Recombination hotspots rather than population history dominate linkage disequilibrium in the MHC class II region.

abstract：:Melanomas contain high frequencies of tumorigenic cells and their tumorigenic capacity resides in several distinct subpopulations within melanoma. Since their metastatic potential is linked to their ability to recruit lymphatic vessels, we aimed at identifying lymphangiogenic subpopulations by comparative in vitro ana...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Swoboda A,Schanab O,Tauber S,Bilban M,Berger W,Petzelbauer P,Mikula M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the presenilin 1 ( PSEN1 ) gene have been implicated in 18-50% of autosomal dominant cases with early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD). Also, PSEN1 has been suggested as a potential risk gene in late-onset AD cases. We recently showed genetic association in a population-based study of EOAD, pointing to th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Theuns J,Del-Favero J,Dermaut B,van Duijn CM,Backhovens H,Van den Broeck MV,Serneels S,Corsmit E,Van Broeckhoven CV,Cruts M

更新日期：2000-02-12 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：:Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a growing class of inherited neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease, which are caused by abnormal expansions of the polyQ stretch in each unrelated disease protein. The expanded polyQ stretch is thought to confer toxic properties on the disease proteins through alt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nagai Y,Fujikake N,Ohno K,Higashiyama H,Popiel HA,Rahadian J,Yamaguchi M,Strittmatter WJ,Burke JR,Toda T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment isolated from a human genomic library, was reported to be present at all human centromeres and present at 16-32 copies per genome. Reintroduction of this DNA into mammalian cells as a concatenated phage clone gave rise to dicentric chromosomes which gave rise to a new, stable, chromosome. Taken together...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McGill NI,Fantes J,Cooke H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the nuclear receptor gene, NR2E3, cause a disorder of human retinal photoreceptor development characterized by hyperfunction and excess of the minority S (short wavelength or blue) cone photoreceptor type, but near absence of function of the majority rod receptor. NR2E3 disease can also progress to blindn...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobson SG,Sumaroka A,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Schwartz SB,Roman AJ,McInnes RR,Sheffield VC,Stone EM,Swaroop A,Wright AF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DAZ gene cluster on the human Y chromosome is a candidate for the Azoospermia Factor (AZFc). According to the current evolutionary model, the DAZ cluster derived from the autosomal homolog DAZL1 through duplications and rearrangements and is confined to Old World monkeys, apes and humans. To study functional and e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gromoll J,Weinbauer GF,Skaletsky H,Schlatt S,Rocchietti-March M,Page DC,Nieschlag E

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades the search for disease causing variants has been focusing exclusively on the coding genome. This highly selective approach has been extremely successful resulting in the identification of thousands of disease genes, but ignores the functional and therefore disease relevance of the rest of the gen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Spielmann M,Mundlos S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations in the gene, MAP3K1, are a common cause of 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, accounting for 15-20% of cases [Ostrer, 2014, Disorders of sex development (DSDs): an update. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 99, 1503-1509]. Functional studies demonstrated that all of these mutations cause a protein gain-of-function...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chamberlin A,Huether R,Machado AZ,Groden M,Liu HM,Upadhyay K,O V,Gomes NL,Lerario AM,Nishi MY,Costa EMF,Mendonca B,Domenice S,Velasco J,Loke J,Ostrer H

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic data offer a goldmine of information for understanding the contribution of genetic variation makes to health and disease. The potential of genomic medicine, to predict, diagnose, manage and treat genetic disease, is underpinned by accurate variant interpretation. This in itself hinges on the ability to access ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Middleton A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) is a heterogeneous movement disorder characterized by recurrent dyskinesia attacks triggered by sudden movement. PRRT2 has been identified as the first causative gene of PKD. However, it is only responsible for approximately half of affected individuals, indicating that other lo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yin XM,Lin JH,Cao L,Zhang TM,Zeng S,Zhang KL,Tian WT,Hu ZM,Li N,Wang JL,Guo JF,Wang RX,Xia K,Zhang ZH,Yin F,Peng J,Liao WP,Yi YH,Liu JY,Yang ZX,Chen Z,Mao X,Yan XX,Jiang H,Shen L,Chen SD,Zhang LM,Tan

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is an autosomal dominant disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding protein kinase C gamma (PKC gamma). We report an SCA14 family with a novel deletion of a termination-codon-containing region, resulting in a missense change and a C-terminal 13-amino-acid extension with inc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Asai H,Hirano M,Shimada K,Kiriyama T,Furiya Y,Ikeda M,Iwamoto T,Mori T,Nishinaka K,Konishi N,Udaka F,Ueno S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive progress in Huntington's disease (HD) research, very little is known about the association of epigenetic variation and HD pathogenesis in human brain tissues. Moreover, its contribution to the tissue-specific transcriptional regulation of the huntingtin gene (HTT), in which HTT expression levels are ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： De Souza RA,Islam SA,McEwen LM,Mathelier A,Hill A,Mah SM,Wasserman WW,Kobor MS,Leavitt BR

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1). SMN-restoring therapies have recently emerged; however, preclinical and clinical studies revealed a limited therapeutic time window and systemic aspects of the disease. This raises a fundamental question of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Motyl AAL,Faller KME,Groen EJN,Kline RA,Eaton SL,Ledahawsky LM,Chaytow H,Lamont DJ,Wishart TM,Huang YT,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a frequent neurodegenerative disease, is caused by reduced levels of functional survival of motoneuron (SMN) protein. SMN is involved in multiple pathways, including RNA metabolism and splicing as well as motoneuron development and function. Here we provide evidence for a major contribut...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nölle A,Zeug A,van Bergeijk J,Tönges L,Gerhard R,Brinkmann H,Al Rayes S,Hensel N,Schill Y,Apkhazava D,Jablonka S,O'mer J,Srivastav RK,Baasner A,Lingor P,Wirth B,Ponimaskin E,Niedenthal R,Grothe C,Claus P

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of the polyglutamine stretch in the MJD gene-encoded protein, ataxin-3. Using a series of deletion constructs expressing ataxin-3 fragments with expanded polyglutamine stretches, we observed aggregate formation and cell dea...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yoshizawa T,Yamagishi Y,Koseki N,Goto J,Yoshida H,Shibasaki F,Shoji S,Kanazawa I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early growth response 2 gene ( EGR2 ) is a Cys2His2zinc finger transcription factor which is thought to play a role in the regulation of peripheral nervous system myelination. This idea is based partly on the phenotype of homozygous Krox20 ( Egr2 ) knockout mice, which display hypomyelination of the PNS and a bloc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Warner LE,Svaren J,Milbrandt J,Lupski JR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine tract within the SCA1 product, ataxin-1. Previously, using transgenic mice, it was demonstrated that in order for a mutant allele of ataxin-1 to cause disease it must be transported to the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yue S,Serra HG,Zoghbi HY,Orr HT

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation, is caused by the loss of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FMRP is a ubiquitously expressed, multi-domain RNA-binding protein, but its in vivo function remains poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that FMRP participates in...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu W,Jiang F,Bi X,Zhang YQ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In model organisms, over 2,000 genes have been shown to modulate aging, the collection of which we call the ‘gerontome’. Although some individual aging-related genes have been the subject of intense scrutiny, their analysis as a whole has been limited. In particular, the genetic interaction of aging and age-related pa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fernandes M,Wan C,Tacutu R,Barardo D,Rajput A,Wang J,Thoppil H,Thornton D,Yang C,Freitas A,de Magalhães JP

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked myotubular myopathy (MTM) is a severe neuromuscular disease of infancy caused by mutations of MTM1, which encodes the phosphoinositide lipid phosphatase, myotubularin. The Mtm1 knockout (KO) mouse has a severe phenotype and its short lifespan (8 weeks) makes it a challenge to use as a model in the testing of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pierson CR,Dulin-Smith AN,Durban AN,Marshall ML,Marshall JT,Snyder AD,Naiyer N,Gladman JT,Chandler DS,Lawlor MW,Buj-Bello A,Dowling JJ,Beggs AH

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gene HIC1 (hypermethylated in cancer) maps to chromosome 17p13.3 and is deleted in the contiguous gene disorder Miller-Dieker syndrome (MDS) [Makos-Wales et al. (1995) Nature Med., 1, 570-577; Chong et al. (1996) Genome Res., 6, 735-741]. We isolated the murine homologue Hic1, encoding a zinc-finger protein ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grimm C,Spörle R,Schmid TE,Adler ID,Adamski J,Schughart K,Graw J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy holds great promise for curing Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common fatal inherited childhood muscle disease. Success of DMD gene therapy depends upon functional improvement in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Numerous gene transfer studies have been performed to correct skeletal muscle pat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yue Y,Skimming JW,Liu M,Strawn T,Duan D

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OPA1 mutations are the major cause of dominant optic atrophy (DOA) and the syndromic form DOA plus, pathologies for which there is no established cure. We used a 'drug repurposing' approach to identify FDA-approved molecules able to rescue the mitochondrial dysfunctions induced by OPA1 mutations. We screened two diffe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aleo SJ,Del Dotto V,Fogazza M,Maresca A,Lodi T,Goffrini P,Ghelli A,Rugolo M,Carelli V,Baruffini E,Zanna C

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:RAD51C was defined by Meindl et al. in 2010 as a high-risk gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Although this role seems to be clear, nowadays there is controversy about the indication of including the gene in routine clinical genetic testing, due to the lower prevalence or the absence of mutations ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Osorio A,Endt D,Fernández F,Eirich K,de la Hoya M,Schmutzler R,Caldés T,Meindl A,Schindler D,Benitez J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct regions, designated AZFa, b and c from proximal to distal Yq, are required for normal spermato-genesis in humans. Deletions involving AZFa (deletion interval 5C/D) seem to occur less frequently in infertile men and to be associated with a more severe testicular phenotype, with almost complete absence of...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Foresta C,Ferlin A,Moro E

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoglycans are a group of single-pass transmembrane glycoproteins. In striated muscle, sarcoglycans interact with dystrophin and other dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs) to form the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex (DGC). The DGC protects the sarcolemma from contraction-induced injury. Duchenne muscular...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li D,Long C,Yue Y,Duan D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hay-Wells syndrome, also known as ankyloblepharon-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting (AEC) syndrome (OMIM 106260), is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by congenital ectodermal dysplasia, including alopecia, scalp infections, dystrophic nails, hypodontia, ankyloblepharon and cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McGrath JA,Duijf PH,Doetsch V,Irvine AD,de Waal R,Vanmolkot KR,Wessagowit V,Kelly A,Atherton DJ,Griffiths WA,Orlow SJ,van Haeringen A,Ausems MG,Yang A,McKeon F,Bamshad MA,Brunner HG,Hamel BC,van Bokhoven H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a complex congenital disorder, arising from abnormalities in enteric nervous system (ENS) development. There is a gender disparity among the patients, with the male to female ratio as high as 5 : 1. Loss-of-function mutations of HSCR genes and haploinsufficiency of their gene product...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li Y,Kido T,Garcia-Barcelo MM,Tam PK,Tabatabai ZL,Lau YF

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty liver has been associated with unfavourable metabolic changes in circulation. To provide insights in fatty liver-related metabolic deviations, we compared metabolic association profile of fatty liver versus metabolic association profiles of genotypes increasing the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFL...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sliz E,Sebert S,Würtz P,Kangas AJ,Soininen P,Lehtimäki T,Kähönen M,Viikari J,Männikkö M,Ala-Korpela M,Raitakari OT,Kettunen J

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00