Frataxin deficiency enhances apoptosis in cells differentiating into neuroectoderm.

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is a dominantly inherited cancer syndrome which affects thyroid C cells, and with variable frequency, the adrenal medulla, parathyroid and enteric autonomic ganglia. The syndrome is due to germline mutation in the receptor tyrosine kinase gene, RET. We have recently shown an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gardner E,Mulligan LM,Eng C,Healey CS,Kwok JB,Ponder MA,Ponder BA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the functional effects of nonsense mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in the COXI and ND5 genes in a colorectal tumor cell line. Surprisingly, these cells had an efficient oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS); however, when mitochondria from these cells were transferred to an osteosarcoma nuclear backgr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Srivastava S,Barrett JN,Moraes CT

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genetic variations in several genes encoding for synaptic adhesion proteins have been found to be associated with autism spectrum disorders, one of the most consistently replicated genes has been CNTNAP2, encoding for contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2), a multidomain transmembrane protein of the neu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Falivelli G,De Jaco A,Favaloro FL,Kim H,Wilson J,Dubi N,Ellisman MH,Abrahams BS,Taylor P,Comoletti D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) database for a correlation between the density of putative SNPs, as well as SNPs that map to different chromosomal locations (ambiguously mapped SNPs), and segmental duplications of DNA in chromosome region...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Estivill X,Cheung J,Pujana MA,Nakabayashi K,Scherer SW,Tsui LC

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spastic paraplegia 35 (SPG35) (OMIM: 612319) or fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration (FAHN) is caused by deficiency of fatty acid 2-hydroxylase (FA2H). This enzyme synthesizes sphingolipids containing 2-hydroxylated fatty acids, which are particularly abundant in myelin. Fa2h-deficient (Fa2h-/-) mice de...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hardt R,Jordans S,Winter D,Gieselmann V,Wang-Eckhardt L,Eckhardt M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency is the second most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the inherited inability to synthesize cortisol. Severely affected patients carry mutations in the CYB11B1 gene that destroy enzymatic activity. Such patients have signs of androgen excess and usually have hyperten...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Joehrer K,Geley S,Strasser-Wozak EM,Azziz R,Wollmann HA,Schmitt K,Kofler R,White PC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The near completeness of human chromosome sequences is facilitating accurate characterization and assessment of all classes of genomic variation. Particularly, using the DNA reference sequence as a guide, genome scanning technologies, such as microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) and genome-wi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Feuk L,Marshall CR,Wintle RF,Scherer SW

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of thymidine kinase 2 (TK2), an essential component of the mitochondrial nucleotide salvage pathway, can give rise to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndromes (MDS). These clinically heterogeneous disorders are characterized by severe reduction in mtDNA copy number in affected tissues and are associated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bartesaghi S,Betts-Henderson J,Cain K,Dinsdale D,Zhou X,Karlsson A,Salomoni P,Nicotera P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term goal of modeling Huntington's disease (HD) is to recapitulate the cardinal features of the disease in mice that express both mutant and wild-type (WT) huntingtin (Htt), as HD commonly manifests as a heterozygous condition in humans, and loss of WT Htt is associated with loss-of-function. In a new heterozyg...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith GA,Rocha EM,McLean JR,Hayes MA,Izen SC,Isacson O,Hallett PJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family history of endometrial cancer increases the risk of developing the disease, but it is still largely unknown which germ-line genetic factors are involved in the aetiology of endometrial cancer. In a Swedish population-based case-control study including 705 cases and 1565 controls, we examined common variation in...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Einarsdóttir K,Humphreys K,Bonnard C,Li Y,Li Y,Chia KS,Liu ET,Hall P,Liu J,Wedrén S

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), an X-linked disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations of EFNB1, exhibits a paradoxical sex reversal in phenotypic severity: females characteristically have frontonasal dysplasia, craniosynostosis and additional minor malformations, but males are usually more mildly affected with ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Twigg SR,Babbs C,van den Elzen ME,Goriely A,Taylor S,McGowan SJ,Giannoulatou E,Lonie L,Ragoussis J,Sadighi Akha E,Knight SJ,Zechi-Ceide RM,Hoogeboom JA,Pober BR,Toriello HV,Wall SA,Rita Passos-Bueno M,Brunner HG,Mathi

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone photoreceptors in mammalian retina are generated from common pool(s) of neuroepithelial progenitors. NRL, CRX and NR2E3 are key transcriptional regulators that control photoreceptor differentiation. Mutations in NR2E3, a rod-specific orphan nuclear receptor, lead to loss of rods, increased density of S-co...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cheng H,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Khanna R,Jacobson SG,Swaroop A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctional epidermolysis bullosa inversa is an autosomal recessive blistering skin disease with an ultrastructural hemidesmosome defect similar to that of the Herlitz disease, yet with a non-lethal and different course of the disease. Its delineation is based on five geographically associated Norwegian families where ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gedde-Dahl T Jr,Dupuy BM,Jonassen R,Winberg JO,Anton-Lamprecht I,Olaisen B

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are fundamental to all biological processes, and a comprehensive determination of all protein-protein interactions that can take place in an organism provides a framework for understanding biology as an integrated system. The availability of genome-scale sets of cloned open reading frames ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cusick ME,Klitgord N,Vidal M,Hill DE

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blepharophimosis syndrome (BPES, blepharophimosis eyelid syndrome) is a distinctive congenital eyelid malformation which can occur sporadically or be inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Previous reports have described associated cytogenetic abnormalities on chromosome 3q. We have ascertained and sampled two BP...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Small KW,Stalvey M,Fisher L,Mullen L,Dickel C,Beadles K,Reimer R,Lessner A,Lewis K,Pericak-Vance MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amphibian homologue of the human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene has been isolated from Xenopus laevis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The 4455bp sequence encodes a predicted polypeptide of 1485 amino acids which has an overall homology at the amino acid level of 77...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tucker SJ,Tannahill D,Higgins CF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiogram has several advantages in detecting cardiac arrhythmia-it is readily available, noninvasive and cost-efficient. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms that are associated with electrocardiogram measures. We performed a genome-wide association study ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hong KW,Lim JE,Kim JW,Tabara Y,Ueshima H,Miki T,Matsuda F,Cho YS,Kim Y,Oh B

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the clinical importance of human aneuploidy, we know little of the causes of mammalian non-disjunction. In part, this reflects the fact that, unlike lower organisms, segregation 'impaired' chromosomes are virtually non-existent in mammals. To address this issue, we have studied the mouse Y chromosome on the BA...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bean CJ,Hunt PA,Millie EA,Hassold TJ

更新日期：2001-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Large expansions of hexanucleotide GGGGCC (G4C2) repeats (hundreds to thousands) in the first intron of the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) locus are the strongest known genetic factor associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Different hypotheses exist about the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Swaminathan A,Bouffard M,Liao M,Ryan S,Callister JB,Pickering-Brown SM,Armstrong GAB,Drapeau P

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) and paragangliomas (PGLs) are chromaffin-cell tumors that arise from the adrenal medulla and extra-adrenal paraganglia, respectively. The dysfunction of genes involved in the cellular response to hypoxia, such as VHL, EGL nine homolog 1, and the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) genes, leads to a ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Comino-Méndez I,de Cubas AA,Bernal C,Álvarez-Escolá C,Sánchez-Malo C,Ramírez-Tortosa CL,Pedrinaci S,Rapizzi E,Ercolino T,Bernini G,Bacca A,Letón R,Pita G,Alonso MR,Leandro-García LJ,Gómez-Graña A,Inglada-Pérez L,Manciko

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis IV (MLIV) is an orphan neurodevelopmental disease that causes severe neurologic dysfunction and loss of vision. Currently there is no therapy for MLIV. It is caused by loss of function of the lysosomal channel mucolipin-1, also known as TRPML1. Knockout of the Mcoln1 gene in a mouse model mirrors clinica...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weinstock LD,Furness AM,Herron SS,Smith SS,Sankar SB,DeRosa SG,Gao D,Mepyans ME,Scotto Rosato A,Medina DL,Vardi A,Ferreira NS,Cho SM,Futerman AH,Slaugenhaupt SA,Wood LB,Grishchuk Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the developed world, and is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN). Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions reach their highest concentration with age in the SN in humans, and may contribut...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Song L,Shan Y,Lloyd KC,Cortopassi GA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), a disease in which the kidney is unable to concentrate urine in response to vasopressin, is caused by mutations in the Aquaporin-2 (AQP2) gene. Analysis of a new family with dominant NDI revealed a single nucleotide deletion (727deltaG) in one AQP2 allele, which encoded ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Marr N,Bichet DG,Lonergan M,Arthus MF,Jeck N,Seyberth HW,Rosenthal W,van Os CH,Oksche A,Deen PM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in RET cause abnormal development of the enteric nervous system, a congenital condition known as Hirschsprung disease. Hirschsprung mutations in the extracellular domain of RET (RETECD) affect processing in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and prevent RET expression at the cell surface. We hav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kjaer S,Ibáñez CF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen neurological diseases have been associated with the expansion of trinucleotide repeat regions. These diseases have been categorized into those that give rise to the translation of toxic polyglutamine proteins and those that are untranslated. Thus far, compelling evidence has not surfaced for the inclusion of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Peel AL,Rao RV,Cottrell BA,Hayden MR,Ellerby LM,Bredesen DE

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum (OAVS) (OMIM % 164210) is a common developmental disorder characterized by hemifacial microsomia, epibulbar tumours, ear malformation and vertebral anomalies. Although rare familial cases suggest that OAVS has a genetic basis, no genetic defect has been identified so far. In a pat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fischer S,Lüdecke HJ,Wieczorek D,Böhringer S,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Horsthemke B

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing emerges as one of the most important mechanisms to generate transcript diversity. It is regulated by the formation of protein complexes on pre-mRNA. We demonstrate that protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) binds to the splicing factor transformer2-beta1 (tra2-beta1) via a phylogenetically conserved RVDF se...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Novoyatleva T,Heinrich B,Tang Y,Benderska N,Butchbach ME,Lorson CL,Lorson MA,Ben-Dov C,Fehlbaum P,Bracco L,Burghes AH,Bollen M,Stamm S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short stature homeobox gene SHOX encodes a transcription factor which is important for normal limb development. In humans, SHOX deficiency has been associated with various short stature syndromes including Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD), Langer mesomelic dysplasia and Turner syndrome as well as non-syndromic i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Decker E,Durand C,Bender S,Rödelsperger C,Glaser A,Hecht J,Schneider KU,Rappold G

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is characterized by increased circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol leading to premature atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Although FH is usually caused by mutations in LDLR, mutations in APOB and PCSK9 also cause FH but only a few mutations have been repor...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Alves AC,Etxebarria A,Soutar AK,Martin C,Bourbon M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) identified over 500 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing cancer risk. It is logical to expect the cancer-associated genes to cluster in pathways directly involved in carcinogenesis, e.g. cell cycle. Nevertheless, analyses of the GWAS-detected cancer risk genes usua...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gorlova OY,Demidenko EI,Amos CI,Gorlov IP

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00