Two new mutations in the sterol 27-hydroxylase gene in two families lead to cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.

abstract：:A unique two allele polymorphism for both HpaII and SmaI is described in the second intron of the human atrial natriuretic peptide gene. It should be a useful marker of this candidate gene in familial susceptibility to hypertension. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ramasawmy R,Kotea N,Lu C,Sayada C,Baligadoo S,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various genetic loci harboring oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and genes for calcium receptors have been implicated in the development of parathyroid tumors. We have carried out loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies in chromosomes 1p, 1q, 3q, 6q, 11q, 13q, 15q, and X in a total of 89 benign parathyroid tumors. Of th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Farnebo F,Teh BT,Dotzenrath C,Wassif WS,Svensson A,White I,Betz R,Goretzki P,Sandelin K,Farnebo LO,Larsson C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested DNA probes directly labeled by fluorescently labeled nucleotides (Cy3-dCTP, Cy5-dCTP, FluorX-dCTP) for high resolution uni- and multicolor detection of human chromosomes and analysis of centromeric DNA organization by in situ hybridization. Alpha-satellite DNA probes specific to chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 4 + 9, 5...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yurov YB,Soloviev IV,Vorsanova SG,Marcais B,Roizes G,Lewis R

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Lesch-Nyhan disease is a neurogenetic disorder caused by mutation of the HPRT1 gene on the X chromosome. There is significant variation in the clinical phenotype, with more than 300 different known mutations. There are few studies that have addressed whether similar mutations result in similar phenotypes across differ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sampat R,Fu R,Larovere LE,Torres RJ,Ceballos-Picot I,Fischbach M,de Kremer R,Schretlen DJ,Puig JG,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hereditary disease with excess mortality such as haemophilia is maintained in the population by the occurrence of new cases, i.e. mutations. In haemophilia, mutations may arise in female or male ancestors of a 'new' patient. The ratio of the mutation frequencies in males over females determines the prior risk of car...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rosendaal FR,Bröcker-Vriends AH,van Houwelingen JC,Smit C,Varekamp I,van Dijck H,Suurmeijer TP,Vandenbroucke JP,Briët E

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic interventions that lower LDL-cholesterol effectively reduce the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, statins, the most widely prescribed LDL-cholesterol lowering drugs, increase diabetes risk. We used genome-wide association study (GWAS) data in the public domain to investigate the relationship ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tragante V,Asselbergs FW,Swerdlow DI,Palmer TM,Moore JH,de Bakker PIW,Keating BJ,Holmes MV

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common complex neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. It develops with autoimmune inflammation and demyelination. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) serve as a powerful tool for investigating the genetic architecture of MS and are generally used to identify the genet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bashinskaya VV,Kulakova OG,Boyko AN,Favorov AV,Favorova OO

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate molecular and clinical aspects of conotruncal anomaly face (CAF), we studied the correlation between deletion size and phenotype and the mode of inheritance in 183 conotruncal anomaly face syndrome (CAFS) patients. Hemizygosity for a region of 22ql1.2 was found in 180 (98%) of the patients with CAFS by ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Matsuoka R,Kimura M,Scambler PJ,Morrow BE,Imamura S,Minoshima S,Shimizu N,Yamagishi H,Joh-o K,Watanabe S,Oyama K,Saji T,Ando M,Takao A,Momma K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) were studied and subgroups of cases with similar chromosomal abnormalities in terminal stage were defined. Certain correlations were observed between the type of chromosomal changes, and clinical and morphologic manifestations of the disease: (1) It seems that, in cases wi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prigogina EL,Fleischman EW,Volkova MA,Frenkel MA

更新日期：1978-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to analyze DNA methylation profiling at the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) locus, in order to determine whether abnormal DNA methylation is involved in the development of schizophrenia. We recruited a total of 371 patients with paranoid schizophrenia (199 males and 172 females) and 288 unrelated ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chen Y,Zhang J,Zhang L,Shen Y,Xu Q

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined unfertilised oocytes and their first polar bodies (PBs) to determine the way in which the frequency of whole chromosome imbalance compares with that involving single chromatids and whether the precocious separation of chromatids prior to anaphase I affects all pairs of chromosomes. We have applied the...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mahmood R,Brierley CH,Faed MJ,Mills JA,Delhanty JD

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fragile sites 2q13, 12q13, and 17p12 were found in one family. In the index case, who was first investigated in 1969 for low birth weight and bilateral inguinal hernia, three tissues were examined, blood, marrow, and skin. Three of the family have been reinvestigated after 17 years. Cultures for sister chromatid...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Romain DR,Columbano-Green LM,Smythe RH,Parfitt RG,Gebbie OB,Chapman CJ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness in the world. A number of mutations in the myocilin gene have been identified that predispose to glaucoma. The most frequent of these is the Glutamine368STOP (Q368STOP) mutation. It has been postulated that individuals with the Q368STOP mutation are de...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Baird PN,Craig JE,Richardson AJ,Ring MA,Sim P,Stanwix S,Foote SJ,Mackey DA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal studies of the bone marrow and cultured peripheral blood cells in a 42-year-old female with the clinical and laboratory features typical for CML revealed a previously undescribed variant translocation involving chromosomes 12 and 22. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： van der Blij-Philipsen M,Breed WP,Hustinx TW

更新日期：1977-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) region on chromosome 5q13 contains an inverted duplication of about 500 kb, and deleterious mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene cause SMA, a common lethal childhood neuropathy. We have used a number of approaches to probe the evolutionary history of these genes and sh...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rochette CF,Gilbert N,Simard LR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five samples of chorionic villi from women undergoing prenatal diagnosis at 8 to 12 weeks' gestation were subjected to cytogenetic analysis. Samples were prepared by a direct technique that permits limited analysis within two hours and by a short-term culture technique that permits detailed structural analysis ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vekemans MJ,Perry TB

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：: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 size and position of the heterochromatic regions of chromosome 9 were examined in a group of women with histories of recurrent miscarriage and a control group of fertile women. Measurements were made on whole chromosomes (variability between chromosomes was taken to reflect differences in heterochromatin), and cor...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ford JH,Callen DF,Jahnke AB,Roberts CG

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new polymorphism upstream of the gene for monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), an important enzyme in human physiology and behavior. The polymorphism, which is located 1.2 kb upstream of the MAOA coding sequences, consists of a 30-bp repeated sequence present in 3, 3.5, 4, or 5 copies. The polymorphism is in link...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sabol SZ,Hu S,Hamer D

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymorphic BamHI site was located in the coding region of the human T cell receptor delta gene TCRDV2. Two alleles defined by the absence or the presence of the BamHI site were detected by the polymerase chain reaction. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zhang XM,Lefranc MP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutual correction of co-cultivated fibroblasts from patients with Hunter's and Hurler's syndrome could be inhibited by either fructose 1-phosphate or mannose 6-phosphate. In the presence of fructose 1-phosphate a 50% mixture of fibroblasts from a patient with Hunter's syndrome and a normal homozygous individual showed...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tønnesen T,Lykkelund C,Güttler F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most commonly inherited renal diseases. ADPKD is a genetically heterogeneous disorder involving at least three different genes. PKD1, the major locus mapped to chromosome 16p13.3 accounts for approximately 85% of ADPKD cases. The search for mutations i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Perrichot RA,Mercier B,Simon PM,Whebe B,Cledes J,Ferec C

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a Tsp509I polymorphism in the 3' UTR of the human tyrosinase related protein-1 gene (TYRP). TYRP is one of several genes involved in melanin pigment production. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wildenberg SC,King RA,Oetting WS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders in white populations. Significant regional differences in CF mutations among affected individuals have been reported. We have studied the geographic distribution of the relative frequencies of the three most common Dutch CF mutations, deltaF5...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Collée JM,de Vries HG,Scheffer H,Halley DJ,ten Kate LP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By screening patients with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa for mutations in the rhodopsin gene, two deletions (8 bp and 1 bp) have been identified in exon 5; these deletions cause a shift in the reading frame. The predicted proteins should be radically altered with translation continuing past the normal stop s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Horn M,Humphries P,Kunisch M,Marchese C,Apfelstedt-Sylla E,Fugi L,Zrenner E,Kenna P,Gal A,Farrar J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia retardation associated with chromosome16 (ATR-16 syndrome) is defined as a contiguous gene syndrome resulting from haploinsufficiency of the alpha-globin gene cluster and genes involved in mental retardation (MR). To date, only few cases have been described which result from pure monosomy for a delet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Harteveld CL,Kriek M,Bijlsma EK,Erjavec Z,Balak D,Phylipsen M,Voskamp A,di Capua E,White SJ,Giordano PC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex of a conceptus at the early embryonic state was diagnosed in 1000 induced abortions. Specimens were obtained from women who terminated their pregnancies within 12 menstrual weeks on socio-economic indications. By making use of the triple checking procedures, such as the karyotypic analysis of Giemsa-stained sl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yamamoto M,Ito T,Watanabe GI

更新日期：1977-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variations (CNVs) have provided a dynamic aspect to the apparently static human genome. We have analyzed CNVs larger than 100 kb in 477 healthy individuals from 26 diverse Indian populations of different linguistic, ethnic and geographic backgrounds. These CNVRs were identified using the Affymetrix 50K Xba...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gautam P,Jha P,Kumar D,Tyagi S,Varma B,Dash D,Mukhopadhyay A,Indian Genome Variation Consortium.,Mukerji M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00