PAX6 mutation in a family with aniridia, congenital ptosis, and mental retardation.

abstract：:The Say-Barber-Biesecker-Young-Simpson variant of Ohdo syndrome (SBBYSS) and Genitopatellar syndrome (GTPTS) are 2 rare but clinically well-described diseases caused by de novo heterozygous sequence variants in the KAT6B gene. Both phenotypes are characterized by significant global developmental delay/intellectual dis...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lonardo F,Lonardo MS,Acquaviva F,Della Monica M,Scarano F,Scarano G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of 79 pregnant women at risk offspring with neural tube defects (NTDs) and 158 controls, significantly increased median values were found for apo-transcobalamins I and II in amniotic fluid in the group at risk, thus confirming previous results. The findings may reflect a genetic disposition to NTDs associa...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Magnus P,Magnus EM,Berg K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 20-year-old male with severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and a de novo deletion (c.281delG, p.G94AfsX17) on the paternal PMP22 allele harboring c.353C>T (p.T118M). RNA-based sequence analysis confirmed the absence of nonsense-mediated decay and the presence of the mutant transcripts in Epstein-Bar...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Niedrist D,Joncourt F,Mátyás G,Müller A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of hypoxanthine, resistance to 8-azaguanine and activation by lyophilisation have been studied in cultured human fibroblasts. Cells from one family where there was a boy with Lesch-Nyham syndrome, from two families with variant H-PRT mutations and three cell strains from patients with the Lesch-Nyham syn...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Willers I,Held KR,Singh S,Goedde HW

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive malignant infantile osteopetrosis is a congenital disease characterized by pathologically increased bone density. Recently, the use of whole exome sequencing has been utilized as a clinical diagnostic tool in a number of Mendelian disorders. In this study, whole exome sequencing (WES) was successfu...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shamriz O,Shaag A,Yaacov B,NaserEddin A,Weintraub M,Elpeleg O,Stepensky P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential causes for the incomplete penetrance of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) in female carriers of PLP1 mutations are not well understood. We present a family with a boy having PMD in association with PLP1 duplication and three females who are apparent manifesting carriers. Custom high-resolution oligonucl...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Carvalho CM,Bartnik M,Pehlivan D,Fang P,Shen J,Lupski JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A genetic test for hemochromatosis has allowed for the first time, genotypic identification of heterozygotes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether genotyping of spouses of homozygotes results in fewer investigations of children and subsequent cost savings. METHODS:Two hundred and ninety one chi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Adams PC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described four DNaseI hypersensitive sites (DH 1 to DH4) in the 40-kb intergenic region between the plasminogen gene and the apo(a) gene. Here, we wanted to analyse whether any of these sites, located 4, 21, 28 and 34 kb upstream of the apo(a) transcriptional start site, would act as an enhancer on ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Acquati F,Rönicke V,Taramelli R,Müller HJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review assessed parents' attitudes toward childhood genetic testing for health conditions, with a focus on perceived advantages and disadvantages. We also evaluated the factors that influence parents' attitudes toward childhood genetic testing. We searched Medline, Medline In-Process, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Social Wor...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lim Q,McGill BC,Quinn VF,Tucker KM,Mizrahi D,Patenaude AF,Warby M,Cohn RJ,Wakefield CE

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliopathies, a growing pleotropic class of diseases due to mutations in genes that play an important role in primary cilia function. These highly conserved organelles are key to cell signaling. We now know, that mutations in one gene may lead to more than one ciliopathy phenotype and that one ciliopathy phenotype may...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Moran J,G Sanderson K,Maynes J,Vig A,Batmanabane V,Kannu P,Tavares E,Vincent A,Héon E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed cytogenetic and molecular analyses of 45,X mosaics involving structurally abnormal Y chromosomes. Karyotypes were performed by standard cytogenetic methods and, in some cases, by fluorescence in situ hybridization, to distinguish monocentric and dicentric chromosomes. In addition, the deletions of Yq...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jakubowski L,Jeziorowska A,Constantinou M,Kałuzewski B

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new modification of currently utilized methods of processing cell cultures of whole peripheral blood for obtaining chromosome preparations necessary for differential staining (Q, G and C) is proposed. After the usual hypotonic treatment of cultures, a 3%-5% aquaeous solution of glacial acetic acid is added to the ce...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ibraimov AI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial disorders (MDs) are caused by defects in 1 or multiple complexes of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) machinery. MDs are associated with a broad range of clinical signs and symptoms, and have considerable clinical overlap with other neuromuscular syndromes. This overlap might be due to involvement o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Panneman DM,Smeitink JA,Rodenburg RJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of three unrelated children with de novo congenital complex chromosome rearrangements (CCR) with more than four chromosome breaks had cleft lip and palate as one of several congenital anomalies. In patient 1, unilateral complete cleft of the primary and secondary palates accompanied severe ectrodactyly, bilateral ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kousseff BG,Papenhausen P,Neu RL,Essig YP,Saraceno CA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the association between breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) from referral pattern to the Regional Genetics Service including molecular analysis. Hospital computer records and/or department referral books were used to identify cases referred to the Regional Genetic Service during a 16-year period...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Naseem H,Boylan J,Speake D,Leask K,Shenton A,Lalloo F,Hill J,Trump D,Evans DG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) is an autosomal-recessive autoimmune disease caused by autoimmune regulator gene mutations. The aim of this study was to examine the mutation profile of Polish APECED patients, determine the carrier rate of the most frequent mutation(s) and estima...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Stolarski B,Pronicka E,Korniszewski L,Pollak A,Kostrzewa G,Rowińska E,Włodarski P,Skórka A,Gremida M,Krajewski P,Ploski R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 36-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder was found to have a de novo 46 XY inv (9) (q31.2q34.3). Phenotypical abnormalities are short stature, depressed nasal bridge, hypertelorism and slender shoulders. Paracentric inversion of chromosome 9 is a rare chromosome aberration. This case suggests a new candidate re...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Inayama Y,Yoneda H,Fukushima K,Sakai J,Asaba H,Sakai T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart disease is the commonest malformation in humans and contributes greatly to the burden of disease in infancy. Increasingly, developmental origins are also implicated in heart disease in adults. Significant advances have been made over the past decade in elucidating morphogenetic events of heart formati...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Andelfinger G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-mosaic males with a 46,XY karyotype and a MECP2 null mutation display a phenotype of severe neonatal-onset encephalopathy that is distinctly different from Rett syndrome (RTT). To increase awareness of this rare disorder, we are reporting novel findings in a sporadic case, compare them to 16 previously reported ca...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schüle B,Armstrong DD,Vogel H,Oviedo A,Francke U

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe a male infant with a 45,X karyotype; the entire short arm and the centromere of the Y chromosome were translocated onto the short arm of chromosome 18, resulting in an unbalanced dicentric chromosome. Breakpoints were identified by in situ fluorescence hybridization (FISH) on the proximal Y...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gimelli G,Cinti R,Varone P,Naselli A,Di Battista E,Pezzolo A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the homozygous p.Arg12* variant in 5 patients with neurodevelopmental delay, but variation databases list many truncating heterozygous variants for this small 2-exon gene. As most of these affect the protein's C-terminus, loss-of-function mediated pathogenicity may be confined to bi-allelic truncating va...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yavuz H,Bertoli-Avella AM,Alfadhel M,Al-Sannaa N,Kandaswamy KK,Al-Tuwaijri W,Rolfs A,Brandau O,Bauer P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether an association exists between genetic variants of the human obesity (OB or leptin) gene and body mass index (BMI) or weight in subjects with Prader Willi syndrome (PWS) and in age- and gender-matched lean and obese subjects without PWS. The study included 51 subjects with PWS (mean age = 17.7 +...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Butler MG,Hedges L,Hovis CL,Feurer ID

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of phytanic acid oxidase is low in infantile and adult Refsum's disease, and in the cerebro-hepato-renal (Zellweger's) syndrome. The plasma of patients with the infantile but not the adult form of Refsum's disease contains increased amounts of pipecolic acid and of at least two abnormal bile acids, one of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Poulos A,Sharp P,Whiting M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represents a set of neurodevelopmental disorders with a strong genetic aetiology. Chromosomal rearrangements have been detected in 5-10% of the patients with ASD, and recent applications of array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) are identifying further candidate regions and genes...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ozgen HM,van Daalen E,Bolton PF,Maloney VK,Huang S,Cresswell L,van den Boogaard MJ,Eleveld MJ,van 't Slot R,Hochstenbach R,Beemer FA,Barrow M,Barber JC,Poot M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by a combination of neurological symptoms and hamartomatous growths, and caused by mutations in the TSC1 and TSC2 genes. Overall, TSC2 mutations are associated with a more severe disease phenotype. We identified the c.3598C>T (R1200W) cha...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wentink M,Nellist M,Hoogeveen-Westerveld M,Zonnenberg B,van der Kolk D,van Essen T,Park SM,Woods G,Cohn-Hokke P,Brussel W,Smeets E,Brooks A,Halley D,van den Ouweland A,Maat-Kievit A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with Marfan's syndrome, with coexistent obstructive sleep hypopnea (OSH) and restrictive lung disease, complicated by respiratory insufficiency, who was successfully treated with nasal intermittent positive airway pressure (NIPPV) and oxygen. NIPPV therapy turned out to be effective on arterial ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Verbraecken J,Paelinck BP,Willemen M,Van de Heyning P,De Backer W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isodicentric X-chromosome idic(X) (pter----q26.1::q26.1----pter) was found in lymphocytes and ovarian tissue of a 40-year-old female patient with secondary amenorrhea. No mosaicism was observed. The phenotype-karyotype correlation of our case and of previously described non-mosaic cases of idic(X) (q::q) with diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ponzio G,Chiodo F,Messina M,Surico N,Libanori E,Folpini E,Porcelli A,Marchese C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous fatal neurodegenerative disease. Around 10% of ALS cases are hereditary. ALS gene discoveries have provided most of our understanding of disease pathogenesis. We aimed to describe the genetic landscape of ALS in Australia by assessing 10...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： McCann EP,Williams KL,Fifita JA,Tarr IS,O'Connor J,Rowe DB,Nicholson GA,Blair IP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients, a 19-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy, with mosaic trisomy 18 and pigmentary dysplasias. Both patients had profound growth and mental retardation, marked kyphoscoliosis, bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, simple ears, and joint contractures - clinical manifestations of long survivors with mosai...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Murano I,Ohashi H,Tsukahara M,Tonoki H,Okino F,Atsumi M,Kajii T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 16-year-old boy, born to consanguineous parents, with mental retardation, gait disturbances and dysarthria; brain magnetic resonance showed features consistent with rhombencephalosynapsis. This condition is characterised by a hypoplastic single-lobed cerebellum. The interest of this case is the presence of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Romanengo M,Tortori-Donati P,Di Rocco M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00