Increased tumour risk for BWS patients correlates with aberrant H19 and not KCNQ1OT1 methylation: occurrence of KCNQ1OT1 hypomethylation in familial cases of BWS.

abstract：:We have constructed a YAC contig containing 54 clones and a minimum of 7 Mbp of human DNA, that maps to bands q34-35 on chromosome 5. The contig was nucleated using FISH mapped cosmid clones shown to flank the t(2;5)(p23;q35) translocation breakpoint in a CD30-positive large cell lymphoma cell line. Thirty of the 54 Y...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lu-Kuo JM,Le Paslier D,Weissenbach J,Chumakov I,Cohen D,Ward DC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a polyglutamine expansion mutation in the huntingtin protein that confers a toxic gain-of-function and causes the protein to become aggregate-prone. Aggregate-prone proteins are cleared by macroautophagy, and upregulating this process by rapamycin, which inhibits the mammalian ta...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sarkar S,Krishna G,Imarisio S,Saiki S,O'Kane CJ,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar disorder (BD) is a genetically complex mental illness characterized by severe oscillations of mood and behaviour. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several risk loci that together account for a small portion of the heritability. To identify additional risk loci, we performed a two-stage me...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hou L,Bergen SE,Akula N,Song J,Hultman CM,Landén M,Adli M,Alda M,Ardau R,Arias B,Aubry JM,Backlund L,Badner JA,Barrett TB,Bauer M,Baune BT,Bellivier F,Benabarre A,Bengesser S,Berrettini WH,Bhattacharjee AK,Biern

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (EHK), (bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma), is an autosomal dominant human skin disorder. Recently, we and others have described mutations in keratins 1 and 10 (K1 and K10) in patients with this disease. Structure-function models predict that these mutations would impair normal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rothnagel JA,Fisher MP,Axtell SM,Pittelkow MR,Anton-Lamprecht I,Huber M,Hohl D,Roop DR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new Type II congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG-II) caused by mutations in the conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex gene, COG8. The patient has severe psychomotor retardation, seizures, failure to thrive and intolerance to wheat and dairy products. Analysis of serum transferrin and total serum ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kranz C,Ng BG,Sun L,Sharma V,Eklund EA,Miura Y,Ungar D,Lupashin V,Winkel RD,Cipollo JF,Costello CE,Loh E,Hong W,Freeze HH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTRA2-BETA1 is an SR-like protein that regulates alternative splice site selection in a concentration-dependent manner. Its proper concentration is important as several pathological states are associated with its change. We investigated the mechanism that controls the cellular HTRA2-BETA1 concentration and found it ut...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stoilov P,Daoud R,Nayler O,Stamm S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous inv mice lack a functional inversin protein and exhibit situs inversus plus severe cystic changes in the kidney and pancreas. Although the inversin sequence has provided few clues to its function, we and others have previously identified calmodulin as a binding partner. We now provide evidence that inversin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Morgan D,Eley L,Sayer J,Strachan T,Yates LM,Craighead AS,Goodship JA

更新日期：2002-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Colobomatous macrophthalmia with microcornea syndrome (MACOM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 602499) is an autosomal dominantly inherited malformation of the eye, which is characterized by microcornea with increased axial length, coloboma of the iris and of the optic disc, and severe myopia. We performed w...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Beleggia F,Li Y,Fan J,Elcioğlu NH,Toker E,Wieland T,Maumenee IH,Akarsu NA,Meitinger T,Strom TM,Lang R,Wollnik B

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that results from the expansion of a cryptic CAG repeat within the exon 1 of the SCA2 gene. The CAG repeat in normal individuals varies in length from 14 to 31 repeats and is frequently interrupted by one or more CAA triplets, whereas ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Choudhry S,Mukerji M,Srivastava AK,Jain S,Brahmachari SK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in GDAP1 lead to recessively or dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, CMT), indicating that GDAP1 is essential for the viability of cells in the peripheral nervous system. GDAP1 contains domains characteristic of glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), is located in the outer ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Noack R,Frede S,Albrecht P,Henke N,Pfeiffer A,Knoll K,Dehmel T,Meyer Zu Hörste G,Stettner M,Kieseier BC,Summer H,Golz S,Kochanski A,Wiedau-Pazos M,Arnold S,Lewerenz J,Methner A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumour suppressorgene product is believed to be involved in the down-regulation of transcriptional elongation by preventing the association of elongin B and C with the catalytic subunit elongin A. Alterations in the human VHL gene lead to VHL disease which is associated with various rare ne...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hemberger M,Himmelbauer H,Neumann HP,Plate KH,Schwarzkopf G,Fundele R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research of cilia has gained significant momentum in the last 15 years, as an increasing number of human genetic diseases were found to be caused by disruption of a protein that localizes to cilia. These ciliopathies are as diverse as the functions of the associated proteins, covering a spectrum of overlapping phenoty...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： van Reeuwijk J,Arts HH,Roepman R

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiencies in the complex I (CI; NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) of the respiratory chain are frequent causes of mitochondrial diseases and have been associated with other neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. The NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase 1 alpha subcomplex subunit 5 (NDUFA5) is a nuclear-e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Peralta S,Torraco A,Wenz T,Garcia S,Diaz F,Moraes CT

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene which is defective in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the largest known gene. The product of the gene in muscle, dystrophin, is a 427 kDa protein. The same gene encodes at least six additional products: two non-muscle dystrophin isoforms transcribed from promoters located in the 5'-end region of the gene...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang J,Pansky A,Venuti JM,Yaffe D,Nudel U

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of the dysferlin protein presents as two major clinical phenotypes: limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopathy. Dysferlin is known to participate in membrane repair, providing a potential hypothesis to the underlying pathophysiology of these diseases. The size of the dysferlin cDNA prevents...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lostal W,Bartoli M,Bourg N,Roudaut C,Bentaïb A,Miyake K,Guerchet N,Fougerousse F,McNeil P,Richard I

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypobetalipoproteinemia is caused by apolipoprotein (apo) B gene mutations and is frequently associated with a truncated apo-B protein in the plasma. Homozygosity for mutations yielding a truncated apo-B is extremely rare; fewer than five true homozygotes have been described in the world's literature. These p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Young SG,Bihain B,Flynn LM,Sanan DA,Ayrault-Jarrier M,Jacotot B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) cause human birth defect syndromes and are associated with a variety of cancers. Although forced expression of mutant activated FGFRs has been shown to oncogenically transform some immortal cell types, their activity in primary cells remains unclear. Here, we sho...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ota S,Zhou ZQ,Link JM,Hurlin PJ

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful human development is dependent upon a cascade of events following fertilization. Unfortunately, knowledge of these critical events in humans is remarkably incomplete. Although hundreds of thousands of human embryos are cultured yearly at infertility centers worldwide, the vast majority fail to develop in cu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dobson AT,Raja R,Abeyta MJ,Taylor T,Shen S,Haqq C,Pera RA

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides first insights into the biosynthesis, structure, biochemistry and complex processing of the proteins encoded by hNOT/ALG3, the human counterpart of the Drosophila Neighbour of TID (NOT) and the yeast asparagine linked glycosylation 3 gene (ALG3), which encodes a mannosyltransferase. Unambiguous evi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hacker B,Schultheiß C,Kurzik-Dumke U

更新日期：2018-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a pathological expansion of a CAG repeat in the first exon of the gene coding for huntingtin, resulting in an abnormally long polyglutamine stretch. Despite its widespread expression, mutant huntingtin leads to selective neuronal loss in the striatum and cortex. Here we report th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Modregger J,DiProspero NA,Charles V,Tagle DA,Plomann M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of mouse models for the various forms of human neurosensory non-syndromic recessive deafness would constitute a major advance in the study of human deafness. Here we describe the localization of a human gene for neurosensory, nonsyndromic recessive deafness (NSRD2) to chromosome 11q13.5 by linkage a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Guilford P,Ayadi H,Blanchard S,Chaib H,Le Paslier D,Weissenbach J,Drira M,Petit C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported increased mitochondrial fission and decreased fusion, increased amyloid beta (Aβ) interaction with the mitochondrial fission protein Drp1, increased mitochondrial fragmentation, impaired axonal transport of mitochondria and synaptic degeneration in neurons affected by AD. In the present study, we ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Manczak M,Reddy PH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations (K141N and K141E) in the alpha-crystallin domain of the small heat shock protein HSPB8 (HSP22) cause distal hereditary motor neuropathy (distal HMN) or Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2L (CMT2L). The mechanism through which mutant HSPB8 leads to a specific motor neuron disease phenotype is curre...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Irobi J,Almeida-Souza L,Asselbergh B,De Winter V,Goethals S,Dierick I,Krishnan J,Timmermans JP,Robberecht W,De Jonghe P,Van Den Bosch L,Janssens S,Timmerman V

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis is a common, complex disease with no curative therapy. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on disease aetiopathogenesis and outline genetics and genomics approaches that are helping catalyse a much-needed improved understanding of the biological underpinning of disease development and progres...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cibrián Uhalte E,Wilkinson JM,Southam L,Zeggini E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the loss of expression of imprinted genes in chromosome 15q11-q13. Affected individuals exhibit neonatal hypotonia, developmental delay and childhood-onset obesity. Necdin, a protein implicated in the terminal differentiation of neurons, is the only PWS candidate gene to reduce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Kozlov S,Hernandez L,Chamberlain SJ,Brannan CI,Stewart CL,Wevrick R

更新日期：2000-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is one of a class of inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by a CAG/polyglutamine repeat expansion. We have previously generated mice that are transgenic for exon 1 of the HD gene carrying highly expanded CAG repeats which develop a progressive movement disorder an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sathasivam K,Hobbs C,Turmaine M,Mangiarini L,Mahal A,Bertaux F,Wanker EE,Doherty P,Davies SW,Bates GP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) results from reduced expression of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. Previous studies using in vitro model systems and lower organisms have suggested that low levels of Smn protein disrupt prenatal developmental processes in lower motor neurons, infl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Murray LM,Lee S,Bäumer D,Parson SH,Talbot K,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons throughout the brain suddenly discharging synchronously and recurrently cause primarily generalized seizures. Discharges localized awhile in one part of the brain cause focal-onset seizures. A genetically determined generalized hyperexcitability had been predicted in primarily generalized seizures, but surpris...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Turnbull J,Lohi H,Kearney JA,Rouleau GA,Delgado-Escueta AV,Meisler MH,Cossette P,Minassian BA

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of a poly glutamine (polyQ) stretch in the huntingtin protein (HTT) that is necessary to cause pathology and formation of HTT aggregates. Here we ask whether expanded polyQ is sufficient to cause pathology and aggregate formation. By addressing the sufficiency questi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chongtham A,Bornemann DJ,Barbaro BA,Lukacsovich T,Agrawal N,Syed A,Worthge S,Purcell J,Burke J,Chin TM,Marsh JL

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Trinucleotide repeats at five disease loci (DM, DRPLA, HD, SBMA and SCA1) were surveyed in phenotypically normal individuals from three continental populations. This is the first analysis to examine the population dynamics of these five disease-related trinucleotide repeats in the same individuals from worldwide popul...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Watkins WS,Bamshad M,Jorde LB

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00