Parental origin of a ring 13 chromosome in a female with multiple anomalies.

abstract：:Five autosomal dominant craniosynostosis syndromes (Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Jackson-Weiss and Crouzon syndrome with acanthosis nigricans) result from mutations in FGFR genes. Fourteen unrelated patients with FGFR2-related craniosynostosis syndromes were screened for mutations in exons IIIa and IIIc of FGFR2. Eight o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hollway GE,Suthers GK,Haan EA,Thompson E,David DJ,Gecz J,Mulley JC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a common dystrophin gene polymorphism in the black population that alters both HindIII and BglII restriction sites. ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prior TW,Papp AC,Snyder PJ,Burghes AH,Wallace BH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic preparations from oocytes remaining unfertilised after in vitro fertilisation revealed single chromatids (as opposed to whole chromosomes) in 4 out of 38 meiosis II metaphases. In one oocyte, a single chromatid was present in addition to the normal 23,X complement, and in three oocytes, two identical but s...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Angell RR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficient debrisoquine/sparteine type oxidation is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Of all Caucasians, 5-10% are poor metabolisers, due to the absence of cytochrome P4502D6. Extensive metabolisers (EMs) exhibit highly variable metabolic activity. We investigated the relationship between CYP2D6 activity and g...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Mura C,Panserat S,Vincent-Viry M,Galteau MM,Jacqz-Aigrain E,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes contain 5-methylcytosine (5mC) as a rare base.5mC arises by postsynthetic modification of cytosine and occurs, at least in animals, predominantly in the dinucleotide CpG. The base is not distributed randomly in these genomes but conforms to a pattern. This pattern varies between taxa but appears to ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the frequency of deletion delta F508 and mutation G542X, a nonsense mutation in exon 11 of the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, in a sample of 400 Spanish CF families. Mutation G542X represents 8% of the total number of CF mutations in Spain, making it the second most common mutation after the delta F508 ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Casals T,Nunes V,Palacio A,Giménez J,Gaona A,Ibáñez N,Morral N,Estivill X

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) patients, mutations in a single gene, ATM, result in an autosomal recessive syndrome that embraces a variety of clinical features and manifests extreme radiosensitivity and a strong pre-disposition to malignancy. Heterozygotes for the ATM gene have no clinical expression of A-T but may b...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tchirkov A,Bay JO,Pernin D,Bignon YJ,Rio P,Grancho M,Kwiatkowski F,Giollant M,Malet P,Verrelle P

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibs with apparent Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen (DMC) dwarfism and normal intelligence are described. Three other familial and 3 sporadic cases with DMC dwarfism and normal intelligence are known. Twelve familial and 9 sporadic cases are known with the usual combination of DMC dwarfism and severe mental retardation. Since ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Spranger J,Bierbaum B,Herrmann J

更新日期：1976-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptoglobin types were determined on 211 patients with leukemia of the four most common types: acute lymphatic (ALL), chronic lymphatic (CLL), acute myeloid (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Frequency distributions of the three common Hp types in patients differed significantly from the control population. A ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Nevo S,Tatarsky I

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumor cells, after x-irradiation during the G2 phase of the cell cycle, show an abnormally high frequency of persistent chromatid breaks and gaps resulting from deficient DNA repair. Addition of a single human chromosome 11 from normal fibroblasts by micro-cell fusion to cell lines from six different tumors resu...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Parshad R,Price FM,Oshimura M,Barrett JC,Satoh H,Weissman BE,Stanbridge EJ,Sanford KK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the fragile X (fraX) expression in T and B lymphocytes from four hemizygous males with fraX. Blood cultures were stimulated with a T cell mitogen (phytohemagglutinin:PHA) and with a B cell mitogen (pokeweed mitogen:PWM). A significant decrease in fraX expression was observed in cultures stimulated with PWM...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Marchese CA,Lin MS,Wilson MG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular characterization of the alpha-thalassemia mutations present in nine HbH subjects from Cuba was achieved by digestion with Bam HI, Bgl II, and Apa I and hybridization with alpha- and zeta-specific probes. The results show that the molecular basis of the genetic defect is quite homogeneous, all the subjects ca...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Martinez G,Ferreira R,Hernandez A,Di Rienzo A,Felicetti L,Colombo B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five sequence polymorphisms at the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene locus were observed to be in tight association with specific alleles of this locus. Since these polymorphisms can be detected using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology, application of a combination of these polymorphisms reduces the effort...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lichter-Konecki U,Schlotter M,Konecki DS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new variants of erythrocyte glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase are discovered in 3 unrelated Ashkenazi Jew patients with severe deficiency of enzyme. Both variants have a resemblance to 2 other variants in Ashkenazi: G6PD Boston and G6PD Kilgore, but have a significantly higher affinity for substrates and their ana...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Shatskaya TL,Krasnopolskaya KD,Idelson LJ

更新日期：1976-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple routine method for detecting individuals who are heterozygous for the silent gene Gt 0 is presented. This method consists of a combination of electrophoresis and densitometry. The results confirm the theoretical expectation that these individuals would exhibit about 50% of the enzyme activity found in the cor...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Siebert G,Kömpf J,Ritter H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital tufting enteropathy (CTE) is a rare and severe enteropathy recently ascribed to mutations in the epcam gene. Here we establish SPINT2, previously ascribed to congenital sodium diarrhea, as a second gene associated with CTE and report molecular and immunohistochemistry data in 57 CTE patients. Inclusion crit...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Salomon J,Goulet O,Canioni D,Brousse N,Lemale J,Tounian P,Coulomb A,Marinier E,Hugot JP,Ruemmele F,Dufier JL,Roche O,Bodemer C,Colomb V,Talbotec C,Lacaille F,Campeotto F,Cerf-Bensussan N,Janecke AR,Mueller T,Kolet

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to approach preimplantation testing for the fragile-X syndrome, we used genotyping of the polymorphic RS46(DXS548) locus closely linked to the FMR-1 gene, in single reproductive cells of females. The RS46(DXS548) amplification was adjusted to the single cell level by a two-round polymerase chain reaction (PCR...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dreesen JC,Geraedts JP,Dumoulin JC,Evers JL,Pieters MH

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of 708 healthy blood donors and 563 patients affected with chronic obstructive lung disease (C.O.L.D.) respectively, have been screened for alpha1-antitrypsin (alpha1AT) variants by electrophoresis on agarose-polyacrylamide gels at pH 4.7 and isoelectric focusing (IEF). The frequencies of the Pi (Protease i...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Klasen EC,Franken C,Volkers WS,Bernini LF

更新日期：1977-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the corneal dystrophies (CDs) have shown that most cases of granular CD, Avellino CD, and lattice CD type I are caused by mutations in the human transforming growth factor beta-induced (TGFBI) gene. The aim of this study was to develop a rapid diagnostic assay to detect mutations in the TGFBI gene. S...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Yoshida S,Yamaji Y,Yoshida A,Noda Y,Kumano Y,Ishibashi T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated. Thirty-five per cent of mutations were found to have occurred within CpG dinucleotides. Over 90% of these mutations were C----T or G----A transitions, which thus occur within coding regions at a frequency 42-f...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Cooper DN,Youssoufian H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatoglyphics of 11 patients with Wilson's disease and 16 of their clinically asymptomatic relatives of first degree were investigated; 11 of the latter ones were heterozygous in agreement with the turn over rates of Cu-67, 12 under the assumption of autosomal recessive inheritance. On the finger tips the Mb. Wilson...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Vormittag W,Weninger M,Willvonseder R,Wewalka F

更新日期：1976-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Assigning a pathogenic role to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants and unveiling the potential involvement of the mitochondrial genome in diseases are challenging tasks in human medicine. Assuming that rare variants are more likely to be damaging, we designed a phylogeny-based prioritization workflow to obtain a reliab...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Santorsola M,Calabrese C,Girolimetti G,Diroma MA,Gasparre G,Attimonelli M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a lymphocyte chromosome survey of retinoblastoma (Rb) patients using a method able to detect a relatively low proportion mosaicism of 13q14 deletion are presented. Three out of 42 Rb patients had abnormal karyotypes; two mosaic cases with the karyotype 46,XY,del(13) (q14.1q14.3)/46,XY and 46,XX,del(13)(...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Motegi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel complex mutation consisting of a small deletion/insertion (3958del5ins4) was found in the breast cancer-1 gene (BRCA-1) in three unrelated French breast and/or ovarian cancer families. These mutations occurred at the same nucleotide position of the 3' end of exon 11. The wild-type sequence, CTCAG, was deleted ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Presneau N,Laplace-Marieze V,Sylvain V,Lortholary A,Hardouin A,Bernard-Gallon D,Bignon YJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:DNA haplotype constellations of the beta-globin gene cluster have been analyzed in German families with hemoglobinopathies (Hb Freiburg, Hb Köln, Hb Presbyterian) and beta-thalassemias. The polymorphic patterns obtained were compared to those found in families from Greece, Italy, and Turkey affected by beta-thalassemi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Oehme R,Kohne E,Horst J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of treatment with 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) plus near-UV radiation (UVA) or with X-rays on the rate of DNA semi-conservative synthesis of fibroblasts from 10 Fanconi anemia (FA), two heterozygous, and three normal cell lines was studied. Following treatments with either X-rays or low doses of 8-MOP plus UVA...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Moustacchi E,Diatloff-Zito C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The male-specific part of the human Y chromosome is widely used in forensic DNA analysis, particularly in cases where standard autosomal DNA profiling is not informative. A Y-chromosomal gene fragment is applied for inferring the biological sex of a crime scene trace donor. Haplotypes composed of Y-chromosomal short t...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kayser M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anderson Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by alpha-galactosidase A deficiency. Hemizygous males and some heterozygous females develop renal failure and cardiovascular complications in early adult life. We have investigated six large UK families to assess the possible linkage of five polym...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： MacDermot KD,Morgan SH,Cheshire JK,Wilson TM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The von Willebrand factor pseudogene, previously mapped to chromosome 22, was sublocalized by in situ hybridization using as probe a von Willebrand factor cDNA fragment completely contained in the pseudogenic region. Chromosome spreads were from a patient carrying a unique balanced de novo translocation 46,X,t(X;22)(p...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Patracchini P,Calzolari E,Aiello V,Palazzi P,Banin P,Marchetti G,Bernardi F

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00