Molecular analysis of late onset Huntington's disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:DYNC1H1 encodes the heavy chain protein of the cytoplasmic dynein 1 motor protein complex that plays a key role in retrograde axonal transport in neurons. Furthermore, it interacts with the LIS1 gene of which haploinsufficiency causes a severe neuronal migration disorder in humans, known as classical lissenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willemsen MH,Vissers LE,Willemsen MA,van Bon BW,Kroes T,de Ligt J,de Vries BB,Schoots J,Lugtenberg D,Hamel BC,van Bokhoven H,Brunner HG,Veltman JA,Kleefstra T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adoptees are a population that could benefit from genetic testing to fill gaps in family health history (FHH). Elective genomic testing (EGT) provides adoptees with clinical genetic testing options to learn about genetic health risks in the absence of FHH. We assessed adoptees' interests in, motivations for and...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edgar J,Bao A,Maga T,Schwartz M,Yates C,Spencer S

更新日期：2020-12-21 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：:The autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) represent a heterogeneous group of diseases which may be characterised by one or more autosomal loci. A gene at 15q has recently been found to be responsible for a mild form of LGMD in a group of families from the isolated island of Réunion, now classifie...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Passos-Bueno MR,Richard I,Vainzof M,Fougerousse F,Weissenbach J,Broux O,Cohen D,Akiyama J,Marie SK,Carvalho AA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of calpainopathy is obtained by identifying calpain-3 protein deficiency or CAPN3 gene mutations. However, in many patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A), the calpain-3 protein quantity is normal because loss-of-function mutations cause its enzymatic inactivation. The ide...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fanin M,Nascimbeni AC,Angelini C

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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

authors： Chang-Claude J,Dong J,Schmidt S,Shayeghi M,Komitowski D,Becher H,Stratton MR,Royer-Pokora B

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report here clinical, cytogenetic and molecular data for a pair of monochorionic diamniotic twins with paternal isodisomy for chromosome 19. Both twins presented with dysmorphic features and global developmental delay. This represents, to our knowledge, the first individual human case of paternal uniparen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yeung KS,Ho MSP,Lee SL,Kan ASY,Chan KYK,Tang MHY,Mak CCY,Leung GKC,So PL,Pfundt R,Marshall CR,Scherer SW,Choufani S,Weksberg R,Hon-Yin Chung B

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV (EDS IV) resulting from a mutation in one COL3A1 allele were studied. The child was heterozygous for a G- to A-transition at the splice donor site of intron 41. It resulted in the splicing out of the exon 41 encoded sequence from alpha 1(III) mRNA and the del...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sillence DO,Chiodo AA,Campbell PE,Cole WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous linkage studies in tuberous sclerosis have implicated three disease determining loci at 9q, 11q, and 12q. We have collated phenotypic and genotypic data on 1622 members of 128 families with tuberous sclerosis in order to evaluate simultaneously the evidence for these putative loci. Affection status in the fam...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sampson JR,Janssen LA,Sandkuijl LA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the locus encoding the major cartilage collagen gene (COL2A1) was studied in a total of 19 cases of achondroplasia. No gross rearrangements were seen. The segregation of COL2A1 was examined in three affected kindreds using restriction site and length variants as genetic markers. In two kindreds discor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogilvie D,Wordsworth P,Thompson E,Sykes B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enzyme deficiencies of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system may be caused by mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or in the nuclear DNA. OBJECTIVE:To analyse the sequences of the mtDNA coding region in 25 patients with OXPHOS system deficiency to identify the underlying genetic defect. RESUL...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hinttala R,Smeets R,Moilanen JS,Ugalde C,Uusimaa J,Smeitink JA,Majamaa K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 102 families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been studied with linked DNA polymorphisms as an aid to estimating carrier risks for female relatives. Early work using probes RC8, L1.28, and pXUT23 gave very little clinically useful information because of the high recombination rates between these probes ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Read AP,Kerzin-Storrar L,Mountford RC,Elles RG,Harris R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PPARgamma, the gamma isoform of a family of peroxisome proliferator activated receptors, plays a key role in adipocyte differentiation. Recently, its broad expression in multiple tissues and several epithelial cancers has been shown. Further, somatic loss of function mutations in PPARgamma have been found in primary c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zhou XP,Smith WM,Gimm O,Mueller E,Gao X,Sarraf P,Prior TW,Plass C,von Deimling A,Black PM,Yates AJ,Eng C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the present investigation have failed to confirm the suggestion that there is a significant increase in the proportion of echinocytes in preparation of fresh erythrocytes in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and heterozygous carriers of this disorder. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Soltan HC

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most commonly reported phenotypes described in patients with PTEN mutations are Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome (BRRS), with childhood onset, macrocephaly, lipomas and developmental delay, and Cowden Syndrome (CS), an adult-onset condition recognised by mucocutaneous signs, with a risk of cancers, in p...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lachlan KL,Lucassen AM,Bunyan D,Temple IK

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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

authors： Beales PL,Elcioglu N,Woolf AS,Parker D,Flinter FA

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:We report a 13 year old boy with fragile X syndrome resulting from a de novo deletion of the FMR1 and FMR2 genes extending from (and including) DXS7536 proximally to FMR2 distally. The patient has severe developmental delay, epilepsy, and behavioural difficulties, including autistic features. He has epicanthic folds, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Strain L,Cole GF,Miedzybrodzka Z,Kelly KF,Dean JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital chromosome abnormalities are relatively common in our species and among structural abnormalities the most common class is balanced reciprocal translocations. Determining the parental origin of de novo balanced translocations may provide insights into how and when they arise. While there is a gener...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Thomas NS,Morris JK,Baptista J,Ng BL,Crolla JA,Jacobs PA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with limb-body wall complex (LBWC) and complete absence of the external genitalia are presented. Our patients are the sixth and seventh cases of complete absence of the external genitalia recorded in English publications and the first two cases associated with LBWC. The incidence of complete absence of th...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Litwin A,Merlob P,Grunebaum M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a molecular analysis of 184 cystic fibrosis (CF) families in Wales. To determine accurate frequency data for the CF mutations in the Welsh population, families with at least three Welsh grandparents were strictly regarded as Welsh. Of these 74 families, we have identified approximately 90% of mutations cau...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cheadle J,Myring J,al-Jader L,Meredith L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Langlois S,Yong SL,Wilson RD,Kwong LC,Kalousek DK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female child with multiple vertebral and rib abnormalities is described. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young ID,Moore JR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, the main cause of inherited mental retardation, is caused by transcriptional silencing of the fragile X mental retardation gene, FMR1. Absence of the associated protein FMRP leads to the dysregulation of many genes creating a phenotype of ADHD, anxiety, epilepsy and autism. The core aim of this rev...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： D'Hulst C,Kooy RF

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Chromosomal rearrangements, arising from unequal recombination between repeated sequences, are found in a subset of patients with autism. Duplications involving loci associated with behavioural disturbances constitute an especially good candidate mechanism. The Williams-Beuren critical region (WBCR), located...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Depienne C,Heron D,Betancur C,Benyahia B,Trouillard O,Bouteiller D,Verloes A,LeGuern E,Leboyer M,Brice A

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:To test the hypothesis that epidermal rather than dermal mosaicism determines Blaschko's lines in hypomelanosis of Ito (HI), we studied the distribution of chromosomal mosaicism in four patients. In two, mosaicism had not been detected in lymphocytes or dermal fibroblasts, but was clearly shown in epidermal keratinocy...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moss C,Larkins S,Stacey M,Blight A,Farndon PA,Davison EV

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00