Cytogenetic and clinical characteristics of a case involving complete duplication of Xpter-->Xq13.

abstract：:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is characterised by hundreds of colorectal adenomas. Endocrine neoplasms have occasionally been reported, as have gastric polyps, which are usually hamartomatous in the fundus of the stomach and adenomatous in the antrum. A 57 year old man with colorectal, gastric, and periampullar...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kartheuser A,Walon C,West S,Breukel C,Detry R,Gribomont AC,Hamzehloei T,Hoang P,Maiter D,Pringot J,Rahier J,Khan PM,Curtis A,Burn J,Fodde R,Verellen-Dumoulin C

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:We report a new case of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome with a hypoplastic right kidney, persistent pulmonary hypertension, and mitral valve regurgitation. Other pertinent features included broad thumbs, broad big toes, syndactyly of the third and fourth fingers bilaterally, beaked nose, broad columella of the nose, patent ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kanjilal D,Basir MA,Verma RS,Rajegowda BK,Lala R,Nagaraj A

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Newfoundland kindred in which ocular albinism and deutan colour blindness are segregating provides strong evidence against the loci for these two X-borne characters being within direct measurable distance of each other. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pearce WG,Sanger R

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three sisters and their father with a reciprocal balanced translocation, rcp t(8;11)(q24.3;p15.1) and the same abnormal phenotypes, including mental retardation, growth disturbance, and amblyopia. It is considered that the abnormal phenotypes in our four cases might result from a tiny deletion or gene mutati...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sato H,Takaya K,Nihira S,Fujita H

更新日期：1989-10-01 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

authors： Evers-Kiebooms G,Cassiman JJ,van den Berghe H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence in a family of an isolated case of an autosomal dominant disorder with reduced penetrance presents a difficult problem in genetic counselling. It is shown that in such a situation the risk of recurrence in subsequent offspring is given by: (formula; see text) where P is the penetrance (0 less than P les...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Emery AE

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late onset Huntington's disease is characterised by onset of symptoms after the age of 50 and is usually associated with a milder course. We have analysed the CAG trinucleotide repeat within the HD gene in 133 late onset patients from 107 extended families. The median upper allele size for the CAG repeat was 42 with a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kremer B,Squitieri F,Telenius H,Andrew SE,Theilmann J,Spence N,Goldberg YP,Hayden MR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lethal short rib polydactyly syndromes (SRP type I-IV) are characterised by notably short ribs, short limbs, polydactyly, multiple anomalies of major organs, and autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Among them, SRP type II (Majewski; MIM 263520) is characterised by short ovoid tibiae or tibial agenes...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： El Hokayem J,Huber C,Couvé A,Aziza J,Baujat G,Bouvier R,Cavalcanti DP,Collins FA,Cordier MP,Delezoide AL,Gonzales M,Johnson D,Le Merrer M,Levy-Mozziconacci A,Loget P,Martin-Coignard D,Martinovic J,Mortier GR,Perez MJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most commonly reported phenotypes described in patients with PTEN mutations are Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome (BRRS), with childhood onset, macrocephaly, lipomas and developmental delay, and Cowden Syndrome (CS), an adult-onset condition recognised by mucocutaneous signs, with a risk of cancers, in p...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lachlan KL,Lucassen AM,Bunyan D,Temple IK

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schneckenbecken dysplasia (SBD) is an autosomal recessive lethal skeletal dysplasia that is classified into the severe spondylodysplastic dysplasias (SSDD) group in the international nosology for skeletal dysplasias. The radiological hallmark of SBD is the snail-like configuration of the hypoplastic iliac bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Furuichi T,Kayserili H,Hiraoka S,Nishimura G,Ohashi H,Alanay Y,Lerena JC,Aslanger AD,Koseki H,Cohn DH,Superti-Furga A,Unger S,Ikegawa S

更新日期：2009-08-01 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

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is one of the most common inherited disorders with an incidence of 1 in 3000. The search for NF1 mutations has been hampered by the overall size of the gene, the large number of exons, and the high mutation rate. To date, fewer than 90 mutations have been reported to the NF1 mutation analysis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Upadhyaya M,Maynard J,Osborn M,Huson SM,Ponder M,Ponder BA,Harper PS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DYNC1H1 encodes the heavy chain protein of the cytoplasmic dynein 1 motor protein complex that plays a key role in retrograde axonal transport in neurons. Furthermore, it interacts with the LIS1 gene of which haploinsufficiency causes a severe neuronal migration disorder in humans, known as classical lissenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willemsen MH,Vissers LE,Willemsen MA,van Bon BW,Kroes T,de Ligt J,de Vries BB,Schoots J,Lugtenberg D,Hamel BC,van Bokhoven H,Brunner HG,Veltman JA,Kleefstra T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Usher syndrome type I is an autosomal recessive disease characterised by congenital sensorineural deafness, involvement of the vestibular system, and progressive visual loss owing to retinitis pigmentosa. Here we report the association of this disease with bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and reduced nasal mucocilia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bonneau D,Raymond F,Kremer C,Klossek JM,Kaplan J,Patte F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprechaunism is a rare autosomal recessive disorder associated with extreme insulin resistance with paradoxical hypo-glycaemia. It is characterised by prenatal and postnatal growth retardation, reduced subcutaneous tissue, coarse features, acanthosis nigricans, enlarged genitalia, and death in the first year of life....

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： al-Gazali LI,Khalil M,Devadas K

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (Hurler's syndrome) was diagnosed in an 18 week old fetus of a woman with 1 affected child by direct assay of glycosaminoglycans in amniotic fluid. Subsequently the fetus was aborted by hysterotomy and diagnosis was confirmed by analyzing glycosaminoglycans in fetal liver, electron microg...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Crawfurd M,Dean MF,Hunt DM,Johnson DR,MacDonald RR,Muir H,Wright EA,Wright CR

更新日期：1973-06-01 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

authors： Scott RH,Douglas J,Baskcomb L,Nygren AO,Birch JM,Cole TR,Cormier-Daire V,Eastwood DM,Garcia-Minaur S,Lupunzina P,Tatton-Brown K,Bliek J,Maher ER,Rahman N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart-hand syndromes are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterised by the association of congenital cardiac disease and limb deformities. Laminopathies are a group of diseases caused by mutations in the LMNA gene encoding A-type lamins. RESULTS:We report a new LMNA mutation (c.1609-12T>G, IVS...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Renou L,Stora S,Yaou RB,Volk M,Sinkovec M,Demay L,Richard P,Peterlin B,Bonne G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18 month old girl with dysmorphic features, severe developmental delay, multiple strawberry naevi, and capillary naevi is described. No previous report of a similar association of features has been identified. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Upton CJ,Young ID

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for linkage has been sought, in four pedigrees with Crouzon syndrome, between polymorphic markers known to be linked to the Saethre-Chotzen locus on 7p and another form of autosomal dominant craniosynostosis on 5q. The data we present exclude Crouzon syndrome as an allelic variant at either of these known cra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Reardon W,van Herwerden L,Rose C,Jones B,Malcolm S,Winter RM

更新日期：1994-03-01 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

authors： Spier I,Drichel D,Kerick M,Kirfel J,Horpaopan S,Laner A,Holzapfel S,Peters S,Adam R,Zhao B,Becker T,Lifton RP,Perner S,Hoffmann P,Kristiansen G,Timmermann B,Nöthen MM,Holinski-Feder E,Schweiger MR,Aretz S

更新日期：2016-03-01 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

authors： Chandavasu O,Desposito F

更新日期：1986-02-01 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

authors： Vijayalaxmi,Emery AE,Evans HJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a pleiotropic disorder with 14 BBS genes identified. BBS1, BBS2, BBS4, BBS5, BBS7, BBS8, and BBS9 form a complex called the BBSome, which is believed to recruit Rab8(GTP) to the primary cilium and promote ciliogenesis. The second group, the chaperonin-like proteins BBS6, BBS10, and B...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Billingsley G,Bin J,Fieggen KJ,Duncan JL,Gerth C,Ogata K,Wodak SS,Traboulsi EI,Fishman GA,Paterson A,Chitayat D,Knueppel T,Millán JM,Mitchell GA,Deveault C,Héon E

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Noël S,Balériaux D,Telerman-Toppet N

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common missense mutation in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene, a C to T substitution at nucleotide 677, is responsible for reduced MTHFR activity and associated with modestly increased plasma homocysteine concentrations. Since underlying maternal vascular disease increases the risk of pre-eclampsi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sohda S,Arinami T,Hamada H,Yamada N,Hamaguchi H,Kubo T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-syndromic X linked mental retardation (MRX) is a heterogeneous group of conditions in which all patients have mental retardation as the only constant phenotypic feature. We have identified a female patient with mental retardation and a balanced translocation involving chromosomes X and 21, t(X;21)(p11.2;q22.3). Ph...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lossi AM,Laugier-Anfossi F,Depetris D,Gecz J,Gedeon A,Kooy F,Schwartz C,Mattei MG,Croquette MF,Villard L

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00