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

abstract：:An association of ocular colobomata and congenital heart disease was observed in seven patients. Two of these were maternal half sisters whose mother also had ocular colobomata. All the patients had normal karyotypes. There was a high incidence of other associated abnormalities involving the central nervous, skeletal,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ho CK,Kaufman RL,Podos SM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an extended family with Li-Fraumeni syndrome characterised by gastric and breast carcinoma, glioma, sarcoma, and leukaemia. This family showed strong evidence of linkage to TP53, and three of four tumours analysed showed loss of the wild type allele. A codon 175 missense mutation was identified in exon 5 in...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Varley JM,McGown G,Thorncroft M,Tricker KJ,Teare MD,Santibanez-Koref MF,Martin J,Birch JM,Evans DG

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X mental retardation syndrome is caused by unstable expansion of a CGG repeat. Two main types of mutation have been categorised. Clinical expression is associated with the presence of the full mutation, while subjects who carry only a premutation do not have mental retardation. Premutations have a high ris...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Heitz D,Devys D,Imbert G,Kretz C,Mandel JL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are reported of patients with deletions of chromosome 5q. Both have familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and mild mental retardation. In both, macroscopic polyposis was confined to the proximal colon in adult life (in their thirties) although microscopic adenomatosis was shown in the more distal colon with o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hodgson SV,Coonar AS,Hanson PJ,Cottrell S,Scriven PN,Jones T,Hawley PR,Wilkinson ML

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:An apparently autosomal recessive syndrome of congenital renal tubular dysplasia and skull ossification defects is described in five infants from two separate, consanguineous, Pakistani Muslim kindreds. The clinical, pathological, and radiological features are similar to the phenotype associated with fetal exposure to...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kumar D,Moss G,Primhak R,Coombs R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vocabulary currently used to describe genetic variants and their consequences reflects many years of studying and discovering monogenic disease with high penetrance. With the recent rapid expansion of genetic testing brought about by wide availability of high-throughput massively parallel sequencing platforms, acc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Spurdle AB,Greville-Heygate S,Antoniou AC,Brown M,Burke L,de la Hoya M,Domchek S,Dörk T,Firth HV,Monteiro AN,Mensenkamp A,Parsons MT,Radice P,Robson M,Tischkowitz M,Tudini E,Turnbull C,Vreeswijk MP,Walker LC,Tavtigi

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultivated cells obtained by amniocentesis for antenatal diagnosis were examined for the presence of keratin filaments by immunofluorescent staining techniques. In primary cultures, cells in fibroblast type colonies do not possess keratin filaments whereas cells in epithelial type colonies show positive staining of ke...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chen WW

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been emphasised that a subset of patients with type 2 Gaucher disease die in the neonatal period. This report describes an Afghani family with two conceptuses having severe, prenatally detected Gaucher disease. Mutational analysis showed that the family carried a known complex allele which included mut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sidransky E,Tayebi N,Stubblefield BK,Eliason W,Klineburgess A,Pizzolato GP,Cox JN,Porta J,Bottani A,DeLozier-Blanchet CD

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing interest in the influence of host genetic factors on hepatic fibrosis, and whether genetic markers can reliably identify subjects at risk of developing severe disease. We hypothesised that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected subjects with progressive fibrosis, classified using strict criteri...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Richardson MM,Powell EE,Barrie HD,Clouston AD,Purdie DM,Jonsson JR

更新日期：2005-07-01 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

authors： Lalouel JM,Morton NE,MacLean CJ,Jackson J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 Gaucher disease families were studied in an attempt to establish a phenotype/genotype correlation in affected persons and also to identify carriers accurately. In the Portuguese type 1 Gaucher patients, screening for mutations N370S, L444P, R463C, and 1066 + 1 G-->A allowed the identification of 85% of the alle...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Amaral O,Fortuna AM,Lacerda L,Pinto R,Sa Miranda MC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13 year old girl was referred with congenital microcephaly, developmental delay, a prominent nose, highly arched palate, and an apparently low set left ear. She was found to have a pericentric inversion of one chromosome 7 and a ring chromosome 8, 46,XX,inv(7) (pter----p22::q11.23----p22::q11.23----qter), r(8) (p23q...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Verma RS,Conte RA,Pitter JH,Luke S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new case of postaxial acrofacial dysostosis (Miller) syndrome. This syndrome consists of mandibulofacial dysostosis, similar to that seen in Treacher Collins syndrome, and postaxial limb deficiency. The mode of inheritance remains uncertain. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Vigneron J,Stricker M,Vert P,Rousselot JM,Levy M

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a tumour predisposition syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. The condition is characterised by predisposition to benign leiomyomas of the skin and the uterus, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and uterine leiomyosar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lehtonen HJ,Kiuru M,Ylisaukko-Oja SK,Salovaara R,Herva R,Koivisto PA,Vierimaa O,Aittomäki K,Pukkala E,Launonen V,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 200 families were reviewed with directly transmitted, cytogenetically visible unbalanced chromosome abnormalities (UBCAs) or euchromatic variants (EVs). Both the 130 UBCA and 70 EV families were divided into three groups depending on the presence or absence of an abnormal phenotype in parents and offspring. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Barber JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl aged 14 years 9 months, overweight, with severe psychomotor retardation, short stature, a sheep-like face, malformed ears, skeletal and dermatoglyphic abnormalities, and partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 1 is presented. The karyotype was 46,XX,del(1)(qter to p22::p32 to pter). ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bene M,Duca-Marinescu A,Ioan D,Maximilian C

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cole-Carpenter syndrome (CCS) is commonly classified as a rare Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) disorder. This was following the description of two unrelated patients with very similar phenotypes who were subsequently shown to have a heterozygous missense mutation in P4HB. OBJECTIVES:Here, we report a 3-year ol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Balasubramanian M,Padidela R,Pollitt RC,Bishop NJ,Mughal MZ,Offiah AC,Wagner BE,McCaughey J,Stephens DJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recessive forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) may be caused by mutations in LEPRE1, encoding prolyl 3-hydroxylase-1 (P3H1) or in CRTAP, encoding cartilage associated protein. These proteins constitute together with cyclophilin B (CyPB) the prolyl 3-hydroxylation complex that hydroxylates the Pro986 residue...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willaert A,Malfait F,Symoens S,Gevaert K,Kayserili H,Megarbane A,Mortier G,Leroy JG,Coucke PJ,De Paepe A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the majority of patients, familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is caused by different mutations affecting the well defined low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene. However, 3% of patients in Munich with a clinical diagnosis of FH have a particular mutation in the apolipoprotein B gene causing familial defective...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Schuster H,Rauh G,Gerl C,Keller C,Wolfram G,Zöllner N

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensenbrenner syndrome is a heterogeneous ciliopathy that is characterised by skeletal and ectodermal anomalies, accompanied by chronic renal failure, heart defects, liver fibrosis and other features. OBJECTIVE:To identify an additional causative gene in Sensenbrenner syndrome. METHODS:Single nucleotide po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Arts HH,Bongers EM,Mans DA,van Beersum SE,Oud MM,Bolat E,Spruijt L,Cornelissen EA,Schuurs-Hoeijmakers JH,de Leeuw N,Cormier-Daire V,Brunner HG,Knoers NV,Roepman R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:World wide data on presymptomatic testing for Huntington's disease using closely linked DNA markers show that 1479 persons at risk received completed test results up to the end of 1991. Testing has been carried out in 19 countries, with at least 88 centres involved, and numbers have levelled off after a peak in 1990. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors：

更新日期：1993-12-01 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:Acrocallosal syndrome (ACLS) is a rare recessive disorder characterised by corpus callosum agenesis or hypoplasia, craniofacial dysmorphism, duplication of the hallux, postaxial polydactyly, and severe mental retardation. Recently, we identified mutations in KIF7, a key component of the Sonic hedgehog pathwa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Putoux A,Nampoothiri S,Laurent N,Cormier-Daire V,Beales PL,Schinzel A,Bartholdi D,Alby C,Thomas S,Elkhartoufi N,Ichkou A,Litzler J,Munnich A,Encha-Razavi F,Kannan R,Faivre L,Boddaert N,Rauch A,Vekemans M,Attié-Bitac

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary fibrosis is a complex disease for which the predisposing genetic variants remain unknown. In a prior study, susceptibility to bleomycin induced pulmonary fibrosis was mapped to loci Blmpf1 and Blmpf2 on chromosomes 17 and 11, respectively, in a C57BL/6J (B6, susceptible) and C3Hf/KAM (C3H, resistan...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Haston CK,Tomko TG,Godin N,Kerckhoff L,Hallett MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical phenotypes of females with fragile X full mutations vary drastically. Comparisons of discordant monozygotic twins provide opportunities to ascertain crucial factors that influence disease phenotype penetrance. OBJECTIVE:To identify crucial factors influencing the phenotypic expression of fragil...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Huang W,Luo S,Ou J,Zhu F,Xia Y,Xue J,Pan Q,Wu L,Duan R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Ravnan JB,Tepperberg JH,Papenhausen P,Lamb AN,Hedrick J,Eash D,Ledbetter DH,Martin CL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The m.8993T-->C MTATP6 mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) usually causes mitochondrial disease in childhood, but was recently described in a family with adult onset ataxia and polyneuropathy. Cytochrome c oxidase muscle histochemistry, which is the standard clinical investigation for mitochondrial disease in adults...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Craig K,Elliott HR,Keers SM,Lambert C,Pyle A,Graves TD,Woodward C,Sweeney MG,Davis MB,Hanna MG,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old boy with macrocephaly, communicating hydrocephalus, and mild hepatosplenomegaly was found to have mild Hunter syndrome (MPS II). Establishment of the latter diagnosis was complicated by the paucity of obvious physical findings because of the patient's young age and his ethnic origin. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yatziv S,Epstein CJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00