An extension of the regression of offspring on mid-parent to test for association and estimate locus-specific heritability: the revised ROMP method.

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is considered to be a kind of autoimmune disorder resulting from dysfunction of neuromuscular transmission caused by autoantibodies against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A number of studies have identified Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) as a candidate gene for MG. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li F,Yuan W,Wu X

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on family history and age of onset of breast cancer is examined in an attempt to distinguish between postulated early and late onset forms of breast cancer and to estimate the familial correlation between any subforms that may exist. Data are taken from the Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study, a multicentre, ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Claus EB,Risch NJ,Thompson WD

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：: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：:Since 1967 a syndrome characterized by renal disease, normochromic anaemia and corneal opacities has been described in 7 members of 3 different Norweigan families. The patients have low levels of esterified cholesterol and lack LCAT (lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase) activity in plasma. The genetic basis of the d...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Teisberg P,Gjone E,Olaisen B

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:Previous analyses have provided evidence for one or more loci affecting body weight in the H19-IGF2-INS-TH region on chromosome 11p15. To identify the location of a possible causal locus or loci we applied association analysis by composite likelihood to a large cohort under the Malecot model for body weight. A random ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zhang W,Maniatis N,Rodriguez S,Miller GJ,Day IN,Gaunt TR,Collins A,Morton NE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the chromosomal location of the human cardiac/slow skeletal muscle troponin C gene (TNNC1) to the short arm of chromosome 3 using somatic cell hybrids. PCR-based analysis of a 'monochromosomal' hybrid panel identified the presence of the TNNC1 gene on human chromosome 3 and subsequent analysis of th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Townsend PJ,Yacoub MH,Barton PJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects and be rather inbred. By disentangling my own South African pedigree, that is on average 12 generations deep, I try to quantify the genetic heritage of an Afrikaner...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Greeff JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid clones (MOGs) were made between the mouse line RAG and a primary fibroblast line from an individual of the rare alphaGLU 2 phenotype. Fifteen independent primary clones and 32 subclones were tested for the presence of human alphaGLU after separation of the human and rodent enzymes by starch gel electrophoresis....

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Solomon E,Swallow D,Burgess S,Evans L

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polygenic threshold model assumes that the distribution of the underlying liability is approximately normal. This paper examines the impact of deviations from normality in the underlying liability distribution when the number of loci affecting liability is finite, but large (e.g. 5-10). Skewness and kurtosis of th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kendler KS,Kidd KK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood from six patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and six controls were cultured in three types of media known to produce fragile sites. A total of 3000 metaphases per group were scrutinized in a blind coded study. No significantly specific 'hot-spot' was found capable of differentiating between HD pat...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Beverstock GC,Mol A,Wienhofer E

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is show that Wright's F-statistics can be defined as ratios of gene diversities of heterozygosities rather than as the correlations of uniting gametes. This definition is applicable irrespective of the number of alleles involved or whether there is selection or not. The relationship between F-statistics and Nei's g...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nei M

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：: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：:The current challenge in biomedical research is to detect genetic risk factors involved in common complex diseases. The power to detect their role is generally poor in populations that have been large for a long time. It has been suggested that the power may be increased by taking advantage of the specificity of found...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bourgain C,Genin E,Quesneville H,Clerget-Darpoux F

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：: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

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：:Multiple imputation based on chained equations (MICE) is an alternative missing genotype method that can use genetic and nongenetic auxiliary data to inform the imputation process. Previously, MICE was successfully tested on strongly linked genetic data. We have now tested it on data of the HBA2 gene which, by the exp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sepúlveda N,Manjurano A,Drakeley C,Clark TG

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:We screened ATM gene mutations in 104 Italian Ataxia-Telangiectasia patients from 91 unrelated families (detection rate 90%) and found 21 recurrent mutations in 63 families. The majority (67%) of patients were compound heterozygotes, while 33% were homozygotes. To determine the existence of common haplotypes and poten...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Chessa L,Piane M,Magliozzi M,Torrente I,Savio C,Lulli P,De Luca A,Dallapiccola B

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:Some studies of mtDNA propose that contemporary Amerindians have descended from four haplotype groups, each defined by specific sets of polymorphisms. One recent study also found evidence of other potential founder haplotypes. We wanted to determine whether the four haplotypes in modern populations were also present i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Monsalve MV,Cardenas F,Guhl F,Delaney AD,Devine DV

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect linkage between a trait and a marker, Morton (1955) proposed to calculate the lod score z(theta 1) at a given value theta 1 of the recombination fraction. If z(theta 1) reaches +3 then linkage is concluded. However, in practice, lod scores are calculated for different values of the recombination fraction bet...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Génin E,Martinez M,Clerget-Darpoux F

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:There is a need for interdisciplinary assessments and interpretations of -omics underpinnings of human complex diseases. However, often investigators from different, yet overlapping, disciplines experience difficulties in understanding the other discipline's language and there is a clear need for establishing a platfo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van Steen K,Sleegers K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is an important antiatherosclerotic agent. The main determinant of nitric oxide levels is enzyme nitric oxide synthase encoded by the NOS3 gene, the common variants in this gene may be responsible for variations in plasma enzyme levels. The association of NOS3 variants with coronary artery disease (CAD) v...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shahid SU,Shabana.,Rehman A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00