Evidence that unrestricted legumain activity is involved in disturbed epidermal cornification in cystatin M/E deficient mice.

abstract：:The FMR1 gene, associated with fragile X syndrome, has recently been cloned and the sequence of partial cDNA clones is known. We have determined additional cDNA sequences both at the 5' and 3' end. We have characterized the expressed gene by means of RT-PCR in various tissues and have found that alternative splicing t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verkerk AJ,de Graaff E,De Boulle K,Eichler EE,Konecki DS,Reyniers E,Manca A,Poustka A,Willems PJ,Nelson DL

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:Little is known about genes regulating male puberty. Further, while many identified pubertal timing variants associate with age at menarche, a late manifestation of puberty, and body mass, little is known about these variants' relationship to pubertal initiation or tempo. To address these questions, we performed genom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cousminer DL,Stergiakouli E,Berry DJ,Ang W,Groen-Blokhuis MM,Körner A,Siitonen N,Ntalla I,Marinelli M,Perry JR,Kettunen J,Jansen R,Surakka I,Timpson NJ,Ring S,Mcmahon G,Power C,Wang C,Kähönen M,Viikari J,Lehtimäki

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a complex congenital syndrome caused by a monoallelic deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4. Seizures in WHS have been associated with deletion of LETM1 gene. LETM1 encodes for the human homologue of yeast Mdm38p, a mitochondria-shaping protein of unclear function. Here we show th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dimmer KS,Navoni F,Casarin A,Trevisson E,Endele S,Winterpacht A,Salviati L,Scorrano L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the NF1 tumor suppressor gene cause Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Neurofibromin, the protein product of NF1, functions as a negative regulator of Ras activity. Some NF1 patients develop cardiovascular disease, which represents an underrecognized disease complication and contributes to excess morbidity a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stansfield BK,Bessler WK,Mali R,Mund JA,Downing B,Li F,Sarchet KN,DiStasi MR,Conway SJ,Kapur R,Ingram DA Jr

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliopathies form a group of inherited disorders sharing several clinical manifestations because of abnormal cilia formation or function, and few treatments have been successful against these disorders. Here, we report a mouse model with mutated Sclt1 gene, which encodes a centriole distal appendage protein important ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li J,Lu D,Liu H,Williams BO,Overbeek PA,Lee B,Zheng L,Yang T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating X-linked disease affecting ~1 in 5000 males. DMD patients exhibit progressive muscle degeneration and weakness, leading to loss of ambulation and premature death from cardiopulmonary failure. We previously reported that mouse Laminin-111 (msLam-111) protein could redu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barraza-Flores P,Fontelonga TM,Wuebbles RD,Hermann HJ,Nunes AM,Kornegay JN,Burkin DJ

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is a disorder of male sexual development resulting in a wide range of clinical phenotypes. AIS is classified into two phenotypic forms: complete (CAIS) and partial (PAIS). To determine the molecular basis of the phenotypic diversity in AIS, we have studied 27 subjects (13 CAIS...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Batch JA,Williams DM,Davies HR,Brown BD,Evans BA,Hughes IA,Patterson MN

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich's ataxia is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the frataxin gene that produces a predominantly mitochondrial protein whose primary function appears to be mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster (ISC) biosynthesis. Previously we demonstrated that frataxin interacts with multiple components of the ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shan Y,Cortopassi G

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA), a common skeletal disease, is a leading cause of disability among the elderly populations. OA is characterized by gradual loss of articular cartilage, but the etiology and pathogenesis of OA are largely unknown. Epidemiological and genetic studies have demonstrated that genetic factors play an imp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mototani H,Mabuchi A,Saito S,Fujioka M,Iida A,Takatori Y,Kotani A,Kubo T,Nakamura K,Sekine A,Murakami Y,Tsunoda T,Notoya K,Nakamura Y,Ikegawa S

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the thyroid hormone receptor α gene (THRA) cause hypothyroidism in patients with growth and developmental retardation, and skeletal dysplasia. Genetic evidence indicates that the dominant negative activity of TRα1 mutants underlies pathological manifestations. Using a mouse model of hypothyroidism caused ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim DW,Park JW,Willingham MC,Cheng SY

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is a dominantly inherited cancer syndrome which affects thyroid C cells, and with variable frequency, the adrenal medulla, parathyroid and enteric autonomic ganglia. The syndrome is due to germline mutation in the receptor tyrosine kinase gene, RET. We have recently shown an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gardner E,Mulligan LM,Eng C,Healey CS,Kwok JB,Ponder MA,Ponder BA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation is a hallmark of vascular injury and disease. Global hypomethylation occurs during SMC proliferation in culture and in vivo during neointimal formation. Regardless of the programmed or stochastic nature of hypomethylation, identifying these changes is important in understanding v...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connelly JJ,Cherepanova OA,Doss JF,Karaoli T,Lillard TS,Markunas CA,Nelson S,Wang T,Ellis PD,Langford CF,Haynes C,Seo DM,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ,Shah SH,Kraus WE,Hauser ER,Gregory SG

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the loss of expression of imprinted genes in chromosome 15q11-q13. Affected individuals exhibit neonatal hypotonia, developmental delay and childhood-onset obesity. Necdin, a protein implicated in the terminal differentiation of neurons, is the only PWS candidate gene to reduce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Kozlov S,Hernandez L,Chamberlain SJ,Brannan CI,Stewart CL,Wevrick R

更新日期：2000-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with olfactory defects in addition to dopaminergic degeneration. Dopaminergic signalling is necessary for subventricular zone (SVZ) proliferation and olfactory bulb (OB) neurogenesis. Alpha-synuclein (α-syn or Snca) modulates dopaminergic neurotransmission, and SNCA mutations cau...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang XM,Anwar S,Kim Y,Brown J,Comte I,Cai H,Cai NN,Wade-Martins R,Szele FG

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish has been the model of choice amongst developmental biologists for many years. This small freshwater species offers many advantages to the study of organ and tissue development that are not provided by other model systems. Against this background, modern molecular genetic approaches are being applied to e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dodd A,Curtis PM,Williams LC,Love DR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage, association and postmortem studies have implicated regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4), which negatively modulates signal transduction at G-protein-coupled receptors, as a candidate schizophrenia susceptibility gene. We compared RGS4 mRNA expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), between...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lipska BK,Mitkus S,Caruso M,Hyde TM,Chen J,Vakkalanka R,Straub RE,Weinberger DR,Kleinman JE

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the dynamics of mitochondrial DNA maintenance and segregation in human cells using serial cybrid transfer of partially duplicated mitochondrial DNA, from a mitochondrial myopathy patient, to two distinct recipient cell types. The results indicate two radically different outcomes dependent upon nuclear ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Holt IJ,Dunbar DR,Jacobs HT

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Since recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) was first described as a potential mammalian cell transducing system, frequent reports purportedly solving the problems of scalable production have appeared. Yet few of these processes have enabled the development of robust and economical rAAV production. Two production ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kotin RM

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PAX genes encode nuclear transcription factors which are rapidly becoming regarded as major controllers of developmental processes in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Mutations in murine Pax genes underlie three natural mouse alleles and two corresponding human syndromes. Murine Pax genes have been shown to be prot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stuart ET,Gruss P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a consanguineous couple who lost four pregnancies associated with skeletal dysplasia. Radiological examination of one fetus was inconclusive. Parental exome sequencing showed that both parents were heterozygous for a novel missense variant, p.(Pro133Leu), in the SLC35D1 gene encoding a nucleotide...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rautengarten C,Quarrell OW,Stals K,Caswell RC,De Franco E,Baple E,Burgess N,Jokhi R,Heazlewood JL,Offiah AC,Ebert B,Ellard S

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Mutations in the survival motor neuron (SMN1) gene lead to the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Although SMA is primarily considered as a motor neuron disease, the importance of muscle defects in its pathogenesis has not been fully examined. We use both primary cell culture and two different SMA mo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Boyer JG,Deguise MO,Murray LM,Yazdani A,De Repentigny Y,Boudreau-Larivière C,Kothary R

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A glaucoma locus, GLC1A, was identified previously on chromosome 1q. A gene within this locus (encoding the protein myocilin) subsequently was shown to harbor mutations in 2-4% of primary open angle glaucoma patients. A total of 1703 patients was screened from five different populations representing three racial group...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fingert JH,Héon E,Liebmann JM,Yamamoto T,Craig JE,Rait J,Kawase K,Hoh ST,Buys YM,Dickinson J,Hockey RR,Williams-Lyn D,Trope G,Kitazawa Y,Ritch R,Mackey DA,Alward WL,Sheffield VC,Stone EM

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:The MITF/TFE subfamily of basic helix-loop-helix leucine-zipper (bHLH-LZ) transcription factors consists of four closely related members, TFE3, TFEB, TFEC and MITF, which can form both homo- and heterodimers. Previously, we demonstrated that in t(X;1)(p11;q21)-positive renal cell carcinomas (RCCs), the TFE3 gene on th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kuiper RP,Schepens M,Thijssen J,van Asseldonk M,van den Berg E,Bridge J,Schuuring E,Schoenmakers EF,van Kessel AG

更新日期：2003-07-15 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：: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：:Advances in information technology (IT) hardware in the last decade have led to the advent of small connected devices broadly referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT and its subcategory of wearable devices (wearables) both have the potential to greatly impact biomedical research. This focused review cover...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Talboom JS,Huentelman MJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00