Aggresomes protect cells by enhancing the degradation of toxic polyglutamine-containing protein.

abstract：:Genome-wide scans for linkage of chromosome regions to type 1 diabetes in affected sib pair families have revealed that the major susceptibility locus resides within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6p21 (lambda S = 2.4). It is recognized that the MHC contains multiple susceptibility loci (refe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Todd JA,Farrall M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disorder characterized by a progressive and treatable degeneration of the optic nerve. TIGR/myocilin (MYOC) gene mutations are found in approximately 4% of all POAG patients. Populations with frequent founder effects, such as the French-Canadians, offer unique advantages...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Faucher M,Anctil JL,Rodrigue MA,Duchesne A,Bergeron D,Blondeau P,Côté G,Dubois S,Bergeron J,Arseneault R,Morissette J,Raymond V,Québec Glaucoma Network.

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHARGE syndrome is a multiple congenital anomaly disorder that leads to life-threatening birth defects, such as choanal atresia and cardiac malformations as well as multiple sensory impairments, that affect hearing, vision, olfaction and balance. CHARGE is caused by heterozygous mutations in CHD7, which encodes an ATP...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Micucci JA,Layman WS,Hurd EA,Sperry ED,Frank SF,Durham MA,Swiderski DL,Skidmore JM,Scacheri PC,Raphael Y,Martin DM

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED), Clouston type, is an autosomal dominant skin disorder which is most common in the French-Canadian population and is characterized by hair defects, nail dystrophy and palmoplantar hyperkeratosis. Biophysical and biochemical studies conducted in HED suggested a molecular abnormality ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kibar Z,Der Kaloustian VM,Brais B,Hani V,Fraser FC,Rouleau GA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the possible role of STAT4 gene in the genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis (SSc) susceptibility or clinical phenotype. A total of 1317 SSc patients [896 with limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc) and 421 with diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc)] and 3113 healthy controls, from an in...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rueda B,Broen J,Simeon C,Hesselstrand R,Diaz B,Suárez H,Ortego-Centeno N,Riemekasten G,Fonollosa V,Vonk MC,van den Hoogen FH,Sanchez-Román J,Aguirre-Zamorano MA,García-Portales R,Pros A,Camps MT,Gonzalez-Gay MA,Coenen M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biallelic loss-of-function mutations in the RNA-binding protein EIF4A3 cause Richieri-Costa-Pereira syndrome (RCPS), an autosomal recessive condition mainly characterized by craniofacial and limb malformations. However, the pathogenic cellular mechanisms responsible for this syndrome are entirely unknown. Here, we use...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Miller EE,Kobayashi GS,Musso CM,Allen M,Ishiy FAA,de Caires LC Jr,Goulart E,Griesi-Oliveira K,Zechi-Ceide RM,Richieri-Costa A,Bertola DR,Passos-Bueno MR,Silver DL

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification is a common phenomenon in malignant neoplasms of all types. One mechanism behind increased gene copy number is the formation of ring chromosomes. Such structures are mitotically unstable and during tumor progression they accumulate material from many different parts of the genome. Hence, their conte...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nord KH,Macchia G,Tayebwa J,Nilsson J,Vult von Steyern F,Brosjö O,Mandahl N,Mertens F

更新日期：2014-02-15 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：: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：:Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is an essential messenger of sexual differentiation in the foetus and is an emerging biomarker of postnatal reproductive function in females. Due to a paucity of adequately sized studies, the genetic determinants of circulating AMH levels are poorly characterized. In samples from 2815 adol...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Perry JR,McMahon G,Day FR,Ring SM,Nelson SM,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapsin I (SynI) is a synaptic vesicle (SV) phosphoprotein playing multiple roles in synaptic transmission and plasticity by differentially affecting crucial steps of SV trafficking in excitatory and inhibitory synapses. SynI knockout (KO) mice are epileptic, and nonsense and missense mutations in the human SYN1 gene...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lignani G,Raimondi A,Ferrea E,Rocchi A,Paonessa F,Cesca F,Orlando M,Tkatch T,Valtorta F,Cossette P,Baldelli P,Benfenati F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATM gene is responsible for the autosomal recessive disorder ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), characterized by cerebellar degeneration, immunodeficiency and cancer predisposition. A-T carriers were reported to be moderately cancer-prone. A wide variety of A-T mutations, most of which are unique to single families, wer...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gilad S,Bar-Shira A,Harnik R,Shkedy D,Ziv Y,Khosravi R,Brown K,Vanagaite L,Xu G,Frydman M,Lavin MF,Hill D,Tagle DA,Shiloh Y

更新日期：1996-12-01 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 parent of origin-dependent expression of the IGF2 and H19 genes is controlled by the imprinting centre 1 (IC1) consisting in a methylation-sensitive chromatin insulator. Deletions removing part of IC1 have been found in patients affected by the overgrowth- and tumour-associated Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS). T...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cerrato F,Sparago A,Verde G,De Crescenzo A,Citro V,Cubellis MV,Rinaldi MM,Boccuto L,Neri G,Magnani C,D'Angelo P,Collini P,Perotti D,Sebastio G,Maher ER,Riccio A

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraspeckles are nuclear bodies formed by a set of specialized proteins assembled on the long non-coding RNA NEAT1; they have a role in nuclear retention of hyperedited transcripts and are associated with response to cellular stress. Fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein, linked to a number of neurodegenerative disorders, is...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shelkovnikova TA,Robinson HK,Troakes C,Ninkina N,Buchman VL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivated by the overwhelming success of genome-wide association studies, droves of researchers are working vigorously to exchange and to combine genetic data to expediently discover genetic risk factors for common human traits. The primary tools that fuel these new efforts are imputation, allowing researchers who hav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： de Bakker PI,Ferreira MA,Jia X,Neale BM,Raychaudhuri S,Voight BF

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor SOX10 is mutated in the human neurocristopathy Waardenburg-Shah syndrome (WS4), which is characterized by enteric aganglionosis and pigmentation defects. SOX10 directly regulates genes expressed in neural crest lineages, including the enteric ganglia and melanocytes. Although some SOX10 target...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Antonellis A,Bennett WR,Menheniott TR,Prasad AB,Lee-Lin SQ,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Green ED,Paisley D,Kelsh RN,Pavan WJ,Ward A

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction plays an important role in the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the progressive nature of neuronal loss in genetic models of mitochondrial dysfunction suggests the presence of compensatory mechanisms promoting neuronal survival under these conditions. Here, we identified the e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Germain M,Nguyen AP,Khacho M,Patten DA,Screaton RA,Park DS,Slack RS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saposin B derives from the multi-functional precursor, prosaposin, and functions as an activity enhancer for several glycosphingolipid (GSL) hydrolases. Mutations in saposin B present in humans with phenotypes resembling metachromatic leukodystrophy. To gain insight into saposin B's physiological functions, a specific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sun Y,Witte DP,Ran H,Zamzow M,Barnes S,Cheng H,Han X,Williams MT,Skelton MR,Vorhees CV,Grabowski GA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) are non-coding RNA molecules involved in cancer initiation and progression. Deregulated miR expression has been implicated in cancer; however, there are no studies implicating an miR signature associated with progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Although OSCC may develop from oral leuko...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cervigne NK,Reis PP,Machado J,Sadikovic B,Bradley G,Galloni NN,Pintilie M,Jurisica I,Perez-Ordonez B,Gilbert R,Gullane P,Irish J,Kamel-Reid S

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease that has been linked to deletions within a tandem array of 3.2 kb repeats adjacent to the telomere of 4q. These repeats are also present in other locations in the human genome, including the short arms of all the acrocentric c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Winokur ST,Bengtsson U,Vargas JC,Wasmuth JJ,Altherr MR,Weiffenbach B,Jacobsen SJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：: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：:Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (EHK), (bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma), is an autosomal dominant human skin disorder. Recently, we and others have described mutations in keratins 1 and 10 (K1 and K10) in patients with this disease. Structure-function models predict that these mutations would impair normal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rothnagel JA,Fisher MP,Axtell SM,Pittelkow MR,Anton-Lamprecht I,Huber M,Hohl D,Roop DR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in FAM161A, a protein of unknown function localized at the cilium of retinal photoreceptor cells, cause retinitis pigmentosa, a form of hereditary blindness. By using different fragments of this protein as baits to screen cDNA libraries of human and bovine retinas, we defined a yeast two-hybrid-based FAM161A i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Di Gioia SA,Farinelli P,Letteboer SJ,Arsenijevic Y,Sharon D,Roepman R,Rivolta C

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal neuraminidase is the key enzyme for the intralysosomal catabolism of sialylated glycoconjugates and is deficient in two neurodegenerative lysosomal disorders, sialidosis and galactosialidosis. Here we report the identification of eight novel mutations in the neuraminidase gene of 11 sialidosis patients with ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bonten EJ,Arts WF,Beck M,Covanis A,Donati MA,Parini R,Zammarchi E,d'Azzo A

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haploinsufficiency of the single-minded homology 1 (SIM1) gene in humans and mice leads to severe obesity, suggesting that altered expression of SIM1, by way of regulatory elements such as enhancers, could predispose individuals to obesity. Here, we identified transcriptional enhancers that could regulate SIM1, using ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Oksenberg N,Hoffmann TJ,Vaisse C,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LKB1 is a serine/threonine kinase which is inactivated by mutation in the Peutz-Jeghers polyposis and cancer predisposition syndrome (PJS). We have identified a novel leucine-rich repeat containing protein, LIP1, that interacts with LKB1. The LIP1 gene consists of 25 exons, maps to human chromosome 2q36 and encodes a ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith DP,Rayter SI,Niederlander C,Spicer J,Jones CM,Ashworth A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XX males and XY females have a sex reversal disorder which can be caused by an abnormal interchange between the X and the Y chromosomes. We have isolated and characterized a novel gene on the Y chromosome, PRKY. This gene is highly homologous to a previously isolated gene from Xp22.3, PRKX, and represents a member of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schiebel K,Winkelmann M,Mertz A,Xu X,Page DC,Weil D,Petit C,Rappold GA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite instability (MSI) characterizes tumors arising in patients with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) syndrome. HNPCC is a hereditary autosomal dominant disease caused by germline mutations in genes from the DNA (MMR) mismatch repair system. In these tumors, the loss of MMR compromises the ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Alazzouzi H,Domingo E,González S,Blanco I,Armengol M,Espín E,Plaja A,Schwartz S,Capella G,Schwartz S Jr

更新日期：2005-01-15 00:00:00