Genetic landmarks through philately: Luís Morquio 1867-1935.

abstract：:A cytogenetic survey of an unselected group of mentally retarded persons in a geographically limited area was made in order to establish the frequency of chromosome abnormalities within this group. In the area there were 2,157 patients, both institutionalized and living at home. A chromosome analysis was performed in ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rasmussen K,Nielsen J,Dahl G

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least nine major cancer susceptibility syndromes that infer an increased risk for colorectal cancer and/or colorectal polyposis; hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome, Muir-Torre syndrome, Turcot syndrome, the I1307K polymorphism of the APC gene, familial adenomatous polyposis, attenuated fam...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hampel H,Peltomaki P

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-atherogenic effect of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) genetic variants associated with lowered enzyme activity is controversial. Moreover, in a few studies, this effect has been evaluated in the presence of a certain risk factor constellation. We addressed this issue in a case-control study, where 4...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Arca M,Montali A,Ombres D,Battiloro E,Campagna F,Ricci G,Verna R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a paucity of research into the psychosocial impact of juvenile Huntington's disease (JHD) on the child and the family. The study reported here is part of larger project that aimed to address this and investigate the social and health care needs of those affected by JHD. Ten semistructured interviews wit...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Smith JA,Brewer HM,Eatough V,Stanley CA,Glendinning NW,Quarrell OW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report studies on two patients (a mother and her daughter) presenting with a Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1) phenotype: low nerve conduction velocities of 13-15 m/s and an early onset at the age of walking. DNA analysis of the gene coding for the major peripheral myelin protein PO showed a new point mutation in e...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Blanquet-Grossard F,Pham-Dinh D,Dautigny A,Latour P,Bonnebouche C,Corbillon E,Chazot G,Vandenberghe A

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the myelin protein zero (MPZ) gene are one of the frequent causes of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) hereditary neuropathies. Because the mutation rate of MPZ gene is rather high and some mutations are reported as polymorphisms, the proper clinical, electrophysiological examination and the segregation of the ne...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Brozková D,Mazanec R,Haberlová J,Sakmaryová I,Seeman P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codominant expression of three HLA haplotypes was found in a healthy 21-year-old Black male, whose prometaphase karyotype was normal by light microscopy. He was the sibling of an antenatally diagnosed female fetus with a partial duplication of 6p. The duplication arose from a complex presumably balanced maternal c...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Morton CC,Brown JA,Kirsch IR,Evans GA,Mohanakumar T,Nance WE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1a glycogen storage disease (GSD) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nucleotide sequence analysis were used to identify the location and nature of mutations at the G6Pase locus in two siblings affected with typ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee WJ,Lee HM,Chi CS,Shu SG,Lin LY,Lin WH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A de novo 14/21 Robertsonian translocation and a familially inherited Y/15 translocation were observed in a male infant with anomalies of the external genitalia. The Y/15 translocation was confirmed by cultivating lymphocytes in a medium containing distamycin A and by determining the occurrence of the Y-specific DNA s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schmid M,Schmidtke J,Kruse K,Tolksdorf M

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:Malignant hyperthermia (MH)-related mutations have been identified in the ryanodine receptor type 1 gene (RYR1) and in the dihydropyridine gene (CACNA1S), but about half of the patients do not have causative mutations in these genes. We wanted to study the contribution of other muscle genes to the RYR1 phenotypes. We ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Broman M,Kleinschnitz I,Bach JE,Rost S,Islander G,Müller CR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphyseal anadysplasia (MANDP) is a rare autosomal recessive form of skeletal dysplasia characterized by normal length at birth and transitory bowing of the legs. Although several families with MANDP have been reported, homozygous mutations in the matrix metalloproteinase type 9 (MMP9) gene have been described in on...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sharony R,Borochowitz Z,Cohen L,Shtorch-Asor A,Rosenfeld R,Modai S,Reinstein E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying a mutation in a heterogeneous disease such as inherited cardiomyopathy is a challenge because classical methods, like linkage analysis, can often not be applied as there are too few meioses between affected individuals. However, if affected individuals share the same causal mutation, they will also share a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： van der Zwaag PA,van Tintelen JP,Gerbens F,Jongbloed JD,Boven LG,van der Smagt JJ,van der Roest WP,van Langen IM,Bikker H,Hauer RN,van den Berg MP,Hofstra RM,te Meerman GJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 206 patients with Marfan syndrome were ascertained throughout genetic clinics in Wales and Scotland during the period 1970-1990. There were 45 deaths representing 22% of the cohort. Mean age at death was 45.3+/-16.5 years. 50% median cumulative survival in the total cohort (n=206) was 53 years for males and...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gray JR,Bridges AB,West RR,McLeish L,Stuart AG,Dean JC,Porteous ME,Boxer M,Davies SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic heterogeneity has made the identification of genes related to hearing impairment a challenge. In the absence of a clear phenotypic aetiology, recurrence risk estimates are often based on family segregation and may be imprecise. We profiled by oligonucleotide array-CGH patients presenting non-syndromic hearing ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rosenberg C,Freitas ÉL,Uehara DT,Auricchio MTBM,Costa SS,Oiticica J,Silva AG,Krepischi AC,Mingroni-Netto RC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fertile, non-mosaic patients with partial monosomy of an X-chromosome (two with Xp deletion with breakpoints at Xp1106 and Xp2101, respectively, and one with a del(Xq25)) were found among 12 females with Xp deletion and three with Xq deletion investigated in this laboratory after the advent of banding techniques...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fryns JP,Kleczkowska A,Petit P,van den Berghe H

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding the genetic determinants of intermediate quantitative traits, such as serum creatinine and urea, might aid in finding the determinants of disease phenotypes, such as renal failure, that are, in part, defined according to threshold values imposed upon such traits. We evaluated the association between common var...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hegele RA,Harris SB,Hanley AJ,Zinman B

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-exome sequencing (WES) has transformed our ability to detect mutations causing rare diseases. FORGE (Finding Of Rare disease GEnes) and Care4Rare Canada are nation-wide projects focused on identifying disease genes using WES and translating this technology to patient care. Rare forms of epilepsy are well-suited ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dyment DA,Tétreault M,Beaulieu CL,Hartley T,Ferreira P,Chardon JW,Marcadier J,Sawyer SL,Mosca SJ,Innes AM,Parboosingh JS,Bulman DE,Schwartzentruber J,Majewski J,Tarnopolsky M,Boycott KM,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Care4Rar

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal translocations were studied in two groups of balanced carrier couples: 202 had 210 translocation aneuploid between (LB) infants, and 95 couples had repetitive abortions (AB) without liveborn aneuploids. The observed translocation aneuploidies in the LB group were compared to predicted potential aneuploidies...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Davis JR,Rogers BB,Hagaman RM,Thies CA,Veomett IC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations of the STK11 gene mapped to chromosome 19p13.3 are responsible for Peutz Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a dominant disorder associated with characteristic gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and a predisposition to various cancers. We conducted a detailed investigation of germline STK11 alterations by pr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jiang CY,Esufali S,Berk T,Gallinger S,Cohen Z,Tobi M,Redston M,Bapat B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immune deficiencies are usually attributed to genetic defects and, therefore, frequently referred to as inborn errors of immunity (IEI). We subjected the genomic DNA of 333 patients with clinical signs of IEI to next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of 344 immunity-related genes and, in some instances, add...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Suspitsin EN,Guseva MN,Kostik MM,Sokolenko AP,Skripchenko NV,Levina AS,Goleva OV,Dubko MF,Tumakova AV,Makhova MA,Lyazina LV,Bizin IV,Sokolova NE,Gabrusskaya TV,Ditkovskaya LV,Kozlova OP,Vahliarskaya SS,Kondratenko IV,

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking behaviour is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Many years of twin and adoption studies have demonstrated that heritability is at least 50% responsible for both smoking initiation and smoking persistence. Furthermore, the extent, to which genetic and environmental factors contribute to smoki...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Li MD,Ma JZ,Beuten J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental control of gene expression has a major impact on the design of beta-globin retrovirus vectors for hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy of beta-thalassemia. It is obvious that the endogenous locus control region (LCR) elements that drive beta-globin gene expression in transgenic mice must be included in t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ellis J,Pannell D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single mandibular incisor and an unusually narrow mandible and tongue were noted in an 8-year-old moderately retarded boy with 18p- (45, XY, der dic (18) (18qter-p11.2::22p 11.2-qter). While a single maxillary incisor, considered a minor feature of holoprosencephaly, was reported in three cases of 18p-, reduction of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Pfeiffer RA,Hertrich K,Cohen M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two families in which one or two children had a severe disorder of skeletal development detected by prenatal ultrasonography. The children died postnatally and showed typical radiological and biochemical findings of perinatal hypophosphatasia. Biochemical analysis revealed a low activity of alkaline phosp...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gehring B,Mornet E,Plath H,Hansmann M,Bartmann P,Brenner RE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lynch syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2. The novel MSH2 c.[2635-3T>C; 2635-5C>T] mutation was identified in 4 Lynch families, cosegregating with the disease. This mutation, located in intron 15, was predicted to alter the correct mRNA processing by in silico...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Menéndez M,Castellví-Bel S,Pineda M,de Cid R,Muñoz J,González S,Teulé A,Balaguer F,Ramón y Cajal T,Reñé JM,Blanco I,Castells A,Capellà G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karyotype and DNA analyses using DNA probes were carried out in a family with the Cohen syndrome. Two affected brothers had normal chromosomal constitutions. A major deletion or duplication of genomic DNA fragments hybridized with the DNA probes, pML34 at D15S9 locus and pTD3-21 at D15S10 locus, assigned on 15q11-q12 ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kondo I,Hamabe J,Yamamoto K,Niikawa N

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely rare pellagra-like condition has been described, which was partially responsive to niacin and associated with a multisystem involvement. The condition was proposed to represent a novel autosomal recessive entity but the underlying mutation remained unknown for almost three decades. The objective of this s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hijazi H,Salih MA,Hamad MH,Hassan HH,Salih SB,Mohamed KA,Mukhtar MM,Karrar ZA,Ansari S,Ibrahim N,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-syndromic deafness is a paradigm of genetic heterogeneity. More than 70 loci have been mapped, and 25 of the nuclear genes responsible for non-syndromic deafness have been identified. Autosomal-dominant genes are responsible for about 20% of the cases of hereditary non-syndromic deafness, with 16 different genes i...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Petersen MB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CDKL5 gene has been implicated in infantile spasms and more recently in a Rett syndrome-like phenotype. We report a case of a young girl presenting generalized convulsions at 10 days of life. Subsequent mutation analysis by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography of MECP2 and CDKL5 genes revealed heteroz...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nectoux J,Heron D,Tallot M,Chelly J,Bienvenu T

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00