Interrelationship and familiality of dyslexia related quantitative measures.

abstract：:By biochemical characterization of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) from the red cells of seventeen subjects of the population of Matera (Southern Italy) we have identified six genetically determined common variants. Among these, G6PD Metaponto and G6PD A(-) Matera had been already fully characterized. We have...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Viglietto G,Montanaro V,Calabrò V,Vallone D,D'Urso M,Persico MG,Battistuzzi G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-gene interaction plays an important role in association studies for complex diseases. There have been different approaches to incorporating gene-gene interactions in candidate gene or genome-wide association studies, especially for those genes with no marginal effects but with interaction effects. However, there ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Yang Y,He C,Ott J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the impact of natural selection through stillbirth on the Italian population, taking into account the socio-economic heterogeneity of the country. The results suggest that older age at delivery and lower cultural level of the mothers, indicators of critical biological and socio-economic conditions, eve...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zonta LA,Astolfi P,Ulizzi L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fifth International workshop on chromosome 9 comprised a gathering of 36 scientists from seven countries and included a fairly even distribution of interests along chromosome 9 as well as a strong input from more global activities and from comparative mapping. At least eight groups had participated in the goal set...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Povey S,Attwood J,Chadwick B,Frezal J,Haines JL,Knowles M,Kwiatkowski DJ,Olopade OI,Slaugenhaupt S,Spurr NK,Smith M,Steel K,White JA,Pericak-Vance MA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For characterizing the genetic mechanisms of complex diseases familial data with multiple correlated quantitative traits are usually collected in genetic studies. To analyze such data, various multivariate tests have been proposed to investigate the association between the underlying disease genes and the multiple tra...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hsieh TJ,Chang SH,Tai JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The joint analysis of multiple traits has recently become popular since it can increase statistical power to detect genetic variants and there is increasing evidence showing that pleiotropy is a widespread phenomenon in complex diseases. Currently, the majority of existing methods for the joint analysis of multiple tr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang Z,Wang X,Sha Q,Zhang S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using genetic data from an obesity candidate gene study of self-reported African Americans and European Americans, we investigated the number of Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) and candidate gene SNPs necessary to infer continental ancestry. Proportions of African and European ancestry were assessed with STRUCTURE...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kodaman N,Aldrich MC,Smith JR,Signorello LB,Bradley K,Breyer J,Cohen SS,Long J,Cai Q,Giles J,Bush WS,Blot WJ,Matthews CE,Williams SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preeclampsia (PE) is a life-threatening complication of pregnancy that accounts for 12% of all maternal deaths worldwide. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between the polymorphisms of angiotensinogen (AGT) gene and preeclampsia. MATERIAL AND METHODS:In this study, 240 unrelated preec...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Alaee E,Mirahmadi M,Ghasemi M,Kashani E,Attar M,Shahbazi M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recursively computed descent probabilities provide an effective way to evaluate possible ancestries of rare alleles segregating in large and complex genealogies, but they ignore information other than the descent to a small set of current gene copies. We show how descent probability computations can be modified to inc...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Thompson EA,Morgan K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating haplotype relative risks in a family-based study is complicated by phase ambiguity and the many parameters needed to quantify relative risks for all possible diplotypes. This problem becomes manageable if a particular haplotype has been implicated previously as relevant to risk. We fit log-linear models to ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shi M,Umbach DM,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is a rare neurogenetic disorder caused by highly unstable CAG repeat expansion mutation in coding region of SCA7. We aimed to understand the effect of diverse ATXN7 cis-element in correlation with CAG expansion mutation of SCA7. We initially performed an analysis to identify the ha...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Faruq M,Magaña JJ,Suroliya V,Narang A,Murillo-Melo NM,Hernández-Hernández O,Srivastava AK,Mukerji M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using in situ hybridization, c-erbA1 has been mapped immediately distal to the translocation breakpoint on chromosome 17 in fibroblasts with a karyotype 46,XX, t(15;17)(q22;q11). Previous work has shown that c-erbA1 is proximal to the translocation breakpoint on chromosome 17 in the t(15;17)(q22;q12-21) in acute promy...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sheer D,Sheppard DM,le Beau M,Rowley JD,San Roman C,Solomon E

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The use of SDS electrophoresis as a tool for the analysis of development processes in man has been evaluated. 2. The protein profiles of cardiac and skeletal muscle from foetal (10--24 weeks gestation) infant and adult specimens have been analysed and striking developmental changes were found which involved all the...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Tipler TD,Edwards YH,Hopkinson DA

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expected power of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) testing for a low-frequency disease variant was examined using a simple genetic model in which the degree of LD between the disease variant and the adjacent single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker decreases in proportion to the number of generations sin...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ohashi J,Tokunaga K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robertsonian translocation (RT) is a common cause for male infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, and birth defects. Studying meiotic recombination in RT-carrier patients helps decipher the mechanism and improve the clinical management of infertility and birth defects caused by RT. Here we present a new method to stud...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sha Y,Sha Y,Ji Z,Ding L,Zhang Q,Ouyang H,Lin S,Wang X,Shao L,Shi C,Li P,Song Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sherman et al. (1984) concluded from a cytogenetic and genetic analysis of families with the marker (X) syndrome that the rate of the mutation leading to this syndrome is extraordinarily high (7.2 X 10(-4) in male germ cells), and that these mutations occur exclusively in male germ cells. It is shown by some model cal...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Vogel F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Two methods have been devised for the detection after electrophoresis of gamma-aminobutyric acid transaminase (GABAT) isozymes. 2. GABAT isozymes can be detected in liver, brain, kidney, pancreas, heart, testis. spinal cord and upper jejunum. The greatest activity occurs in liver. 3. Three different commonly occurr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Jeremiah S,Povey S

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As knowledge of the human genome continues to grow, more progress is being made towards not only identifying the genes involved in disease susceptibility but also in defining the synergistic role genes play with environmental exposures. The detection of gene-environment interactions is important as it can offer clinic...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lake SL,Laird NM

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The robust sib-pair method introduced by Haseman & Elston (1972) is one of the most widely circulated allele-sharing methods for linkage analysis. The procedure evaluates linkage by significance testing of a regression coefficient and, hence, a standard t-test has traditionally been applied despite known violations of...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wan Y,Cohen J,Guerra R

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:A new AAT allele (PI Zbristol) has been discovered in a woman with an obstetric history of three perinatal deaths from fulminant liver disease and no living offspring. She and her father were both PI M1Zbristol heterozygotes. The Zbristol protein is active as a proteinase inhibitor but appeared to be deficient in the ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lovegrove JU,Jeremiah S,Gillett GT,Temple IK,Povey S,Whitehouse DB

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis is a common autosomal recessive disorder that primarily affects the epithelial cells in the intestine, respiratory system, pancreas, gall bladder and sweat glands. Over one thousand mutations have currently been identified in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene that are ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Rowntree RK,Harris A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum alpha1 antitrypsin levels and phenotypes were examined in 1000 healthy adults in Northern Ireland. The Pi phenotype M accounted for 87-8% Pi MS for 7-3% and Pi MZ for 3-5%. The percentages of the rarer phenotypes were Pi FM 0-3, Pi IM 0-6, Pi SZ 0-4 and Pi Z--0-1. The range of alpha1 antitrypsin levels in differ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Blundell G,Frazer A

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is a congenital vascular disorder comprised of capillary, venous and lymphatic malformations associated with overgrowth of the affected tissues. In this study, we report the identification of a de novo supernumerary ring chromosome in a patient with mild mental retardation, long taperi...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Timur AA,Sadgephour A,Graf M,Schwartz S,Libby ED,Driscoll DJ,Wang Q

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is an autonomous control disease producing hypoventilation, high PaCO(2), and low PaO(2) during quiet sleep. The main gene variants detected in CCHS are mutations in the PHOX2b gene in up to 97% of isolated cases. However, CCHS is sometimes associated with autonomic d...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Serra A,Görgens H,Alhadad K,Fitze G,Schackert HK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

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：:A study has been made of 36 body and 11 craniofacial measurements in a selected sample of 251 Bulgarian families, comprising parents and their children over 15 years. The mid parent-offspring and correlation coefficients indicate that the extent of genetic determination varies considerably from one measurement to anot...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nikolova M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparently identical twin boys are both XX/XY and have two populations, A1 and B, of cells in their peripheral blood. Chimerism in somatic tissue outside the blood cells can be demonstrated in only one of the twins. From analysis of chromosomes and many gene markers the mechanism of origin of the unusual twins remains...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Iselius L,Lambert B,Lindsten J,Tippett P,Gavin J,Daniels G,Yates A,Ritzén M,Sandstedt B

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case-parent triad data are considered a robust basis for studying association between variants of a gene and a disease. Methods evaluating statistical significance of association, like the TDT-test and its extensions, are frequently used. When there are prior hypotheses of a causal effect of the gene under study, howe...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Gjessing HK,Lie RT

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00