Geographic homogeneity and non-equilibrium patterns of mtDNA sequences in Tuscany, Italy.

abstract：:The Tai-Kadai (TK) language family is thought to have originated in southern China and spread to Thailand and Laos, but it is not clear if TK languages spread by demic diffusion (i.e., a migration of people from southern China) or by cultural diffusion, with native Austroasiatic (AA) speakers switching to TK languages...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kutanan W,Kampuansai J,Srikummool M,Kangwanpong D,Ghirotto S,Brunelli A,Stoneking M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Silver-stained cells from 49 parents with a history of several abortions were compared with cells from 35 parents with normal liveborn children. The modal and mean number of silver-stained NORs (Ag-NORs) observed on D- or G-group chromosomes was similar in both groups and between males and females. Ag-NORs were random...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ray M,Pearson J

更新日期：1979-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous analysis of mtDNA variation in the Caucasus found that Indo-European-speaking Armenians and Turkic-speaking Azerbaijanians were more closely related genetically to other Caucasus populations (who speak Caucasian languages) than to other Indo-European or Turkic groups, respectively. Armenian and Azerbaijania...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nasidze I,Sarkisian T,Kerimov A,Stoneking M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise control of gene expression programs is crucial for the establishment of the diverse gene activity patterns required for the correct development, patterning and differentiation of the myriad of cell types within an organism. The crucial importance of non-coding regions of the genome in the control of gene r...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bhatia S,Kleinjan DA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a developmental disorder caused by a deficiency of paternal contributions, arising from differently sized deletions, uniparental disomy or rare imprinting mutations, in the chromosome region 15q11-q13. We studied 41 patients with suspected PWS and their parents using cytogenetic and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kokkonen H,Kähkönen M,Leisti J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help unravel some of the early Eurasian steppe migration movements, we determined the Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial haplotypes and haplogroups of 26 ancient human specimens from the Krasnoyarsk area dated from between the middle of the second millennium BC. to the fourth century AD. In order to go further in the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Keyser C,Bouakaze C,Crubézy E,Nikolaev VG,Montagnon D,Reis T,Ludes B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone size (BS) is one of the major risk factors for osteoporotic fractures. BS variation is genetically determined to a substantial degree with heritability over 50%, but specific genes underlying variation of BS are still largely unknown. To identify specific genes for BS in Chinese, initial genome-wide association s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lei SF,Shen H,Yang TL,Guo Y,Dong SS,Xu XH,Deng FY,Tian Q,Liu YJ,Liu YZ,Li J,Deng HW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lod scores are reported for 86 biochemical to cytogenetic marker comparisons in Black kindred. Analysis with unconfirmed locus assignments resulted in 12 exclusions of close linkage. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Fogle TA,Namboodiri KK,Elston RC,McKenzie WH,Hames CG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type I is a generalized connective tissue disorder, the major manifestations of which are soft, velvety hyperextensible skin and moderately severe joint hypermobility. The gene defect or defects causing EDS type I have not yet been defined, but previous observations suggested that the synd...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sokolov BP,Prytkov AN,Tromp G,Knowlton RG,Prockop DJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report in the literature of siblings affected with Down syndrome; one sibling had a nondisjunction of chromosome 21 and the other a (21q;21q) translocation. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Der Kaloustian VM,Masri R,Khudr A,Talj F,Libbus B,Nabulsi M,Khouri FP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Databases of disease-associated or disease-causing mutations allow the study, not only of the molecular mechanisms underlying the primary lesions at the DNA level, but also of the functional consequences of mutation at the phenotypic level. The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) and the bioinformatics analyses of its...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Knecht C,Krawczak M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of short and long arm anomalies of chromosome 1 was investigated in 55 colorectal tumors comprising 41 carcinomas and 14 adenomas. The tumors were at various stages of transformation from adenoma to carcinoma. Our investigation was prompted by the observation of a p32-pter deletion on the short arm of...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Couturier-Turpin MH,Esnous C,Louvel A,Poirier Y,Couturier D

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DP loci that were significantly correlated with outcomes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. We performed a case-control study nested in a well-characterized cohort of booster recipients to a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wu TW,Chu CC,Ho TY,Chang Liao HW,Lin SK,Lin M,Lin HH,Wang LY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked hydrocephalus (HSAS) is the most common form of inherited hydrocephalus characterized by hydrocephalus due to stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius, mental retardation, clasped thumbs, and spastic paraparesis. MASA syndrome (mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait and adducted thumbs) and SPG1 (X-linked com...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Takechi T,Tohyama J,Kurashige T,Maruta K,Uyemura K,Ohi T,Matsukura S,Sakuragawa N

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 1218 Chinese from twelve ethnic groups and nine Han geographic groups were screened for the mtDNA 9-bp deletion motif. The frequency of the 9-bp deletion in all samples was 14.7% but ranged from 0% to 32% in the various ethnic groups. Three individuals had a triplication of the 9-bp segment. Phylogenetic and...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yao YG,Watkins WS,Zhang YP

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper observations are summarized and speculations discussed, and it is suggested that some loci on the distal short arm of the X chromosome (Xp) are not randomly inactivated in the female, because they are within the proximal part of the pairing segment between Xp and Yp. This peculiarity of gene expression m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Polani PE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that a defect of the interleukin common gamma subunit (gamma c) in X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) previously known as a missense mutation resulted instead in exon skipping in a Japanese XSCID patient. The phenotype of the patient was consistent with that of typical XSCID, and his Epst...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kanai N,Yanai F,Hirose S,Nibu K,Izuhara K,Tani T,Kubota T,Mitsudome A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of exfoliated epithelial cells containing micronuclei was determined in two small human populations, one homozygous and the other heterozygous for the Bloom syndrome gene (bl). The objectives of the study were two: to learn whether the chromosome instability featured so prominently by Bloom syndrome (BS)...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rosin MP,German J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the segregation of the red blood cell determinant Xg in 12 families with X-linked inheritance of agammaglobulinemia (XLA) in 3-4 generations suggested linkage of Xg with XLA. One extensive pedigree of a Dutch family with XLA in eight generations was investigated for Xg and the quantitative polymorphism 12E7...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mensink EJ,Schot JD,Tippett P,Ott J,Schuurman RK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid sulfatase activities are significantly higher in placentas obtained after the birth of girls than after the birth of boys, and also in female fibroblasts compared to male strains. This constitutes biochemical evidence for the non-inactivation of the X-linked sulfatase locus. No hydrolytic activity is found in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bedin M,Weil D,Fournier T,Cedard L,Frezal J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The red (RCP) and green (GCP) color pigment genes are located in Xq28, a chromosomal region implicated in many genetic disorders. The restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) we describe here will be useful for linkage analysis in these disorders. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vits L,Willems PJ

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The centromeric regions of cattle, goat and sheep chromosomes bind anti-5-MeC as revealed by immunofluorescence technique, indicating concentration of 5-MeC at these heterochromatic regions. The centromere of the submetacentric X of cattle remains nearly unstained and so do the centromeres of the acrocentric X chromos...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schnedl W,Erlanger BF,Miller OJ

更新日期：1976-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic isolates provide unprecedented opportunities to identify pathogenic mutations and explore the full natural history of clinically heterogeneous phenotypes such as hearing loss. We noticed a unique audioprofile, characterized by prelingual and rapid deterioration of hearing thresholds at frequencies >0.5 kHz in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pater JA,Benteau T,Griffin A,Penney C,Stanton SG,Predham S,Kielley B,Squires J,Zhou J,Li Q,Abdelfatah N,O'Rielly DD,Young TL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human females, both X chromosomes are equivalent in size and genetic content, and pairing and recombination can theoretically occur anywhere along their entire length. In human males, however, only small regions of sequence identity exist between the sex chromosomes. Recombination and genetic exchange is restricted...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rappold GA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The karyotypes of more than 60 species of Primates are studied and compared, with the use of almost all existing banding techniques. There is a very close analogy of chromosome banding between the Simians studied and man. The quantitative or qualitative variations detected all involve the heterochromatin. It is very l...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1979-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes contain 5-methylcytosine (5mC) as a rare base.5mC arises by postsynthetic modification of cytosine and occurs, at least in animals, predominantly in the dinucleotide CpG. The base is not distributed randomly in these genomes but conforms to a pattern. This pattern varies between taxa but appears to ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WT1 gene is normally expressed during gonadal development and specific mutations in heterozygous form cause Drash syndrome, characterized by male pseudohermaphroditism and gonadal dysgenesis, renal failure and a predisposition for Wilms' tumour. These observations prompted us to test whether WT1 mutations are invo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nordenskjöld A,Fricke G,Anvret M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified technique has been developed for the visualization of the chromosomes in human sperm. The cytogenetic analysis of 129 G-banded human sperm metaphases of 6 normal donors showed an incidence of structural and numerical chromosome abnormalities of 7.8%. Two out of 129 spermatozoa were aneuploid (1.6%). The fre...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jenderny J,Röhrborn G

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic study of esterase D in 1027 mother-child pairs showed an atypical segregation of EsD alleles in one pair. The family analysis confirmed the evidence of a 'silent' gene (EsD0), which was observed in child, mother and grandfather. R banding of the metaphasal chromosomes revealed the normal appearance of ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kozioł P,Stepien J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00