Selective neuronal requirement for huntingtin in the developing zebrafish.

abstract：:We studied a consanguineous Palestinian Arab family segregating an autosomal recessive progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) with early ataxia. PME is a rare, often fatal syndrome, initially responsive to antiepileptic drugs which over time becomes refractory and can be associated with cognitive decline. Linkage analys...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Damiano JA,Afawi Z,Bahlo M,Mauermann M,Misk A,Arsov T,Oliver KL,Dahl HH,Shearer AE,Smith RJ,Hall NE,Mahmood K,Leventer RJ,Scheffer IE,Muona M,Lehesjoki AE,Korczyn AD,Herrmann H,Berkovic SF,Hildebrand MS

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Supplementation with high doses of folic acid, an important mediator of one-carbon transfers for DNA methylation, is used clinically to improve sperm parameters in infertile men. We recently detected an unexpected loss of DNA methylation in the sperm of idiopathic infertile men after 6 months of daily supplementation ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aarabi M,Christensen KE,Chan D,Leclerc D,Landry M,Ly L,Rozen R,Trasler J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromogranins are pro-hormone secretory proteins released from neuroendocrine cells, with effects on control of blood pressure. We conducted a genome-wide association study for plasma catestatin, the catecholamine release inhibitory peptide derived from chromogranin A (CHGA), and other CHGA- or chromogranin B (CHGB)-r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Benyamin B,Maihofer AX,Schork AJ,Hamilton BA,Rao F,Schmid-Schönbein GW,Zhang K,Mahata M,Stridsberg M,Schork NJ,Biswas N,Hook VY,Wei Z,Montgomery GW,Martin NG,Nievergelt CM,Whitfield JB,O'Connor DT

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two common inflammatory skin disorders with impaired barrier, atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis, share distinct genetic linkage to the Epidermal Differentiation Complex (EDC) locus on 1q21. The EDC is comprised of tandemly arrayed gene families encoding proteins involved in skin cell differentiation. Discovery of s...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： de Guzman Strong C,Conlan S,Deming CB,Cheng J,Sears KE,Segre JA

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetazolamide responsive hereditary paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (APCA) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by attacks of cerebellar ataxia and dysarthria with normal or near normal neurologic function between attacks. A genome-wide search using polymorphic di- and tri-nucleotide repeats was initiated ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： von Brederlow B,Hahn AF,Koopman WJ,Ebers GC,Bulman DE

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described two opposing states of transcriptional competency. One is termed 'competent' whereby a gene is capable of responding to trans-acting transcription factors of the cell, such that it is active if appropriate transcriptional activators are present, though it can also be silent if activators are abse...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee JH,Gaetz J,Bugarija B,Fernandes CJ,Snyder GE,Bush EC,Lahn BT

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four naturally occurring sequence variations have been found in the coding region of the DYT1 gene encoding torsinA. One of these, a 3 bp (DeltaGAG) deletion, underlies dominantly inherited cases of early-onset torsion dystonia. Others, including a single nucleotide polymorphism that replaces aspartic acid (D) at resi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kock N,Naismith TV,Boston HE,Ozelius LJ,Corey DP,Breakefield XO,Hanson PI

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A main strategy for lowering plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels is to increase the number of cell-surface LDL receptors (LDLRs). This can be achieved by increasing the synthesis or preventing the degradation of the LDLR. One mechanism by which an LDLR becomes non-functional is enzymatic cleavage w...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Strøm TB,Bjune K,Costa LTD,Leren TP

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed hepatocyte differentiation from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) potentially provides a unique platform for modeling liver genetic diseases and performing drug-toxicity screening in vitro. Wilson's disease is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the ATP7B gene, whose product is a liver transpo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang S,Chen S,Li W,Guo X,Zhao P,Xu J,Chen Y,Pan Q,Liu X,Zychlinski D,Lu H,Tortorella MD,Schambach A,Wang Y,Pei D,Esteban MA

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquinone (UQ), a.k.a. coenzyme Q, is a redox-active lipid that participates in several cellular processes, in particular mitochondrial electron transport. Primary UQ deficiency is a rare but severely debilitating condition. Mclk1 (a.k.a. Coq7) encodes a conserved mitochondrial enzyme that is necessary for UQ biosynt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang Y,Hekimi S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have made great strides towards identifying putative genetic events underlying the evolution of the human brain and its emergent cognitive capacities. One of the most intriguing findings is the recurrent identification of adaptive evolution in genes associated with primary microcephaly, a developmental ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mekel-Bobrov N,Posthuma D,Gilbert SL,Lind P,Gosso MF,Luciano M,Harris SE,Bates TC,Polderman TJ,Whalley LJ,Fox H,Starr JM,Evans PD,Montgomery GW,Fernandes C,Heutink P,Martin NG,Boomsma DI,Deary IJ,Wright MJ,de Geus

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of renin binding protein (RnBP) in human (patho)physiology, despite its biochemical characterization, is as yet unclear. RnBP has been shown to bind and inactivate renin, a key player of the blood pressure regulating renin-angiotensin system. This renders the RnBP gene a promising candidate gene in human hype...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knöll A,Schunkert H,Reichwald K,Danser AH,Bauer D,Platzer M,Stein G,Rosenthal A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diastrophic dysplasia sulfate transporter (DTDST) gene encodes a transmembrane protein that transports sulfate into chondrocytes to maintain adequate sulfation of proteoglycans. Mutations in this gene are responsible for four recessively inherited chondrodysplasias that include diastrophic dysplasia, multiple epip...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Karniski LP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple research groups have observed neuropathological phenotypes and molecular symptoms in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neural cell cultures (i.e. patient-specific neurons and glia). However, the global differences/similarities that may exist between in vitro neural cells and their tissu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hjelm BE,Salhia B,Kurdoglu A,Szelinger S,Reiman RA,Sue LI,Beach TG,Huentelman MJ,Craig DW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (EHK), (bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma), is an autosomal dominant human skin disorder. Recently, we and others have described mutations in keratins 1 and 10 (K1 and K10) in patients with this disease. Structure-function models predict that these mutations would impair normal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rothnagel JA,Fisher MP,Axtell SM,Pittelkow MR,Anton-Lamprecht I,Huber M,Hohl D,Roop DR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant mutations in the mitochondrial paralogs coiled-helix-coiled-helix (CHCHD) domain 2 (C2) and CHCHD10 (C10) were recently identified as causing Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia/myopathy, respectively. The mechanism by which they disrupt mitochondrial cristae, however...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu YT,Huang X,Nguyen D,Shammas MK,Wu BP,Dombi E,Springer DA,Poulton J,Sekine S,Narendra DP

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies of colorectal cancer (CRC) have identified a number of common variants associated with modest risk, including rs3802842 at chromosome 11q23.1. Several genes map to this region but rs3802842 does not map to any known transcribed or regulatory sequences. We reasoned, therefore, that rs380...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Biancolella M,Fortini BK,Tring S,Plummer SJ,Mendoza-Fandino GA,Hartiala J,Hitchler MJ,Yan C,Schumacher FR,Conti DV,Edlund CK,Noushmehr H,Coetzee SG,Bresalier RS,Ahnen DJ,Barry EL,Berman BP,Rice JC,Coetzee GA,Casey G

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) belongs to a group of genetically and clinically heterogeneous disorders in retinal vascular development. To date, in approximately 50% of patients with FEVR, pathogenic mutations have been detected in FZD4, LRP5, TSPAN12, NDP and ZNF408. In this study, we identified two het...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wu JH,Liu JH,Ko YC,Wang CT,Chung YC,Chu KC,Liu TT,Chao HM,Jiang YJ,Chen SJ,Chung MY

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal dried blood spots (NDBS) are a widely banked sample source that enables retrospective investigation into early life molecular events. Here, we performed low-pass whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) of 86 NDBS DNA to examine early life Down syndrome (DS) DNA methylation profiles. DS represents an example ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Laufer BI,Hwang H,Jianu JM,Mordaunt CE,Korf IF,Hertz-Picciotto I,LaSalle JM

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Haploinsufficiency of the single-minded homology 1 (SIM1) gene in humans and mice leads to severe obesity, suggesting that altered expression of SIM1, by way of regulatory elements such as enhancers, could predispose individuals to obesity. Here, we identified transcriptional enhancers that could regulate SIM1, using ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Oksenberg N,Hoffmann TJ,Vaisse C,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited genetic disease caused by mutant huntingtin (htt) protein with expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) tracts. A neuropathological hallmark of HD is the presence of neuronal inclusions of mutant htt. p62 is an important regulatory protein in selective autophagy, a process by ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kurosawa M,Matsumoto G,Kino Y,Okuno M,Kurosawa-Yamada M,Washizu C,Taniguchi H,Nakaso K,Yanagawa T,Warabi E,Shimogori T,Sakurai T,Hattori N,Nukina N

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult body height is a quantitative trait for which genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci, primarily in European populations. These loci, comprising common variants, explain <10% of the phenotypic variance in height. We searched for novel associations between height and common (minor all...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Du M,Auer PL,Jiao S,Haessler J,Altshuler D,Boerwinkle E,Carlson CS,Carty CL,Chen YD,Curtis K,Franceschini N,Hsu L,Jackson R,Lange LA,Lettre G,Monda KL,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) GO Exome Sequencing

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies and, more recently, next-generation sequencing studies have accelerated the investigation of complex human traits by providing a wealth of association data linking genetic variants to diseases and other phenotypic traits. These data promise to transform our understanding of the molecula...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Peters DT,Musunuru K

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the varepsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene appears as an important biological marker for Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility, other genetic determinants are clearly implicated in the AD process. Here, we propose that a genetic variation in the transcriptional factor LBP-1c/CP2/LSF gene, located c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lambert JC,Goumidi L,Vrièze FW,Frigard B,Harris JM,Cummings A,Coates J,Pasquier F,Cottel D,Gaillac M,St Clair D,Mann DM,Hardy J,Lendon CL,Amouyel P,Chartier-Harlin MC

更新日期：2000-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in FAM161A, a protein of unknown function localized at the cilium of retinal photoreceptor cells, cause retinitis pigmentosa, a form of hereditary blindness. By using different fragments of this protein as baits to screen cDNA libraries of human and bovine retinas, we defined a yeast two-hybrid-based FAM161A i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Di Gioia SA,Farinelli P,Letteboer SJ,Arsenijevic Y,Sharon D,Roepman R,Rivolta C

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicentric chromosomes are often found in tumor cells and certain cell lines. How they are generated is not fully understood, though their stability suggests that they are non-functional during chromosome segregation. Growing evidence has implicated microtubule motor proteins in attachment of chromosomes to the mito...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Faulkner NE,Vig B,Echeverri CJ,Wordeman L,Vallee RB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are central to almost all cellular processes, and dysregulation of expression and function is associated with a range of disorders. A number of studies in human have recently shown that genetic factors significantly contribute gene expression variation. In contrast, very little is known about the genetic basi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lourdusamy A,Newhouse S,Lunnon K,Proitsi P,Powell J,Hodges A,Nelson SK,Stewart A,Williams S,Kloszewska I,Mecocci P,Soininen H,Tsolaki M,Vellas B,Lovestone S,AddNeuroMed Consortium.,Dobson R,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimag

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow channel congenital myasthenic syndrome (SCCMS) is a disorder of the neuromuscular synapse caused by dominantly inherited missense mutations in genes that encode the muscle acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subunits. Here we investigate the potential of post-transcriptional gene silencing using RNA interference (RNAi)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Abdelgany A,Wood M,Beeson D

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood levels of adiponectin, an adipocyte-secreted protein correlated with metabolic and cardiovascular risks, are highly heritable. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies for adiponectin levels have identified 14 loci harboring variants associated with blood levels of adiponectin. To identify novel adiponectin-associa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wu Y,Gao H,Li H,Tabara Y,Nakatochi M,Chiu YF,Park EJ,Wen W,Adair LS,Borja JB,Cai Q,Chang YC,Chen P,Croteau-Chonka DC,Fogarty MP,Gan W,He CT,Hsiung CA,Hwu CM,Ichihara S,Igase M,Jo J,Kato N,Kawamoto R,Kuzawa

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X syndrome is characterized at the molecular level by expansion and methylation of a CGG trinucleotide repeat located within the FMR1 locus. The tissues of most full mutation carriers are mosaic for repeat size, but these mutational patterns tend to be well conserved when comparing multiple tissues within ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Burman RW,Popovich BW,Jacky PB,Turker MS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00