Frequency of the G6PD nt 1311 C/T polymorphism in English and Iranian populations: relevance to studies of X chromosome inactivation.

abstract：:Multiple vertebral segmentation defects occur in a group of conditions variably associated with anomalies of other organ systems. This report describes a female child in whom a deletion of chromosome 18 (18q22.2-->qter) is associated with congenital anomalies including multiple vertebral segmentation defects resemblin...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dowton SB,Hing AV,Sheen-Kaniecki V,Watson MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which the father and three of his seven children have microcephaly, mild to moderate mental retardation, and sparse hair. The two affected boys have generalised seizures in addition. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： van Haeringen A,Hurst JA,Savidge R,Baraitser M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The m.8993T-->C MTATP6 mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) usually causes mitochondrial disease in childhood, but was recently described in a family with adult onset ataxia and polyneuropathy. Cytochrome c oxidase muscle histochemistry, which is the standard clinical investigation for mitochondrial disease in adults...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Craig K,Elliott HR,Keers SM,Lambert C,Pyle A,Graves TD,Woodward C,Sweeney MG,Davis MB,Hanna MG,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female infant with thanatophoric dysplasia was found to have a de novo translocation involving chromosomes 1 and 10. The chromosome abnormality may represent an important clue in identifying the locus for the candidate gene responsible for this lethal skeletal dysplasia. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Hersh JH,Yen FF,Peiper SC,Barch MJ,Yacoub OA,Voss DH,Roberts JL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of primary lymphoedema with distichiasis is well recognised, but that the form of lymphoedema appears restricted to bilateral hyperplasia, as defined by lymphography, has not been reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Dale RF

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a well delineated multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterised by mental retardation, broad thumbs and toes, short stature, and specific facial features. The recent localisation of the disorder to 16p13.3 and subsequent identification of a submicroscopic deletion of this region...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wallerstein R,Anderson CE,Hay B,Gupta P,Gibas L,Ansari K,Cowchock FS,Weinblatt V,Reid C,Levitas A,Jackson L

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Homozygous deletions/mutations of the SMN1 gene cause infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The presence of at least one SMN2 gene copy is required for normal embryogenesis. Lack of SMN protein results in degeneration of motor neurons, while extraneuronal manifestations have been regarded as a chance assoc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rudnik-Schöneborn S,Heller R,Berg C,Betzler C,Grimm T,Eggermann T,Eggermann K,Wirth R,Wirth B,Zerres K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic testing for hereditary cancer predisposition has evolved rapidly in recent years with the discovery of new genes, but there is much debate over the clinical utility of testing genes for which there are currently limited data regarding the degree of associated cancer risk. To address the discrepancies that have...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Taylor A,Brady AF,Frayling IM,Hanson H,Tischkowitz M,Turnbull C,Side L,UK Cancer Genetics Group (UK-CGG).

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cohen syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder that results from mutations of the VPS13B gene. Clinical features consist of a combination of mental retardation, facial dysmorphism, postnatal microcephaly, truncal obesity, slender extremities, joint hyperextensibility, myopia, progressive cho...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： El Chehadeh S,Aral B,Gigot N,Thauvin-Robinet C,Donzel A,Delrue MA,Lacombe D,David A,Burglen L,Philip N,Moncla A,Cormier-Daire V,Rio M,Edery P,Verloes A,Bonneau D,Afenjar A,Jacquette A,Heron D,Sarda P,Pinson L,Do

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13 year old girl was referred with congenital microcephaly, developmental delay, a prominent nose, highly arched palate, and an apparently low set left ear. She was found to have a pericentric inversion of one chromosome 7 and a ring chromosome 8, 46,XX,inv(7) (pter----p22::q11.23----p22::q11.23----qter), r(8) (p23q...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Verma RS,Conte RA,Pitter JH,Luke S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of male limited gonadotrophin independent precocious puberty was examined for activating mutation of the LH receptor. A transition of A to G in nucleotide 1733 of the human LH receptor gene was identified in all affected males and in an unaffected carrier female. The mutation was shown by identifying a new re...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kawate N,Kletter GB,Wilson BE,Netzloff ML,Menon KM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymine kinase 2 (TK2) is a mitochondrial matrix protein encoded in nuclear DNA and phosphorylates the pyrimidine nucleosides: thymidine and deoxycytidine. Autosomal recessive TK2 mutations cause a spectrum of disease from infantile onset to adult onset manifesting primarily as myopathy. OBJECTIVE:To perfor...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Garone C,Taylor RW,Nascimento A,Poulton J,Fratter C,Domínguez-González C,Evans JC,Loos M,Isohanni P,Suomalainen A,Ram D,Hughes MI,McFarland R,Barca E,Lopez Gomez C,Jayawant S,Thomas ND,Manzur AY,Kleinsteuber K,Marti

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of connective tissue disorders. Recently mutations have been found in the genes for type V collagen in a small number of people with the most common forms of EDS, types I and II. Here we characterise a COL5A2 mutation in an EDS II family. Cultured dermal fibroblast...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Richards AJ,Martin S,Nicholls AC,Harrison JB,Pope FM,Burrows NP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosomal rearrangements, arising from unequal recombination between repeated sequences, are found in a subset of patients with autism. Duplications involving loci associated with behavioural disturbances constitute an especially good candidate mechanism. The Williams-Beuren critical region (WBCR), located...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Depienne C,Heron D,Betancur C,Benyahia B,Trouillard O,Bouteiller D,Verloes A,LeGuern E,Leboyer M,Brice A

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:We present a male infant with hypertelorism, severe myopia and sensorineural deafness, diaphragmatic hernia, and proteinuria. This patient combines features of two distinct genetic conditions, the syndrome of diaphragmatic hernia, exomphalos, absent corpus callosum, hypertelorism, myopia, and sensorineural deafness (M...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Devriendt K,Standaert L,Van Hole C,Devlieger H,Fryns JP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child is presented with a 49,XXXXX chromosomal constitution bringing to 12 the total number of children described with this karyotype. Comparison of this child's features with previously reported cases indicates a clinically recognisable specific pattern of malformations referred to as the penta-X syndrome. X chromo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Monheit A,Francke U,Saunders B,Jones KL

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21-hydroxylase deficiency is a recessively inherited disorder of steroidogenesis, resulting from mutations in the CYP21 gene. This 3.5 kb gene and a highly related CYP21P pseudogene reside on tandemly duplicated 30 kb segments of DNA in the class III HLA region, and the great majority of pathogenic mutations result fr...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lako M,Ramsden S,Campbell RD,Strachan T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the earliest and most severe inherited retinal degeneration. Isolated forms of LCA frequently result from mutation of the CEP290 gene which is expressed in various ciliated tissues. METHODS:Seven LCA patients with CEP290 mutations were investigated to study otorhinolaryng...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Papon JF,Perrault I,Coste A,Louis B,Gérard X,Hanein S,Fares-Taie L,Gerber S,Defoort-Dhellemmes S,Vojtek AM,Kaplan J,Rozet JM,Escudier E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a multisystem disease with a prevalence of 1/4000. Variable expression of congenital and later onset features contributes to its under-recognition. Longevity in those surviving childhood is believed to be normal but data are limited. METHODS:We prospectively followed...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bassett AS,Chow EW,Husted J,Hodgkinson KA,Oechslin E,Harris L,Silversides C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 5α-reductase type 2 (5α-RD2) deficiency caused by mutations in the steroid 5α-reductase 2 (SRD5A2) gene results in variable degrees of undervirilisation in patients with 46,XY disorders of sex development. This study aims to profile the regional distribution and phenotype-genotype characteristics of SRD5...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Gui B,Song Y,Su Z,Luo FH,Chen L,Wang X,Chen R,Yang Y,Wang J,Zhao X,Fan L,Liu X,Wang Y,Chen S,Gong C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations account for only ∼27% of the familial aggregation of ovarian cancer (OvC), no OvC risk prediction model currently exists that considers the effects of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other familial factors. Therefore, a currently unresolved problem in clinical genetics is how to counsel w...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jervis S,Song H,Lee A,Dicks E,Harrington P,Baynes C,Manchanda R,Easton DF,Jacobs I,Pharoah PP,Antoniou AC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desbuquois dysplasia is a rare autosomal recessive chondrodysplasia characterised by short stature, joint laxity, facial dysmorphism, a "Swedish key" appearance of the proximal femur, advanced carpal and tarsal bone age, and hand anomalies consisting of phalangeal dislocations and an extra ossification centre distal t...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Faivre L,Le Merrer M,Al-Gazali LI,Ausems MG,Bitoun P,Bacq D,Maroteaux P,Munnich A,Cormier-Daire V

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New techniques of DNA analysis have been applied to the prenatal diagnosis of the common haemoglobin disorders. Currently, it is possible to provide a comprehensive programme for the prevention of these conditions, although this entails the use of several different techniques including globin chain synthesis analysis,...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Weatherall DJ,Old JM,Thein SL,Wainscoat JS,Clegg JB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis of an infant with characteristic features of trisomy 18 is presented. The chromosome complement contained a modal count of 47 but there was only one No. 18. In addition, there were two metacentric chromosomes of different sizes. The two metacentric chromosomes were identified by G- and C-banding to...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Larson LM,Wasdahl WA,Saumur JH,Coleman ML,Jalal SM

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:We present an extended family with Li-Fraumeni syndrome characterised by gastric and breast carcinoma, glioma, sarcoma, and leukaemia. This family showed strong evidence of linkage to TP53, and three of four tumours analysed showed loss of the wild type allele. A codon 175 missense mutation was identified in exon 5 in...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Varley JM,McGown G,Thorncroft M,Tricker KJ,Teare MD,Santibanez-Koref MF,Martin J,Birch JM,Evans DG

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary hereditary microcephaly (MCPH) comprises a large group of autosomal recessive disorders mainly affecting cortical development and resulting in a congenital impairment of brain growth. Despite the identification of >25 causal genes so far, it remains a challenge to distinguish between different MCPH f...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nasser H,Vera L,Elmaleh-Bergès M,Steindl K,Letard P,Teissier N,Ernault A,Guimiot F,Afenjar A,Moutard ML,Héron D,Alembik Y,Momtchilova M,Milani P,Kubis N,Pouvreau N,Zollino M,Guilmin Crepon S,Kaguelidou F,Gressens P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To illustrate the variable clinical presentations and rates of progression in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC), phenotypes and genotypes were compared in three FHC families with different genetic defects. In the first family, the FHC abnormality was a protein truncating mutation (Gln969X) in the cardiac myos...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yu B,French JA,Jeremy RW,French P,McTaggart DR,Nicholson MR,Semsarian C,Richmond DR,Trent RJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00