The complex and diversified mitochondrial gene pool of Berber populations.

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：:Analysis of the groups of a large sibship showed that the locus for the blood group LKE is not closely linked to the loci for MNS, Rh, HLA, Pi, Gm and C6 and is genetically independent of the loci for P1, K, Xg, Au, secretor, and C3. The locus for the Auberger (Au) blood group was shown to be genetically independent o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Whitehouse DB,Attwood J,Green C,Bruce M,McQuade M,Tippett P

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:We determine the power of variance component linkage analysis in the case of discrete, dichotomous traits analyzed under a classical liability threshold model. For simplicity we consider randomly ascertained samples and an additive model of variation incorporating a qtl, residual additive genetic factors, and individu...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Williams JT,Blangero J

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：: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：:Multivariate linkage analysis has been suggested for the analysis of correlated traits, such as blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI), because it may offer greater power and provide clearer results than univariate analyses. Currently, the most commonly used multivariate linkage methods are extensions of the un...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang T,Elston RC

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This palaeogenetic study focused on the analysis of a late prehispanic Argentinean group from the Humahuaca valley, with the main aim of reconstructing its (micro)evolutionary history. The Humahuaca valley, a natural passageway from the eastern plains to the highlands, was the living environment of Andean societies wh...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mendisco F,Keyser C,Seldes V,Rivolta C,Mercolli P,Cruz P,Nielsen AE,Crubezy E,Ludes B

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:We report data on diagnoses made on amniotic fluid specimens from 1977 to 1984 as reported to the New York State Chromosome Registry. The rate of all de novo (presumed mutant) abnormalities was about 2 per 1,000 in about 61,000 fetuses in which results are unlikely to be biased by the reason for amniocentesis (except ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hook EB,Cross PK

更新日期：1987-01-01 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

abstract：:Polymorphisms of the promoter region (-108C/T) and the coding region (192Q/R) of the paraoxonase 1 gene (PON1) showed differences in association with cardiovascular disease risk in various populations. To characterize the genetic variation underlying these important polymorphisms, we examined DNA sequence variation bo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Koda Y,Tachida H,Soejima M,Takenaka O,Kimura H

更新日期：2004-03-01 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 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：:Population-based genetic association analysis may suffer from the failure to control for confounders such as population stratification (PS). There has been extensive study on the influence of PS on candidate gene-disease association analysis, but much less attention has been paid to its influence on marker-disease ass...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li T,Li Z,Ying Z,Zhang H

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), an archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepôt of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 292 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabited islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and some characte...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Brehm A,Pereira L,Bandelt HJ,Prata MJ,Amorim A

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Co-segregation studies based on a selection of intragenic restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene have been used extensively both for research and diagnostic studies of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) families, because direct mutation screening remains complex....

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Haddad L,Day LB,Attwood J,Povey S,Humphries SE,Day IN

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Variants in the ATL1 gene have been repeatedly described as the second most frequent cause of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a motor neuron disease manifested by progressive lower limb spasticity and weakness. Variants in ATL1 have been described mainly in patients with early onset HSP. We performed Sanger seque...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mészárosová AU,Grečmalová D,Brázdilová M,Dvořáčková N,Kalina Z,Čermáková M,Vávrová D,Smetanová I,Staněk D,Seeman P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in SLC26A4 cause Pendred syndrome (PS) - hearing loss with goitre - or DFNB4 - non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) with inner ear abnormalities such as Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA) or Mondini Dysplasia (MD). We tested 303 unrelated Czech patients with early hearing loss (298 with NSHL and 5 with PS), all...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Pourová R,Janousek P,Jurovcík M,Dvoráková M,Malíková M,Rasková D,Bendová O,Leonardi E,Murgia A,Kabelka Z,Astl J,Seeman P

更新日期：2010-07-01 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 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：: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：:Alpha2-HS glycoprotein (AHSG), which is equivalent to fetuin in other species, is a protein found in human plasma. AHSG is polymorphic with two common alleles and many variants. To examine the intragenic haplotypes and their diversity at this locus, a contiguous genomic DNA sequence (10.3 kb) was analyzed in 20 sample...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Osawa M,Yuasa I,Kitano T,Henke J,Kaneko M,Udono T,Saitou N,Umetsu K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00