Three sisters with gonadoblastoma.

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：BACKGROUND:The mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) 3243A>G variant is the most common pathogenic variant of the mDNA. To interpret results of clinical trials in mitochondrial disease, it is important to have a clear understanding of the natural course of disease. To obtain more insight into the disease burden and the progression ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Laat P,Rodenburg RR,Roeleveld N,Koene S,Smeitink JA,Janssen MC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with accessory small ring chromosomes derived from chromosome 1 are presented together with additional clinical details and cytogenetic analyses of a previously reported patient. Cytogenetic analysis was undertaken by FISH using a reverse painting probe generated from one of the patients by microdissect...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Callen DF,Eyre H,Fang YY,Guan XY,Veleba A,Martin NJ,McGill J,Haan EA

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:The genetic causes of human idiopathic non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) with meiotic arrest remain unclear. METHODS:Two Chinese families with infertility participated in the study. In family 1, two brothers were affected by idiopathic NOA. In family 2, the proband was diagnosed with idiopathic NOA, and his...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yao C,Yang C,Zhao L,Li P,Tian R,Chen H,Guo Y,Huang Y,Zhi E,Zhai J,Sun H,Zhang J,Hong Y,Zhang L,Ji Z,Zhang F,Zhou Z,Li Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:​BACKGROUND: The clinical severity of disease in neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is variable. Patients affected with a constitutional truncating NF2 mutation have severe disease, while missense mutations or mosaic mutations present with a milder attenuated phenotype. Genotype-derived natural history data are important ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Halliday D,Emmanouil B,Pretorius P,MacKeith S,Painter S,Tomkins H,Evans DG,Parry A

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:We report a 13 year old boy with fragile X syndrome resulting from a de novo deletion of the FMR1 and FMR2 genes extending from (and including) DXS7536 proximally to FMR2 distally. The patient has severe developmental delay, epilepsy, and behavioural difficulties, including autistic features. He has epicanthic folds, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Moore SJ,Strain L,Cole GF,Miedzybrodzka Z,Kelly KF,Dean JC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome and enzyme determinations were performed in 250 pregnancies between the 7th and the 12th week of gestation. The majority of the tests were performed for risk of chromosomal abnormalities and 75% of the women were 35 years old or more. We describe a chorionic villi sampling (CVS) technique which proved to be...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brambati B,Simoni G,Danesino C,Oldrini A,Ferrazzi E,Romitti L,Terzoli G,Rossella F,Ferrari M,Fraccaro M

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：CONTEXT:In hereditary cancer syndrome families with an identified cancer associated mutation, mutation testing changes the carrier risk status of the tested person and may change the carrier risk status of relatives. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to describe the change in the distribution of carrier risk status resulting...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Watson P,Narod SA,Fodde R,Wagner A,Lynch JF,Tinley ST,Snyder CL,Coronel SA,Riley B,Kinarsky Y,Lynch HT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple vertebral segmentation defects occur in a group of conditions variably associated with anomalies of other organ systems. This report describes a female child in whom a deletion of chromosome 18 (18q22.2-->qter) is associated with congenital anomalies including multiple vertebral segmentation defects resemblin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dowton SB,Hing AV,Sheen-Kaniecki V,Watson MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BglII polymorphism near the constant region of the T cell receptor beta chain (TCR c beta) has been investigated in normal controls, patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and CF carriers. A significant increase was found in the frequency of the 10.0:9.2 kb heterozygous genotype in the CF carrier group (71%) as compa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： McMillan SA,Hill AJ,Graham CA,Nevin NC,Fay AC

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously mapped autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 16 to 3p26, overlapping with the locus of SCA15. Recently, partial deletions of ITPR1 and the neighbouring SUMF1 in the SCA15 and two additional families were reported. In the present study we determined the copy number of these genes by real ti...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Iwaki A,Kawano Y,Miura S,Shibata H,Matsuse D,Li W,Furuya H,Ohyagi Y,Taniwaki T,Kira J,Fukumaki Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the G-allele of MDM2 SNP309 (T/G) in the p53 tumour suppressor pathway can accelerate tumorigenesis and alter the risk of various cancers in women and not in men. In this report, data are presented from two independent groups of patients that suggest that the G-allele of SNP309 accelerat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bond GL,Menin C,Bertorelle R,Alhopuro P,Aaltonen LA,Levine AJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there have been several molecular studies of trisomic fetuses and liveborns which have examined the parent and meiotic stage of origin of nondisjunction. However, little is known about the possible phenotypic effects of the origin of trisomy. For trisomic spontaneous abortions, no distinct phenotype has been...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zaragoza MV,Millie E,Redline RW,Hassold TJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolidase deficiency (PD) is a rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in the prolidase gene. The PD patients show a wide range of clinical outcomes characterised mainly by intractable skin ulcers, mental retardation and recurrent respiratory infections. Here we describe five different ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lupi A,Rossi A,Campari E,Pecora F,Lund AM,Elcioglu NH,Gultepe M,Di Rocco M,Cetta G,Forlino A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with Gaucher's disease diagnosed in the United Kingdom and two obligate carriers, all of non-Jewish origin, were screened for the two common disease causing mutations and two rarer mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene. These mutations are referred to as N370S, L444P, Ins84G, and 1066 + 1G-->A, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Walley AJ,Barth ML,Ellis I,Fensom AH,Harris A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 64Cu incorporation into uncloned fibroblast cultures from 16 Menkes disease mothers and 19 first and second degree female relatives was examined. The mean incorporation for the Menkes disease mothers (36.2 +/- 3.6 SEM) differed significantly from that of 25 normal subjects (21.7 +/- 0.9 SEM) suggesting the presenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Horn N

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of 200 antenatal diagnoses in pregnancies at risk for homozygous beta-thalassaemia, carried out on fetal blood samples obtained by placental aspiration in the second trimester, are described. Globin chain synthesis in the fetuses was measured by means of 3H-leucine incorporation and separation of the chain...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cao A,Furbetta M,Angius A,Ximenes A,Rosatelli C,Tuveri T,Scalas MT,Falchi AM,Angioni G,Caminiti F

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which the father and three of his seven children have microcephaly, mild to moderate mental retardation, and sparse hair. The two affected boys have generalised seizures in addition. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： van Haeringen A,Hurst JA,Savidge R,Baraitser M

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：: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：:A case of severe craniosynostosis-radial aplasia (Baller-Gerold) syndrome is described in a newborn male, following a pregnancy complicated by polyhydramnios and intrauterine growth retardation. Death occurred after two hours owing to a prolonged apnoeic spell. Extensive agenesis of the frontal and parietal bones, res...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Van Maldergem L,Verloes A,Lejeune L,Gillerot Y

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:Intelligence levels and intelligence profiles were investigated in 52 members of a large family with the fragile X syndrome. The mental abilities were evaluated by the three Wechsler intelligence tests (WAIS, WISC-R, and WPPSI). Chromosomal and psychological data were then compared. In 22 non-retarded fra(X) negative ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Veenema H,Veenema T,Geraedts JP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Holoprosencephaly (HPE), the most common malformation of the human forebrain, may result from mutations in over 12 genes. Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) was the first such gene discovered; mutations in SHH remain the most common cause of non-chromosomal HPE. The severity spectrum is wide, ranging from incompatibility ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Solomon BD,Bear KA,Wyllie A,Keaton AA,Dubourg C,David V,Mercier S,Odent S,Hehr U,Paulussen A,Clegg NJ,Delgado MR,Bale SJ,Lacbawan F,Ardinger HH,Aylsworth AS,Bhengu NL,Braddock S,Brookhyser K,Burton B,Gaspar H,Gr

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The non-POU domain containing octamer-binding gene (NONO) is located on chromosome Xq13.1 and encodes a member of a small family of RNA-binding and DNA-binding proteins that perform a variety of tasks involved in RNA synthesis, transcriptional regulation and DNA repair. Loss-of-function variants in NONO have...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scott DA,Hernandez-Garcia A,Azamian MS,Jordan VK,Kim BJ,Starkovich M,Zhang J,Wong LJ,Darilek SA,Breman AM,Yang Y,Lupski JR,Jiwani AK,Das B,Lalani SR,Iglesias AD,Rosenfeld JA,Xia F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X linked (IPEX, OMIM 304790) is a rare, recessive disorder resulting in aggressive autoimmunity and early death. Mutations in FOXP3 have been identified in 13 of 14 patients tested. Research in the mouse model, scurfy, suggests that autoimmunity may stem from a lac...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wildin RS,Smyk-Pearson S,Filipovich AH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in technology have led to a massive expansion in the capacity for genomic analysis, with a commensurate fall in costs. The clinical indications for genomic testing have evolved markedly; the volume of clinical sequencing has increased dramatically; and the range of clinical professionals involved in the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Garrett A,Callaway A,Durkie M,Cubuk C,Alikian M,Burghel GJ,Robinson R,Izatt L,Talukdar S,Side L,Cranston T,Palmer-Smith S,Baralle D,Berry IR,Drummond J,Wallace AJ,Norbury G,Eccles DM,Ellard S,Lalloo F,Evans DG,W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00