Volkova MA,Frenkel MA

更新日期：1978-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorionic villi were obtained by an aspiration technique which proved to be the best of four alternative procedures. We report in detail the series of experiments which led to (1) successful, rapidly growing cell cultures practically free of maternal cell contamination (the use of hormone-supplemented Chang medium gre...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Simoni G,Brambati B,Danesino C,Rossella F,Terzoli GL,Ferrari M,Fraccaro M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated. Thirty-five per cent of mutations were found to have occurred within CpG dinucleotides. Over 90% of these mutations were C----T or G----A transitions, which thus occur within coding regions at a frequency 42-f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Youssoufian H

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:Two antitubercular drugs, viz., isoniazid (INH) and para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS), in combination, were evaluated for their in vivo clastogenic effects of human lymphocyte chromosomes. Lymphocyte cultures from tuberculosis patients taking a therapeutic dose of INH and PAS for a period of not less than 3 months and fr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jaju M,Jaju M,Ahuja YR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently obtained evidence that the locus corresponding to three groups of partial tracheobronchial cDNAs (A = Jer47, B = Jer57, C = Jer58) which mapped to chromosome 11p15 and was given the symbol MUC5 corresponds to two distinct genes which we have provisionally called MUC5B and MUC5AC. Here we describe the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pigny P,Pratt WS,Laine A,Leclercq A,Swallow DM,Nguyen VC,Aubert JP,Porchet N

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique for the diagnosis of hydatidiform mole, a trophoblastic disease. For this, we targeted the hypervariable 3' flanking region of the APOB gene (APOB/VNTR) because of its high heterozygosity index (0.61) in the Japanese population. We examined seven clinical case...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fukuyama R,Takata M,Kudoh J,Sakai K,Tamura S,Shimizu N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of marker chromosomes in clinical and tumor cytogenetics by chromosome banding analysis can create problems. In this study, we present a strategy to define minute chromosomal rearrangements by multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with "whole chromosome painting" probes derived from c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Popp S,Jauch A,Schindler D,Speicher MR,Lengauer C,Donis-Keller H,Riethman HC,Cremer T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human coagulation factor XII (fXII), a serine protease synthesized in liver and active in plasma, is involved in a wide variety of functions, including blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, bradykinin and complement activation. A complementary DNA (597 bp) encoding amino acid -16 to amino acid 183 of fXII protein was used ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Citarella F,Tripodi M,Fantoni A,Bernardi F,Romeo G,Rocchi M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate the risk of viable unbalanced offspring for a parental carrier of reciprocal translocation. On a large computerized database of reciprocal translocations we used logistic regression to model this risk. The status of the progeny is the outcome variable. Explanatory covariates are c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cans C,Cohen O,Lavergne C,Mermet MA,Demongeot J,Jalbert P

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00