Mitochondrial mutation commonly associated with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy observed in a patient with Wolfram syndrome (DIDMOAD).

abstract：:This report describes a retarded girl with strabismus, high arched palate, antimongoloid slant, low set ears, hearing loss, micrognathia, short neck, and an anteriorly displaced anus. She was found to have a de novo partial trisomy of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 15. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Herweijer TJ,Oorthuys JW,Leschot NJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new variant of G6PD associated with chronic non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia (CNSHA) in an Irish male is described. This variant is unique in that it has a normal electrophoretic mobility, Michaelis constant for G6P and NADP, and a normal pH optimum, together with a marked increase in utilisation of the substrate ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： McCann SR,Smithwick AM,Temperley IJ,Tipton K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome type I is an autosomal recessive disease characterised by congenital sensorineural deafness, involvement of the vestibular system, and progressive visual loss owing to retinitis pigmentosa. Here we report the association of this disease with bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and reduced nasal mucocilia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bonneau D,Raymond F,Kremer C,Klossek JM,Kaplan J,Patte F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete ascertainment of adult onset limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in the Lothian Region of Scotland was attempted. Ten index cases were identified giving a prevalence of 1.3 per 100 000 (0.9 per 100 000 for cases where the diagnosis of muscular dystrophy was supported by both electromyographic and muscle biopsy fin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yates JR,Emery AE

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Hirschsprung disease, mental retardation, microcephaly, and specific craniofacial dysmorphism were observed in three children from a large, consanguineous, Moroccan family. A fourth child showed similar clinical features, with the exception of Hirschsprung disease. The association of these abnormalities in these child...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brooks AS,Breuning MH,Osinga J,vd Smagt JJ,Catsman CE,Buys CH,Meijers C,Hofstra RM

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:A 7 year old girl is described with congenital hypoplastic anaemia (Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA) and an apparently balanced reciprocal translocation, 46,XX,t(X;19)(p21;q13). The girl has associated features including short stature, unilateral kidney hypoplasia, and a branchial cyst. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Gustavsson P,Skeppner G,Johansson B,Berg T,Gordon L,Kreuger A,Dahl N

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with developmental delay, mild dysmorphic features, and monosomy of 7q35. Only one other patient with an interstitial deletion of this band has been previously reported. A review of clinical features of these two children did not show similarities in dysmorphic features. Reports of patients with ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fagan K,Kennedy C,Roddick L,Colley A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a large tuberous sclerosis pedigree confirmed linkage to a locus on the long arm of chromosome 9, with recombination events placing the disease gene distal to gelsolin and proximal to dopamine beta-hydroxylase. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nellist M,Brook-Carter PT,Connor JM,Kwiatkowski DJ,Johnson P,Sampson JR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mother with apparently balanced translocation between chromosomes 4 and 22 gave birth to two children (sib 1 and twin A) with 45,XX,der(4)t(4;22) (p16.3;q11.2)mat,-22 and 45,XY,der(4)t(4; 22(p16.3;q11.2)mat,-22 karyotypes. The mother was a slow learner and required special education. The imbalance in the sibs arose ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reddy KS,Sulcova V,Siassi B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The melanocortin-4-receptor gene (MC4R) is part of the melanocortinergic pathway that controls energy homeostasis. In a recent meta-analysis, the MC4R V103I (rs2229616) polymorphism was shown to be associated with body weight regulation. Although no functional differences between the isoleucine comprising re...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heid IM,Vollmert C,Hinney A,Döring A,Geller F,Löwel H,Wichmann HE,Illig T,Hebebrand J,Kronenberg F,KORA Group.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which 16 individuals in 3 generations have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. At least 6 family members also have the naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. In addition, 1 subject with both disorders has 2 young daughters with the naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heimler A,Friedman E,Rosenthal AD

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New techniques of DNA analysis have been applied to the prenatal diagnosis of the common haemoglobin disorders. Currently, it is possible to provide a comprehensive programme for the prevention of these conditions, although this entails the use of several different techniques including globin chain synthesis analysis,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Weatherall DJ,Old JM,Thein SL,Wainscoat JS,Clegg JB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing interest in the influence of host genetic factors on hepatic fibrosis, and whether genetic markers can reliably identify subjects at risk of developing severe disease. We hypothesised that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected subjects with progressive fibrosis, classified using strict criteri...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Richardson MM,Powell EE,Barrie HD,Clouston AD,Purdie DM,Jonsson JR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the costs and benefits associated with DNA diagnosis of subjects who are at risk of having a child with a monogenic disease and who seek genetic counselling because of their reproductive plans are predicted under various assumptions using a mathematical model. Four monogenic diseases have been considered...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： van der Riet AA,van Hout BA,Rutten FF

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fryns syndrome (FS) is the commonest autosomal recessive syndrome in which congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a cardinal feature. It has been estimated that 10% of patients with CDH have FS. The autosomal recessive inheritance in FS contrasts with the sporadic inheritance for the majority of patients w...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Slavotinek A,Lee SS,Davis R,Shrit A,Leppig KA,Rhim J,Jasnosz K,Albertson D,Pinkel D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been suggested that the non-deletion form of the alpha thalassaemia/mental retardation syndrome may be an X linked disorder. We describe four brothers with this syndrome in whom the diagnosis was first suspected because of their characteristic clinical features, although these varied somewhat from on...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Donnai D,Clayton-Smith J,Gibbons RJ,Higgs DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Inherited disorders of fibrinogen are rare and affect either the quantity (hypofibrinogenaemia and afibrinogenaemia) or the quality of the circulating fibrinogen (dysfibrinogenaemia). Extensive allelic heterogeneity has been found for all three disorders: in congenital afibrinogenaemia >30 mutations, the maj...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Vu D,de Moerloose P,Batorova A,Lazur J,Palumbo L,Neerman-Arbez M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with type 2 neurofibromatosis and late onset tumours. Five members of this family have developed hearing loss late in life, two of whom have only been shown to have the diagnosis in their seventies, and three other obligate gene carriers died undiagnosed at 64, 72, and 78 years of age. A missense mu...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Evans DG,Bourn D,Wallace A,Ramsden RT,Mitchell JD,Strachan T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with features of trisomy 10p syndrome was found to have an abnormal chromosome 10: 46, XY, rec(10), dup p, inv(10) (p11q26) mat. The infant's mother was heterozygous for a pericentric inversion involving chromosome 10 (46, XX, inv (10) (p11q26). The infant's derivative chromosome was apparently produced by m...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lansky-Shafer SC,Daniel WL,Ruiz L

更新日期：1981-02-01 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

authors： Francannet C,Cohen-Tanugi A,Le Merrer M,Munnich A,Bonaventure J,Legeai-Mallet L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are vascular malformations mostly located within the central nervous system. Most deleterious variants are loss of function mutations in one of the three CCM genes. These genes code for proteins that form a ternary cytosolic complex with CCM2 as a hub. Very few CCM2 mi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bergametti F,Viot G,Verny C,Brechard MP,Denier C,Labauge P,Petit P,Nouet A,Viallet F,Chaussenot A,Hervé D,Tournier-Lasserve E,Riant F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a well delineated multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterised by mental retardation, broad thumbs and toes, short stature, and specific facial features. The recent localisation of the disorder to 16p13.3 and subsequent identification of a submicroscopic deletion of this region...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wallerstein R,Anderson CE,Hay B,Gupta P,Gibas L,Ansari K,Cowchock FS,Weinblatt V,Reid C,Levitas A,Jackson L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder caused by thymidine phosphorylase (TP) deficiency, resulting in severe gastrointestinal dysmotility and skeletal muscle abnormalities. A patient is reported with a classical MNGIE clinical presentation but with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Szigeti K,Wong LJ,Perng CL,Saifi GM,Eldin K,Adesina AM,Cass DL,Hirano M,Lupski JR,Scaglia F

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with hypertrichosis cubiti who were referred for investigation of short stature. Two males, whose height was on and just below the 3rd centile respectively, were sporadic cases and two females with disproportionate short stature were mother and daughter. Radiological changes present in the fami...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： MacDermot KD,Patton MA,Williams MJ,Winter RM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clefts of the lip and palate are common birth defects, affecting approximately 1 in 700 births worldwide. The aetiology of clefting is complex, with multiple genetic and environmental influences. METHODS:Genotype based linkage disequilibrium analysis was conducted using the family based association test (FB...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Warrington A,Vieira AR,Christensen K,Orioli IM,Castilla EE,Romitti PA,Murray JC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of the L1CAM gene, a member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily of neural cell adhesion molecules, are associated with X linked hydrocephalus and some allelic disorders. We describe a patient with X linked hydrocephalus and Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR) with a novel mutation in the L1CAM gene. This is...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Okamoto N,Wada Y,Goto M

更新日期：1997-08-01 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