Molecular scanning for mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene in obese/diabetic Japanese.

abstract：:We set out to determine whether expansions in the C9ORF72 repeat found in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) families are associated with Parkinson disease (PD). We determined the repeat size in a total of 889 clinically ascertained patients (including PD and essential tremor plus Pa...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nuytemans K,Bademci G,Kohli MM,Beecham GW,Wang L,Young JI,Nahab F,Martin ER,Gilbert JR,Benatar M,Haines JL,Scott WK,Züchner S,Pericak-Vance MA,Vance JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Further investigation of fumarase using lymphoblastoid cells derived from an individual of the FH 2--1 phenotype has confirmed that the mitochondrial (FHM) and soluble (FHS) forms of fumarase are determined at the same structural locus. 2. The FH 2--1 variant is associated with enzyme deficiency: c. 70% of normal i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Edwards YH,Hopkinson DA

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to investigate inter-individual and age-dependent variation of global DNA methylation in human tissues. In this work, we examined 5-methyldeoxycytidine ((met)C) content by HPLC in human peripheral blood leukocytes obtained from 76 healthy individuals of ages varying from 4 to 94 years...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Fuke C,Shimabukuro M,Petronis A,Sugimoto J,Oda T,Miura K,Miyazaki T,Ogura C,Okazaki Y,Jinno Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported associations between HLA antigen DR3 and null (QO) alleles at the C4A and C4B loci and systemic lupus erythematosus are here analysed. The empirical logistic method has been applied to a body of data which included the relevant genotypes. The analysis suggests that the association with null alleles at the...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Green JR,Montasser M,Woodrow JC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on Turner Syndrome from four sources were analysed for possible associations with several aetiological factors. Two classes of liveborn propositae were included, those with a non-mosaic 45, X karyotype (XO) and those with an isochromosome of the long arm of the X (iso-X). The numbers were 288 and 84 respectively ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Carothers AD,Frackiewicz A,De Mey R,Collyer S,Polani PE,Osztovics M,Horváth K,Papp Z,May HM,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that parametric analysis of linkage disequilibrium conditional on linkage using an overly deterministic model can be optimal for family-based association analysis. However, if one applies this strategy carelessly, there is a risk of false inference. We analyse properties of such likelihood ratio test...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hiekkalinna T,Göring HH,Terwilliger JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2C19, a member of the cytochrome P450 family, metabolises arachidonic acid to produce epoxyeicosanoid acids, which are involved in vascular tone and inflammation. Thus, this study describes the possible relationship between a CYP2C19 polymorphism (681G>A) and three inflammatory markers: interleukin (IL)-6, tumor ne...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bertrand-Thiébault C,Berrahmoune H,Thompson A,Marie B,Droesch S,Siest G,Foernzler D,Visvikis-Siest S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyslexia is a complex gene-environment disorder with poorly understood etiology that affects about 5% of school-age children. Dyslexia occurs in all languages and is associated with a high level of social and psychological morbidity for the individual and their family; approximately 40-50% have persistent disability i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Schulte-Körne G,Ziegler A,Deimel W,Schumacher J,Plume E,Bachmann C,Kleensang A,Propping P,Nöthen MM,Warnke A,Remschmidt H,König IR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For characterizing the genetic mechanisms of complex diseases familial data with multiple correlated quantitative traits are usually collected in genetic studies. To analyze such data, various multivariate tests have been proposed to investigate the association between the underlying disease genes and the multiple tra...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hsieh TJ,Chang SH,Tai JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of human phosphoglycolate phosphatase has been studied in 52 independent human-rodent hybrids and 69 subclones. The results suggest that human PGP is on chromosome 16. Family data suggest that PGP is not close to 16qh or alpha Hp. The most likely regional assignment for PGP would appear to be 16p13 or ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Povey S,Jeremiah SJ,Barker RF,Hopkinson DA,Robson EB,Cook PJ,Solomon E,Bobrow M,Carritt B,Buckton KE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven phage clones containing human sequences were picked at random from a human genomic library cloned in Charon 4A. The clones are devoid of repetitive sequences and can be used to recognize restriction fragment length polymorphisms (Feder et al. 1985). The chromosomal locations of the sequences defined by the seven...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Spurr NK,Feder J,Bodmer WF,Goodfellow PN,Solomon E,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex segregation analysis was conducted in a series of patients with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) ascertained through probands registered in the Cancer Registry of the Health Care District of Modena in Northern Italy. Altogether there were 71 nuclear families segregating for HNPCC in 28 pedigr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Scapoli C,Ponz De Leon M,Sassatelli R,Benatti P,Roncucci L,Collins A,Morton NE,Barrai I

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female sibs born to third-cousin parents presented with mental retardation, microcephaly, short stature, juvenile onset limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and multiple chromosome mosaicism in lymphocytes and fibroblasts. Different aneuploidies (mostly trisomies) were found in 15-20% of the cells and trisomies for...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Papi L,Montali E,Marconi G,Guazzelli R,Bigozzi U,Maraschio P,Zuffardi O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large literature on family-based tests of association and/or linkage is reviewed, concentrating on the underlying principles and on recent methodological developments. We explain the distinction between testing for association and testing for linkage, and give our views on the circumstances in which each is the ap...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whittaker JC,Morris AP

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Details of placentation and zygosity are reported from a survey of 627 consecutive twin births at three hospitals in Northern Nigeria. Zygosity was determined by study of sex, red cell antigens (ABO, MNSs and Rh) and placental enzymes (PGM1, PGM2, PGM3 and Pep A). The proportion of DZ twins amongst the various ethnic ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nylander PP,Corney G

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous functional studies have implicated PARL in relation to type 2 diabetes (T2D). We hypothesised that conflicting human association studies may be due to neighbouring causal variants being in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with PARL. We conducted a comprehensive candidate gene study of the extended LD genomic regio...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Direk K,Lau W,Small KS,Maniatis N,Andrew T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appetite regulatory neural network and adipocyte homeostasis molecular pathways are critical to long-term weight maintenance. Associations between obesity-related phenotypes and four genes in these pathways - leptin (LEP), leptin receptor (LEPR), neuropeptide Y2 receptor (NPY2R) and peptide YY (PYY) were examined in C...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Friedlander Y,Li G,Fornage M,Williams OD,Lewis CE,Schreiner P,Pletcher MJ,Enquobahrie D,Williams M,Siscovick DS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kell blood group locus (KEL) is tightly linked to the prolactin-inducible protein locus (PIP) with zeta = 9.12 at theta = 0.00 for combined paternal and maternal meioses. In view of the regional localization of PIP to 7q32-q36 (Myal et al. 1989a), a similar assignment for KEL is favoured. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zelinski T,Coghlan G,Myal Y,Shiu RP,Philipps S,White L,Lewis M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of genetically mapping a complex disease, the question may arise whether a certain polymorphism is the only causal variant in a region. A number of methods can answer this question, but unfortunately these methods are optimal for bi-allelic loci only. We wanted to develop a method that is more suited fo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Spijker GT,Nolte IM,Jansen RC,Te Meerman GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunological method for the detection of two thyroxine-binding plasma proteins, thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) and thyroxine-binding prealbumin (TBPA), following polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing is described. Both proteins show complex electrophoretic patterns, attributable to post-translational glycosyla...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whitehouse DB,Hopkinson DA,Hill AV,Bowden DK

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the impact of natural selection through stillbirth on the Italian population, taking into account the socio-economic heterogeneity of the country. The results suggest that older age at delivery and lower cultural level of the mothers, indicators of critical biological and socio-economic conditions, eve...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zonta LA,Astolfi P,Ulizzi L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The use of SDS electrophoresis as a tool for the analysis of development processes in man has been evaluated. 2. The protein profiles of cardiac and skeletal muscle from foetal (10--24 weeks gestation) infant and adult specimens have been analysed and striking developmental changes were found which involved all the...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Tipler TD,Edwards YH,Hopkinson DA

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the groups of a large sibship showed that the locus for the blood group LKE is not closely linked to the loci for MNS, Rh, HLA, Pi, Gm and C6 and is genetically independent of the loci for P1, K, Xg, Au, secretor, and C3. The locus for the Auberger (Au) blood group was shown to be genetically independent o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whitehouse DB,Attwood J,Green C,Bruce M,McQuade M,Tippett P

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that in the equilibrium position with respect to the assortative mating process given by Fisher's (1918) model, the population is in linkage disequilibrium, contrary to a result given by Vetta (1975). ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wilson SR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplotype analysis is important for mapping traits. Recently, methods for estimating haplotype frequencies from genotypes of unrelated individuals based on the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm have been developed. Our program estimates haplotype frequencies in the population and determines the posterior probabi...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kitamura Y,Moriguchi M,Kaneko H,Morisaki H,Morisaki T,Toyama K,Kamatani N

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of human cytosolic alanine aminotransferase (AAT1) and the individual human chromosomes has been studied in 27 secondary and tertiary rat hepatoma-human (liver) fibroblast hybrids. The staining solution used to visualize AAT activity on starch gels was specific for AAT since it was visualized only when...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Astrin KH,Arredondo-Vega FX,Desnick RJ,Smith M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for interdisciplinary assessments and interpretations of -omics underpinnings of human complex diseases. However, often investigators from different, yet overlapping, disciplines experience difficulties in understanding the other discipline's language and there is a clear need for establishing a platfo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van Steen K,Sleegers K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step beyond the identification of genetic linkage of a disease to a chromosomal region is the production of a physical map that will allow the identification of candidate genes. Although the process of physical map building has been facilitated by the flow of data released by the Human Genome Project, gather...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Le Hellard S,Semple CA,Morris SW,Porteous DJ,Evans KL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report data on diagnoses made on amniotic fluid specimens from 1977 to 1984 as reported to the New York State Chromosome Registry. The rate of all de novo (presumed mutant) abnormalities was about 2 per 1,000 in about 61,000 fetuses in which results are unlikely to be biased by the reason for amniocentesis (except ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hook EB,Cross PK

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), an archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepôt of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 292 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabited islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and some characte...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Brehm A,Pereira L,Bandelt HJ,Prata MJ,Amorim A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00