Rapid determination of polyploidy in human chorionic tissue sections.

abstract：:Given that a large number of candidate genes coding for a tendency toward obesity have been identified and some findings have been replicated, we explored characteristics of those who would be most likely to obtain future genetic testing for this tendency. During a series of focus groups, obese respondents rated their...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Segal ME,Polansky M,Sankar P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new biallelic polymorphism for FokI restriction enzyme due to C----T transition in the fourth intron of human DRD2 is described. It must be a usefull marker of this candidate gene for several mental disorders. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lu CY,Gérard N,Méreaux AG,Chaventré A,Joly JP,Elion J,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of survival motor neuron-1 (SMN1) is responsible for the development of the neurodegenerative disorder spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). A nearly identical copy of SMN1 is present on the same chromosomal region called SMN2. While SMN2 encodes a normal SMN protein, the majority of SMN2-derived transcripts are alt...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sakla MS,Lorson CL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptoglobin types were determined on 211 patients with leukemia of the four most common types: acute lymphatic (ALL), chronic lymphatic (CLL), acute myeloid (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Frequency distributions of the three common Hp types in patients differed significantly from the control population. A ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nevo S,Tatarsky I

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the frequency of an SstI polymorphism in 70 patients with chronic B-cell leukaemia (CLL) and 100 normal controls. There was a highly significant difference in the distribution of the three genotypes between the CLL patients and the normal controls (chi 2 = 13.46, 2 df, P < 0.001). The C2 allele was found mo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Crossen PE,Morrison MJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) mediates host resistance to severe malaria and other infectious diseases. NO production and mononuclear cell expression of the NO producing enzyme-inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) have been associated with protection from severe falciparum malaria. The purpose of this study was to identify sing...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Levesque MC,Hobbs MR,O'Loughlin CW,Chancellor JA,Chen Y,Tkachuk AN,Booth J,Patch KB,Allgood S,Pole AR,Fernandez CA,Mwaikambo ED,Mutabingwa TK,Fried M,Sorensen B,Duffy PE,Granger DL,Anstey NM,Weinberg JB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two reciprocal balanced translocations involving chromosomes 2, 9, 12, and 18 were found in the karyotype of a woman with a child showing several congenital malformations at birth. Prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis, performed when a second pregnancy occurred, showed a normal chromosome constitution in the foetus. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Simoni G,Montali E,Rossella F,Dalprà L,Lo Curto F

更新日期：1979-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion and truncation mutations in the X-linked gene CASK are associated with severe intellectual disability (ID), microcephaly and pontine and cerebellar hypoplasia in girls (MICPCH). The molecular origin of CASK-linked MICPCH is presumed to be due to disruption of the CASK-Tbr-1 interaction. This hypothesis, howev...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： LaConte LEW,Chavan V,Elias AF,Hudson C,Schwanke C,Styren K,Shoof J,Kok F,Srivastava S,Mukherjee K

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative red cell adenylate kinase (AK-1) assay has been used in 8 patients with partial duplication or deletion of chromosome 9 in an attempt to find the precise intrachromosomal location of the structural gene locus. All regions of chromosome 9 are represented in abnormal dosage in at least one patient. A 43% in...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ferguson-Smith MA,Aitken DA,Turleau C,de Grouchy J

更新日期：1976-09-10 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：:A slight increase in mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) has been reported in erythrocytes from human fragile X patients. As it is difficult to perform case-controlled studies in patients with fragile X syndrome, we studied MCH in erythrocytes from transgenic mice with an Fmr1 knockout. None of the knockout mice showed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Reyniers E,Van Bockstaele DR,De Boulle K,Kooy RF,Bakker CE,Oostra BA,Willems PJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genetic variants associated with refractive astigmatism in the general population, meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies were performed for: White Europeans aged at least 25 years (20 cohorts, N = 31,968); Asian subjects aged at least 25 years (7 cohorts, N = 9,295); White Europeans aged <25 yea...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Li Q,Wojciechowski R,Simpson CL,Hysi PG,Verhoeven VJ,Ikram MK,Höhn R,Vitart V,Hewitt AW,Oexle K,Mäkelä KM,MacGregor S,Pirastu M,Fan Q,Cheng CY,St Pourcain B,McMahon G,Kemp JP,Northstone K,Rahi JS,Cumberland PM,M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is reported in which the mother and two sons are carriers of a Y-to-X translocation, der (X)t(X;Y) (p22;q11). All the the three carriers have short stature and disproportion of extremities, but otherwise normal phenotype. One of the sons, the propositus, has been affected with schizophrenia. Evidence was obta...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yamada K,Nanko S,Hattori S,Isurugi K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of small peptides with a typical cysteine-rich domain (termed trefoil motif or P-domain) is abundantly expressed at mucosal surfaces of specific normal and neoplastic tissues. Their association with the maintenance of surface integrity was suggested. The first known human trefoil peptide (pS2) was isolated fro...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Beck S,Schmitt H,Shizuya H,Blin N,Gött P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a de novo supernumerary marker chromosome (SMC) poses problems in genetic counseling. The consequences of the additional chromosomal material may range from harmless to detrimental. As the composition of a SMC cannot be deciphered by traditional banding analysis, sophisticated methods are needed for th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Langer S,Fauth C,Rocchi M,Murken J,Speicher MR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An easy-to-use, simulation-based power calculator (ASP) for linkage analysis using sib-pair designs (concordant or discordant) has been developed and made publicly available via the Internet. The program employs a diallelic model for the trait locus, at which parental/offspring genotypes are simulated, assuming Hardy-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Krawczak M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopetrosis is the result of mutations affecting osteoclast function. Careful analyses of osteopetrosis have provided instrumental information on bone remodeling, including the coupling of bone formation to bone resorption. Based on a range of novel genetic mutations and the resulting osteoclast phenotypes, we discu...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Segovia-Silvestre T,Neutzsky-Wulff AV,Sorensen MG,Christiansen C,Bollerslev J,Karsdal MA,Henriksen K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peer behaviour plays an important role in the development of social adjustment, though little is known about its genetic architecture. We conducted a twin study combined with a genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA) and a genome-wide screen to characterise genetic influences on problematic peer behaviour during chi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： St Pourcain B,Haworth CM,Davis OS,Wang K,Timpson NJ,Evans DM,Kemp JP,Ronald A,Price T,Meaburn E,Ring SM,Golding J,Hakonarson H,Plomin R,Davey Smith G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the spread of X inactivation in an individual with an unbalanced 46,X,der(X)t(X;10)(q26.3;q23.3) karyotype. Despite being trisomic for the region 10q23.3-qter, both the proband and her aunt with the same karyotype presented only with secondary amenorrhoea and lacked any features normally associated wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sharp A,Robinson DO,Jacobs P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal age distribution of 45,X abortuses was significantly lower than that of chromosomally normal abortuses in two co-ordinated studies. One, carried out in Geneva, included 44 X-monosomic abortuses and the other, in Hiroshima, was based on 38 abortuses with a 45,X karyotype. It was deduced that 45,X conceptus...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kajii T,Ohama K

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage relationships to unassigned and provisionally assigned genetic markers were examined from 53 families segregating for various fragile sites. Fragile sites were at Xq27, 2q13, 6p23, 9p21, 9p32, 10q23, 10q25, 11q13, 11q23, 12q13 and 16p12. No new assignments were made but extensive exclusion data are presented f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mulley JC,Nicholls C,Sutherland GR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new procedure for determining the chromosomal origin of marker chromosomes has been carried out. The origin of marker chromosomes that were unidentifiable by standard banding techniques could be verified by reverse chromosome painting. This technique includes microdissection, followed by in vitro DNA amplification a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Viersbach R,Schwanitz G,Nöthen MM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae and is classified clinically into paucibacillary (PB) or multibacillary (MB) subtypes based on the number of skin lesions and the bacillary index detected in skin smears. We previously identified a major PB susceptibility locus on chromosome region 10p13 in Viet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Grant AV,Cobat A,Van Thuc N,Orlova M,Huong NT,Gaschignard J,Alter A,Ba NN,Thai VH,Abel L,Alcaïs A,Schurr E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome preparations from four subjects, one normal 46,XY male and three patients with different rearrangements of chromosome 11: 46,XX,del(11)(p11.2----p15.1), 46,XY,inv(11)(p13q24.2), and 46,XY,rec(11)inv(11)(p13q24.2) pat, were utilized for in situ hybridization studies with a tritium-labeled cDNA probe containi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Magenis RE,Donlon TA,Tomar DR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) from two unrelated black families were studied. The patients had prominent elliptocytosis and a decreased erythrocyte resistance to heat treatment. In one infant blood smears showed elliptocytosis and poikilocytosis; his erythrocytes fagmented at a lower temperature th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lecomte MC,Dhermy D,Garbarz M,Feo C,Gautero H,Bournier O,Picat C,Chaveroche I,Ester A,Galand C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major obstetric diseases, preeclampsia (PE), a pregnancy-induced endothelial dysfunction leading to hypertension and proteinuria, and intra-uterine growth-restriction (IUGR), a failure of the fetus to acquire its normal growth, are generally triggered by placental dysfunction. Many studies have evaluated gene expr...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ruano CSM,Apicella C,Jacques S,Gascoin G,Gaspar C,Miralles F,Méhats C,Vaiman D

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate genetic abnormalities in type I CD36 deficiency, we analyzed 28 Japanese subjects whose platelets and monocytes/macrophages lacked CD36 on their surface. We identified two novel mutations in the CD36 gene. One was a complex deletion/insertion mutation, in which 3 bp, GAG, were deleted at nucleotide (nt) 8...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kashiwagi H,Tomiyama Y,Nozaki S,Kiyoi T,Tadokoro S,Matsumoto K,Honda S,Kosugi S,Kurata Y,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins of three anodal Gc1 variants, Gc1A16, 1A11, and 1A17, are characterized by the most acidic isoelectric points observed so far among the different Gc mutants. Stepwise removal of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) by treatment with neuraminidase was performed to estimate the degree of sialilation of these Gc v...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Thymann M,Hoste B,Scheffrahn W,Constans J,Cleve H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that the genetic polymorphism of human serum orosomucoid (ORM) is controlled by polymorphic ORM1 and monomorphic ORM2 loci. In this study a Japanese family was encountered in which several members had puzzling electrophoretic patterns consisting of four bands. The ORM patterns were due to the ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yuasa I,Suenaga K,Umetsu K,Ito K,Robinet-Levy M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six alleles (36 alleles of Japanese and 60 of Caucasian origin) from forty-eight patients with mucopolysaccharidosis IVA were investigated for structural gene alterations using Southern blot analysis. All patients had a previously demonstrated deficiency of N-acetyl-galactosamine-6-sulfate-sulfatase and exhibit...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tomatsu S,Fukuda S,Cooper A,Wraith JE,Uchiyama A,Hori T,Nakashima Y,Yamada N,Sukegawa K,Kondo N

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00