Assessment of autosome and gonosome disomy in human sperm nuclei by chromosome painting.

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：:We have used four independently isolated cDNA probes for human apolipoprotein B (apo B), to isolate overlapping genomic recombinants for the 3' portion of the apo B gene. The cDNA clones and a unique fragment from the genomic recombinant have been used to identify the human apo B gene in DNA from a series of rodent X ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Barni N,Talmud PJ,Carlsson P,Azoulay M,Darnfors C,Harding D,Weil D,Grzeschik KH,Bjursell G,Junien C

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rRNA gene activity was evaluated by cytologic methods in cultured human cells from two different tissues grown under controlled experimental conditions. The modal and average numbers of silver positive nucleolus organizers (NOs) per cell as well as the distribution of cells with different numbers of silver positive NO...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： de Capoa A,Marlekaj P,Baldini A,Rocchi M,Archidiacono N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial long QT syndrome (LQTS) is characterized by prolonged ventricular repolarization. Clinical symptoms include recurrent syncopal attacks, and sudden death may occur as a result of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Three genes responsible for this syndrome (KVLQT1, HERG, and SCN5A) have been identified so far, and m...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Itoh T,Tanaka T,Nagai R,Kamiya T,Sawayama T,Nakayama T,Tomoike H,Sakurada H,Yazaki Y,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaysians of Malay, Chinese, and Indian ancestries were electrophoretically phenotyped for Amy1 and saliva esterase region 1 (Set-1) from saliva, Amy2 from plasma, soluble and mitochondrial GOT and PGM3 from leukocyte and placenta. Kadazans and Bajaus, the indigenous people of Sabah, East Malaysia were surveyed for A...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Teng YS,Tan SG,Lopez CG,Ng T,Lie-Injo LE

更新日期：1978-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common autosomal recessive diseases, affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 live births, and with a carrier frequency of approximately 1 in 50. Because of gene deletion or conversion, SMN1 exon 7 is homozygously absent in approximately 94% of patients with clinically typic...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Ogino S,Wilson RB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred normal American Blacks (B) were studied by sequential QFQ and RFA banding techniques in order to estimate the type and frequency of heteromorphisms. Color heteromorphisms were classified into one of six colors by RFA and intensity variation into one of five levels by QFQ. The data are compared with a previ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Verma RS,Dosik H

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:A Taq1 polymorphism, located in intron 4 of the faciogenital dysplasia (FGD1) gene, the gene responsible for Aarskog syndrome, is described. FGD1 encodes a putative Rho/Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor involved in mammalian morphogenesis. The identification of an intragenic polymorphism will facilitate the accur...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Pasteris NG,Gorski JL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imprinted domain on human chromosome 15 consists of two oppositely imprinted gene clusters, which are under the control of an imprinting center (IC). The paternally expressed SNURF-SNRPN gene hosts several snoRNA genes and overlaps the UBE3A gene, which is encoded on the opposite strand, expressed - at least in br...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Runte M,Kroisel PM,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Varon R,Horn D,Cohen MY,Wagstaff J,Horsthemke B,Buiting K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis assessed whether the Ala45Thr polymorphism of the neurogenic differentiation 1 (NEUROD1) gene is associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus type 1 (T1D) or type 2 (T2D). Fourteen case-control studies were analyzed, including genotype data on 3,057 patients with diabetes (T1D n=1,213, T2D n=1,8...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Kavvoura FK,Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactosemia is an inborn error of galactose metabolism secondary to deficiency of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT). GALT is a polymorphic enzyme and Duarte (D) is the most common enzyme variant. This variant is characterized by faster electrophoretic mobility and reduced activity. Duarte/galactosemia c...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Lin HC,Kirby LT,Ng WG,Reichardt JK

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the GJB2 gene have been identified in many patients with childhood deafness, 35delG being the most common mutation in Caucasoid populations. We have analyzed a total of 576 families/unrelated patients with recessive or sporadic deafness from Italy and Spain, 193 of them being referred as autosomal recessi...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Rabionet R,Zelante L,López-Bigas N,D'Agruma L,Melchionda S,Restagno G,Arbonés ML,Gasparini P,Estivill X

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:New germline mutations in the human retinoblastoma gene are known to arise preferentially on paternally derived chromosomes, but the magnitude of that bias has not been measured. We evaluated 49 cases with a new germline mutation and found that in 40 cases (82%) the mutation arose on the paternally derived allele. We ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Dryja TP,Morrow JF,Rapaport JM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are associated with the metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension) and higher cardiovascular risk. Recent association studies have suggested rare alleles responsible for very low HDL-C levels. However, for individual cardiovascular...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Harrap SB,Wong ZY,Scurrah KJ,Lamantia A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stargardt disease (STGD) is one of the most frequent causes of macular degeneration in childhood. Linkage analysis in families with recessive STGD has recently shown genetic homogeneity and a location of the underlying gene at 1p22-p21 in a 4-cM interval. Haplotype analysis in seven Dutch STGD families with 11 highly ...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Hoyng CB,Poppelaars F,van de Pol TJ,Kremer H,Pinckers AJ,Deutman AF,Cremers FP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various genetic loci harboring oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and genes for calcium receptors have been implicated in the development of parathyroid tumors. We have carried out loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies in chromosomes 1p, 1q, 3q, 6q, 11q, 13q, 15q, and X in a total of 89 benign parathyroid tumors. Of th...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Farnebo F,Teh BT,Dotzenrath C,Wassif WS,Svensson A,White I,Betz R,Goretzki P,Sandelin K,Farnebo LO,Larsson C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder characterised by severe in utero growth restriction and poor postnatal growth, body asymmetry, irregular craniofacial features and several additional minor malformations. The aetiology of SRS is complex and current evidence strongly implicates imprin...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Prickett AR,Ishida M,Böhm S,Frost JM,Puszyk W,Abu-Amero S,Stanier P,Schulz R,Moore GE,Oakey RJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:The underestimates of NF1 gene mutations in neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) have been attributed to the large size of the NF1 gene, the considerable frequency of gross deletions and the common occurrence of splicing defects that are only detectable by cDNA analysis. We here report on a patient with severe NF1 showing at RT-...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Colapietro P,Gervasini C,Natacci F,Rossi L,Riva P,Larizza L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GTF2IRD1 is one of the three members of the GTF2I gene family, clustered on chromosome 7 within a 1.8 Mb region that is prone to duplications and deletions in humans. Hemizygous deletions cause Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) and duplications cause WBS duplication syndrome. These copy number variations disturb a variet...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Carmona-Mora P,Widagdo J,Tomasetig F,Canales CP,Cha Y,Lee W,Alshawaf A,Dottori M,Whan RM,Hardeman EC,Palmer SJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Pre-eclampsia is the most common serious medical disorder of human pregnancy. The human endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene is a candidate for pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) susceptibility. A linkage study was performed on Australian PE/E families using 25 microsatellite markers from chromosome 7, one o...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Guo G,Lade JA,Wilton AN,Moses EK,Grehan M,Fu Y,Qiu H,Cooper DW,Brennecke SP

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopetrosis is the result of mutations affecting osteoclast function. Careful analyses of osteopetrosis have provided instrumental information on bone remodeling, including the coupling of bone formation to bone resorption. Based on a range of novel genetic mutations and the resulting osteoclast phenotypes, we discu...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Segovia-Silvestre T,Neutzsky-Wulff AV,Sorensen MG,Christiansen C,Bollerslev J,Karsdal MA,Henriksen K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the c-Ha-ras locus in 145 cancer patients of a mixed group and 164 normal individuals in Japan for restriction fragment length polymorphisms and compared the allele distributions in normal and cancer populations. The c-Ha-ras gene is highly polymorphic in Japanese as previously reported in Caucasians....

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Honda K,Ishizaki K,Ikenaga M,Toguchida J,Inamoto T,Tanaka K,Ozawa K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large kindred with X-linked Menkes disease, linkage studies were performed with a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) that had been found with a cloned hybridisation probe from the proximal short arm of the X chromosome. This RFLP was considered as a potential genetic marker since the Menkes gene seem...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Wieacker P,Horn N,Pearson P,Wienker TF,McKay E,Ropers HH

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:The human St2 locus has been assigned to chromosome 2, using a human ST2 cDNA clone, by a human/rodent somatic cel hybrid mapping panel. The St2 locus has also been mapped to chromosome 2q11.2, using a human ST2 genomic DNA clone, by in situ hybridization. The locus is very tightly linked to the Il-1r1 locus. Together...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Tominaga S,Inazawa J,Tsuji S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Mexican family in which two sibs were identified as "classic" XX males without genital ambiguities. Molecular studies revealed that both patients were negative for several Y sequences, including SRY. A review of familial cases disclosed that this is the first family where a complete male phenotype was obse...

journal_title：Human genetics

authors： Zenteno JC,López M,Vera C,Méndez JP,Kofman-Alfaro S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00