Abstract:
:A Bedouin infant born to consanguineous parents and grandparents is reported. She had Müllerian aplasia and the phenotypic features of the limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome (MIM 276820). Phenotypic variability of this newly recognised syndrome is briefly discussed.
journal_name
J Med Genetjournal_title
Journal of medical geneticsauthors
Farag TI,al-Awadi SA,Marafie MJ,Bastaki L,al-Othman SA,Mohammed FM,AlSuliman IS,Murthy DSdoi
10.1136/jmg.30.1.62subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-01-01 00:00:00pages
62-4issue
1eissn
0022-2593issn
1468-6244journal_volume
30pub_type
杂志文章,评审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::Dominantly inherited osteogenesis imperfecta is consistently linked to the two loci encoding the alpha 1 and alpha 2 subunits of collagen 1, the predominant bone collagen. We have performed several prenatal diagnoses based on identification of the segregating allele at the concordant locus in chorionic villus samples ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.28.3.145
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Angelman syndrome (AS) and Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have become the classical examples of genomic imprinting in man, as completely different phenotypes are generated by the absence of maternal (AS) or paternal (PWS) contributions to the q11-13 region of chromosome 15 as a result of deletion or uniparental disomy. A...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.29.12.853
更新日期:1992-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Deletions of the HOXC gene cluster result in variable phenotypes in mice, but have been rarely described in humans. OBJECTIVE:To report chromosome 12q13.13 microdeletions ranging from 13 to 175 kb and involving the 5' HOXC genes in four families, segregating congenital lower limb malformations, including cl...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103505
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Having identified teratogenic factors, primary prevention of congenital defects is possible by the implementation of specific measures in pregnant women or those planning pregnancy. Our current understanding of the epigenetic processes acting during reproductive events raises new possibilities to prevent both heritabl...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.070466
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Congenital malformations involving the Müllerian ducts are observed in around 5% of infertile women. Complete aplasia of the uterus, cervix, and upper vagina, also termed Müllerian aplasia or Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, occurs with an incidence of around 1 in 4500 female births, and occur...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.2010.082412
更新日期:2011-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.23.6.581
更新日期:1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::This report concerns two families in which the index patients are sporadic cases of a benign form of muscular dystrophy. In both families the sisters of the patients have married a close relative. The respective risks for a child of these consanguineous marriages being affected with either X linked Becker muscular dys...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.26.5.299
更新日期:1989-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In 30-50% of patients with colorectal adenomatous polyposis, no germline mutation in the known genes APC, causing familial adenomatous polyposis, MUTYH, causing MUTYH-associated polyposis, or POLE or POLD1, causing polymerase-proofreading-associated polyposis can be identified, although a hereditary aetiolog...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103468
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:A variety of abnormalities have been demonstrated at chromosome 11p15 in individuals with overgrowth and growth retardation. The identification of these abnormalities is clinically important but often technically difficult. Methylation-specific multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MS-MLPA) is a ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1136/jmg.2007.053207
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A child with ambiguous genitalia, brought up phenotypically male, had a 46,XX/46,XY karyotype. At laparotomy, he had a left sided ovary and uterus, and a right sided scrotal testis. The 46,XX line made up 50% of cells in the blood and 90% of cells in a skin biopsy. There were no cytogenetic polymorphisms. Analysis of ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.31.10.816
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:HLA-DRB1 is the strongest susceptibility gene to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). HLA-DRB1 alleles showed significant non-additive and interactive effects on susceptibility to RA in the European population, but these effects on RA susceptibility should vary between populations due to the difference in allelic dist...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-104779
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is associated with the expansion and instability of a trinucleotide (CTG) repeat at the DM locus on chromosome 19. Direct genomic analysis in the German population was carried out on 18 DM families, six families with equivocal diagnosis, 69 subjects with equivocal clinical diagnosis, and 100 co...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.32.8.645
更新日期:1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Deficiency of α-galactosidase A (αGal-A) in Fabry disease leads to the accumulation mainly of globotriaosylceramide (GL3) in multiple renal cell types. Glomerular podocytes are relatively resistant to clearance of GL3 inclusions by enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Migalastat, an orally bioavailable small mol...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-104826
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) is a kind of severe teratozoospermia. Patients with the MMAF phenotype are infertile and present aberrant spermatozoa with absent, short, coiled, bent and/or irregular flagella. Mutations in several genes can explain approximately 30%-50% of M...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105952
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::X linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XHED) affects many epithelial functions, including sweat gland formation. Female carriers who manifest XHED may have defective dentition or a patchy distribution of sweating or both, as determined by starch and iodine sweat testing. Such sweat testing can be useful in assign...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.28.5.330
更新日期:1991-05-01 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::After the publication of evidence of the existence of a DNA polymorphism closely linked to the gene for Huntington's disease, attitudes towards predictive testing for Huntington's disease were evaluated in Belgium in a group of persons who are at risk for the disease and in a smaller group of their partners. The perce...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.24.5.275
更新日期:1987-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a primary disorder of haem biosynthesis that is chemically characterised by raised urinary porphobilinogen (PBG). A defect in the biochemical pathway at the step of PBG conversion to uroporphyrinogen has been shown to be a result of a partial deficiency of the enzyme uroporphyrino...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.16.2.134
更新日期:1979-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a life-threatening congenital disorder in which the enteric nervous system is completely missing from the distal gut. Recent studies have shown that miR-4516 markedly inhibits cell migration, and as one of its potential targets, MAPK10 functions as a modifier for developing HSC...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106615
更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The long-term decline in the incidence of the neural tube malformations, anencephaly and spina bifida (ASB), ended in the mid-1950's in New York State. Since that time, the rate of these birth defects has remained between 1 and 1.5/1000 births. In this low incidence population, we tested the basic tenets which support...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.15.2.101
更新日期:1978-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A large body of data on segregating families is used to generate specific recurrence risks conditional on sex and birth order for the best-fitting model of polygenes plus maternal effect. The method is general for diseases of complex inheritance, and lies within the competence of any serious genetic clinic. The questi...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.14.6.408
更新日期:1977-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::HLA and Gm typing were carried out in 16 families. Seven families included 10 sib pairs with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) respectively, and nine families included 16 sib pairs with RA and circulating thyroid autoantibodies respectively. Eight, 11, and seven sib pairs with either RA or...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.22.6.451
更新日期:1985-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::An infant with congenital chondrodysplasia punctata with a secondary deformation of umbilical cord hernia is reported. The paper discusses deformation syndromes as anomalies due to unusual mechanical or intrinsic factors. ...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.23.1.84
更新日期:1986-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.30.5.385
更新日期:1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recently, there have been several molecular studies of trisomic fetuses and liveborns which have examined the parent and meiotic stage of origin of nondisjunction. However, little is known about the possible phenotypic effects of the origin of trisomy. For trisomic spontaneous abortions, no distinct phenotype has been...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.11.924
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Anticonvulsants taken in pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of malformations and developmental delay in the children. To evaluate the pattern of abnormalities associated with prenatal anticonvulsant exposure further, we undertook a clinical study of 57 children with fetal anticonvulsant syndrome...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.37.7.489
更新日期:2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The spontaneous and mitomycin C (MMC) induced sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were examined in five adults with myotonic dystrophy (MD). There was no significant difference in the spontaneous incidence of SCE between MD patients and controls. However, a significantly enhanced response to the induction of S...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.19.2.135
更新日期:1982-04-01 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::Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by tumour-like malformations (hamartomas) of the brain, skin, and other organs, often associated with seizures and learning disability. There is genetic heterogeneity with loci for TSC on chromosomes 9q34 (TSC1) and 16p13.3 (TSC2). The recently c...
journal_title:Journal of medical genetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jmg.35.12.969
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00