Validation study of genetic associations with coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q13-21 and potential effect modification by smoking.

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：:Decreased function of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) was reported to cause late-onset obesity and insulin resistance in rodents. Thus mutations in the MC4R gene drew strong attention as a possible cause of obesity and diabetes. We screened for mutations in the MC4R gene in extremely obese [body mass index (BMI) > ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ohshiro Y,Sanke T,Ueda K,Shimajiri Y,Nakagawa T,Tsunoda K,Nishi M,Sasaki H,Takasu N,Nanjo K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although autism is one of the most heritable neuropsychiatric disorders, its underlying genetic architecture has largely eluded description. To comprehensively examine the hypothesis that common variation is important in autism, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a discovery dataset of 438 autis...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ma D,Salyakina D,Jaworski JM,Konidari I,Whitehead PL,Andersen AN,Hoffman JD,Slifer SH,Hedges DJ,Cukier HN,Griswold AJ,McCauley JL,Beecham GW,Wright HH,Abramson RK,Martin ER,Hussman JP,Gilbert JR,Cuccaro ML,Haines JL

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Retinoid X Receptor beta (RXRB) is a member of the retinoid X receptor (RXR) family of nuclear receptors which are involved in mediating the effects of retinoic acid (RA). We have confirmed the localization of RXRB to chromosome 6 and we have mapped the gene to chromosome 6p21.3-p21.1 by PCR amplification of 5' untran...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Fitzgibbon J,Gillett GT,Woodward KJ,Boyle JM,Wolfe J,Povey S

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium position is determined for the phenotypic distribution o f a continuous characteristic in a population which reproduces both randomly and assortatively, and wherein generations are overlapping. It is shown that the major assortative mating models so far proposed for continuous traits are not particular...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wilson SR

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is caused by several susceptibility genes. A registry including analyses of susceptibility genes, familial occurrence and genotype-phenotype correlation should provide classification insights. Registry data of 187 unrelated index patients included age at onset, gender, family ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sullivan M,Erlic Z,Hoffmann MM,Arbeiter K,Patzer L,Budde K,Hoppe B,Zeier M,Lhotta K,Rybicki LA,Bock A,Berisha G,Neumann HP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to classify glycaemia and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Body mass index (BMI) is a predictor of HbA1c levels and T2D. We tested 43 established BMI and obesity loci for association with HbA1c in a nationally representative multiethnic sample of young adults from the National Longitudinal St...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lange LA,Graff M,Lange EM,Young KL,Richardson AS,Mohlke KL,North KE,Harris KM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene MUC3 which codes for a mucin expressed in intestine (Gum et al. 1990) has previously been mapped, using somatic cell hybrids, to chromosome 7. We describe here the regional localization of MUC3 to chromosome 7q22 by in situ hybridization. Preliminary linkage analysis using CEPH (Centre d'Etude du Polymorphism...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Fox MF,Lahbib F,Pratt W,Attwood J,Gum J,Kim Y,Swallow DM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available simple mapping functions are surveyed, and a new mapping function that provides for positive interference within chromosome arms and no interference across the centromere is proposed, together with the corresponding formula for centromeric linkage. This new function is derived by assuming that all chromo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sturt E

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported associations between HLA antigen DR3 and null (QO) alleles at the C4A and C4B loci and systemic lupus erythematosus are here analysed. The empirical logistic method has been applied to a body of data which included the relevant genotypes. The analysis suggests that the association with null alleles at the...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Green JR,Montasser M,Woodrow JC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of activity and electrophoretic mobility of GALT in patients with various chromosome 9 deletions and duplications confirms the assignment of its locus to 9p and suggests its locus is in the segment 9cen leads to p22. Two inversions of 9qh (inv(9)(p11q12)) did not alter GALT expression. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sparkes RS,Sparkes MC,Funderburk SJ,Moedjono S

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of important genetic and environmental factors is of strong interest in quantitative trait analyses. In this study, we use parallel genetic algorithm (PGA) to identify genetic and environmental factors in genetic association studies of complex human diseases. Our method can take account of both multiple mark...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mukhopadhyay S,George V,Xu H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss (HL) is the most common birth defect and the most prevalent sensorineural condition worldwide. It is associated with more than 1,000 mutations in at least 90 genes. Mutations of the gap junction beta-2 protein (GJB2) gene located in the nonsyndromic hearing loss and deafness (DFNB1) locus (chromosome 13q1...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Azadegan-Dehkordi F,Ahmadi R,Koohiyan M,Hashemzadeh-Chaleshtori M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Q-banded chromosome 1 bivalents from six human males were measured in order to determine the locations of the major band borders. Chiasma position was also recorded in these bivalents in order to determine whether chiasmata preferentially occurred in Q-bright regions, Q-dark regions or in the interfaces between. The r...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Laurie DA,Hultén MA,Palmer RW

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:For many complex diseases, study has suggested that the disease genes influence not only the occurrence of the disease, but also the age of onset. Current methods in linkage analysis are mainly concentrated on affected relative pairs or affected family members, and age of onset information is either ignored or is take...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li H,Huang J

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：: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：:Secondary alterations in splicing have been reported to produce semi-functional mRNA from several nonsense mutations in the dystrophin gene. Disruptions of exonic splicing enhancers by single nucleotide changes are thought to underlie such alterations. The precise frequencies of such nonsense mutation-dependent splici...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nishiyama A,Takeshima Y,Zhang Z,Habara Y,Tran TH,Yagi M,Matsuo M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated 31 families segregation for Hunter Syndrome in order to advance our understanding of the genetics of this disease. The hair root test for the diagnosis of carriers of Hunter Syndrome was improved by the adoption of a new diagnostic index that distinguishes between carrier and normal females better...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Chase DS,Morris AH,Ballabio A,Pepper S,Giannelli F,Adinolfi M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysosomal storage disorder glycogenosis type II, caused by a deficiency of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, is very heterogeneous in its clinical presentation. It has been suggested that this heterogeneity may be due to differential expression of neutral alpha-glucosidases. We have therefore analysed the activity of t...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van der Ploeg AT,Kroos MA,Swallow DM,Reuser AJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variations in cardiac ion channels have been implicated not only as the causes of inherited arrhythmic syndromes, but also as genetic risk factors for some acquired arrhythmias. To elucidate the potential roles of genetic polymorphisms of the alpha subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel type V (SCN5A) in ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Maekawa K,Saito Y,Ozawa S,Adachi-Akahane S,Kawamoto M,Komamura K,Shimizu W,Ueno K,Kamakura S,Kamatani N,Kitakaze M,Sawada J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial DNA variation of 295 Berber-speakers from Morocco (Asni, Bouhria and Figuig) and the Egyptian oasis of Siwa was evaluated by sequencing a portion of the control region (including HVS-I and part of HVS-II) and surveying haplogroup-specific coding region markers. Our findings show that the Berber mitoc...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Coudray C,Olivieri A,Achilli A,Pala M,Melhaoui M,Cherkaoui M,El-Chennawi F,Kossmann M,Torroni A,Dugoujon JM

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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