Ataxin-2 and huntingtin interact with endophilin-A complexes to function in plastin-associated pathways.

abstract：:Elucidating the molecular changes that arise during neural differentiation and fate specification is crucial for building accurate in vitro models of neurodegenerative diseases using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Here we review the importance of hESCs and derived progenitors in treating and modeling neurological...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yeo GW,Coufal N,Aigner S,Winner B,Scolnick JA,Marchetto MC,Muotri AR,Carson C,Gage FH

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypobetalipoproteinemia is caused by apolipoprotein (apo) B gene mutations and is frequently associated with a truncated apo-B protein in the plasma. Homozygosity for mutations yielding a truncated apo-B is extremely rare; fewer than five true homozygotes have been described in the world's literature. These p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Young SG,Bihain B,Flynn LM,Sanan DA,Ayrault-Jarrier M,Jacotot B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome region 17p13.3 is thought to encode a tumour suppressor gene involved in sporadic breast cancer and other malignancies. Physical ordering of markers has been carried out by a series of multicolour fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) experiments, using isolated yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stack M,Jones D,White G,Liscia DS,Venesio T,Casey G,Crichton D,Varley J,Mitchell E,Heighway J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned, sequenced and annotated segments of DNA spanning the mouse, chicken and pufferfish alpha globin gene clusters and compared them with the corresponding region in man. This has defined a small segment ( approximately 135-155 kb) of synteny and conserved gene order, which may contain all of the elements r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Flint J,Tufarelli C,Peden J,Clark K,Daniels RJ,Hardison R,Miller W,Philipsen S,Tan-Un KC,McMorrow T,Frampton J,Alter BP,Frischauf AM,Higgs DR

更新日期：2001-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic control of phenylalanine concentrations in body fluids is essential for cognitive development and executive function. The hepatic phenylalanine hydroxylating system is regulated by the ratio of l-phenylalanine, which is substrate of phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), to the PAH cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin (BH...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Eichinger A,Danecka MK,Möglich T,Borsch J,Woidy M,Büttner L,Muntau AC,Gersting SW

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms regulating expression of utrophin A are of therapeutic interest since upregulating its expression at the sarcolemma can compensate for the lack of dystrophin in animal models of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The 5'-UTR of utrophin A has been previously shown to drive cap-independent inter...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Miura P,Coriati A,Bélanger G,De Repentigny Y,Lee J,Kothary R,Holcik M,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant minority of degenerative dementias lack distinctive inclusion bodies, plagues or tangles on pathological examination. Half of these cases have a positive family history of dementia. We have studied the largest published family with such a dementia and mapped the disease locus to a 12 cM region of chromos...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Brown J,Ashworth A,Gydesen S,Sorensen A,Rossor M,Hardy J,Collinge J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described the identification of a second IDS locus (IDS-2) located within 90 kb telomeric of the IDS gene (Bondeson et al. submitted). Here, we show that this region is involved in a recombination event with the IDS gene in about 13% of patients with the Hunter syndrome. Analysis of the resulting rear...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bondeson ML,Dahl N,Malmgren H,Kleijer WJ,Tönnesen T,Carlberg BM,Pettersson U

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromas are one of the most characteristic features of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), an inherited autosomal-dominant neurogenetic disorder affecting 1 in 3500 individuals worldwide. These benign tumors mainly consist of Schwann cells (SCs) and fibroblasts. Recent evidence demonstrates that somatic mutations at...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Serra E,Rosenbaum T,Winner U,Aledo R,Ars E,Estivill X,Lenard HG,Lázaro C

更新日期：2000-12-12 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：:Mutations in enzymes involved in sphingolipid metabolism and trafficking cause a variety of neurological disorders, but details of the molecular pathophysiology remain obscure. SPTLC1 encodes one subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT), the rate-limiting enzyme in sphingolipid synthesis. Mutations in SPTLC1 cause...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McCampbell A,Truong D,Broom DC,Allchorne A,Gable K,Cutler RG,Mattson MP,Woolf CJ,Frosch MP,Harmon JM,Dunn TM,Brown RH Jr

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the concerted action of at least 13 different peroxisomal PEX proteins is needed for proper peroxisome biogenesis. Mutations in any of these PEX genes can lead to lethal neurometabolic disorders of the Zellweger syndrome spectrum (ZSS). Previously, we identified the W313G mutation located within the SH3 dom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Krause C,Rosewich H,Woehler A,Gärtner J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS; also known as the RSH syndrome) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, leading to characteristic multi-organ developmental abnormalities, dysmorphic facies, limb malformations and mental retardation. Mutations in the gene for Delta(7)-dehydrocholesterol reductase (Delta(7)-re...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yu H,Lee MH,Starck L,Elias ER,Irons M,Salen G,Patel SB,Tint GS

更新日期：2000-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced sarcolemmal integrity in dystrophin-deficient muscles of mdx mice and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients has been reported to result in altered calcium homeostasis. Previous studies have shown a correlative relationship between calcium-dependent protease (calpain) activity in dystrophic muscle and musc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Spencer MJ,Mellgren RL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence implicates epigenetic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study, we have investigated the role of histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes in RA synovial fibroblasts (RASFs), a key cellular mediator of cartilage and bone destruction and determined effects of HDAC1 inhibitio...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hawtree S,Muthana M,Wilkinson JM,Akil M,Wilson AG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), including Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), is caused by multiple genetic and environmental factors. The clinical and immunological features of GD and HT are distinct; however, there are multiplex families with both GD and HT, and cases in which GD evolves into H...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sakai K,Shirasawa S,Ishikawa N,Ito K,Tamai H,Kuma K,Akamizu T,Tanimura M,Furugaki K,Yamamoto K,Sasazuki T

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Megf7/Lrp4 is a member of the functionally diverse low-density lipoprotein receptor gene family, a class of ancient and highly conserved cell surface receptors with broad functions in cargo transport and cellular signaling. To gain insight into the as yet unknown biological role of Megf7/Lrp4, we have disrupted the ge...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johnson EB,Hammer RE,Herz J

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disease with unknown causes. However, in the past decade, POAG has been linked to six chromosomal regions, of which the gene MYOC encoding myocilin and the gene OPTN encoding optineurin have been identified to harbor causal mutations (disease-causing variants, DCV). POAG...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gong G,Kosoko-Lasaki O,Haynatzki GR,Wilson MR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a frequent neurocristopathy characterized by the absence of submucosal and myenteric plexuses in a variable length of the gastrointestinal tract. Pedigrees and segregation analyses suggested the involvement of one or several dominant genes with low penetrance in HSCR. Considering that RE...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Doray B,Salomon R,Amiel J,Pelet A,Touraine R,Billaud M,Attié T,Bachy B,Munnich A,Lyonnet S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron gene (SMN1). In humans, two nearly identical copies of SMN exist and differ only by a single non-polymorphic C-->T nucleotide transition in exon 7. SMN1 contains a 'C' nucleotide at the +6 position of exon 7 and produces primari...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： DiDonato CJ,Lorson CL,De Repentigny Y,Simard L,Chartrand C,Androphy EJ,Kothary R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide, a metabolite of sequential cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is a critical step in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) is highly expressed in AD brains and its genetic variants are linked to AD r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim BM,You MH,Chen CH,Suh J,Tanzi RE,Ho Lee T

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the putative role of BRCA1, a gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, in sporadic ovarian tumors among Japanese women, we examined 76 unselected primary ovarian cancers for mutations in the coding region of BRCA1 using the single-strand conformation polymorphism technique. Although no som...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Matsushima M,Kobayashi K,Emi M,Saito H,Saito J,Suzumori K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular defects responsible for three cases of severe (type III) osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) were investigated. The mutation sites were localized in pro alpha 1(I) and pro alpha 2(I) mRNA molecules, respectively, by chemical cleavage of mismatch in heteroduplex nucleic acids. Mutation identification was achieve...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Forlino A,Zolezzi F,Valli M,Pignatti PF,Cetta G,Brunelli PC,Mottes M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promising results in several clinical studies have emphasized the potential of gene therapy to address important medical needs and initiated a surge of investments in drug development and commercialization. This enthusiasm is driven by positive data in clinical trials including gene replacement for Hemophilia B, X-lin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： van der Loo JC,Wright JF

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystin-1 (PC1), encoded by the PKD1 gene that is mutated in the autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, regulates a number of processes including bone development. Activity of the transcription factor RunX2, which controls osteoblast differentiation, is reduced in Pkd1 mutant mice but the mechanism governing...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Merrick D,Mistry K,Wu J,Gresko N,Baggs JE,Hogenesch JB,Sun Z,Caplan MJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition associated with the formation of intraneuronal aggregates by mutant huntingtin. Aggregate formation is a property shared by the nine related diseases caused by polyglutamine codon expansion mutations and also by other neurodegenerative conditions like P...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vacher C,Garcia-Oroz L,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent prospective analysis identified secretory phospholipase A(2)-IIa (sPLA(2)IIa) as a coronary artery disease (CAD) risk predictor. This study aimed to examine the relationship between serum levels of sPLA(2)IIa and variation in the sPLA(2)IIa gene (PLA2G2A) in a cohort of patients with Type II diabetes (T2D) mell...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wootton PT,Drenos F,Cooper JA,Thompson SR,Stephens JW,Hurt-Camejo E,Wiklund O,Humphries SE,Talmud PJ

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of an intact mitochondrial genome is essential for oxidative phosphorylation in all eukaryotes. Depletion of mitochondrial genome copy number can have severe pathological consequences due to loss of respiratory capacity. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, several bifunctional metabolic enzymes have been shown to...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Iacovino M,Granycome C,Sembongi H,Bokori-Brown M,Butow RA,Holt IJ,Bateman JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome (USH) is a genetically heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive deaf-blinding disorders. Pathophysiology leading to the blinding retinal degeneration in USH is uncertain. There is evidence for involvement of the photoreceptor cilium, photoreceptor synapse, the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobson SG,Cideciyan AV,Aleman TS,Sumaroka A,Roman AJ,Gardner LM,Prosser HM,Mishra M,Bech-Hansen NT,Herrera W,Schwartz SB,Liu XZ,Kimberling WJ,Steel KP,Williams DS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular genetic events underlying endometrial tumorigenesis are ill-defined at present. We have identified a region on the short arm of chromosome 1 which is frequently deleted in endometrial cancers. The region of deletion has been localized to bands 1p32-33. Deletion of 1p32-33 is seen more frequently in cance...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Arlt MF,Herzog TJ,Mutch DG,Gersell DJ,Liu H,Goodfellow PJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00