Four new nucleotide sequence polymorphisms in the LDL receptor gene detected by SSCP analysis.

abstract：:Vitamin D inadequacy, assessed by 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], affects around 50% of adults in the United States and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. Blood 25(OH)D concentrations are influenced by genetic factors that may determine how much vitamin D intake is required to reach optimal 25(OH)D. D...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hatchell KE,Lu Q,Hebbring SJ,Michos ED,Wood AC,Engelman CD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the clinical and cytogenetic findings in a female patient with secondary amenorrhea and normal phenotype. Some difficulties related to karyotype-phenotype correlation are discussed. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Branković S,Laća Z,Dramusić V,Ivanović M,Morić-Petrović S

更新日期：1979-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common form of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is caused by mutations in the CYBB gene that is carried on the X-chromosome and give rise to the X-linked form of the disease. The product of this gene is the large subunit of flavocytochrome b558, gp91phox, the catalytic core of the superoxide-generating enz...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Noack D,Heyworth PG,Kyono W,Cross AR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a genetically and phenotypically very heterogeneous disease. DCM is caused by mutations in multiple genes encoding proteins that are involved in force generation, force transmission, energy production and several signalling pathways. Thus, the pathophysiology of heart failure ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schönberger J,Kühler L,Martins E,Lindner TH,Silva-Cardoso J,Zimmer M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present 42 new Y-chromosomal sequences from diverse Indian tribal and non-tribal populations, including the Jarawa and Onge from the Andaman Islands, which are analysed within a calibrated Y-chromosomal phylogeny incorporating South Asian (in total 305 individuals) and worldwide (in total 1286 individuals) data fro...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mondal M,Bergström A,Xue Y,Calafell F,Laayouni H,Casals F,Majumder PP,Tyler-Smith C,Bertranpetit J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three prostate cancer susceptibility genes have been reported to be linked to different regions on chromosome 1: HPC1 at 1q24-25, PCAP at 1q42-43, and CAPB at 1p36. Replication studies analyzing each of these regions have yielded inconsistent results. To evaluate linkage across this chromosome systematically, we perfo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Xu J,Zheng SL,Chang B,Smith JR,Carpten JD,Stine OC,Isaacs SD,Wiley KE,Henning L,Ewing C,Bujnovszky P,Bleeker ER,Walsh PC,Trent JM,Meyers DA,Isaacs WB

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the characterization of 60% of low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene mutations in 150 unrelated Greek familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) heterozygous children by the analysis of six LDLR gene mutations. The linkage disequilibrium of two polymorphic microsatellites (D19S394 and D19S221) flank...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Traeger-Synodinos J,Mavroidis N,Kanavakis E,Drogari E,Humphries SE,Day IN,Kattamis C,Matsaniotis N

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder characterised by severe in utero growth restriction and poor postnatal growth, body asymmetry, irregular craniofacial features and several additional minor malformations. The aetiology of SRS is complex and current evidence strongly implicates imprin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prickett AR,Ishida M,Böhm S,Frost JM,Puszyk W,Abu-Amero S,Stanier P,Schulz R,Moore GE,Oakey RJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients are described who have some or all of the symptoms of Prader-Willi syndrome. They were ascertained by varying criteria starting either from the clinical picture or from the identification of a chromosome abnormality involving the proximal portion of the long arm of chromosome 15. The chromosome abnormal...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fraccaro M,Zuffardi O,Bühler E,Schinzel A,Simoni G,Witkowski R,Bonifaci E,Caufin D,Cignacco G,Delendi N

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest class of de novo chromosomal rearrangements in Down syndrome are rea(21q21q). Classically, these rearrangements have been termed Robertsonian translocations, implying an attachment of two different chromosome 21 homologues. Additionally, a Robertsonian translocation between two chromosomes 21 cannot be dis...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shaffer LG,Jackson-Cook CK,Meyer JM,Brown JA,Spence JE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease characterized by hamartomatous polyposis involving the entire bowel. Recently STK11, a gene bearing a mutation responsible for PJS, was isolated. We investigated the entire coding region of STK11 in 15 unrelated PJS families by the PCR-SSCP (poly...

journal_title：Human genetics

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

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of the one-carbon metabolic pathway, which controls nucleotide synthesis and DNA methylation, may promote lymphomagenesis. We evaluated the association between polymorphisms in one-carbon metabolism genes and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in a population-based case-control study in Australia. Cases ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lee KM,Lan Q,Kricker A,Purdue MP,Grulich AE,Vajdic CM,Turner J,Whitby D,Kang D,Chanock S,Rothman N,Armstrong BK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a lymphocyte chromosome survey of retinoblastoma (Rb) patients using a method able to detect a relatively low proportion mosaicism of 13q14 deletion are presented. Three out of 42 Rb patients had abnormal karyotypes; two mosaic cases with the karyotype 46,XY,del(13) (q14.1q14.3)/46,XY and 46,XX,del(13)(...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Motegi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erythrocytic and liver pyruvate kinases (PK) from a patient with congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia have been studied. In red blood cells, the residual activity, 28% of the normal control, presented normal kinetic properties, instability to heat and urea, and slow electrophoretic mobility. The L-type PK fr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Etiemble J,Picat C,Boivin P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions in 17q11.2 affecting the NF1 gene and surrounding regions occur in 5% of patients with NF1. The two major types of NF1 deletions encompass 1.4-Mb and 1.2-Mb, respectively, and have breakpoints in the NF1 low-copy repeats or in the JJAZ gene and its pseudogene. Deletions larger than 1.4-Mb are rare, and only ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kehrer-Sawatzki H,Kluwe L,Fünsterer C,Mautner VF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that studies of the genetic consequences of inbreeding should adopt a different strategy in populations having a relatively old inbreeding history and where inbreeding levels have varied over time. This contention is tested with a series of 39,495 single-birth records from Bombay, India, collected...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chakraborty R,Chakravarti A

更新日期：1977-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previous single case reports from the literature showed the presence or absence of centromeric antigens at the site of the inactive centromeres in one (X;X) and in one (9;11) dicentric chromosome. We studied nine different dicentric chromosomes using anticentromeric antibodies and immunofluorescence techniques. In...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Peretti D,Maraschio P,Lambiase S,Lo Curto F,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are cytoplasmic proteins involved in intracellular fatty acid transport and metabolism. FABP2, the intestinal-type FABP, is expressed exclusively in enterocytes in the small intestine. In previous studies of an Ala54Thr substitution in FABP2, the Thr-allele showed association wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Damcott CM,Feingold E,Moffett SP,Barmada MM,Marshall JA,Hamman RF,Ferrell RE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®) constitutes a comprehensive collection of published germline mutations in nuclear genes that underlie, or are closely associated with human inherited disease. At the time of writing (March 2017), the database contained in excess of 203,000 different gene lesions identified in o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Stenson PD,Mort M,Ball EV,Evans K,Hayden M,Heywood S,Hussain M,Phillips AD,Cooper DN

更新日期：2017-06-01 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

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified at least 133 ulcerative colitis (UC) associated loci. The role of genetic factors in clinical practice is not clearly defined. The relevance of genetic variants to disease pathogenesis is still uncertain because of not characterized gene-gene and gene-environment ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wang MH,Fiocchi C,Zhu X,Ripke S,Kamboh MI,Rebert N,Duerr RH,Achkar JP

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 200 missed abortions was performed to determine whether morphological criteria alone are sufficient to ascertain a chromosomal aetiology. Placental changes were classified into five morphological and four morphometric groups, according to the severity of alterations, and were then correlated w...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rehder H,Coerdt W,Eggers R,Klink F,Schwinger E

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the frequency of an SstI polymorphism in 70 patients with chronic B-cell leukaemia (CLL) and 100 normal controls. There was a highly significant difference in the distribution of the three genotypes between the CLL patients and the normal controls (chi 2 = 13.46, 2 df, P < 0.001). The C2 allele was found mo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crossen PE,Morrison MJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic DNA amplification and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, which demonstrate different sizes of DNA fragments, were used to detect the common mutations causing beta-thalassemia and hemoglobin (Hb) E in Thai people. The 4-bp deletion at codons 41 and 42 can be detected directly by polyacrylamide gel electropho...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Winichagoon P,Kownkon J,Yenchitsomanus P,Thonglairoam V,Siritanaratkul N,Fucharoen S

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common autosomal recessive diseases, affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 live births, and with a carrier frequency of approximately 1 in 50. Because of gene deletion or conversion, SMN1 exon 7 is homozygously absent in approximately 94% of patients with clinically typic...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ogino S,Wilson RB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well defined polymorphism of vitamin D-binding/group-specific component (GC) residues in exon 11. To characterize the molecular basis of GC*1A2 and GC*1A3, common in some Asian populations, we analyzed all coding exons amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. GC*1F was divided into GC*1FC and GC*1FT by a C-T tran...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yuasa I,Kofler A,Braun A,Umetsu K,Bichlmaier R,Kammerer S,Cleve H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective function of the Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling pathway is the most frequent alteration underlying holoprosencephaly (HPE) or its various clinical microforms. We performed an extensive mutational analysis of the entire human DISP1 gene, required for secretion of all hedgehog ligand(s) and which maps to the HP...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Roessler E,Ma Y,Ouspenskaia MV,Lacbawan F,Bendavid C,Dubourg C,Beachy PA,Muenke M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the fragile X (fraX) expression in T and B lymphocytes from four hemizygous males with fraX. Blood cultures were stimulated with a T cell mitogen (phytohemagglutinin:PHA) and with a B cell mitogen (pokeweed mitogen:PWM). A significant decrease in fraX expression was observed in cultures stimulated with PWM...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Marchese CA,Lin MS,Wilson MG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the human-sperm/hamster-egg system to compare the frequencies of structural and numerical chromosomal aberrations in 909 sperm karyotypes from four normal healthy men. The frequency of structural aberrations was 1.3, 4.8, 9.0, and 10.4% respectively in the four donors. Certain specific breakpoints were se...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brandriff B,Gordon L,Ashworth L,Watchmaker G,Carrano A,Wyrobek A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CGA----TGA (Arg----Term) transitions in the factor VIII gene causing severe haemophilia A were detected in two patients at codons 336 and 427 using a combination of oligonucleotide discrimination hybridization and DNA sequencing. Carrier detection analysis was then performed by polymerase chain reaction/direct sequenc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Millar DS,Green PJ,Zoll B,Kakkar VV,Cooper DN

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00