Genetic variability in the regulatory region of presenilin 1 associated with risk for Alzheimer's disease and variable expression.

abstract：:Degradation of fibrillar collagens is believed to be involved in the rupture of the fetal membranes during normal parturition and when the membranes rupture prematurely. Matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP1) is a key enzyme involved in extracellular matrix turnover, and genetic variation in the MMP1 promoter is associated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang H,Ogawa M,Wood JR,Bartolomei MS,Sammel MD,Kusanovic JP,Walsh SW,Romero R,Strauss JF 3rd

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human breast cancers result from an inherited predisposition to the disease. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene confer a high risk of breast cancer and are responsible for almost half of these cases. The recent cloning of the human BRCA2 gene has revealed that it encodes a large protein having little signific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connor F,Smith A,Wooster R,Stratton M,Dixon A,Campbell E,Tait TM,Freeman T,Ashworth A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) receptor type II (TGFBR2) cause Loeys-Dietz syndrome, characterized by craniofacial and cardiovascular abnormalities. Mice with a deletion of Tgfbr2 in cranial neural crest cells (Tgfbr2(fl/fl);Wnt1-Cre mice) develop cleft palate as the result of abnormal TGFβ signal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Iwata J,Suzuki A,Pelikan RC,Ho TV,Sanchez-Lara PA,Chai Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in gigaxonin were identified in giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), an autosomal recessive disorder. To understand how disruption of gigaxonin's function leads to neurodegeneration, we ablated the gene expression in mice using traditional gene targeting approach. Progressive neurological phenotypes and pathologic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ding J,Allen E,Wang W,Valle A,Wu C,Nardine T,Cui B,Yi J,Taylor A,Jeon NL,Chu S,So Y,Vogel H,Tolwani R,Mobley W,Yang Y

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of renin binding protein (RnBP) in human (patho)physiology, despite its biochemical characterization, is as yet unclear. RnBP has been shown to bind and inactivate renin, a key player of the blood pressure regulating renin-angiotensin system. This renders the RnBP gene a promising candidate gene in human hype...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knöll A,Schunkert H,Reichwald K,Danser AH,Bauer D,Platzer M,Stein G,Rosenthal A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The congenital malformation split hand/foot (SHFM) is characterized by missing central fingers and dysmorphology or fusion of the remaining ones. Type-1 SHFM is linked to deletions/rearrangements of the DLX5-DLX6 locus and point mutations in the DLX5 gene. The ectrodactyly phenotype is reproduced in mice by the double...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Conte D,Garaffo G,Lo Iacono N,Mantero S,Piccolo S,Cordenonsi M,Perez-Morga D,Orecchia V,Poli V,Merlo GR

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify a gene responsible for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), we attempted to isolate potentially transcribable fragments from cosmid clones derived from a region on chromosome 11q13 where genetic linkage studies and analyses of loss of heterozygosity in MEN1-associated tumors have localized the MEN1 ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Toda T,Iida A,Miwa T,Nakamura Y,Imai T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) represents a major challenge for health care delivery worldwide. Identification of genes influencing individual susceptibility to disease offers a route to better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying pathogenesis, a necessary prerequisite fo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McCarthy MI

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLRS) is an early-onset inherited condition that affects primarily males and is characterized by cystic lesions of the inner retina, decreased visual acuity and contrast sensitivity and a selective reduction of the electroretinogram (ERG) b-wave. Although XLRS is genetically heterogene...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu Y,Kinoshita J,Ivanova E,Sun D,Li H,Liao T,Cao J,Bell BA,Wang JM,Tang Y,Brydges S,Peachey NS,Sagdullaev BT,Romano C

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia may arise from subtle abnormalities in brain development due to alterations in the functions of candidate susceptibility genes such as Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) and Neuregulin 1 (NRG1). To provide novel insights into the functions of DISC1 in brain development, we mapped the expression of zebr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wood JD,Bonath F,Kumar S,Ross CA,Cunliffe VT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraoxonase is an arylesterase enzyme that is expressed in the liver and found in the circulation in association with apoA1 and the high-density lipoprotein, and prevents the accumulation of oxidized lipids in low-density lipoproteins in vitro. Common polymorphisms in genes encoding paraoxonase are established risk fa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Erlich PM,Lunetta KL,Cupples LA,Huyck M,Green RC,Baldwin CT,Farrer LA,MIRAGE Study Group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult body height is a quantitative trait for which genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci, primarily in European populations. These loci, comprising common variants, explain <10% of the phenotypic variance in height. We searched for novel associations between height and common (minor all...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Du M,Auer PL,Jiao S,Haessler J,Altshuler D,Boerwinkle E,Carlson CS,Carty CL,Chen YD,Curtis K,Franceschini N,Hsu L,Jackson R,Lange LA,Lettre G,Monda KL,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) GO Exome Sequencing

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late-onset muscular dystrophy caused by a polyalanine expansion mutation in the coding region of the poly-(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1) gene. In unaffected individuals, (GCG)(6) encodes the first 6 alanines in a homopolymeric stretch of 10 alanines. In most patie...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Davies JE,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the WNK1 gene cause Gordon's syndrome, a rare Mendelian form of hypertension. We assessed whether common WNK1 variants might also contribute to essential hypertension (EH), a multifactorial disorder affecting > 25% of the adult population worldwide. A panel of 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Newhouse SJ,Wallace C,Dobson R,Mein C,Pembroke J,Farrall M,Clayton D,Brown M,Samani N,Dominiczak A,Connell JM,Webster J,Lathrop GM,Caulfield M,Munroe PB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by the expansion mutation above a length threshold of a polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch in the huntingtin (Htt) protein. Mutant Htt (mHtt) pathogenicity is proposed to rely on its malfunction and propensity to misfold and aggregate. Htt has scaffolding properties and has been reported...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Davranche A,Aviolat H,Zeder-Lutz G,Busso D,Altschuh D,Trottier Y,Klein FA

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome is often portrayed as consisting of three sequence types, each distinguished by their mode of evolution. Purifying selection is estimated to act on 2.5-5.0% of the genome, whereas virtually all remaining sequence is considered to have evolved neutrally and to be devoid of functionality. The third mode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ponting CP,Lunter G

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow-channel syndrome (SCS) is a congenital myasthenic disorder caused by point mutations in subunits of skeletal muscle acetylcholine receptor leading to Ca(2+) overload and degeneration of the postsynaptic membrane, nuclei and mitochondria of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). In both SCS muscle biopsies and transgen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhu H,Pytel P,Gomez CM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal dried blood spots (NDBS) are a widely banked sample source that enables retrospective investigation into early life molecular events. Here, we performed low-pass whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) of 86 NDBS DNA to examine early life Down syndrome (DS) DNA methylation profiles. DS represents an example ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Laufer BI,Hwang H,Jianu JM,Mordaunt CE,Korf IF,Hertz-Picciotto I,LaSalle JM

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in gene expression resulting from epigenetic and/or genetic changes play an important role in the evolutionary divergence of phenotypes. To explore how epigenetic and genetic changes are linked during primate evolution, we have compared the genome-wide DNA methylation profiles (methylomes) of humans and chimpa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fukuda K,Inoguchi Y,Ichiyanagi K,Ichiyanagi T,Go Y,Nagano M,Yanagawa Y,Takaesu N,Ohkawa Y,Imai H,Sasaki H

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of the cone photoreceptor phosphodiesterase (PDE6C) have been recently reported in patients with autosomal recessive inherited achromatopsia (ACHM) and early-onset cone photoreceptor dysfunction. Here we present the results of a comprehensive study on PDE6C mutation...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grau T,Artemyev NO,Rosenberg T,Dollfus H,Haugen OH,Cumhur Sener E,Jurklies B,Andreasson S,Kernstock C,Larsen M,Zrenner E,Wissinger B,Kohl S

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PKD1 cause dominant polycystic kidney disease (PKD), characterized by large fluid-filled kidney cysts in adult life, but the molecular mechanism of cystogenesis remains obscure. Ostrom et al. [Dev. Biol., 219, 250-258 (2000)] showed that reduced dosage of Pax2 caused increased apoptosis, and ameliorated c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stayner C,Iglesias DM,Goodyer PR,Ellis L,Germino G,Zhou J,Eccles MR

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal neuraminidase (sialidase) occurs in a high molecular weight complex with the glycosidase beta-galactosidase and the serine carboxypeptidase protective protein/cathepsin A (PPCA). Association of the enzyme with PPCA is crucial for its correct targeting and lysosomal activation. In man two genetically distinct...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rottier RJ,Bonten E,d'Azzo A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cerebellar ataxia and oculomotor apraxia. The gene mutated in AOA2, SETX, encodes senataxin, a putative DNA/RNA helicase which shares high homology to the yeast Sen1p protein and has been shown to play a role ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Suraweera A,Lim Y,Woods R,Birrell GW,Nasim T,Becherel OJ,Lavin MF

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variants in the transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene have been identified as the strongest genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the mechanisms by which these non-coding variants increase risk for T2D are not well-established. We used 13 expression assays to survey mRNA expression of m...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Prokunina-Olsson L,Welch C,Hansson O,Adhikari N,Scott LJ,Usher N,Tong M,Sprau A,Swift A,Bonnycastle LL,Erdos MR,He Z,Saxena R,Harmon B,Kotova O,Hoffman EP,Altshuler D,Groop L,Boehnke M,Collins FS,Hall JL

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin sheath thickness is precisely regulated and essential for rapid propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons. In the peripheral nervous system, extrinsic signals from the axonal protein neuregulin 1 (NRG1) type III regulate Schwann cell fate and myelination. Here we ask if modulating NRG1 type III le...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Belin S,Ornaghi F,Shackleford G,Wang J,Scapin C,Lopez-Anido C,Silvestri N,Robertson N,Williamson C,Ishii A,Taveggia C,Svaren J,Bansal R,Schwab MH,Nave K,Fratta P,D'Antonio M,Poitelon Y,Feltri ML,Wrabetz L

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Grb10-Interacting GYF Protein 2 (GIGYF2) was initially identified through its interaction with Grb10, an adapter protein that binds activated IGF-I and insulin receptors. The GIGYF2 gene maps to human chromosome 2q37 within a region linked to familial Parkinson's disease (PARK11 locus), and association of GIGYF2 mutat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Giovannone B,Tsiaras WG,de la Monte S,Klysik J,Lautier C,Karashchuk G,Goldwurm S,Smith RJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NSDHL, for NAD(P)H steroid dehydrogenase-like, encodes a sterol dehydrogenase or decarboxylase involved in the sequential removal of two C-4 methyl groups in post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis. Mutations in this gene are associated with human CHILD syndrome (congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform nevus and li...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Caldas H,Herman GE

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-syndromic neurosensory autosomal recessive deafness (NSRD) is the most common form of genetic hearing loss. Previous studies defined at least 15 human NSRD loci. Recently we demonstrated that DFNB1, located on the long arm of chromosome 13, accounts for approximately 80% of cases in the Mediterranean area. Further...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zelante L,Gasparini P,Estivill X,Melchionda S,D'Agruma L,Govea N,Milá M,Monica MD,Lutfi J,Shohat M,Mansfield E,Delgrosso K,Rappaport E,Surrey S,Fortina P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are beneficial in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Osteopontin (OPN), the protein product of SPP1, plays a role in DMD pathology modulating muscle inflammation and regeneration. A polymorphism in the SPP1 promoter (rs28357094) has been recognized as a genetic modifier of DMD, and there is evidence su...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vianello S,Pantic B,Fusto A,Bello L,Galletta E,Borgia D,Gavassini BF,Semplicini C,Sorarù G,Vitiello L,Pegoraro E

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome (USH) refers to genetically and clinically heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorders with combined visual and hearing loss. Type I (USH1) is characterized by a congenital, severe to profound hearing loss and absent vestibular function; in type II (USH2) the hearing loss is congenital and moderate to s...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sankila EM,Pakarinen L,Kääriäinen H,Aittomäki K,Karjalainen S,Sistonen P,de la Chapelle A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00