Common variants at VRK2 and TCF4 conferring risk of schizophrenia.

abstract：:Deficiency of the dysferlin protein presents as two major clinical phenotypes: limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopathy. Dysferlin is known to participate in membrane repair, providing a potential hypothesis to the underlying pathophysiology of these diseases. The size of the dysferlin cDNA prevents...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lostal W,Bartoli M,Bourg N,Roudaut C,Bentaïb A,Miyake K,Guerchet N,Fougerousse F,McNeil P,Richard I

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are post-transcriptional and epigenetic regulators, whose implication in neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases remains poorly understood. We analyzed publicly available microarray data sets to identify dysregulated lncRNAs in multiple sclerosis (MS), a neuroinflammatory autoimmune di...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cardamone G,Paraboschi EM,Soldà G,Cantoni C,Supino D,Piccio L,Duga S,Asselta R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of the human genome sequencing project has created wide-spread interest in exploring the human epigenome in order to elucidate how the genome executes the information it holds. Although all (nucleated) human cells effectively contain the same genome, they contain very different epigenomes depending upon ce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Murrell A,Rakyan VK,Beck S

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic instability of persons with Bloom's syndrome (BS) features particularly an increased number of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs). The primary cause of the genomic instability is mutation at BLM, which encodes a DNA helicase of the RecQ family. BLM interacts with Topoisomerase IIIalpha (Topo IIIalpha), and ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hu P,Beresten SF,van Brabant AJ,Ye TZ,Pandolfi PP,Johnson FB,Guarente L,Ellis NA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beside the well-known polyglutamine expansions involved in several neurodegenerative disorders, convergent recent findings pointed to the expansion of polyalanine stretches as a disease mechanism in congenital malformations, skeletal dysplasia and nervous system anomalies. Polyalanine stretches have been predicted in ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Amiel J,Trochet D,Clément-Ziza M,Munnich A,Lyonnet S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterised by the association of branchial, otic and renal anomalies with variable degrees of severity. We have recently identified EYA1 , a human homologue of the Drosophila eyes absent gene, as the gene underlying this syndrome. The products of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Abdelhak S,Kalatzis V,Heilig R,Compain S,Samson D,Vincent C,Levi-Acobas F,Cruaud C,Le Merrer M,Mathieu M,König R,Vigneron J,Weissenbach J,Petit C,Weil D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the association between common haplotypes in six relevant lipid metabolism genes with plasma lipid levels. We selected single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), hepatic triglyceride lipase (HL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol rece...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knoblauch H,Bauerfeind A,Krähenbühl C,Daury A,Rohde K,Bejanin S,Essioux L,Schuster H,Luft FC,Reich JG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the WNK1 gene cause Gordon's syndrome, a rare Mendelian form of hypertension. We assessed whether common WNK1 variants might also contribute to essential hypertension (EH), a multifactorial disorder affecting > 25% of the adult population worldwide. A panel of 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Newhouse SJ,Wallace C,Dobson R,Mein C,Pembroke J,Farrall M,Clayton D,Brown M,Samani N,Dominiczak A,Connell JM,Webster J,Lathrop GM,Caulfield M,Munroe PB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein ataxin-3 (ATX3) triggers an amyloid-related neurodegenerative disease when its polyglutamine stretch is expanded beyond a critical threshold. We formerly demonstrated that the polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) could redirect amyloid aggregation of a full-length, expanded ATX3 (ATX3-Q55) towards ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Visentin C,Pellistri F,Natalello A,Vertemara J,Bonanomi M,Gatta E,Penco A,Relini A,De Gioia L,Airoldi C,Regonesi ME,Tortora P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexanucleotide repeat expansions within the C9orf72 gene are the most important genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The difficulty of developing a precise method to determine the expansion size has hampered the study of possible correlations between the hexanucleotid...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dols-Icardo O,García-Redondo A,Rojas-García R,Sánchez-Valle R,Noguera A,Gómez-Tortosa E,Pastor P,Hernández I,Esteban-Pérez J,Suárez-Calvet M,Antón-Aguirre S,Amer G,Ortega-Cubero S,Blesa R,Fortea J,Alcolea D,Capdevila A,

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) are associated with mutations in the genes encoding the acetylcholine receptor (AChR), an oligomeric protein with the structure alpha(2)betadelta epsilon. AChR deficiency is frequently due to homozygous or heteroallelic mutations in the AChR epsilon subunit, most of which cau...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ealing J,Webster R,Brownlow S,Abdelgany A,Oosterhuis H,Muntoni F,Vaux DJ,Vincent A,Beeson D

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During mitosis, Kif11, a kinesin motor protein, promotes bipolar spindle formation and chromosome movement, and during interphase, Kif11 mediates diverse trafficking processes in the cytoplasm. In humans, inactivating mutations in KIF11 are associated with (1) retinal hypovascularization with or without microcephaly a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang Y,Smallwood PM,Williams J,Nathans J

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor 1 (CR1) is an Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility locus that also influences AD-related traits such as episodic memory decline and neuritic amyloid plaque deposition. We implemented a functional fine-mapping approach, leveraging intermediate phenotypes to identify functional variant(s) within t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Keenan BT,Shulman JM,Chibnik LB,Raj T,Tran D,Sabuncu MR,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.,Allen AN,Corneveaux JJ,Hardy JA,Huentelman MJ,Lemere CA,Myers AJ,Nicholson-Weller A,Reiman EM,Evans DA,Bennett DA,De J

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a YAC contig containing 54 clones and a minimum of 7 Mbp of human DNA, that maps to bands q34-35 on chromosome 5. The contig was nucleated using FISH mapped cosmid clones shown to flank the t(2;5)(p23;q35) translocation breakpoint in a CD30-positive large cell lymphoma cell line. Thirty of the 54 Y...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lu-Kuo JM,Le Paslier D,Weissenbach J,Chumakov I,Cohen D,Ward DC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcobalamin II (TC II) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease leading to cobalamin (Cbl; Vitamin B12) deficiency characterized by failure to thrive, megaloblastic anemia, impaired immunodefence and neurological manifestations. By means of Southern blotting and sequence analysis of TC II cDNA amplified fro...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li N,Rosenblatt DS,Kamen BA,Seetharam S,Seetharam B

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Functional and genomic approaches can be integrated to screen efficiently for pathogenic alleles in founder populations. We applied such approaches to analysis of the cancer-associated cell cycle regulator CHEK2 in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. We first identified two extended haplotypes at CHEK2 that co-segregated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shaag A,Walsh T,Renbaum P,Kirchhoff T,Nafa K,Shiovitz S,Mandell JB,Welcsh P,Lee MK,Ellis N,Offit K,Levy-Lahad E,King MC

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that AWT1 and WT1-AS are functionally imprinted in human kidney. In the adult kidney, expression of both transcripts is restricted to the paternal allele, with the silent maternal allele retaining methylation at the WT1 antisense regulatory region (WT1 ARR). Here, we report characterization of...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hancock AL,Brown KW,Moorwood K,Moon H,Holmgren C,Mardikar SH,Dallosso AR,Klenova E,Loukinov D,Ohlsson R,Lobanenkov VV,Malik K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have identified susceptibility loci for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). We conducted a meta-analysis of all single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that showed nominally significant P-values in two previously published genome-wide scans that included a total of 2961 ESCC cases...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Abnet CC,Wang Z,Song X,Hu N,Zhou FY,Freedman ND,Li XM,Yu K,Shu XO,Yuan JM,Zheng W,Dawsey SM,Liao LM,Lee MP,Ding T,Qiao YL,Gao YT,Koh WP,Xiang YB,Tang ZZ,Fan JH,Chung CC,Wang C,Wheeler W,Yeager M,Yuenger

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved understanding of the expression of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) will assist our approach to preventing the organ damage caused by cystic fibrosis (CF). We have studied the expression of CFTR in human fetal tissues at different gestational ages using in situ hybridization to detect CFTR mRNA. CFTR was pr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tizzano EF,Chitayat D,Buchwald M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common pediatric neuromuscular disorder caused by insufficient levels of the survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein. Studies involving SMA patients and animal models expressing the human SMN2 gene have yielded relatively little information about the earliest cellular consequences of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kariya S,Park GH,Maeno-Hikichi Y,Leykekhman O,Lutz C,Arkovitz MS,Landmesser LT,Monani UR

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in GDAP1 lead to recessively or dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, CMT), indicating that GDAP1 is essential for the viability of cells in the peripheral nervous system. GDAP1 contains domains characteristic of glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), is located in the outer ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Noack R,Frede S,Albrecht P,Henke N,Pfeiffer A,Knoll K,Dehmel T,Meyer Zu Hörste G,Stettner M,Kieseier BC,Summer H,Golz S,Kochanski A,Wiedau-Pazos M,Arnold S,Lewerenz J,Methner A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease, an X-linked inborn error of glycosphingolipid catabolism, results from mutations in the alpha-galactosidase A gene at Xq22.1. To determine the nature and frequency of the molecular lesions causing the classical and milder variant Fabry phenotypes, and for precise carrier detection in Fabry families, the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Eng CM,Niehaus DJ,Enriquez AL,Burgert TS,Ludman MD,Desnick RJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder mainly caused by mutations within FBN1 gene. The disease displays large variability in age of onset or severity and very poor phenotype/genotype correlations have been demonstrated. We investigated the hypothesis that phenotype severity could be related to the variable...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aubart M,Gross MS,Hanna N,Zabot MT,Sznajder M,Detaint D,Gouya L,Jondeau G,Boileau C,Stheneur C

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine (HA) acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, which participates in the regulation of many biological processes including inflammation, gastric acid secretion and neuromodulation. The enzyme histamine N-methyltransferase (HNMT) inactivates HA by transferring a methyl group from S-adenosyl-l-methionine to HA,...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Heidari A,Tongsook C,Najafipour R,Musante L,Vasli N,Garshasbi M,Hu H,Mittal K,McNaughton AJ,Sritharan K,Hudson M,Stehr H,Talebi S,Moradi M,Darvish H,Arshad Rafiq M,Mozhdehipanah H,Rashidinejad A,Samiei S,Ghadami M,

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease is a fatal recessively inherited lysosomal cholesterol-sphingolipidosis. Mutations in the NPC1 gene cause approximately 95% of the cases, the rest being caused by NPC2 mutations. Here the molecular basis of a severe infantile form of the disease was dissected. The level of NPC1 protei...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Blom TS,Linder MD,Snow K,Pihko H,Hess MW,Jokitalo E,Veckman V,Syvänen AC,Ikonen E

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a late-onset neurodegenerative disorder affecting carriers of the fragile X-premutation, who have an expanded CGG repeat in the 5'-UTR of the FMR1 gene. FXTAS is characterized by progressive development of intention tremor, ataxia, parkinsonism and neuropsychologi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hukema RK,Buijsen RA,Schonewille M,Raske C,Severijnen LA,Nieuwenhuizen-Bakker I,Verhagen RF,van Dessel L,Maas A,Charlet-Berguerand N,De Zeeuw CI,Hagerman PJ,Berman RF,Willemsen R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early growth response 2 gene ( EGR2 ) is a Cys2His2zinc finger transcription factor which is thought to play a role in the regulation of peripheral nervous system myelination. This idea is based partly on the phenotype of homozygous Krox20 ( Egr2 ) knockout mice, which display hypomyelination of the PNS and a bloc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Warner LE,Svaren J,Milbrandt J,Lupski JR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNNI3K expression worsens disease progression in several mouse heart pathology models. TNNI3K expression also reduces the number of diploid cardiomyocytes, which may be detrimental to adult heart regeneration. However, the gene is evolutionarily conserved, suggesting a beneficial function that has remained obscure. He...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gan P,Baicu C,Watanabe H,Wang K,Tao G,Judge DP,Zile MR,Makita T,Mukherjee R,Sucov HM

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD/BMD) are caused by mutations in the human dystrophin gene. About two-thirds of DMD/BMD patients exhibit gross rearrangements in the gene whereas the mutations in the remaining one third are thought to be point mutations or minor structural lesions. By means of various prog...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lenk U,Hanke R,Thiele H,Speer A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00