RDCI, the vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor: a candidate gene for the features of Albright hereditary osteodystrophy associated with deletion of 2q37.

abstract：:A boy presenting with an incomplete form of the acrocallosal syndrome is described. The syndrome shows clinical variability and it is stressed that none of the components is constant and facial dysmorphism is not always characteristic. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Turolla L,Clementi M,Tenconi R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical and physical properties of haemoglobin S derived from homozygotes for this haemoglobin in Sicily were examined, as well as some erythrocytic characteristics. Sicilian Hb S was identical to that found in USA black patients in electrophoretic mobility on both starch and citrate agar media, solubility, mecha...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roth EF Jr,Schiliro G,Russo A,Musumeci S,Rachmilewitz E,Neske V,Nagel R

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with suspected hereditary liability to pressure palsies. Neurophysiological studies showed a mixed axonal-demyelinating sensory-motor polyneuropathy with focal slowing of conduction velocities at the common sites of entrapment. Morphological studies on sural nerve biopsy from the proband showed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sessa M,Nemni R,Quattrini A,Del Carro U,Wrabetz L,Canal N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a boy with a maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 14 (UPD(14)). At 7 years of age he was referred to us by the paediatrician because of symptoms of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). He showed short stature, obesity, mild developmental delay, cryptorchidism, and some mild dysmorphic features. The history ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hordijk R,Wierenga H,Scheffer H,Leegte B,Hofstra RM,Stolte-Dijkstra I

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consensus clinical diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) include café-au-lait macules and skinfold freckling. The former are frequently the earliest manifestation of NF1, and as such are of particular significance when assessing young children at risk of the condition. A phenotype of predomi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Burkitt Wright EM,Sach E,Sharif S,Quarrell O,Carroll T,Whitehouse RW,Upadhyaya M,Huson SM,Evans DG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with speech delay and mild mental retardation (IQ 82) was found to have a complex double translocation involving four chromosomes and a total of five breakpoints, two being on the same arm. This resulted in the karyotype 46,XY,t(2;4;7)(7;8)(q14;q31;q11q22;q13). As far as the authors are aware this is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Couzin DA,Watt JL,Auchterlonie IA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which the mother's four pregnancies resulted in one spontaneous abortion, one healthy boy, and a male and female sib with developmental delay and multiple minor dysmorphic features. Chromosome analysis showed a large pericentric inversion of chromosome 10, involving the region between bands p1...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Roberts P,Williams J,Sills MA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine a gene locus for a family with a dominantly inherited vestibulocerebellar disorder characterised by early onset, but not congenital nystagmus. DESIGN:Observational and experimental study. METHODS:We carried out a phenotypic study of a unique four generation family with nystagmus. We performed gen...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ragge NK,Hartley C,Dearlove AM,Walker J,Russell-Eggitt I,Harris CM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various heteromorphisms of the 9q heterochromatic area have been reported. In most instances, the extra G positive band is accompanied by an extra C band. We describe a family where the extra G band is totally euchromatic and does not include an extra C band. It is not clear whether these two types of variant chromoso...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Knight LA,Soon GM,Tan M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a father and daughter with digital abnormalities, nasolacrimal duct obstruction, and variable alopecia. The father had a cleft lip and palate and the daughter had choanal atresia. We propose they both have the EEC syndrome and show the variable expressivity of this disorder. Choanal atresia has not been...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Christodoulou J,McDougall PN,Sheffield LJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aland Island eye disease (AIED) and X linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) have been mapped to Xp11.3. Patients have been described with deletions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene who also had a negative electroretinogram (ERG) similar to that seen in patients with CSNB and AIED. This seems...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jensen H,Warburg M,Sjö O,Schwartz M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of inherited retinal dystrophy, with a worldwide prevalence of 1 in 4000 persons. While in most cases of RP, the disease is limited to the eye (non-syndromic), over 40 forms of syndromic RP have been described. OBJECTIVES:To identify the genetic basis for sy...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tatour Y,Sanchez-Navarro I,Chervinsky E,Hakonarson H,Gawi H,Tahsin-Swafiri S,Leibu R,Lopez-Molina MI,Fernandez-Sanz G,Ayuso C,Ben-Yosef T

更新日期：2017-09-18 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：BACKGROUND:Results of a Scandinavian genome scan in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) have recently been reported. Among the novel, not previously reported chromosomal regions showing linkage to T1D was a region on chromosome 21. OBJECTIVE:To fine map this region on chromosome 21. METHODS AND RESULTS:The linked region w...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bergholdt R,Nerup J,Pociot F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male infant, partially trisomic for a small segment of chromosomes 6 and 22 resulting from a maternal translocation, is described. Comparison of the phenotypic features of the proband with those noted in partial 6p and partial 22 trisomies revealed some common features found in both chromosome anomalies but especial...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Scarbrough PR,Carroll AJ,Finley SC,Hamerick K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders represent a group of developmental disorders with strong genetic underpinnings. Several cytogenetic abnormalities or de novo mutations able to cause autism have recently been uncovered. In this study, the literature was reviewed to highlight genotype-phenotype correlations between causal gene...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lintas C,Persico AM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to relate the age at onset of Huntington's disease to parental factors, the effects of parental onset-age (Po) and the age of the transmitting parent at the birth of a subsequently affected child (Pc) have been examined in a sample of cases ascertained from Victorian kindreds. There was a significant pos...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brackenridge CJ,Teltscher B

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high prevalence of tobacco use in some developing nations, including Bangladesh, poses several public health challenges for these populations. Smoking behaviour is determined by genetic and environmental factors; however, the genetic determinants of smoking behaviour have not been previously examined in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Argos M,Tong L,Pierce BL,Rakibuz-Zaman M,Ahmed A,Islam T,Rahman M,Paul-Brutus R,Rahaman R,Roy S,Jasmine F,Kibriya MG,Ahsan H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are reported of patients with deletions of chromosome 5q. Both have familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and mild mental retardation. In both, macroscopic polyposis was confined to the proximal colon in adult life (in their thirties) although microscopic adenomatosis was shown in the more distal colon with o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hodgson SV,Coonar AS,Hanson PJ,Cottrell S,Scriven PN,Jones T,Hawley PR,Wilkinson ML

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several different missense mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel subunit gene SCN1A have been identified in epileptic patients with benign phenotype and patients with severe phenotype. However, the reason why similar missense mutations in SCN1A result in different phenotypes has not yet been fully cl...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kanai K,Yoshida S,Hirose S,Oguni H,Kuwabara S,Sawai S,Hiraga A,Fukuma G,Iwasa H,Kojima T,Kaneko S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently five patients with an Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO)-like phenotype were reported to have a subtelomeric deletion of the long arm of chromosome 2. These patients showed a striking resemblance to a number of patients from a large pedigree known to us for a long time. After molecular confirmation of a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bijlsma EK,Aalfs CM,Sluitjer S,Oude Luttikhuis ME,Trembath RC,Hoovers JM,Hennekam RC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A marker chromosome is defined as a structurally abnormal chromosome that cannot be identified by routine cytogenetics. The risk for phenotypic abnormalities associated with a marker chromosome depends on several factors, including inheritance, mode of ascertainment, chromosomal origin, and the morphology, c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Graf MD,Christ L,Mascarello JT,Mowrey P,Pettenati M,Stetten G,Storto P,Surti U,Van Dyke DL,Vance GH,Wolff D,Schwartz S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a retarded girl with strabismus, high arched palate, antimongoloid slant, low set ears, hearing loss, micrognathia, short neck, and an anteriorly displaced anus. She was found to have a de novo partial trisomy of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 15. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Herweijer TJ,Oorthuys JW,Leschot NJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a genetically male infant with impaired male sex development and partial 9p monosomy. The external genitalia were ambiguous with microphallus (penile length at birth 10 mm, mean age matched normal length 29 mm (SD 5)), hypospadias, and hypoplastic scrotum. The tests were undescended and severely h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogata T,Muroya K,Matsuo N,Hata J,Fukushima Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal akinesia refers to a broad spectrum of disorders in which the unifying feature is a reduction or lack of fetal movement. Fetal akinesias may be caused by defects at any point along the motor system pathway including the central and peripheral nervous system, the neuromuscular junction and the muscle, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ravenscroft G,Sollis E,Charles AK,North KN,Baynam G,Laing NG

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase activity was determined in serum, liver, and kidney in alloxan treated Swiss mice and in homozygous (Ob/Ob, Db/Db) and heterozygous (Ob/+, Db/m+) diabetic mice. Both alloxan and genetic diabetic mice exhibited a large increase in serum and liver trehalase activity with no change in kidney trehalase activity....

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Baumann FC,Boizard-Callais F,Labat-Robert J

更新日期：1981-12-01 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

abstract：:The LMNA gene gives rise to at least three isoforms (lamin A, C, lamin AΔ10) as a result of normal alternative splicing, regulated by cis- and trans-acting regulatory factors, as well as the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of the gene. The two main isoforms, lamin A and C, are constitutive components of the fibrous nuc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Luo YB,Mastaglia FL,Wilton SD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with developmental delay, mild dysmorphic features, and monosomy of 7q35. Only one other patient with an interstitial deletion of this band has been previously reported. A review of clinical features of these two children did not show similarities in dysmorphic features. Reports of patients with ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fagan K,Kennedy C,Roddick L,Colley A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progeroid syndromes are genetic disorders that recapitulate some phenotypes of physiological ageing. Classical progerias, such as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), are generally caused by mutations in LMNA leading to accumulation of the toxic protein progerin and consequently, to nuclear envelope ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Soria-Valles C,Carrero D,Gabau E,Velasco G,Quesada V,Bárcena C,Moens M,Fieggen K,Möhrcken S,Owens M,Puente DA,Asensio Ó,Loeys B,Pérez A,Benoit V,Wuyts W,Lévy N,Hennekam RC,De Sandre-Giovannoli A,López-Otín C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00