Genetic epidemiology of complex phenotypes.

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 problem of ordering and mapping genes on the basis of recombinant data and radiation hybrid data is formulated as a problem of Bayesian inference for an unknown permutation. The challenging computational problems posed by this approach are shown to be resolvable using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Stephens DA,Smith AF

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:In a study based on 173 individuals drawn from three endogamous, co-resident communities in the province of Punjab, the Awan, Khattar and Rajpoot, an analysis of 10 autosomal single tandem repeats on chromosomes 13 and 15 revealed distinctive genetic profiles in each community. A total of 99 different alleles were det...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang W,Sullivan SG,Ahmed S,Chandler D,Zhivotovsky LA,Bittles AH

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Risch and Zhang recently proposed to use extreme discordant sib pairs for mapping quantitative trait loci. Here, it is shown that the set of genetically possible distributions of the number of marker alleles in such sib-pairs is described by two inequalities. Thus, a likelihood ratio test analogous to Holmans's possib...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Knapp M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:A highly informative dinucleotide repeat polymorphism has been identified at the D11S614 locus on chromosome 11q23. Ten different alleles have been observed at this locus, and the heterozygosity frequency is approximately 85%. Physical localization of this marker in a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing chromosom...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Benham F,Sugiyama R,Hunt D,Gillett G,Smith M

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:It has been shown that parametric analysis of linkage disequilibrium conditional on linkage using an overly deterministic model can be optimal for family-based association analysis. However, if one applies this strategy carelessly, there is a risk of false inference. We analyse properties of such likelihood ratio test...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hiekkalinna T,Göring HH,Terwilliger JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Research suggests pulse pressure (PP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease, and genes likely influence PP levels. Additionally, gender may be an effect modifier between PP and cardiovascular disease. This study addresses whether two renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) variants are associated with PP in a s...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lynch AI,Arnett DK,Davis BR,Boerwinkle E,Ford CE,Eckfeldt JH,Leiendecker-Foster C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Individuals with slow N-acetylation phenotype often experience toxicity from drugs such as isoniazid, sulfonamides, procainamide, and hydralazine, whereas rapid acetylators may not respond to these medications. The highly polymorphic N-acetyltransferase 2 enzyme encoded by the NAT2 gene is one of...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Al-Ahmad MM,Amir N,Dhanasekaran S,John A,Abdulrazzaq YM,Ali BR,Bastaki S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MUC1 is a highly polymorphic mucin type glycoprotein expressed on the surface of many epithelia, including gastric mucosa, and is present in several body fluids and mucous secretions. A genetic polymorphism due to variation in length of a 60 bp tandemly repeated sequence domain constitutes more than half of the coding...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Carvalho F,Peixoto A,Steffensen R,Amorim A,David L,Sobrinho-Simões M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Succession Rule of Laplace (1795) and related reasoning, this paper shows how to give unbiased counselling to patients when predictions are to be based on small samples. The recombination fraction can be regarded as a probability parameter, theta, which itself has a probability distribution between the limit...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Renwick JH

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Linkage between the Scianna blood group and the Rhesus blood group has been confirmed. Families demonstrating recombinants between U M P K and Sc suggest that U M P K lies between Sc and PGM1. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Noades JE,Corney G,Cook PJ,Putt W,King J,Fisher RA,Spowart G,Lee M,Bowell PJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of human cytosolic alanine aminotransferase (AAT1) and the individual human chromosomes has been studied in 27 secondary and tertiary rat hepatoma-human (liver) fibroblast hybrids. The staining solution used to visualize AAT activity on starch gels was specific for AAT since it was visualized only when...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Astrin KH,Arredondo-Vega FX,Desnick RJ,Smith M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exact probability and likelihood computation on complex pedigrees is often infeasible, since exact methods are too computationally intensive even with today's computing technology. A statistical tool, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), is increasingly being explored as a technique for estimating probabilities of genotyp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lin S,Thompson E,Wijsman E

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Measurements have been carried out on the gonads of 54 human foetuses, 29 males and 25 females. Crown-rump lengths ranged between 140 and 212 mm. The criteria used were fresh weight, total protein contents and total DNA contents. It was found that for any given crown-rump length class, the mean values of testes exceed...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mittwoch U

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidate gene association tests are currently performed using several intragenic SNPs simultaneously, by testing SNP haplotype or genotype effects in multifactorial diseases or traits. The number of haplotypes drastically increases with an increase in the number of typed SNPs. As a result, large numbers of haplotypes...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sha Q,Dong J,Jiang R,Zhang S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

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：:The results of a chromosome survey of 3993 liveborn infants, the majority of which have been studied using G-banding, are reported. The frequency of all types of chromosome abnormalities detected was similar to that found in previous newborn surveys, which were carried out on different socio-economic structure, but th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Buckton KE,O'Riordan ML,Ratcliffe S,Slight J,Mitchell M,McBeath S,Keay AJ,Barr D,Short M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic transmission rates from parents to cases are frequently stratified by an environmental risk factor E and compared, with heterogeneity interpreted as gene-environment interaction or GxE. Though generally invalid, such analyses continue to appear. We revisit why heterogeneity is not equivalent to GxE in a range ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shin JH,McNeney B,Graham J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex segregation analysis was conducted in a series of patients with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) ascertained through probands registered in the Cancer Registry of the Health Care District of Modena in Northern Italy. Altogether there were 71 nuclear families segregating for HNPCC in 28 pedigr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Scapoli C,Ponz De Leon M,Sassatelli R,Benatti P,Roncucci L,Collins A,Morton NE,Barrai I

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on Turner Syndrome from four sources were analysed for possible associations with several aetiological factors. Two classes of liveborn propositae were included, those with a non-mosaic 45, X karyotype (XO) and those with an isochromosome of the long arm of the X (iso-X). The numbers were 288 and 84 respectively ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Carothers AD,Frackiewicz A,De Mey R,Collyer S,Polani PE,Osztovics M,Horváth K,Papp Z,May HM,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00