Mutational spectrum in the neurofibromatosis type 2 gene in sporadic and familial schwannomas.

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：:The identification of a novel CYP2D6 allele from a healthy Caucasian poor metabolizer was achieved by using a previously described polymerase chain reaction/single-strand conformation polymorphism strategy. Among the four point mutations that this allele carries, a missense mutation in exon 1 (212 G-->A or D6-H) seems...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Marez D,Legrand M,Sabbagh N,Lo-Guidice JM,Boone P,Broly F

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation studies of steroid sulphatase were carried out in the heterokaryon population of fibroblasts derived from patients with X-linked ichthyosis and multiple sulphatase deficiency. The activity of steroid sulphatase of the fused cell population was constantly higher (approximately 2-5 fold) than that of the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ballabio A,Parenti G,Napolitano E,Di Natale P,Andria G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herlitz disease (H-JEB), the lethal form of junctional epidermolysis bullosa, is a rare genodermatosis presenting from birth with widespread erosions and blistering of skin and mucosae because of tissue cleavage within the epidermal basement membrane. Mutations in any of the three genes encoding the alpha3, beta3 and ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mühle C,Jiang QJ,Charlesworth A,Bruckner-Tuderman L,Meneguzzi G,Schneider H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalised lymphatic dysplasia (GLD) is characterised by extensive peripheral lymphoedema with visceral involvement. In some cases, it presents in utero with hydrops fetalis. Autosomal dominant and recessive inheritance has been reported. A large, non-consanguineous family with three affected siblings with generalise...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Connell F,Kalidas K,Ostergaard P,Brice G,Homfray T,Roberts L,Bunyan DJ,Mitton S,Mansour S,Mortimer P,Jeffery S,Lymphoedema Consortium.

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a linkage study in a four-generation autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) family of Dutch ancestry. The family shows a clinically and genetically distinct form of ADCA. This neurodegenerative disorder manifests in the family as a relatively mild ataxia syndrome with some additional characteristic sym...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Verbeek DS,Schelhaas JH,Ippel EF,Beemer FA,Pearson PL,Sinke RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PAX2 is a member of the PAX multigene family encoding transcription factors active in specific tissues during embryogenesis. Several PAX/Pax genes (PAX and Pax describe homologous genes in human and mice, respectively) have been shown to possess critical morphogenetic functions as identified by the analysis of mice ta...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tavassoli K,Rüger W,Horst J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the matrilineal genetic composition of the Madeira and Açores north Atlantic archipelagos, which were settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century. Both archipelagos, and particularly Madeira, were involved in a complex commercial network established by the Portuguese, which included the trading of sl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brehm A,Pereira L,Kivisild T,Amorim A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase is an important antioxidant enzyme that detoxifies H2O2 into oxygen and water and thus limits the deleterious effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Because chronic exposure to excess ROS may contribute to vascular damage, we investigated whether genetic variation in catalase was associated with susceptibi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jiang Z,Akey JM,Shi J,Xiong M,Wang Y,Shen Y,Xu X,Chen H,Wu H,Xiao J,Lu D,Huang W,Jin L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DyeDeoxy terminator cycle sequencing of allele-specific polymerase chain reaction products has shown that there is a highly polymorphic d(AAAAT) pentanucleotide repeat within the first intron of the human p53 gene. This provides a genetic marker for tumor suppressor p53 gene alterations. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hahn M,Fislage R,Pingoud A

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic segregation of chromosomes 14 and 21 in sperm from a 14;21 Robertsonian translocation carrier was analyzed with dual-color FISH using two locus-specific DNA probes (Tel 14q and LSI 21). The frequency of normal or chromosomally balanced sperm, resulting from alternate segregation, was 88.42%. The frequency of u...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Honda H,Miharu N,Samura O,He H,Ohama K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibs with apparent Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen (DMC) dwarfism and normal intelligence are described. Three other familial and 3 sporadic cases with DMC dwarfism and normal intelligence are known. Twelve familial and 9 sporadic cases are known with the usual combination of DMC dwarfism and severe mental retardation. Since ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Spranger J,Bierbaum B,Herrmann J

更新日期：1976-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of complete trisomy 5p due to a de novo translocation t(2;5)(q36;p11) with an isochromosome 5p is described. Complete trisomy 5p has been reported only once (Brimblecombe et al., 1977). The confusing literature relating to partial trisomy 5p is reviewed. Comparison of our case with the patients reported by Brim...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Leschot NJ,Lim KS

更新日期：1979-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of a balanced 1;17 translocation with breakpoints located in the secondary constriction of chromosome 1. This translocation is associated with pathological symptoms similar to those observed following a proximal deletion of 1q. We request contact with colleques who have observed similar, or r...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vorsanova SG,Yurov YB,Kurbatov MB,Kazantzeva LZ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 gene product is part of a pathway regulating growth arrest at the G1 checkpoint of the cell cycle. Mutation of other components of this pathway, including the products of the ataxia telangiectasia (AT), GADD45, mdm2, and p21WAF1/CIP1 genes may have effects comparable to mutations in the p53 gene. The GADD45 ge...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Blaszyk H,Hartmann A,Sommer SS,Kovach JS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to map the gene that is responsible for the DNA-repair defect in severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mice, a mixture of microcells independently isolated from mouse A9 cells containing pSV2neo-tagged human chromosomes 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 18 or 20 were fused with SCID fibroblast cell lines SCVA2 and SCVA4,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kurimasa A,Nagata Y,Shimizu M,Emi M,Nakamura Y,Oshimura M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to viral bronchiolitis, the commonest cause of infant admissions to hospital in the industrialised world, is associated with polymorphism at the IL8 locus. Here we map the genomic boundaries of the disease association by case-control analysis and TDT in 580 affected UK infants. Markers for association m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hull J,Rowlands K,Lockhart E,Sharland M,Moore C,Hanchard N,Kwiatkowski DP

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated. Thirty-five per cent of mutations were found to have occurred within CpG dinucleotides. Over 90% of these mutations were C----T or G----A transitions, which thus occur within coding regions at a frequency 42-f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Youssoufian H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system with putative autoimmune aetiology and complex genetic background. Here, we report the results of a genome screen for linkage disequilibrium (LD) by using 6000 microsatellite markers in 198 HLA-DRB1*15-positive MS patients and 198 unrela...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Goedde R,Sawcer S,Boehringer S,Miterski B,Sindern E,Haupts M,Schimrigk S,Compston A,Epplen JT

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage data for familial incontinentia pigmenti (IP2) and nine X chromosomal markers are reported. Previously found linkage between IP2 and the DXS52 locus is confirmed with the maximum lod score of 6.19 at a recombination fraction of 0.03. Linkage is also established with loci DXS134, DXS15 and DXS33. Multipoint ana...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sefiani A,M'rad R,Simard L,Vincent A,Julier C,Holvoet-Vermaut L,Heuertz S,Dahl N,Stalder JF,Peter MO

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC) is characterised by radiological, neurological, cognitive and psychiatric abnormalities. The associations between these abnormal phenotypes and abnormal genes remain unclear despite the recent mapping to chromosome 14q of a susceptibility locus for IBGC ( IBGC1). We identi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Brodaty H,Mitchell P,Luscombe G,Kwok JJ,Badenhop RF,McKenzie R,Schofield PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female child with mild dysmorphisms, motor and mental retardation had a 45,XX,-8,-8,+psu dic(8)(p23.3) karyotype in blood lymphocytes, skin fibroblasts and in a lymphoblastoid cell line. DNA analysis showed that the proposita was nullisomic for the 8pter region distal to D8S264, at less than 1 cM from the telomere. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Piantanida M,Dellavecchia C,Floridia G,Giglio S,Hoeller H,Dordi B,Danesino C,Schinzel A,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic disease with complex genetic background. It is characterized by necrotizing granulomatous inflammation of the upper and lower respiratory tract, glomerulonephritis, vasculitis and the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmatic autoantibodies (C-ANCAs) in sera of patients. Here...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jagiello P,Gencik M,Arning L,Wieczorek S,Kunstmann E,Csernok E,Gross WL,Epplen JT

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reciprocal translocation involving chromosomes Nos. 3 and 22 has been found in a patient with seemingly Ph-negative chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). G-band analysis revealed, that deletion in No. 22 occurred at the same point, as in the typical cases of the disease. It was concluded, that breakage in No. 22 at a ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pravtcheva D,Andreeva P,Tsaneva R

更新日期：1976-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of 708 healthy blood donors and 563 patients affected with chronic obstructive lung disease (C.O.L.D.) respectively, have been screened for alpha1-antitrypsin (alpha1AT) variants by electrophoresis on agarose-polyacrylamide gels at pH 4.7 and isoelectric focusing (IEF). The frequencies of the Pi (Protease i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Klasen EC,Franken C,Volkers WS,Bernini LF

更新日期：1977-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed in order to gain information about the primary process leading to the production of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs). Radical-forming substances (hydroxylamine, hydrazine and the antituberculous drug isoniazid) were examined for their effectiveness in inducing SCEs. All three substances pro...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Speit G,Wick C,Wolf M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from a group of 265 Italian patients affected with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy a screening for duplications in the dystrophin gene was performed on 112 cases in which no deletions had previously been detected. The 21 intragenic duplications detected account for 7.9% of the total. Among these, one du...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Galvagni F,Saad FA,Danieli GA,Miorin M,Vitiello L,Mostacciuolo ML,Angelini C

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last Crypto-Jews (Marranos) are the survivors of Spanish Jews who were persecuted in the late fifteenth century, escaped to Portugal and were forced to convert to save their lives. Isolated groups still exist in mountainous areas such as Belmonte in the Beira-Baixa province of Portugal. We report here the genetic ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gerber S,Rozet JM,Takezawa SI,dos Santos LC,Lopes L,Gribouval O,Penet C,Perrault I,Ducroq D,Souied E,Jeanpierre M,Romana S,Frézal J,Ferraz F,Yu-Umesono R,Munnich A,Kaplan J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is characterized by a high risk of sarcomas, early onset of breast cancer, and a diversity of other cancers occurring as multiple primary tumors in multiple family members. In many families with LFS, germline mutations within the tumor-suppressor gene p53 have been identified. However, mutat...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Evans SC,Mims B,McMasters KM,Foster CJ,deAndrade M,Amos CI,Strong LC,Lozano G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00