Loss of phosphatase activity in myotubularin-related protein 2 is associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4B1.

abstract：:During postnatal development, neuronal activity controls the remodeling of initially imprecise neuronal connections through the regulation of gene expression. MeCP2 binds to methylated DNA and modulates gene expression during neuronal development and MECP2 mutation causes the autistic disorder Rett syndrome. To invest...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee W,Yun JM,Woods R,Dunaway K,Yasui DH,Lasalle JM,Gong Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of DNA replication appears to be an important epigenetic regulator of gene expression during development. Replication of active genes in expressing tissues occurs earlier than does replication of their inactive counterparts in nonexpressing tissues. This pattern is also observed for active and inactive alle...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hansen RS,Canfield TK,Gartler SM

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Coproporphyrinogen oxidase is a mitochondrial heme-biosynthetic enzyme that converts coproporphyrinogen to protoporphyrinogen. Inherited deficiency of this enzyme causes the human genetic disease hereditary coproporphyria. Recently, we isolated, sequenced and expressed the cDNA encoding human coproporphyrinogen oxidas...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Martasek P,Nordmann Y,Grandchamp B

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking is a leading modifiable cause of death worldwide. We hypothesized that cigarette smoking induces extensive transcriptomic changes that lead to target-organ damage and smoking-related diseases. We performed a meta-analysis of transcriptome-wide gene expression using whole blood-derived RNA from 10,233...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Huan T,Joehanes R,Schurmann C,Schramm K,Pilling LC,Peters MJ,Mägi R,DeMeo D,O'Connor GT,Ferrucci L,Teumer A,Homuth G,Biffar R,Völker U,Herder C,Waldenberger M,Peters A,Zeilinger S,Metspalu A,Hofman A,Uitterlinden

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional genetic screen using loss-of-function and gain-of-function alleles was performed to identify modifiers of tau-induced neurotoxicity using the 2N/4R (full-length) isoform of wild-type human tau expressed in the fly retina. We previously reported eye pigment mutations, which create dysfunctional lysosomes, ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ambegaokar SS,Jackson GR

更新日期：2011-12-15 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：:Positional cloning has previously resulted in the identification of a gene which is disrupted by deletions in patients with the classic choroideremia (CHM) phenotype. More subtle mutations had been identified in 4 exons of the 3' portion but not elsewhere in the CHM gene. We have now isolated and characterized the com...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： van Bokhoven H,van den Hurk JA,Bogerd L,Philippe C,Gilgenkrantz S,de Jong P,Ropers HH,Cremers FP

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have defined unexpectedly extensive copy number variation at the human anti-microbial alpha-defensin genes DEFA1 and DEFA3, encoding human neutrophil peptides HNP-1, HNP-2 and HNP-3. There was variation in both number and position of DEFA1/DEFA3 genes in arrays of 19 kb tandem repeats on 8p23.1, so that the DEFA1 a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aldred PM,Hollox EJ,Armour JA

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral sensory perception is established through an elaborate network of specialized neurons that mediate the translation of extraorganismal stimuli through the use of a broad array of receptors and downstream effector molecules. Studies of human genetic disorders, as well as mouse and other animal models, have id...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tan PL,Katsanis N

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic fragmentation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 is a concomitant and modifier of the molecular pathogenesis of Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), the most common autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia. Calpains, a group of calcium-dependent cysteine proteases, are important mediators of ataxin-3 cleavage and imp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weber JJ,Haas E,Maringer Y,Hauser S,Casadei NLP,Chishti AH,Riess O,Hübener-Schmid J

更新日期：2020-04-15 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：:Increased age, BMI and HbA1c levels are risk factors for several non-communicable diseases. However, the impact of these factors on the genome-wide DNA methylation pattern in human adipose tissue remains unknown. We analyzed the DNA methylation of ∼480 000 sites in human adipose tissue from 96 males and 94 females and...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rönn T,Volkov P,Gillberg L,Kokosar M,Perfilyev A,Jacobsen AL,Jørgensen SW,Brøns C,Jansson PA,Eriksson KF,Pedersen O,Hansen T,Groop L,Stener-Victorin E,Vaag A,Nilsson E,Ling C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two brothers presented with a clinical picture characterized by sideroblastic anemia, mild pancreatic insufficiency and progressive muscle weakness. The presence of an associated permanent basal lactic acidemia raised the suspicion of a mitochondrial disease. A muscle biopsy performed in both siblings proved the prese...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Casademont J,Barrientos A,Cardellach F,Rötig A,Grau JM,Montoya J,Beltrán B,Cervantes F,Rozman C,Estivill X

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between the 19q13.2 chromosomal region and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been reported in AD families and for sporadic AD. Recent observations provide evidence that the epsilon 4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE), located in this region, is a risk factor for late-onset AD. Within this region, ot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chartier-Harlin MC,Parfitt M,Legrain S,Pérez-Tur J,Brousseau T,Evans A,Berr C,Vidal O,Roques P,Gourlet V

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII) or Pompe disease is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by defects in the acid alpha-glucosidase gene, which leads to lysosomal glycogen accumulation and enlargement of the lysosomes mainly in cardiac and muscle tissues, resulting in fatal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and res...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Douillard-Guilloux G,Raben N,Takikita S,Batista L,Caillaud C,Richard E

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2 encodes a protein of 3418 amino acids which does not exhibit substantial sequence similarity to any other protein in the public databases. A dot matrix comparison of BRCA2 with itself revealed an eight times repeated motif in the segment of the protein encoded by exon 11. As...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bignell G,Micklem G,Stratton MR,Ashworth A,Wooster R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated peroxisome biogenesis mutants ZP128 and ZP150 from rat PEX2 -transformed Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, by the 9-(1'-pyrene)nonanol/ultraviolet method. The mutants lacked morphologically recognizable peroxisomes and showed a typical peroxisome assembly-defective phenotype such as a high sensitivity to ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Toyama R,Mukai S,Itagaki A,Tamura S,Shimozawa N,Suzuki Y,Kondo N,Wanders RJ,Fujiki Y

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA; Kennedy's disease) is a polyglutamine (polyQ) disease in which the affected males suffer progressive motor neuron degeneration accompanied by signs of androgen insensitivity, such as gynecomastia and reduced fertility. SBMA is caused by CAG repeat expansions in the an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thomas PS Jr,Fraley GS,Damian V,Woodke LB,Zapata F,Sopher BL,Plymate SR,La Spada AR

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DiGeorge syndrome, and more widely the CATCH 22 syndrome, are associated with microdeletions in chromosomal region 22q11.2. A critical region of 500 kb has been delimited within which maps the breakpoint of a balanced translocation associated with mild CATCH 22 phenotypes. We report the isolation from this critical re...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Demczuk S,Thomas G,Aurias A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costello syndrome (CS) is a developmental disorder characterized by postnatal reduced growth, facial dysmorphism, cardiac defects, mental retardation and skin and musculo-skeletal defects. CS is caused by HRAS germline mutations. In the majority of cases, mutations affect Gly(12) and Gly(13) and are associated with a ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gremer L,De Luca A,Merbitz-Zahradnik T,Dallapiccola B,Morlot S,Tartaglia M,Kutsche K,Ahmadian MR,Rosenberger G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNNI3K expression worsens disease progression in several mouse heart pathology models. TNNI3K expression also reduces the number of diploid cardiomyocytes, which may be detrimental to adult heart regeneration. However, the gene is evolutionarily conserved, suggesting a beneficial function that has remained obscure. He...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gan P,Baicu C,Watanabe H,Wang K,Tao G,Judge DP,Zile MR,Makita T,Mukherjee R,Sucov HM

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin-like domain containing receptor 1 (ILDR1) is a poorly characterized gene that was first identified in lymphoma cells. Recently, ILDR1 has been found to be responsible for autosomal recessive hearing impairment DFNB42. Patients with ILDR1 mutations cause bilateral non-progressive moderate-to-profound sen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sang Q,Zhang J,Feng R,Wang X,Li Q,Zhao X,Xing Q,Chen W,Du J,Sun S,Chai R,Liu D,Jin L,He L,Li H,Wang L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human breast cancers result from an inherited predisposition to the disease. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene confer a high risk of breast cancer and are responsible for almost half of these cases. The recent cloning of the human BRCA2 gene has revealed that it encodes a large protein having little signific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connor F,Smith A,Wooster R,Stratton M,Dixon A,Campbell E,Tait TM,Freeman T,Ashworth A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS), a common inherited form of intellectual disability with learning deficits, results from a loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). Despite extensive research, treatment options for FXS remain limited. Since FMRP is known to play an important role in adult hippocampal neurogenesis ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Guo W,Murthy AC,Zhang L,Johnson EB,Schaller EG,Allan AM,Zhao X

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of heritable mental retardation. Most patients have a mutation in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene, consisting of the amplification of a polymorphic (CGG)nrepeat sequence, and cytogenetically express the folate-sensitive fragile site FRAXA in Xq27.3. Fragile X p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chiurazzi P,Pomponi MG,Willemsen R,Oostra BA,Neri G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood-onset mitochondrial encephalomyopathies are severe, relentlessly progressive conditions. However, reversible infantile respiratory chain deficiency (RIRCD), due to a homoplasmic mt-tRNA(Glu) mutation, and reversible infantile hepatopathy, due to tRNA 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thiouridylate methyltransferase (TRM...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Boczonadi V,Smith PM,Pyle A,Gomez-Duran A,Schara U,Tulinius M,Chinnery PF,Horvath R

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Supplementation with high doses of folic acid, an important mediator of one-carbon transfers for DNA methylation, is used clinically to improve sperm parameters in infertile men. We recently detected an unexpected loss of DNA methylation in the sperm of idiopathic infertile men after 6 months of daily supplementation ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aarabi M,Christensen KE,Chan D,Leclerc D,Landry M,Ly L,Rozen R,Trasler J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF2 loss of imprinting (LOI) is fairly prevalent and implicated in the pathogenesis of human cancer and developmental disease; however, the causes of this phenomenon are largely unknown. We determined whether the post-weaning diet of mice affects allelic expression and CpG methylation of Igf2. C57BL/6JxCast/EiJ F1 hy...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Waterland RA,Lin JR,Smith CA,Jirtle RL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lethal white foal syndrome (LWFS) is a congenital anomaly of horses characterized by a white coat colour and aganglionosis of the bowel, which is similar to Hirschsprung disease (HSCR). We decided to investigate possible mutations of the endothelin-B receptor gene ( EDNRB ) in LWFS as recent studies in mutant rodents ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yang GC,Croaker D,Zhang AL,Manglick P,Cartmill T,Cass D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00