Mutation detection in FGFR2 craniosynostosis syndromes.

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：:A locus, LP, that determines quantitative variation of Lp(a) lipoprotein phenotypes is linked to the plasminogen (PLG) locus (peak lod score = 12.73). This linkage relationship assigns a locus with alleles that have an affect on risk for coronary artery disease to the long arm of chromosome 6. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Weitkamp LR,Guttormsen SA,Schultz JS

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several studies have demonstrated familial aggregation of nonsyndromic cleft palate (CP), the mode of inheritance still remains uncertain. We report the results of complex segregation analysis performed in families of 357 consecutive newborns affected with nonsyndromic CP (i.e., CP not a component feature of ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Clementi M,Tenconi R,Forabosco P,Calzolari E,Milan M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium-dependent hypocalcaemia (HSH), a rare inherited disease, is caused by selective disorders of magnesium absorption. Both X-linked and autosomal recessive modes of inheritance have been reported for HSH; this suggests a genetically heterogeneous condition. A balanced de novo t(X;9)(p22;q12) translocation has b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Chery M,Biancalana V,Philippe C,Malpuech G,Carla H,Gilgenkrantz S,Mandel JL,Hanauer A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is a known inverse predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD) and is thus a potential therapeutic target. Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) is a key protein in HDL-C metabolism such that elevated CETP activity is associated with lower HDL-C. Currently available HDL-C...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： McCaskie PA,Beilby JP,Chapman CM,Hung J,McQuillan BM,Thompson PL,Palmer LJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:A case of trisomy 6p21 leads to 6pter resulting from a maternal balanced t(2;6)(p25;p21) translocation is reported. The main clinical abnormalities were psychomotor retardation, hypotrophy, blepharophimosis, nystagmus, high nasal bridge, small mouth, sacral dimple, and systolic murmur. Other anomalies might have been ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bernheim A,Berger R,Vaugier G,Thieffry JC,Matet Y

更新日期：1979-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta F508 mutation and cystic fibrosis (CF) haplotypes with the markers KM19, pMP6d-9 and J3.11 are described in 54 adult British CF patients. delta F508 was found on 70% of all CF chromosomes, on none of the normal chromosomes and on only 37.5% of pancreatic sufficient CF chromosomes. All patients with meconium ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santis G,Osborne L,Knight R,Ramsay M,Williamson R,Hodson M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial long QT syndrome (LQTS) is characterized by prolonged ventricular repolarization. Clinical symptoms include recurrent syncopal attacks, and sudden death may occur as a result of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Three genes responsible for this syndrome (KVLQT1, HERG, and SCN5A) have been identified so far, and m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Itoh T,Tanaka T,Nagai R,Kamiya T,Sawayama T,Nakayama T,Tomoike H,Sakurada H,Yazaki Y,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted on the feasibility of isolating genes and pseudogenes that map to chromosome 13 by a hybridization-based approach using a 13-specific library and pools of repeat-free cDNA clones. Five pairs of cDNA and chromosome 13 genomic clones were identified and characterized. Partial or full-length sequenc...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Fatima Bonaldo M,Jelenc P,Su L,Lawton L,Yu MT,Warburton D,Soares MB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular phenylalanine and tyrosine was determined in lymphocytes of 10 heterozygotes (parents) for PKU and in 26 randomly collected apparently normal persons. In cells from the heterozygotes the concentrations of both phenylalanine and tyrosine were higher than in those from the normals, the difference being sta...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Thalhammer O,Lubec G,Königshofer H

更新日期：1979-07-18 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：:Bone size (BS) is one of the major risk factors for osteoporotic fractures. BS variation is genetically determined to a substantial degree with heritability over 50%, but specific genes underlying variation of BS are still largely unknown. To identify specific genes for BS in Chinese, initial genome-wide association s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lei SF,Shen H,Yang TL,Guo Y,Dong SS,Xu XH,Deng FY,Tian Q,Liu YJ,Liu YZ,Li J,Deng HW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-stained cells from 49 parents with a history of several abortions were compared with cells from 35 parents with normal liveborn children. The modal and mean number of silver-stained NORs (Ag-NORs) observed on D- or G-group chromosomes was similar in both groups and between males and females. Ag-NORs were random...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ray M,Pearson J

更新日期：1979-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) deficiency causes a variety of neuromuscular and non-neuromuscular disorders in childhood and adulthood and can theoretically undergo either a nuclear or a mitochondrial (mt) mode of inheritance, making genetic counseling in COX deficiency particularly hazardous. In an attempt to determine t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Parfait B,Percheron A,Chretien D,Rustin P,Munnich A,Rötig A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents some characteristics of the population genetics of primary congenital glaucoma in Slovakia. The overall incidence in Slovakia is 1:10,500, while being 1:1,250 in the Gypsy subpopulation of Slovakia and 1:22,000 in the non-Gypsy population. For a special type of congenital primary glaucoma, transmit...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Gencik A,Gencikova A,Ferák V

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible influence of the fragile X mutation at Xq27 on the expression of the neighbouring gene (at Xq26) for hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) was studied by determination of the levels of HPRT-RNA and HPRT enzyme activity in fibroblast cell cultures from 7 fragile X patients. These levels were lower...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Steen AM,Marcus S,Sahlén S,Nielsen KB,Lambert B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is introduced for simultaneously using multiple loci to estimate admixture and test goodness of fit of the model of admixture. Deviation of observed frequencies from expectation caused by sources of error such as sampling and/or drift is allowed for all loci in all populations. This allows investigation of th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wijsman EM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is caused by a variety of underlying defects. Approximately 40% of cases are thought to be of the X-linked type (SCIDX1), which is phenotypically characterised by the absence, or very low numbers, of T cells, but normal or even high B cell numbers. The gene responsible for SCIDX...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Jones AM,Clark PA,Katz F,Genet S,McMahon C,Alterman L,Cant A,Kinnon C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonucleases have been recently proved to be active on fixed chromosomes, thus they are useful in chromatin structure studies. Within this class of enzymes, Alu I is able to detect the presence and localization of highly repetitive DNA sequences in human and in other mammalian and dipteran species. In thi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： De Stefano GF,Romano E,Ferrucci L

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predisposing genetic defect in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 has been assigned to chromosomal region 11q13. Our previous attempts to identify the MEN1 gene have resulted in the isolation of the phospholipase C beta 3 gene from the actual region. PLCB3 plays an important role in signal transduction and, moreo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Weber G,Grimmond S,Lagercrantz J,Friedman E,Phelan C,Carson E,Hayward N,Jacobovitz O,Nordenskjöld M,Larsson C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine fibroids (UFs) affect 77 % of women by menopause and account for $9.4 billion in yearly healthcare costs. We recently replicated findings from the first UF genome-wide association study (GWAS), conducted in the Japanese. Here we tested these GWAS-discovered SNPs for association with UF characteristics to furth...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Edwards TL,Hartmann KE,Velez Edwards DR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A familial t(X;2) (p223;q323) is responsible for partial trisomy 2q in the proposita, a 3-year-old girl with severe mental retardation and hypotrophia. It is present in the balanced state in the mother, two daughters, and one son. X-replication was studied after BUDR incroporation and acridine orange staining. The rep...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Turleau C,Chavin-Colin F,de Grouchy J,Repessé G,Beauvais P

更新日期：1977-06-10 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 describe a 17-month-old infant with clinical features of Down syndrome and a normal karyotype by standard chromosomal analysis, her two uncles aged 28 and 30 years, respectively, with reduced intelligence and unusual appearance but not apparent Down syndrome, and a severely retarded 6-year-old girl with dysmorphy a...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bartsch O,Hinkel GK,Petersen MB,König U,Bugge M,Mikkelsen M,Avramopoulos D,Morris M,Antonarakis SE

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the pathogenesis of ovarian dysgenesis in individuals with abnormalities such as 45,X Turner syndrome, trisomy 13, and trisomy 18, we have examined microscopically the ovaries of 36 infants with a number of chromosomal abnormalities confirmed by karyotype analysis. All infants with trisomy 13, tri...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cunniff C,Jones KL,Benirschke K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the CLCA gene family of calcium-activated chloride channels is a modulator of the basic defect of cystic fibrosis (CF), an association study was performed with polymorphic microsatellite markers covering a 40-Mbp region spanning the CLCA gene locus on human chromosome 1p in CF patients displaying ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ritzka M,Stanke F,Jansen S,Gruber AD,Pusch L,Woelfl S,Veeze HJ,Halley DJ,Tümmler B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors strongly influence risk of common human diseases and treatment outcomes but the causative variants remain largely unknown; this gap has been called the 'missing heritability'. We propose several hypotheses that in combination have the potential to narrow the gap. First, given a multi-stage path from we...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Sadee W,Hartmann K,Seweryn M,Pietrzak M,Handelman SK,Rempala GA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the defective gene locus in seven Caucasian families with the Romano-Ward form of long QT syndrome (LQT) has been mapped to chromosome 11p. To understand the molecular basis of LQT in Chinese, a three-generation family was investigated. Fourteen family members were studied and five individuals were diagnosed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ko YL,Chen SA,Tang TK,Lin JL,Chiang CE,Chen JJ,Teng MS,Chang MS,Lien WP,Wu CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility affects 10% of reproductive-age women and is extremely heterogeneous in etiology. The genetic contribution to female infertility is incompletely understood, and involves chromosomal and single-gene defects. Our aim in this study is to decipher single-gene causes in infertile women in whom endocrinological,...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Maddirevula S,Awartani K,Coskun S,AlNaim LF,Ibrahim N,Abdulwahab F,Hashem M,Alhassan S,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00