Hyper-expression of human apolipoprotein E4 in astroglia and neurons does not enhance amyloid deposition in transgenic mice.

abstract：:The positions of DNA replication initiation regions (IRs) at three human trinucleotide repeat (TNR) disease loci were examined in order to characterize the role played by IRs in explaining the known locus-specific variation in TNR instability levels. Using three different normal cell lines, candidate IRs were identifi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nenguke T,Aladjem MI,Gusella JF,Wexler NS,Arnheim N,Venezuela HD Project.

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Genomic DNA from 19 Japanese patients with congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia (lipoid CAH) representing 16 different families was examined to identify the genetic alterations of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR). Ten of 19 patients had a 46,XX karyotype and nine had a 46,XY karyotype. Six of the 46,XX p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nakae J,Tajima T,Sugawara T,Arakane F,Hanaki K,Hotsubo T,Igarashi N,Igarashi Y,Ishii T,Koda N,Kondo T,Kohno H,Nakagawa Y,Tachibana K,Takeshima Y,Tsubouchi K,Strauss JF 3rd,Fujieda K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder caused by mutations in either of two genes, TSC1 or TSC2, resulting in the constitutive activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1). mTOR inhibitors are now considered the treatment of choice for TSC disease. A major path...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Magini A,Polchi A,Di Meo D,Mariucci G,Sagini K,De Marco F,Cassano T,Giovagnoli S,Dolcetta D,Emiliani C

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Imprinting is an epigenetic mechanism leading to mono-allelic expression of imprinted genes. In order to inherit the differential epigenetic imprints from one generation to the next, these imprints have to be erased in the primordial germ cells and re-established in a sex-specific manner during gametogenesis. The exac...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Geuns E,De Rycke M,Van Steirteghem A,Liebaers I

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the absence of dystrophin along muscle fibers. An attractive therapeutic avenue for DMD consists in the upregulation of utrophin A, a protein with high sequence identity and functional redundancy with dystrophin. Recent work has shown that pharmacological interventions th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Al-Rewashdy H,Ljubicic V,Lin W,Renaud JM,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked Kallmann's syndrome (KS) is a genetic disease characterized by anosmia and hypogonadism due to impairment in the development of olfactory axons and in the migration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-producing neurons. Deletions or point mutations of a gene located at Xp22.3 (KAL1) are responsible for t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cariboni A,Pimpinelli F,Colamarino S,Zaninetti R,Piccolella M,Rumio C,Piva F,Rugarli EI,Maggi R

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies over the last decades have firmly connected a number of genes and molecular pathways to aging, the aging process as a whole still remains poorly understood. To gain novel insights into the mechanisms underlying aging, instead of considering aging genes individually, we studied their characteristics at...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang Q,Nogales-Cadenas R,Lin JR,Zhang W,Cai Y,Vijg J,Zhang ZD

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic crossovers in the human genome cluster into highly localized hotspots identifiable indirectly from patterns of DNA diversity and directly by high-resolution sperm typing. Little is known about factors that control hotspot activity and the apparently rapid turnover of hotspots during recent evolution. Clues can...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Neumann R,Jeffreys AJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation with O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is one of the protein glycosylations affecting various intracellular events. However, the role of O-GlcNAcylation in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is poorly understood. Mitochondrial adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthase is a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cha MY,Cho HJ,Kim C,Jung YO,Kang MJ,Murray ME,Hong HS,Choi YJ,Choi H,Kim DK,Choi H,Kim J,Dickson DW,Song HK,Cho JW,Yi EC,Kim J,Jin SM,Mook-Jung I

更新日期：2015-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculodentodigital syndrome (ODD) is a congenital, autosomal dominant disorder which affects the development of the face, eyes, limbs and dentition. Spastic paraparesis is thought to be an occasional manifestation of the disorder. Type III syndactyly, which occurs as part of ODD, has also been reported to occur as an i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gladwin A,Donnai D,Metcalfe K,Schrander-Stumpel C,Brueton L,Verloes A,Aylsworth A,Toriello H,Winter R,Dixon M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) is the most common human chromosomal deletion syndrome and is frequently associated with deletions on chromosome 22q11. Approximately 17% of patients with the phenotypic features of this syndrome have no detectable genomic deletion. Animal studies using mouse models have implicated Tbx1 as a cr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stoller JZ,Epstein JA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to islet cell identity in response to type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been reported in rodent models, but are less well characterized in humans. We assessed the effects of aspects of the diabetic microenvironment on hormone staining, total gene expression, splicing regulation and the alternative splicing patterns o...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jeffery N,Richardson S,Chambers D,Morgan NG,Harries LW

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several common loci contributing to non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). However, a substantial fraction of NOA heritability remains undefined, especially those low-frequency [defined here as having a minor allele frequency (MAF) between 0.5 and 5%] and rare (MAF be...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ni B,Lin Y,Sun L,Zhu M,Li Z,Wang H,Yu J,Guo X,Zuo X,Dong J,Xia Y,Wen Y,Wu H,Li H,Zhu Y,Ping P,Chen X,Dai J,Jiang Y,Xu P,Du Q,Yao B,Weng N,Lu H,Wang Z,Zhu X,Yang X,Xiong C,Ma H,Jin G,Xu J,Wang

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD IV) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficiency of the glycogen-branching enzyme (GBE). The diagnostic hallmark of the disease is the accumulation of a poorly branched form of glycogen known as polyglucosan (PG). The disease is clinically heterogeneous, with variab...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Orhan Akman H,Emmanuele V,Kurt YG,Kurt B,Sheiko T,DiMauro S,Craigen WJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparison of several statistical methods currently used for detection of differentially expressed genes was attempted both by a simulation approach and by the analysis of data sets of human expressed sequence tags, obtained from UniGene. In the simulated mixed case, mimicking a situation close to reality, the gen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Romualdi C,Bortoluzzi S,Danieli GA

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of amyloid beta (Abeta) from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) requires cleavages by beta- and gamma-secretases and plays a crucial role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Missense mutations in the APP gene causing familial AD are clustered around the beta-, alpha- and particular gamma-secretase cleav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： De Jonghe C,Esselens C,Kumar-Singh S,Craessaerts K,Serneels S,Checler F,Annaert W,Van Broeckhoven C,De Strooper B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genomic instability syndrome ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), caused by mutations in the gene encoding the DNA damage checkpoint kinase ATM, is characterized by multisystem defects including neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency and increased cancer predisposition. ATM is central to a pathway that responds to doub...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Balmus G,Zhu M,Mukherjee S,Lyndaker AM,Hume KR,Lee J,Riccio ML,Reeves AP,Sutter NB,Noden DM,Peters RM,Weiss RS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to familial and non-familial forms of breast cancer has been difficult to accurately estimate because of the myriad of potential genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that can ultimately influence their expression and involvement in cellular activities. As one of these potential mechani...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chen X,Weaver J,Bove BA,Vanderveer LA,Weil SC,Miron A,Daly MB,Godwin AK

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Degenerate primer pairs that include consensus sequences of evolutionary conserved portions of protein families (BLOCKs or ancient conserved regions) can be used to screen by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for cognate cDNAs and YACs through much of phylogeny. Nine such primer pairs were developed, and five with sites...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： D'Esposito M,Pilia G,Schlessinger D

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine factors governing triplet repeat expansion at FMR1, we need to understand the basis of normal variation. We have sequenced the FMR1 repeat from 102 normal X chromosomes and show that most are interrupted with a regularly spaced AGG trinucleotide giving an ordered structure to the array. Five types of arra...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hirst MC,Grewal PK,Davies KE

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination is of fundamental importance in creating haplotype diversity in the human genome and has the potential to cause genomic rearrangements by ectopic recombination between repeat sequences and through other changes triggered by recombination-initiating events. However, the relationship between alleli...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Holloway K,Lawson VE,Jeffreys AJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine-encoding CAG repeat expansion in the ATXN3 gene. This expansion leads to misfolding and aggregation of mutant ataxin-3 (ATXN3) and degeneration of select brain regions. A key unanswered question in SCA3 and other polyglutami...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ramani B,Panwar B,Moore LR,Wang B,Huang R,Guan Y,Paulson HL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which affects quality of life for millions of elderly individuals worldwide. AMD is associated with a diverse spectrum of clinical phenotypes, all of which include the death of photoreceptors in the central part of the human retina (cal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Swaroop A,Branham KE,Chen W,Abecasis G

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation analysis was performed on DNA samples of 965 individuals from four different ethnic groups in South Africa, in an attempt to determine the spectrum of sequence variants in the haemochromatosis ( HFE ) gene. This population screening approach, utilizing a combined heteroduplex and single-strand conformation po...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： de Villiers JN,Hillermann R,Loubser L,Kotze MJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by expansion of the polymorphic polyglutamine segment in the huntingtin protein. Full-length huntingtin is thought to be a predominant HEAT repeat alpha-solenoid, implying a role as a facilitator of macromolecular complexes. Here we have investigated huntingtin's domain structure an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seong IS,Woda JM,Song JJ,Lloret A,Abeyrathne PD,Woo CJ,Gregory G,Lee JM,Wheeler VC,Walz T,Kingston RE,Gusella JF,Conlon RA,MacDonald ME

更新日期：2010-02-15 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