Prenatal and postnatal growth failure associated with maternal heterodisomy for chromosome 7.

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:Lynch syndrome, an autosomal-dominant disorder characterised by high colorectal and endometrial cancer risks, is caused by inherited mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Mutations fully abrogating gene function are unambiguously disease causing. However, missense mutations often have unknown functio...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wielders EA,Hettinger J,Dekker R,Kets CM,Ligtenberg MJ,Mensenkamp AR,van den Ouweland AM,Prins J,Wagner A,Dinjens WN,Dubbink HJ,van Hest LP,Menko F,Hogervorst F,Verhoef S,te Riele H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oguchi disease is a rare autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness. The condition is associated with fundus discolouration and abnormally slow dark adaptation. Earlier studies suggested that the 48 kD protein S antigen may be involved in the recovery phase of light transduction. Previous cytoge...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maw MA,John S,Jablonka S,Müller B,Kumaramanickavel G,Oehlmann R,Denton MJ,Gal A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lynch syndrome is known to cause an increased risk of malignancies, including bowel and endometrial cancers. However, the risk of breast cancer associated with mutations in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes that cause Lynch syndrome is still unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study assesses the cumulative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Harkness EF,Barrow E,Newton K,Green K,Clancy T,Lalloo F,Hill J,Evans DG

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 592 cells was examined from 38 normal humans who had either small or very large Y chromosomes. Chromosome identification was based on the QFQ technique. The distance between the X and Y chromosome was measured from centromere to centromere. The spatial distance between X and Y was significantly smaller when...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dosik D,Verma RS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sedaghatian-type spondylometaphyseal dysplasia (SSMD) is a neonatal lethal form of spondylometaphyseal dysplasia characterised by severe metaphyseal chondrodysplasia with mild limb shortening, platyspondyly, cardiac conduction defects, and central nervous system abnormalities. As part of the FORGE Canada Con...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Smith AC,Mears AJ,Bunker R,Ahmed A,MacKenzie M,Schwartzentruber JA,Beaulieu CL,Ferretti E,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Majewski J,Bulman DE,Celik FC,Boycott KM,Graham GE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of primary lymphoedema with distichiasis is well recognised, but that the form of lymphoedema appears restricted to bilateral hyperplasia, as defined by lymphography, has not been reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dale RF

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an autosomal dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome predisposing to retinal and central nervous system haemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma, and phaeochromocytoma. VHL disease shows variable expression and interfamilial differences in predisposition to phaeochromocytoma. In a pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Maher ER,Webster AR,Richards FM,Green JS,Crossey PA,Payne SJ,Moore AT

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A marker chromosome is defined as a structurally abnormal chromosome that cannot be identified by routine cytogenetics. The risk for phenotypic abnormalities associated with a marker chromosome depends on several factors, including inheritance, mode of ascertainment, chromosomal origin, and the morphology, c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Graf MD,Christ L,Mascarello JT,Mowrey P,Pettenati M,Stetten G,Storto P,Surti U,Van Dyke DL,Vance GH,Wolff D,Schwartz S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID) is a highly heterogeneous condition affecting 2% of the population worldwide. In a field study conducted in a highly inbred area of Northeastern Brazil, we investigated a consanguineous family in which seven adults presented syndromic ID. METHODS:Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Figueiredo T,Melo US,Pessoa AL,Nobrega PR,Kitajima JP,Correa I,Zatz M,Kok F,Santos S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DLG5 p.R30Q has been reported to be associated with Crohn disease (CD), but this association has not been replicated in most studies. A recent analysis of gender-stratified data from two case-control studies and two population cohorts found an association of DLG5 30Q with increased risk of CD in men but not ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Browning BL,Annese V,Barclay ML,Bingham SA,Brand S,Büning C,Castro M,Cucchiara S,Dallapiccola B,Drummond H,Ferguson LR,Ferraris A,Fisher SA,Gearry RB,Glas J,Henckaerts L,Huebner C,Knafelz D,Lakatos L,Lakatos PL,La

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Congenital heart defects are a major congenital abnormality and are assuming increasing importance. A study was undertaken to estimate the incidence of congenital heart defects in Northern Ireland over a five year period (1974-1978), to determine the age at diagnosis and to assess the risk of recurrence in sibs. An in...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hanna EJ,Nevin NC,Nelson J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report on the molecular defect underlying apolipoprotein CII (apoCII) deficiency in an Italian kindred. ApoCII serves as cofactor for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in triglyceride hydrolysis of chylomicrons and very low density lipoproteins. Homozygous apoCII deficiency manifests with type I hyperlipoprote...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tuzgöl S,Bijvoet SM,Bruin T,Kastelein JJ,Hayden MR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism has been well studied in the adult human population, in part because the e4 allele is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Little is known of the distribution of ApoE alleles in newborns, and their association with perinatal brain damage has not been investiga...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Becher JC,Keeling JW,McIntosh N,Wyatt B,Bell J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The families of 102 index patients with bladder exstrophy treated at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street were studied in an attempt to arrive at an empirical risk of recurrence for sibs. Of the 102 patients, 89 had complete exstrophy, eight had partial exstrophy (variant), and five had exstrophy of the...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ives E,Coffey R,Carter CO

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of genome wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays for high resolution molecular cytogenetic analysis using a combination of quantitative and genotype analysis is well established. This study demonstrates that by Mendelian analysis of the SNP genotypes of the parents and a sibling or other appropriate ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Handyside AH,Harton GL,Mariani B,Thornhill AR,Affara N,Shaw MA,Griffin DK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) type 2A has been shown to have a T to C missense mutation at nucleotide 547 of the VHL gene. This gives further support for the proposal to associate the 547 T to C mutation with phenotype VHL 2A. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen F,Slife L,Kishida T,Mulvihill J,Tisherman SE,Zbar B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) (MIM 119600) is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterised by abnormal clavicles, patent sutures and fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, short stature, and a variety of other skeletal changes. The disease gene has been mapped to chromosome 6p21 within a region containing CBFA1, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mundlos S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with juvenile proximal spinal muscular atrophy with dominant inheritance and complete penetrance is reported. The disease occurred in three generations and showed high variations in the age of onset and progression among the affected members. A characteristic feature was the constant involvement of facial nuc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cao A,Cainchetti C,Calisti L,Tangheroni W

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex and heterogeneous neurological condition characterised mainly by bradykinesia, resting tremor, rigidity and postural instability, symptoms that together comprise the parkinsonian syndrome. Non-motor symptoms preceding and following clinical onset are also helpful diagnostic marker...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zhang PL,Chen Y,Zhang CH,Wang YX,Fernandez-Funez P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first Scottish family with pycnodysostosis is reported. The clinical and radiological findings in the two affected men are recorded. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mills KL,Johnston AW

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a female case of orofaciodigital syndrome type I (OFD I) associated with polycystic kidneys and agenesis of the corpus callosum. She had chronic renal failure requiring maintenance dialysis and significant neurological deficits. Her mother had less severe OFD I associated with polycystic kidneys but her rena...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Connacher AA,Forsyth CC,Stewart WK

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1986, a population study of school children in the city of Coventry gave an overall prevalence in males and females for fragile X syndrome of 1/952. The 29 children diagnosed as having fragile X syndrome in this study have been re-evaluated with molecular diagnostic techniques. Eighteen of the original 29 children ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Morton JE,Bundey S,Webb TP,MacDonald F,Rindl PM,Bullock S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous reports cite high costs of clinical cancer genetic testing as main barriers to patient's willingness to test. We report findings of a pilot study that evaluates how different subsidy schemes impact genetic testing uptake and total cost of cancer management. METHODS:We included all patients who attende...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Li ST,Yuen J,Zhou K,Binte Ishak ND,Chen Y,Met-Domestici M,Chan SH,Tan YP,Allen JC Jr,Lim ST,Soo KC,Ngeow J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether, following predictive genetic testing for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), children or adults receiving positive results experience clinically significant levels of anxiety or depression, and whether children receiving positive results experience higher levels of anxiety or depression than...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Michie S,Bobrow M,Marteau TM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of pycnodysostosis with porencephaly and suggest an explanation for the porencephaly by a mechanism of imbalance between brain growth and its vascular supply and a normal but unopposed cerebrospinal fluid pressure. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Figueiredo J,Reis A,Vaz R,Leáo M,Cruz C

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented to support the recent suggestion that human neural tube closure is similar to that observed in mice, and comprises several regionally distinct closure sites rather than being a simple zipping up process. Seven subjects, each with more than one neural tube defect (NTD), are described. Comparative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Seller MJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and fifty pregnancies were monitored by transabdominal amniocentesis in the fourteenth to sixteenth week of gestation followed by karyotyping or biochemica assays of cultured amniotic fluid cells and analysis of alpha-fetoprotein in the amniotic fluid supernatant. The pregnancy was interrupted in 36 case...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Niermeijer MF,Sachs ES,Jahodova M,Tichelaar-Klepper C,Kleijer WJ,Galjaard H

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

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_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Farag TI,al-Awadi SA,Marafie MJ,Bastaki L,al-Othman SA,Mohammed FM,AlSuliman IS,Murthy DS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00