cDNAs with long CAG trinucleotide repeats from human brain.

abstract：:The concept and role of endomitosis is reevaluated in the light of observations on three organisms. Endomitosis which morphologically agrees with Geitler's (1939) classical definition is compared in tapetal cells of the liliaceous plant Eremurus, in the septal cells of the testicular follicles of the grasshopper Melan...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Therman E,Sarto GE,Stubblefield PA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritability, the fraction of phenotypic variation explained by genetic variation, has been estimated for many phenotypes in a range of populations, organisms, and time points. The recent development of efficient genotyping and sequencing technology has led researchers to attempt to identify the genetic variants respo...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zaitlen N,Kraft P

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent observations that Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PGC1A) is responsible for the induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxifying agents and that ROS triggers insulin resistance, support the role that this gene could play in the onset of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bhat A,Koul A,Rai E,Sharma S,Dhar MK,Bamezai RN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the evolutionary history of the gene region containing the multifunctional adipose tissue hormone leptin, we genotyped 1,957 individuals from 12 world populations for a highly variable tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism located 476 bp 3' of exon 3 of the leptin gene. Common alleles shared among p...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Moffett S,Martinson J,Shriver MD,Deka R,McGarvey ST,Barrantes R,Ferrell RE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic isolates provide unprecedented opportunities to identify pathogenic mutations and explore the full natural history of clinically heterogeneous phenotypes such as hearing loss. We noticed a unique audioprofile, characterized by prelingual and rapid deterioration of hearing thresholds at frequencies >0.5 kHz in ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pater JA,Benteau T,Griffin A,Penney C,Stanton SG,Predham S,Kielley B,Squires J,Zhou J,Li Q,Abdelfatah N,O'Rielly DD,Young TL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short tandem repeats are abundantly present within the genome. They are commonly used as polymorphic markers but their potential functional role is poorly documented. Several of these microsatellites have been described within the beta-globin locus and some could be involved in controlling gene expression. Our purpose...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lapoumeroulie C,Castiglia L,Ruberto C,Fichera M,Amata S,Labie D,Ragusa A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to investigate beta-globin gene polymorphism in the Saudi population, DNA samples were analysed using restriction endonucleases, Mst II and Hpa I. Both beta A and beta S genes showed extensive polymorphism and were found to be linked to 13.0 kb, 7.6 kb, 7.0 kb, and 5.6 kb Hpa I fragments. Three DNA sampl...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： el-Hazmi MA,Jabbar FA,Al-Swailem AR,Warsy AS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of the lysosomal storage disease aspartylglycosaminuria was found in a study of four birth cohorts of 12882 children in eastern Finland. Using school achievement tests and registers of mentally retarded individuals, 178 mentally retarded children were identified. Randomized urine samples from 151 of ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mononen T,Mononen I,Matilainen R,Airaksinen E

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:We have calculated the relative frequency and the birth prevalence of lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) in The Netherlands based on all 963 enzymatically confirmed cases diagnosed during the period 1970-1996. The combined birth prevalence for all LSDs is 14 per 100,000 live births. Glycogenosis type II is the most fre...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Poorthuis BJ,Wevers RA,Kleijer WJ,Groener JE,de Jong JG,van Weely S,Niezen-Koning KE,van Diggelen OP

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) is caused by heterozygous mutations in the genes encoding the alpha 1 or alpha 2 chains of type I collagen (COL1A1 and COL1A2, respectively). In this study we screened these genes in a proband presenting with the severe form (type III) of osteogenesis imperfec...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rose NJ,Mackay K,Byers PH,Dalgleish R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained so far on the C3 polymorphism suggest that the system should be a valuable marker in population studies. The instability of the complement component C3 may, however, cause some practical problems in population genetic fieldwork, since a certain fraction of serum samples may be difficult to type with c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Seth PK,Seth S

更新日期：1976-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45,X male individual was shown to have a translocation of Y-chromosome material to the short arm or proximal long arm of chromosome 15. This translocation was detected by genomic DNA blotting and in situ hybridization with Y-chromosome-specific DNA probes. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Disteche CM,Brown L,Saal H,Friedman C,Thuline HC,Hoar DI,Pagon RA,Page DC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salla disease is an inherited lysosomal storage disorder caused by accumulation of free sialic acid in the lysosomes. Lamp genes, lamp A and lamp B (lysosome associated membrane proteins), are the first known genes encoding for human lysosomal membrane proteins. Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Schleutker J,Haataja L,Renlund M,Puhakka L,Viitala J,Peltonen L,Aula P

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present clinical, cytogenetic, and linkage data of four DNA probes from the terminal long arm of the X chromosome in ten new families with fragile X syndrome. A prior/posterior method of multipoint linkage analysis is employed to combine these results with published data to refine the linkage map of terminal Xq. Te...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Buchanan JA,Buckton KE,Gosden CM,Newton MS,Clayton JF,Christie S,Hastie N

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the possible role of genetic polymorphism of three drug-metabolizing enzymes, debrisoquine/sparteine hydroxylase (CYP2D6), glutathione S-transferase mu (GSTM1), and N-acetyltransferase (NAT2), as a putative genetic component of human longevity, was explored. A total of 817 DNA samples from a cent...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Muiras ML,Verasdonck P,Cottet F,Schächter F

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentromeric regions of human chromosomes are preferential sites for the integration of duplicated DNA, or "duplicons", which often contain gene fragments. Although pericentromeric regions appear to be genomic junkyards, they could also be the birthplace of new genes with novel functions. We have characterized a ch...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bridgland L,Footz TK,Kardel MD,Riazi MA,McDermid HE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HFE) is an inherited disorder whose gene lies in the proximity of the histocompatibility antigen (HLA) class I region, on 6p21.3. Despite efforts in refining the HFE region, a number of informative DNA markers, linked to the disease locus and amenable to use in an assay based on the polymer...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Totaro A,Grifa A,Roetto A,Lunardi C,D'Agruma L,Sbaiz L,Zelante L,De Sandre G,Camaschella C,Gasparini P

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone with 47 chromosomes was observed in the bone marrow of a patient with aplastic anemia and found to be trisomic for chromosome 6. The abnormal clone was not observed in the peripheral blood. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Geraedts JP,Haak HL

更新日期：1976-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Only two genome-wide association (GWA) screens have been published for melanoma (Nat Genet 47:920-925, 2009; Nat Genet 40:838-840, 2008). Using a unique approach, we performed a genome-wide association study in 156 related melanoma cases from 34 high-risk Utah pedigrees. Genome-wide association analysis was performed ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Teerlink C,Farnham J,Allen-Brady K,Camp NJ,Thomas A,Leachman S,Cannon-Albright L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most commonly accepted view about the origin of aneuploidy is that it is due to errors in meiotic division. However, its rare occurrence makes it difficult to explain recurrent births of trisomic children to some parents. This problem causes more serious concern when one accepts that an abnormal (n + 1 or n - 1) s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vig BK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISLR2 (immunoglobulin superfamily containing leucine-rich repeat 2), encodes a protein involved in axon guidance in brain development (hence the other name leucine-rich repeat domain- and immunoglobulin domain-containing axon extension proteins; LINX). A recently described mouse knockout displays hydrocephalus. Howeve...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Alazami AM,Maddirevula S,Seidahmed MZ,Albhlal LA,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic atrophy type 1 (OPA1, MIM 165500) is a dominantly inherited optic neuropathy that features low visual acuity leading in many cases to legal blindness. We have recently shown, with others, that mutations in the OPA1 gene encoding a dynamin-related mitochondrial protein, underlie the dominant form of optic atrophy...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Delettre C,Griffoin JM,Kaplan J,Dollfus H,Lorenz B,Faivre L,Lenaers G,Belenguer P,Hamel CP

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspersed simple repetitive DNA is a convenient genetic marker for analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) because of the numbers and the frequencies of its alleles. Oligonucleotide probes specific for variations of the GATCA simple repeats have been designed and hybridized to a panel of human...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ali S,Müller CR,Epplen JT

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD-1) is clearly on chromosome 21, although there is disagreement on the precise band location of SOD-1 on the long (q) arm of number 21. We report a patient with normal superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD-1) activity and an interstitial deletion of chromosome 21 resulting in monosomy for...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wulfsberg EA,Carrel RE,Klisak IJ,O'Brien TJ,Sykes JA,Sparkes RS

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders and occurs in its non-classical form in up to 6% of hirsute women. We report on a young woman with the clinical diagnosis of non-classical CAH and a novel, heterozygous missense mutation CTG-->...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Bojunga J,Welsch C,Antes I,Albrecht M,Lengauer T,Zeuzem S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since nine patients with infantile liver cirrhosis or hepatopathy associated with the Pi ZZ phenotype had been observed in recent years in the Children's Hospital of the University of Innsbruck, Tyrol, the distribution of the Pi types and the PiM subtypes was determined in the Tyrolean population. Apparently healthy b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Böhme A,Cleve H,Schönitzer D,Reissigl H,Kazda S,Müller W

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X chromosomes of individuals with isolated steroid sulphatase deficiency (X-linked ichthyosis) from ten families were studied by flow karyotype analysis. In four of the families, a small but significant reduction in the relative fluorescence of the X chromosome was detected consistent with a deletion ranging from ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooke A,Gillard EF,Yates JR,Mitchell MJ,Aitken DA,Weir DM,Affara NA,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the cystic fibrosis (CF) conductance transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene have been detected in patients with CF and in males with infertility attributable to congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD). Thirty individuals with CBAVD and 10 with congenital unilateral absence of the vas deferen...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Casals T,Bassas L,Ruiz-Romero J,Chillón M,Giménez J,Ramos MD,Tapia G,Narváez H,Nunes V,Estivill X

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder caused by homozygous mutations of the SMN1 gene. SMN1 interacts with multiple proteins with functions in snRNP biogenesis, pre-mRNA splicing and presumably neural transport. SMN2, a nearly identical copy of SMN1, produces predominantly exon 7-skipped t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Helmken C,Hofmann Y,Schoenen F,Oprea G,Raschke H,Rudnik-Schöneborn S,Zerres K,Wirth B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00