Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism and pre-eclampsia.

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：:The beta thalassaemia alleles in 50 beta thalassaemia heterozygotes originating from many parts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been characterised using the allele specific priming technique of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The IVSI-5 (G-->C) mutation was found to be present in 66%, while six other allel...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Quaife R,al-Gazali L,Abbes S,Fitzgerald P,Fitches A,Valler D,Old JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1986, a population study of school children in the city of Coventry gave an overall prevalence in males and females for fragile X syndrome of 1/952. The 29 children diagnosed as having fragile X syndrome in this study have been re-evaluated with molecular diagnostic techniques. Eighteen of the original 29 children ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Morton JE,Bundey S,Webb TP,MacDonald F,Rindl PM,Bullock S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late onset Huntington's disease is characterised by onset of symptoms after the age of 50 and is usually associated with a milder course. We have analysed the CAG trinucleotide repeat within the HD gene in 133 late onset patients from 107 extended families. The median upper allele size for the CAG repeat was 42 with a...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kremer B,Squitieri F,Telenius H,Andrew SE,Theilmann J,Spence N,Goldberg YP,Hayden MR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple genes have been provisionally associated with Alzheimer's disease, including the coding polymorphisms in exons 8 and 13 in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR), situated on chromosome 19p13.2. METHODS:The sample groups consisted of 180 AD patients and 141 control spouses. We carried out...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Cheng D,Huang R,Lanham IS,Cathcart HM,Howard M,Corder EH,Poduslo SE

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular characterisation of chromosomal aberrations in Xp22.3 has established the map position of several genes with mutations resulting in diverse phenotypes such as short stature (SS), chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX), mental retardation (MRX), ichthyosis (XLI), and Kallmann syndrome (KAL). We describe the cli...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Meindl A,Hosenfeld D,Brückl W,Schuffenhauer S,Jenderny J,Bacskulin A,Oppermann HC,Swensson O,Bouloux P,Meitinger T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In phenylketonuria, genetic heterogeneity, frequent compound heterozygosity, and the lack of functional data for phenylalanine hydroxylase genotypes hamper reliable phenotype prediction and individualised treatment. METHODS:A literature search revealed 690 different phenylalanine hydroxylase genotypes in 30...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Danecka MK,Woidy M,Zschocke J,Feillet F,Muntau AC,Gersting SW

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limb development is a complex process requiring proper spatio-temporal expression of a network of limb specific morphogens. Grem1 and Fmn1 play an important role in mouse and chick limb development. The mouse limb deformity (ld) phenotype with digit reduction, syndactyly, radio-ulnar synostosis, variable ren...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dimitrov BI,Voet T,De Smet L,Vermeesch JR,Devriendt K,Fryns JP,Debeer P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of Campbell and Price in 1979 that their Unit had diagnosed four subjects with both Klinefelter's syndrome and congenital hypothyroidism raised the suspicion of an association between the two conditions. This, and the published reports of an XX male, five XXY males, and one mosaic XY/XXY with congenita...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Sarri C,Côté GB,Mengreli C,Lambadaridis I,Pantelakis S

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18 month old girl with dysmorphic features, severe developmental delay, multiple strawberry naevi, and capillary naevi is described. No previous report of a similar association of features has been identified. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Upton CJ,Young ID

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:We have performed an extensive analysis of TP53 in 474 French families suggestive of Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), including 232 families fulfilling the Chompret criteria. We identified a germline alteration of TP53 in 82 families (17%), in 67/232 of the families fulfilling the Chompret criteria (29%) and in 15/242 whic...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bougeard G,Sesboüé R,Baert-Desurmont S,Vasseur S,Martin C,Tinat J,Brugières L,Chompret A,de Paillerets BB,Stoppa-Lyonnet D,Bonaïti-Pellié C,Frébourg T,French LFS working group.

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the detection of a heterozygous deletion at chromosome 12q14 in three unrelated patients with a similar phenotype consisting of mild mental retardation, failure to thrive in infancy, proportionate short stature and osteopoikilosis as the most characteristic features. In each case, this interstitia...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Menten B,Buysse K,Zahir F,Hellemans J,Hamilton SJ,Costa T,Fagerstrom C,Anadiotis G,Kingsbury D,McGillivray BC,Marra MA,Friedman JM,Speleman F,Mortier G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cohen syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with a complex phenotype including psychomotor retardation, microcephaly, obesity with slender extremities, joint laxity, progressive chorioretinal dystrophy/myopia, intermittent isolated neutropenia, a cheerful disposition, and characteristic facial feat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rivera-Brugués N,Albrecht B,Wieczorek D,Schmidt H,Keller T,Göhring I,Ekici AB,Tzschach A,Garshasbi M,Franke K,Klopp N,Wichmann HE,Meitinger T,Strom TM,Hempel M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sisters with gonadoblastoma and an 46,XY karyotype are presented. This observation suggests that heredity may play an important role in the genesis of the tumour. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ionescu B,Maximilian C

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XHED) affects many epithelial functions, including sweat gland formation. Female carriers who manifest XHED may have defective dentition or a patchy distribution of sweating or both, as determined by starch and iodine sweat testing. Such sweat testing can be useful in assign...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Clarke A,Burn J

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costovertebral dysplasia comprises multiple malformations of the vertebrae and ribs, with a characteristic clinical picture of short trunk dwarfism, short neck, scoliosis, and rib cage deformity. We describe two sibs with the syndrome who are presumed to represent the autosomal recessive form of the disorder. One sib ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： David TJ,Glass A

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the locus encoding the major cartilage collagen gene (COL2A1) was studied in a total of 19 cases of achondroplasia. No gross rearrangements were seen. The segregation of COL2A1 was examined in three affected kindreds using restriction site and length variants as genetic markers. In two kindreds discor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ogilvie D,Wordsworth P,Thompson E,Sykes B

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:A unique connective tissue disorder characterised by the triad of dentinogenesis imperfecta, blue sclerae, and multiple wormian bones has been identified in 20 members of three generations of a large kindred of mixed ancestry in South Africa. The skeletons of affected subjects were moderately osteoporotic but, apart f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Beighton P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal dominant disorder characterised by the development of bony protuberances mainly located on the long bones. Three HME loci have been mapped to chromosomes 8q24 (EXT1), 11p11-13 (EXT2), and 19p (EXT3). The EXT1 and EXT2 genes encode glycosyltra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Francannet C,Cohen-Tanugi A,Le Merrer M,Munnich A,Bonaventure J,Legeai-Mallet L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene-targeting studies in mice have revealed a key role for EVI1 protein in the maintenance of haematopoiesis, and argue in favour of a gene dosage requirement for EVI1 in the regulation of haematopoietic stem cells. Furthermore, a fusion transcript of MDS1 and EVI1 has been shown to play a critical role in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nielsen M,Vermont CL,Aten E,Ruivenkamp CA,van Herrewegen F,Santen GW,Breuning MH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Warfarin is a mainstay of therapy for conditions associated with an increased risk of thromboembolic events. However, the use of this common agent is fraught with complications and little is known regarding inter-individual variation in warfarin response. OBJECTIVE:We tested for association between single n...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Li T,Lange LA,Li X,Susswein L,Bryant B,Malone R,Lange EM,Huang TY,Stafford DW,Evans JP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Girls and women with Turner syndrome are at risk for catastrophic aortic dissection and rupture, but the clinical profile for those at risk is not well described. In addition to reporting two new cases, we performed an electronic search to identify all reported cases of aortic dissection associated with Turner syndrom...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carlson M,Silberbach M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of chromosome aberrations in the lymphocytes of three established heterozygotes for the Bloom's syndrome gene (ages 67, 57, 46) was compared to that in controls (ages 68, 67, 61, 46, 34). The main part of the study was done on coded slides. No difference was found between the heterozygotes and the contro...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kuhn EM,Therman E

更新日期：1979-06-01 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：:Usher syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by retinitis pigmentosa and congenital sensorineural hearing loss. A gene for Usher syndrome type II (USH2) has been localised to chromosome 1q32-q41. DNA from a family with four of seven sibs affected with clinical characteristics of Usher syndrome type ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pieke Dahl S,Kimberling WJ,Gorin MB,Weston MD,Furman JM,Pikus A,Möller C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult polycystic kidney disease (APKD) is a common genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Recent reports show that, in some families, the APKD gene shows close genetic linkage to two chromosome 16 specific genetic markers. We have been conducting a genetic linkage study using 29 polymorphic...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Watson ML,Wright AF,Macnicol AM,Allan PL,Clayton JF,Dempster M,Jeremiah SJ,Corney G,Hopkinson DA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Submicroscopic subtelomeric chromosome defects have been found in 7.4% of children with moderate to severe mental retardation and in 0.5% of children with mild retardation. Effective clinical preselection is essential because of the technical complexities and cost of screening for subtelomere deletions. MET...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： de Vries BB,White SM,Knight SJ,Regan R,Homfray T,Young ID,Super M,McKeown C,Splitt M,Quarrell OW,Trainer AH,Niermeijer MF,Malcolm S,Flint J,Hurst JA,Winter RM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory chain complex I deficiency represents a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases resulting from mutations in mitochondrial or nuclear genes. Mutations have been reported in 13 of the 14 subunits encoding the core of complex I (seven mitochondrial and six nuclear genes) and these result in Leigh or Leigh...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bénit P,Slama A,Cartault F,Giurgea I,Chretien D,Lebon S,Marsac C,Munnich A,Rötig A,Rustin P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00