The genetic structure of human populations studied through short insertion-deletion polymorphisms.

abstract：:The protein tyrosine phosphatase N22 (PTPN22) gene C1858T polymorphism has been reported to be associated with susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (T1D) in relatively small sample sizes. This study aimed at investigating the pooled association by carrying out a meta-analysis on the published studies. The Medline, EBSCO,...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Xuan C,Lun LM,Zhao JX,Wang HW,Zhu BZ,Yu S,Liu Z,He GW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate patterns of diversity and the evolutionary history of Eurasians, we have sequenced a 2.8 kb region at Xp11.23 in a sample of African and Eurasian chromosomes. This region is in a long intron of CLCN5 and is immediately flanked by a highly variable minisatellite, DXS255, and a human-specific Ta0 LINE. Co...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Alonso S,Armour JA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Except for subgroup A2 and minor A, O and B alleles (Ax, O2 and B(A)), which occur at low frequencies in the population, the major ABO alleles are considered to be homogeneous entities. The present study is the first demonstration of an extensive variability linked to the more common alleles of the blood A and O genes...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zago MA,Tavella MH,Simões BP,Franco RF,Guerreiro JF,Santos SB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isoelectric focusing method for human GDH is described which reveals seven GDH phenotypes. Family studies demonstrate that the variation is genetically determined by three alleles at an autosomal locus with gene frequencies GDH1 = 0.723, GDH2 = 0.194, GDH3 = 0.083. Linkage analysis shows that GDH may be closely lin...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： King J,Cook PJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published data on the association between the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene A1298C (rs1801131) polymorphism and male infertility risk are inconclusive. To derive a more precise estimation of the relationship, a meta-analysis was performed. In this meta-analysis, a total of seven case-control studies...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shen O,Liu R,Wu W,Yu L,Wang X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report on a male infant presenting the typical pattern of Jacobsen syndrome including trigonocephaly, thrombocytopenia, congenital heart defect, urethral stenosis, and partial agenesis of the corpus callosum. Conventional karyotyping, FISH, SKY and CGH analyses showed that the region distal to the MLL locus on...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Gadzicki D,Baumer A,Wey E,Happel CM,Rudolph C,Tönnies H,Neitzel H,Steinemann D,Welte K,Klein C,Schlegelberger B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the HLA-DQB1 gene as a Southern hybridization probe with TaqI-digested genomic DNA in a study of 600 haplotypes from unrelated individuals and have characterized HLA-DQB1 RFLP patterns associated with the DR specificities DR1-DRw10 and DN1. For six of the specificities (DR2, 4, w6, 7, w8 and 9), we have a...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Gogolin KJ,Kolaga VJ,Baker L,Lisak RP,Zmijewski CM,Spielman RS

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of fetal hemoglobin (HbF: α2γ2) can ameliorate the clinical severity of the β-hemoglobinopathies. Microarray analysis represents a powerful approach to identify novel genetic factors regulating the γ-globin gene. Gene expression profiling was previously performed on 14 individuals with high or normal ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Jia S,Jia W,Yu S,Hu Y,He Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel method for analysis of marker genotype data from admixed populations, based on a hybrid of Bayesian and frequentist approaches in which the posterior distribution is generated by Markov chain simulation and score tests are obtained from the missing-data likelihood. We analysed data on unrelated ind...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： McKeigue PM,Carpenter JR,Parra EJ,Shriver MD

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed commonly reported European and Asian obesity-related gene variants in a Mexican-Mestizo population through each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and a genetic risk score (GRS) based on 23 selected SNPs. Study subjects were physically active Mexican-Mestizo adults (n  =  608) with body mass index (BMI) ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Costa-Urrutia P,Abud C,Franco-Trecu V,Colistro V,Rodríguez-Arellano ME,Vázquez-Pérez J,Granados J,Seelaender M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of the Q-band polymorphisms in 32 families have been studied. From 90 matings in these families, there were a total of 208 offspring. In one of these offspring it could be shown that there had been a change of a fluorescent polymorphism, resulting in the loss of fluorescent intensity in the satellite o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Robinson JA,Buckton KE,Evans HJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing multiple markers simultaneously not only can capture the linkage disequilibrium patterns but also can decrease the number of tests and thus alleviate the multiple-testing penalty. If a gene is associated with a phenotype, subjects with similar genotypes in this gene should also have similar phenotypes. Based o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lin WY,Tiwari HK,Gao G,Zhang K,Arcaroli JJ,Abraham E,Liu N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide association study of serum uric acid (SUA) laevels was performed in a relatively isolated population of European descent from an island of the Adriatic coast of Croatia. The study sample included 532 unrelated and 768 related individuals from 235 pedigrees. Inflation due to relatedness was controlled by ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Karns R,Zhang G,Sun G,Rao Indugula S,Cheng H,Havas-Augustin D,Novokmet N,Rudan D,Durakovic Z,Missoni S,Chakraborty R,Rudan P,Deka R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have separately identified four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 9p21 that confer susceptibility to coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI). This study presents the first analysis of these SNPs (rs10757274, rs2383206, rs2383207, and rs10757278) i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Abdullah KG,Li L,Shen GQ,Hu Y,Yang Y,MacKinlay KG,Topol EJ,Wang QK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple selection model (fitness 1, w, w2 for AA, Aa, aa) is employed to change the gene frequency of one population to another. The genetic distance is then defined as d = -log w between the two populations. The distance is symmetrical with respect to the two populations. It is additive: d13 = d12 + d23. The samplin...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li CC

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of genetically mapping a complex disease, the question may arise whether a certain polymorphism is the only causal variant in a region. A number of methods can answer this question, but unfortunately these methods are optimal for bi-allelic loci only. We wanted to develop a method that is more suited fo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Spijker GT,Nolte IM,Jansen RC,Te Meerman GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two popular and robust approaches to analysing affected sib pair (ASP) data for linkage are the traditional excess sharing methods and the transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT). Here we derive an overall test of linkage for multi-allelic ASP marker data which comprises two component tests: one for excess sharing and ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wicks J,Wilson SR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A substantial proportion of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have mutations in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor type-2 (BMPR2) gene. PAH due to BMPR2 mutations is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with several unique features, including a wide variety of mutations, reduced penetrance, ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Momose Y,Aimi Y,Hirayama T,Kataoka M,Ono M,Yoshino H,Satoh T,Gamou S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typically genetic studies of continuous traits such as cholesterol levels or blood pressure assume that interindividual variability follows a normal distribution. Here we develop methods to analyze positively skewed data by assuming a lognormal distribution. We develop a variance components approach for identifying su...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wan Y,De Andrade M,Yu L,Cohen J,Amos CI

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms of the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) gene have been reported to be potentially associated with the risks of developing frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), with inconsistent conclusions. This study aims to comprehensively investigate the potential role of TREM2 variants in...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Su WH,Shi ZH,Liu SL,Wang XD,Liu S,Ji Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author proposes a method to test the genetic relation between two individuals using a panel of SNPs. The method does not require information about the allele frequencies, and as such it can be used to test any pair of individuals from any population(s). ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lee WC

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding patterns over the past two centuries have been studied more extensively in Spain and Italy than anywhere else in Europe. Consanguinity studies in mainland Spain have shown that populations settled along the Cantabrian cornice share inbreeding patterns that distinguish them from other populations further sou...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Calderón R,Aresti U,Ambrosio B,González-Martín A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) represent an expanding group of conditions that result from defects in protein and lipid glycosylation. Different subgroups of CDG display considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity due to the highly complex nature of cellular glycosylation. This is further complicated ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bastaki F,Bizzari S,Hamici S,Nair P,Mohamed M,Saif F,Malik EM,Al-Ali MT,Hamzeh AR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A founder haplotype on chromosome 2p for autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD) has been postulated for two families of Northern European descent, and a new mutation in the alpha-synuclein gene (Ala30Pro) has been found in a German PD family. We evaluated 85 German PD patients and 85 ethnically matched controls f...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Klein C,Vieregge P,Hagenah J,Sieberer M,Doyle E,Jacobs H,Gasser T,Breakefield XO,Risch NJ,Ozelius LJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunological method for the detection of two thyroxine-binding plasma proteins, thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) and thyroxine-binding prealbumin (TBPA), following polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing is described. Both proteins show complex electrophoretic patterns, attributable to post-translational glycosyla...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whitehouse DB,Hopkinson DA,Hill AV,Bowden DK

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kell blood group locus (KEL) is tightly linked to the prolactin-inducible protein locus (PIP) with zeta = 9.12 at theta = 0.00 for combined paternal and maternal meioses. In view of the regional localization of PIP to 7q32-q36 (Myal et al. 1989a), a similar assignment for KEL is favoured. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zelinski T,Coghlan G,Myal Y,Shiu RP,Philipps S,White L,Lewis M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis focuses on identifying loci associated with mean heterogeneity. Recent research has discovered loci associated with phenotype variance heterogeneity (vQTL), which is important in studying genetic association with complex traits, especially for identifying gene-gene a...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Cao Y,Maxwell TJ,Wei P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study traces the evolutionary pathways of the apolipoprotein B gene in the low risk Chinese and high risk Asian Indians in relation to coronary artery disease (CAD). Haplotypes were constructed from six apoB polymorphisms sp24/27, Ag(c/g), Ag(a1/d), XbaI, Ag(h/i) and, Ag(t/z). These were genotyped from 474 Chines...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Heng CK,Saha N,Low PS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In case-control association studies unobserved population stratification may act as a confounder, leading to an increased number of false positive results. Methods accounting for population structure by using additional genetic markers broadly follow one of two concepts: Genomic Control (GC) and Structured Association...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Köhler K,Bickeböller H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies have shown that the peroxime proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARD) gene regulates glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. Genetic variation in the PPARD gene might affect physical endurance and has been associated with obesity. We investigated the independent and modifying effect of variants...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Villegas R,Williams S,Gao Y,Cai Q,Li H,Elasy T,Cai H,Edwards T,Xiang YB,Zheng W,Long J,Ou Shu X

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00