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_name
J Med Genetjournal_title
Journal of medical geneticsauthors
Phillips RBdoi
10.1136/jmg.15.5.388subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1978-10-01 00:00:00pages
388-90issue
5eissn
0022-2593issn
1468-6244journal_volume
15pub_type
杂志文章abstract::The association of maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 7 and postnatal growth failure has been reported in four cases and suggests the presence of genomic imprinting of one or more growth related genes on chromosome 7. However, in the reported cases, the possibility of homozygosity for a recessive mutation coul...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmg.32.11.871
更新日期:1995-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with thyroid cancer (TC) risk have been reported: rs2910164 (5q24); rs6983267 (8q24); rs965513 and rs1867277 (9q22); and rs944289 (14q13). Most of these associations have not been replicated in independent populations and the combined effects of the SNPs on risk h...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100586
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cultivated cells obtained by amniocentesis for antenatal diagnosis were examined for the presence of keratin filaments by immunofluorescent staining techniques. In primary cultures, cells in fibroblast type colonies do not possess keratin filaments whereas cells in epithelial type colonies show positive staining of ke...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.19.6.433
更新日期:1982-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Adult polycystic kidney disease (APKD) is a common genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Recent reports show that, in some families, the APKD gene shows close genetic linkage to two chromosome 16 specific genetic markers. We have been conducting a genetic linkage study using 29 polymorphic...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.24.8.457
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Germ-line mutations in CYLD are found in patients with familial skin appendage tumours. The protein product functions as a deubiquitinase enzyme, which negatively regulates NF-kappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase signalling. Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (BSS) is characterised by cylindromas, trichoepitheliomas and...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1136/jmg.2007.056127
更新日期:2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The inheritance of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for two fibrillar collagen genes (COL1A2 and COL3A1) has been studied in a large Marfan syndrome kindred. We are able to show discordant segregation between the Marfan syndrome and each of the two collagen gene markers. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.24.3.148
更新日期:1987-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the feasibility of a reduced counselling programme for predictive genetic testing for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) in terms of counsellees' opinions on the extent and significance of genetic counselling and need for psychological support at different phases of the testing pr...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.37.2.108
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Rare variants in hundreds of genes have been implicated in developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID) and neurobehavioural phenotypes. TNRC6B encodes a protein important for RNA silencing. Heterozygous truncating variants have been reported in three patients from large cohorts with autism, but no...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106470
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal dominant disorder characterised by the development of bony protuberances mainly located on the long bones. Three HME loci have been mapped to chromosomes 8q24 (EXT1), 11p11-13 (EXT2), and 19p (EXT3). The EXT1 and EXT2 genes encode glycosyltra...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.38.7.430
更新日期:2001-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The fragile X mental retardation syndrome is caused by unstable expansion of a CGG repeat. Two main types of mutation have been categorised. Clinical expression is associated with the presence of the full mutation, while subjects who carry only a premutation do not have mental retardation. Premutations have a high ris...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.29.11.794
更新日期:1992-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Selection for genetic testing of BRCA1/BRCA2 is an important area of healthcare. Although testing costs for mutational analysis are falling, costs in North America remain in excess of US$3000 (UK price can be 690 pounds). Guidelines in most countries use a 10-20% threshold of detecting a mutation in BRCA1/2 ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.067850
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A family is described in which the mother's four pregnancies resulted in one spontaneous abortion, one healthy boy, and a male and female sib with developmental delay and multiple minor dysmorphic features. Chromosome analysis showed a large pericentric inversion of chromosome 10, involving the region between bands p1...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.26.7.461
更新日期:1989-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Costovertebral dysplasia comprises multiple malformations of the vertebrae and ribs, with a characteristic clinical picture of short trunk dwarfism, short neck, scoliosis, and rib cage deformity. We describe two sibs with the syndrome who are presumed to represent the autosomal recessive form of the disorder. One sib ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.20.6.441
更新日期:1983-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Desbuquois dysplasia is a rare autosomal recessive chondrodysplasia characterised by short stature, joint laxity, facial dysmorphism, a "Swedish key" appearance of the proximal femur, advanced carpal and tarsal bone age, and hand anomalies consisting of phalangeal dislocations and an extra ossification centre distal t...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.40.4.282
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal recessive condition characterised by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, central obesity, mental retardation, hypogonadism, and renal dysfunction. BBS expression varies both within and between families and diagnosis is often difficult. We sought to define the conditio...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Few germline BRCA2 rearrangements have been described compared with the large number of germline rearrangements reported in the BRCA1 gene. However, some BRCA2 rearrangements have been reported in families that included at least one case of male breast cancer. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the contribution of large...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2005.040212
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 39 year old male with primary infertility was diagnosed as having Klinefelter syndrome by conventional cytogenetic analysis, which also showed an abnormal chromosome 12. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) analysis of the aberrant chromosome using a 12 specific centromeric probe showed a break in the alphoid r...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.8.682
更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gaucher disease results, in most patients, from mutations in the gene encoding glucocerebrosidase. Mutation D409H is the third most frequent in Spanish patients, accounting for 5.7% of all mutated alleles. This allele is associated mainly with the neurological forms of the disease. Recently, homozygosity for the D409H...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.9.775
更新日期:1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Molecular genetic investigation of a female infant with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) showed loss of IGF2 imprinting but no evidence of uniparental disomy. In addition, a deletion of chromosome 18q22.1 was identified in this infant without clinical features of 18q-syndrome (microcephaly, short stature, hypotonia)....
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.2.162
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::True isochromosomes for Xp probably do not exist in a liveborn. We describe a rare case of complete Xp duplication and retention of the inactivation centre at Xq13. Cytogenetically, it is described as a nonmosaic 46,X,psu idic(X)(q13). Complete duplication of Xpter-->Xq13 was confirmed by banded analysis and FISH prob...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.33.3.237
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Shortening of the tubular bones of the hands and feet with cone shaped epiphyses is known as peripheral dysostosis and is common to several syndromes including acrodysostosis and Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO). The underlying defect in AHO is known to be a reduction in bioactivity of the alpha subunit of t...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.2.133
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Progeroid syndromes are genetic disorders that recapitulate some phenotypes of physiological ageing. Classical progerias, such as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), are generally caused by mutations in LMNA leading to accumulation of the toxic protein progerin and consequently, to nuclear envelope ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103695
更新日期:2016-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The impact of information-guidance type of genetic counseling was evaluated for the family planning of 2082 consultands. The understanding of the risks, parental decision, and the number of induced and spontaneous abortions were evaluated by the use of questionnaires. The stillbirths, livebirths, infant deaths, and ba...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.18.2.91
更新日期:1981-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To determine a gene locus for a family with a dominantly inherited vestibulocerebellar disorder characterised by early onset, but not congenital nystagmus. DESIGN:Observational and experimental study. METHODS:We carried out a phenotypic study of a unique four generation family with nystagmus. We performed gen...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.40.1.37
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The genetic causes of the majority of male and female infertility caused by human non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) with meiotic arrest are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To identify the genetic cause of NOA and POI in two affected members from a consanguineous Chinese family. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-104992
更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Subtelomere fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) analysis has increasingly been used as an adjunct to routine cytogenetic testing in order to detect small rearrangements. Previous reports have estimated an overall abnormality rate of 6%, with a range of 2-29% because of different inclusion criteria. ME...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2005.036350
更新日期:2006-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.4.280
更新日期:1993-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Germline mutations in highly penetrant autosomal dominant genes explain about 5% of all breast cancer, and heritable mutations in the BRCA1 breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene account for 2-3% of breast cancer in the general population. Nevertheless, the presence of such mutations is highly predictive of dis...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.2.116
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The most useful markers for the prenatal diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy (DM) are APOC2 and CKM, both of which map proximal to DM. In order to produce other markers useful for DM, we have screened genomic DNA libraries constructed from cell line 20XP3542-1-4, which contains 20 to 30 Mb of human material including APOC...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.28.2.84
更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently fatal in infancy. Mitochondrial disease causing infantile HCM is characterised by extreme biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, but deficiency of respiratory chain complex I is observed relatively frequently. Identification of the precise genetic basis has pro...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100340
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00