Interaction between SREBP-1a and APOB polymorphisms influences total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in patients with coronary artery disease.

abstract：:A new modification of currently utilized methods of processing cell cultures of whole peripheral blood for obtaining chromosome preparations necessary for differential staining (Q, G and C) is proposed. After the usual hypotonic treatment of cultures, a 3%-5% aquaeous solution of glacial acetic acid is added to the ce...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ibraimov AI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately one in three individuals will be affected by cancer in their lifetime in the United States, and some are at elevated risk because of family history. Although assessment of family history of cancer and cancer risk is the standard of care, the current health-care system appears unable to meet this need. Be...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kelly KM,Sweet K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of folic acid intake on the frequency of fragile X positive cells and some behavioural characteristics were evaluated in 5 boys and 4 adult males with the fragile X syndrome. The expression of fragile X was nullified in 6 and decreased in 3 of the 9 patients. Behavioural and motor ability were considered to...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gustavson KH,Dahlbom K,Flood A,Holmgren G,Blomquist HK,Sanner G

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 46,XY phenotypic female infant with absent uterus, probable agonadism, and bilateral upper amelia. The constellation of anomalies is similar to that of the patient described by Temoçin et al. (Acta Paediatr Jpn 1997: 39: 631-633), and may suggest a developmental link between genital region and ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ohro Y,Suzuki Y,Tsutsumi Y,Ogata T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family in which three sibs are compound heterozygotes for two rather rare CFTR splice-site mutations, the 621 + 1G-->T and the 711 + 1G-->T mutations. Little phenotypic variation was observed between sibs, of whom two are deceased. Their disease is characterized by pancreatic insufficiency, a severe pulm...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： De Braekeleer M,Simard F,Aubin G

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are presented to estimate relative fitness of carriers as a function of fertility, survival, are generation time in pedigrees under incomplete ascertainment. A large sample of diverse chromosomal aberrations reveals significant effects on all three parameters, giving a relative fitness of .769 +/- .039. There ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Morton NE,Jacobs PA,Frackiewicz A,Law P,Hilditch CJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamus plays a critical role in the regulation of food intake and body weight, and recent work has defined a core circuitry in the hypothalamus that appears to mediate many of the effects of the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin on feeding and glucose homeostasis. However, until recently, little was known abo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bouret SG,Simerly RB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 63 families from the Pomerania-Kujawy region were analyzed for three BRCA1 gene Polish founder mutations, 5382insC, 300T>G, and 4153delA, because of breast (BrCa) and/or ovarian cancer (OvCa) history. The analysis was carried out by multiplex polymerase chain reaction method. BRCA1 mutation was revealed in ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Janiszewska H,Haus O,Lauda-Swieciak A,Pasińska M,Laskowski R,Szymański W,Górski B,Lubiński J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing frequency with which the diagnosis of the 47,XXY karyotype is made requires more knowledge of the prognosis of this condition. We present four 47,XXY boys identified at birth and followed since then (Group I), and four 47,XXY boys diagnosed because of physical and/or emotional problems (Group II). Physi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Salbenblatt JA,Bender BG,Puck MH,Robinson A,Webber ML

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper we report the first example of fertility in a female with isodicentric X-formation and karyotype 45,X/46,X,del(X)(pter----p21.3)/46,X,idic(X)(qter----p21.3::p21.3- ---qter). Her daughter was phenotypically almost normal and presented a 46,X,del(X)(pter----p21.3) karyotype in all examined cells. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

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

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacarpophalangeal pattern profile (MCPP) analysis was applied to patients with Pfeiffer and Chotzen syndromes, dominantly inherited types of acrocephalosyndactyly (ACS). A characteristic MCPP was obtained for the group. However, it did not discriminate between patients with Chotzen syndrome and those with Pfeiffer s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Escobar V,Bixler D

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 107 Finnish patients with progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME), belonging to 74 families, autosomal recessive inheritance was evident. The sex ratio was 48:51, the corrected proportion of affected sibs being 0.260. Of 68 marriages 15, or 22%, were consanguineous; several of the parents were related and the geograph...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Norio R,Koskiniemi M

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the control of genome integrity easily fits a tumor suppressor model. It is well established that mutations in DNA repair genes lead to genomic instability (138). Genomic instability may directly lead to tumorigenesis by allowing for the accumulation of mutations in key cell cycle regulat...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Welcsh PL,Schubert EL,King MC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hunter syndrome or mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPSII) is caused by pathogenic variants in the IDS gene. This is the first study that examines the mutational spectrum in 25 unrelated Mexican MPSII families. The responsible genotype was identified in 96% of the families (24/25) with 10 novel pathogenic variants: c.13...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Alcántara-Ortigoza MA,García-de Teresa B,González-Del Angel A,Berumen J,Guardado-Estrada M,Fernández-Hernández L,Navarrete-Martínez JI,Maza-Morales M,Rius-Domínguez R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in IRF6 cause Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), one of the most common syndromes associated with cleft lip (CL) with or without cleft palate (CP). The presence of pits on the lower lip of patients is the most characteristic feature of the syndrome. We have identified three novel and seven previously reported IRF...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Malik S,Kakar N,Hasnain S,Ahmad J,Wilcox ER,Naz S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first appearance of an autosomal dominant disease in a family is often attributed to new mutation, and the parents may be given a very low risk of recurrence for future offspring. This counseling is not appropriate if penetrance of the disease is incomplete and the reproductive fitness of affected individuals is c...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Friedman JM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical or variant forms of well-known chondrodysplasias may pose diagnostic problems. We report on a girl with clinical features suggesting diastrophic dysplasia but with unusual radiographic features including severe platyspondyly, wide metaphyses, and fibular overgrowth, which are partially reminiscent of metatrop...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mégarbané A,Haddad FA,Haddad-Zebouni S,Achram M,Eich G,Le Merrer M,Superti-Furga A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there is widespread agreement on the broad aspects of what constitutes a biobank, there is much disagreement regarding the precise definition. This research aimed to describe and analyze the definitions of the term biobank offered by various stakeholders in biobanking. Interviews were conducted with 36 biobankin...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shaw DM,Elger BS,Colledge F

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described four DNaseI hypersensitive sites (DH 1 to DH4) in the 40-kb intergenic region between the plasminogen gene and the apo(a) gene. Here, we wanted to analyse whether any of these sites, located 4, 21, 28 and 34 kb upstream of the apo(a) transcriptional start site, would act as an enhancer on ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Acquati F,Rönicke V,Taramelli R,Müller HJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Below-the-knee right leg hypoplasia and ipsilateral toe brachysyndactyly were observed in a 4-year-old female with an otherwise normal phenotype. Electromyographic and nerve conduction studies were normal. The Doppler evaluation was consistent with a 50% reduction in the blood supply from the femoral artery, suggestin...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Silengo M,Lerone M,Seri M,Boffi P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine methyltransferase 2D (KMT2D; OMIM 602113) encodes a histone methyltransferase involved in transcriptional regulation of the beta-globin and estrogen receptor as part of a large protein complex known as activating signal cointegrator-2-containing complex (ASCOM). Heterozygous germline mutations in the KMT2D gene...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tekendo-Ngongang C,Kruszka P,Martinez AF,Muenke M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is presented with hyperexplexia, a rare autosomal dominant neurological disorder. Affected individuals manifest flexor hypertonia and hypokinesia during infancy. Later and throughout life, the condition is characterized by exaggerated involuntary myoclonic startle reactions, which on occasion result in fallin...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Morley DJ,Weaver DD,Garg BP,Markand O

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RSTS) is a rare congenital neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by postnatal growth deficiency, skeletal abnormalities, dysmorphic features and cognitive deficit. Mutations in two genes, CREBBP and EP300, encoding two homologous transcriptional co-activators, have been identified in ˜55...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Negri G,Milani D,Colapietro P,Forzano F,Della Monica M,Rusconi D,Consonni L,Caffi LG,Finelli P,Scarano G,Magnani C,Selicorni A,Spena S,Larizza L,Gervasini C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization was used to characterize an undetected chromosome translocation in a child whose metaphase chromosome analysis in peripheral blood and in skin culture revealed apparent monosomy 21. The cytogenetic study revealed 45 chromosomes, and no other structural anomalies were detected with G banding. In s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： López-Pajares I,Martin-Ancel A,Cabello P,Delicado A,Garcia-Alix A,San Roman C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty CF chromosomes from ten patients with mild adult form of cystic fibrosis were tested for delta F508. This mutation was found to be significantly less frequent than in the severe form of the disease. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Simon-Bouy B,Mornet E,Taillandier A,Serre JL,Boue J,Boue A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial 1555A>G mutation is one of the most common mutations responsible for hearing loss in Asians. Although the association with aminoglycoside exposure is well known, there is great variation in the severity of hearing loss. We analyzed hearing levels in 221 Japanese individuals with this mutation and att...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lu SY,Nishio S,Tsukada K,Oguchi T,Kobayashi K,Abe S,Usami S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a ciliopathy characterized by retinitis pigmentosa, obesity, polydactyly, cognitive impairment and renal failure. Pathogenic variants in 24 genes account for the molecular basis of >80% of cases. Toward saturated discovery of the mutational basis of the disorder, we carefully explored ou...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Delvallée C,Nicaise S,Antin M,Leuvrey AS,Nourisson E,Leitch CC,Kellaris G,Stoetzel C,Geoffroy V,Scheidecker S,Keren B,Depienne C,Klar J,Dahl N,Deleuze JF,Génin E,Redon R,Demurger F,Devriendt K,Mathieu-Dramard M,Po

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific chromosome rearrangements associated with disease entities are invaluable resources for physical mapping. A deletion on the X chromosome of a male leads to the nullisomy for X-linked genes, resulting in the onset of genetic diseases and/or the absence of the DNA probe detectable sequences. This permits the lo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yang HM,Lund T,Niebuhr E,Nørby S,Schwartz M,Shen L

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis in a pregnancy at risk for Becker muscular dystrophy is reported. The diagnosis was made prior to 12 weeks of gestation by typing a CVS sample for DNA markers. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wood S,Shukin RJ,Yong SL,Wilson D,Kalousek D,Chudley A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of studies has linked vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) to idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). In this study, we investigated the correlation between VIP gene variants and IPAH in Chinese population. A total of 81 consecutive unrelated patients diagnosed as IPAH from 2006 to 2008 and 250 con...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang JQ,Liu ZH,Xiong CM,Ni XH,Hui RT,He JG,Pu JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00