Abstract:
:An 18 month old girl with dysmorphic features, severe developmental delay, multiple strawberry naevi, and capillary naevi is described. No previous report of a similar association of features has been identified.
journal_name
J Med Genetjournal_title
Journal of medical geneticsauthors
Upton CJ,Young IDdoi
10.1136/jmg.30.10.883subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-10-01 00:00:00pages
883-4issue
10eissn
0022-2593issn
1468-6244journal_volume
30pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Reaction to medical, social, and genetic implications of Marfan syndrome was evaluated by means of two questionnaires, the first after various tests before discussion of the diagnosis, the second after full discussion of the patient's diagnosis. Thirty-seven members of a family known to be at risk for Marfan syndrome ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.29.2.81
更新日期:1992-02-01 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::Rett syndrome (RS; MIM 312750) is a severe neurological disorder affecting exclusively females. Its prevalence is about 1 in 10,000 female births, and it is a prominent cause of profound mental handicap in women. RS is caused by mutations in the X-linked methyl CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. These mutations were ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmg.2007.049452
更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have performed linkage analysis in seven Italian families, in which mild osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) segregated as a dominant trait, by means of six DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of type I collagen genes. OI type I was linked to the alpha 1(I) gene (COL1A1) in two families, and to the alpha...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.27.6.367
更新日期:1990-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three sibs out of four, born to unrelated parents, developed early cutaneous photosensitivity and severe colitis. All of them died from untreatable diarrhoea. A fourth boy, whose father was different, did not have the same symptoms. The origin of this syndrome remains unclear and, in particular, no metabolic defect co...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.28.2.114
更新日期:1991-02-01 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::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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.32.6.470
更新日期:1995-06-01 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
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1136/jmg.2006.047092
更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Structural variants (SVs) affecting non-coding cis-regulatory elements are a common cause of congenital limb malformation. Yet, the functional interpretation of these non-coding variants remains challenging. The human Liebenberg syndrome is characterised by a partial transformation of the arms into legs and ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105793
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-105047
更新日期:2018-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.38.7.430
更新日期:2001-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Cohen syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder that results from mutations of the VPS13B gene. Clinical features consist of a combination of mental retardation, facial dysmorphism, postnatal microcephaly, truncal obesity, slender extremities, joint hyperextensibility, myopia, progressive cho...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.075028
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a 20 year old man with short stature, microcephaly, unusual facies, numerous pigmented naevi, hypodontia, immunodeficiency, and a high pitched voice. Tympner et al had assumed that the patient had a new syndrome of "progressive combined immunodeficiency and ectomesodermal dysplasia". We show here that the co...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmg.31.9.707
更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The cytokines tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha and interleukin (IL)10 have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), with increased concentrations reported in patients with active disease. However, limited data exist on their effects on disease phenotype in the same population. Certain si...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1136/jmg.2004.027425
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Germline mutations of the LKB1 (STK11) serine/threonine kinase gene (chromosome 19p13.3) cause Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, which is characterised by hamartomas of the gastrointestinal tract and typical pigmentation. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome carries an overall risk of cancer that may be up to 20 times that of the general pop...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The fragile X syndrome is a common cause of mental impairment. In view of the low reproductive fitness of affected males, the high incidence of the syndrome has been suggested to be the result of a high rate of new mutations occurring exclusively in the male germline. Extensive family studies, however, have failed to ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.8.647
更新日期:1993-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Respiratory chain complex I deficiency represents a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases resulting from mutations in mitochondrial or nuclear genes. Mutations have been reported in 13 of the 14 subunits encoding the core of complex I (seven mitochondrial and six nuclear genes) and these result in Leigh or Leigh...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2003.014316
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent epidemiological interest has focused on separation of neural tube defects (NTD) into subgroups which may differ pathogenetically and aetiologically, for example, 'upper' and 'lower' spina bifida. In order to validate the use of pathologists' lesion descriptions by epidemiologists and others, a postal survey of ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.11.942
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Classical genetic theory, based on assumed equal mutation rates in males and females, predicts that one-third of all cases of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a generation are born as new mutants to non-carrier mothers. Furthermore, less than half the mothers of apparently isolated cases appear to be carriers on t...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.20.1.1
更新日期:1983-02-01 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
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journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2007.055129
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.27.11.670
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using DNA samples obtained from two unrelated patients, diagnosed as having familial dysalbuminaemic hyperthyroxinaemia (FDH), exons 1-14 which span the entire coding region of the human serum albumin (HSA) gene were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. The sequence of each of the 14 DNA fragments was then dete...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.31.5.355
更新日期:1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Sonic hedgehog (SHH) plays an important role in defining the anterior-posterior axis in the developing limbs. A highly conserved non-coding sequence about approximately 1 Mb upstream from the sonic hedgehog gene (SHH) was shown to be a long range regulator for SHH expression in the limb bud. Point mutations ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2007.055699
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::As the variability and possible clinical significance of palm increase abnormalities receive greater attention, an accurate and objective method for evaluating the palm increase variants is required. A new method is described employing a topographic approach. A network of co-ordinates drawn on the palm prints enables ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.13.4.310
更新日期:1976-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.3.253
更新日期:1993-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.8.670
更新日期:1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A two generation family with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is presented in which a family member requested presymptomatic molecular diagnosis. Since the consultand's mother had clinically well defined NF2, he was quoted to be at 50% risk of carrying an NF2 mutation. Mutation screening in the mother did not show the c...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.11.934
更新日期:1997-11-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2006.044859
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients affected with progressive myoclonus epilepsy of the Lafora type present during late adolescence with a characteristic EEG pattern and Lafora bodies seen on skin biopsy. The critical region for the Lafora gene has been localised to chromosome 6q24 flanked by the dinucleotide repeat markers D6S292 and D6S420. T...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.34.7.590
更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00