Topographic approach for analysis of palm crease variants.

abstract：:A 5-month-old infant was examined because of minor multiple malformations. He was found to have a de novo blanced reciprocal translocation 46,XY,t(6;8(q13;q22). On follow-up at the age of 17 months his mental development was found to be within normal limits. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fried K,Rosenblatt M,Mundel G

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder caused by thymidine phosphorylase (TP) deficiency, resulting in severe gastrointestinal dysmotility and skeletal muscle abnormalities. A patient is reported with a classical MNGIE clinical presentation but with...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Szigeti K,Wong LJ,Perng CL,Saifi GM,Eldin K,Adesina AM,Cass DL,Hirano M,Lupski JR,Scaglia F

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytogenetic survey of the complete population of mentally subnormal in the North-East of Scotland has been undertaken. A register for the mentally subnormal within the region already existed, and all persons recorded, whether they resided at home or in subnormality hospitals or other institutional care, were include...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Speed RM,Johnston AW,Evans HJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 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：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：:A 4 year old boy is reported with tyrosinase positive hypopigmentation, mental retardation, ataxia, and myopia. Radiological investigation showed occipital cerebral atrophy, coxa valga, and generalised osteoporosis. The skin histology and electron microscopy are reported and discussed. The clinical features are simila...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Patton MA,Baraitser M,Heagerty AH,Eady RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is recorded in which Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and protan colour blindness are segregating. Of 4 members of the second generation at least one is a recombinant. The lod scores have been calculated and added to those already published. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Greig DN

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome and enzyme determinations were performed in 250 pregnancies between the 7th and the 12th week of gestation. The majority of the tests were performed for risk of chromosomal abnormalities and 75% of the women were 35 years old or more. We describe a chorionic villi sampling (CVS) technique which proved to be...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Brambati B,Simoni G,Danesino C,Oldrini A,Ferrazzi E,Romitti L,Terzoli G,Rossella F,Ferrari M,Fraccaro M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To sibs and an unrelated single patient have a combination of iris coloboma, ptosis, hypertelorism, broad nasal bridge, short stature, and mental retardation. The London Dysmorphology Database was used to determine whether this is a new syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Baraitser M,Winter RM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sonic hedgehog (SHH) plays an important role in defining the anterior-posterior axis in the developing limbs. A highly conserved non-coding sequence about approximately 1 Mb upstream from the sonic hedgehog gene (SHH) was shown to be a long range regulator for SHH expression in the limb bud. Point mutations ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Klopocki E,Ott CE,Benatar N,Ullmann R,Mundlos S,Lehmann K

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 102 families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been studied with linked DNA polymorphisms as an aid to estimating carrier risks for female relatives. Early work using probes RC8, L1.28, and pXUT23 gave very little clinically useful information because of the high recombination rates between these probes ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Read AP,Kerzin-Storrar L,Mountford RC,Elles RG,Harris R

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:The development of some endocrine tumours, such as medullary thyroid carcinomas, phaeochromocytomas, anterior pituitary adenomas, and parathyroid adenomas involve a putative tumour suppressor gene located on chromosome 1p32-pter, a region that represents 111 cM. In order to refine the location of this gene, 93 endocri...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Williamson C,Pannett AA,Pang JT,Wooding C,McCarthy M,Sheppard MN,Monson J,Clayton RN,Thakker RV

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a primary disorder of haem biosynthesis that is chemically characterised by raised urinary porphobilinogen (PBG). A defect in the biochemical pathway at the step of PBG conversion to uroporphyrinogen has been shown to be a result of a partial deficiency of the enzyme uroporphyrino...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lamon JM,Frykholm BC,Tschudy DP

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytokines tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha and interleukin (IL)10 have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), with increased concentrations reported in patients with active disease. However, limited data exist on their effects on disease phenotype in the same population. Certain si...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fowler EV,Eri R,Hume G,Johnstone S,Pandeya N,Lincoln D,Templeton D,Radford-Smith GL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress has been made in identifying mutations that confer susceptibility to complex diseases, with the prospect that these genetic risks might be used in determining individual disease risk. AIM:To use Crohn disease (CD) as a model of a common complex disorder, and to develop methods to estimate disease r...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lewis CM,Whitwell SC,Forbes A,Sanderson J,Mathew CG,Marteau TM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increased expenditure, productivity of the pharmaceutical industry has decreased and currently 90% of developed molecules entering phase II and phase III clinical trials fail to gain regulatory approval. Most of these failures are due to lack of therapeutic efficacy rather than lack of safety, suggesting that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mokry LE,Ahmad O,Forgetta V,Thanassoulis G,Richards JB

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:A case of true hermaphroditism is reported in which a 46,XY karyotype was associated with a testis and an ovotestis. The dual presence of a Fallopian tube and a vas deferens on the side of the ovotestis is documented as a previously unreported finding. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Williams C,Hughes IA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been suggested that the non-deletion form of the alpha thalassaemia/mental retardation syndrome may be an X linked disorder. We describe four brothers with this syndrome in whom the diagnosis was first suspected because of their characteristic clinical features, although these varied somewhat from on...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Donnai D,Clayton-Smith J,Gibbons RJ,Higgs DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl sought medical advice, saying that for two years it had been increasingly difficult for her to extend her little finger. An examination revealed that all her fingers, with the exception of her thumbs, had no interphalangeal fold. Her mother had less pronounced signs of the same type. This abnormalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lambert D,Nivelon-Chevallier A,Chapuis JL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two sisters with macrocephaly, epilepsy, and severe mental retardation. The first child was a 14 year old girl born at term after a normal pregnancy, with birth weight 3600 g and occipitofrontal circumference (OFC) 36 cm (75th centile). Her head size increased markedly during the first six months of life, an...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Orstavik KH,Strømme P,Ek J,Torvik A,Skjeldal OH

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Four cases of lethal short rib-polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) from three non-consanguineous families are described. Radiological features were similar in all four cases and were most consistent with type III SRPS (Verma-Naumoff syndrome), but many differences in external and systemic abnormalities were noted. The conside...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bernstein R,Isdale J,Pinto M,Du Toit Zaaijman J,Jenkins T

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic imprinting is a process causing genes to be expressed according to parental origin. Imprinting acts to coordinate fetal and prenatal growth, as well as control postnatal adaptations. Studies on human imprinting are confounded by tissue availability, sampling variability and limitations posed by tissu...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lim AL,Ng S,Leow SC,Choo R,Ito M,Chan YH,Goh SK,Tng E,Kwek K,Chong YS,Gluckman PD,Ferguson-Smith AC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) can occur due to deletions or mutations in the DAX 1 (NR0B1) gene on the X chromosome (OMIM 300200). This form of AHC is therefore predominantly seen in boys. Deletion of the DAX 1 gene can also be part of a larger contiguous deletion including the centromeric dystrophin and glycerol...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Shaikh MG,Boyes L,Kingston H,Collins R,Besley GT,Padmakumar B,Ismayl O,Hughes I,Hall CM,Hellerud C,Achermann JC,Clayton PE

更新日期：2008-09-01 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: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：:Neurofibromatosis and myotonic dystrophy have occurred in ten members of a nonconsanguineous family with a high degree of concordance. The expression of neurofibromatosis is peripheral, and the expression of myotonic dystrophy has produced at least moderately severe disability. Neither disease has appeared to alter th...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ichikawa K,Crosley CJ,Culebras A,Weitkamp L

更新日期：1981-04-01 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