Genotypic variants at 2q33 and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in China: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

abstract：:Actinic keratosis (AK) is a pre-malignant skin disease, highly prevalent in elderly Europeans. This study investigates genetic susceptibility to AK with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). A full body skin examination was performed in 3194 elderly individuals from the Rotterdam Study (RS) of exclusive north-wester...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobs LC,Liu F,Pardo LM,Hofman A,Uitterlinden AG,Kayser M,Nijsten T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the dynamics of mitochondrial DNA maintenance and segregation in human cells using serial cybrid transfer of partially duplicated mitochondrial DNA, from a mitochondrial myopathy patient, to two distinct recipient cell types. The results indicate two radically different outcomes dependent upon nuclear ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Holt IJ,Dunbar DR,Jacobs HT

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP)-Associated Protein B (VAPB) is the causative gene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8 (ALS8) in humans. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective death of motor neurons leading to spasticity, muscle atrophy an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Forrest S,Chai A,Sanhueza M,Marescotti M,Parry K,Georgiev A,Sahota V,Mendez-Castro R,Pennetta G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Pure' familial spastic paraplegias (FSP) are neurodegenerative disorders that are clinically characterized by progressive spasticity of the lower limbs and are inherited as autosomal dominant (DFSP) or autosomal recessive (RFSP) traits. The primary defect in FSP is unknown. Genetic linkage analysis was applied to fiv...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hentati A,Pericak-Vance MA,Hung WY,Belal S,Laing N,Boustany RM,Hentati F,Ben Hamida M,Siddique T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing emerges as one of the most important mechanisms to generate transcript diversity. It is regulated by the formation of protein complexes on pre-mRNA. We demonstrate that protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) binds to the splicing factor transformer2-beta1 (tra2-beta1) via a phylogenetically conserved RVDF se...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Novoyatleva T,Heinrich B,Tang Y,Benderska N,Butchbach ME,Lorson CL,Lorson MA,Ben-Dov C,Fehlbaum P,Bracco L,Burghes AH,Bollen M,Stamm S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human breast cancers result from an inherited predisposition to the disease. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene confer a high risk of breast cancer and are responsible for almost half of these cases. The recent cloning of the human BRCA2 gene has revealed that it encodes a large protein having little signific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connor F,Smith A,Wooster R,Stratton M,Dixon A,Campbell E,Tait TM,Freeman T,Ashworth A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS; also known as the RSH syndrome) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, leading to characteristic multi-organ developmental abnormalities, dysmorphic facies, limb malformations and mental retardation. Mutations in the gene for Delta(7)-dehydrocholesterol reductase (Delta(7)-re...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yu H,Lee MH,Starck L,Elias ER,Irons M,Salen G,Patel SB,Tint GS

更新日期：2000-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A vast portion of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders is genetically caused by mutations in chromatin modulators. These proteins play key roles in development and are also highly expressed in the adult brain. Specifically, the pivotal role of chromatin regulation in transcription has placed enhancers...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vitriolo A,Gabriele M,Testa G

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common inherited cancer predisposition syndrome. The NF1 gene product, neurofibromin, is hypothesized to function as a tumor suppressor and nearly all NF1 patients develop benign peripheral nerve tumors. These neurofibromas presumably arise from NF1 inactivation in S100(+)Schwann ce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rutkowski JL,Wu K,Gutmann DH,Boyer PJ,Legius E

更新日期：2000-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies comprise a large group of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of tau protein. While much effort has focused on understanding the function of tau, little is known about the endogenous mechanisms regulating tau metabolism in vivo and ho...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith PY,Hernandez-Rapp J,Jolivette F,Lecours C,Bisht K,Goupil C,Dorval V,Parsi S,Morin F,Planel E,Bennett DA,Fernandez-Gomez FJ,Sergeant N,Buée L,Tremblay MÈ,Calon F,Hébert SS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X syndrome results from transcriptional silencing of the FMR1 gene and the absence of its encoded FMRP protein. Two autosomal homologues of the FMR1 gene, FXR1 and FXR2, have been identified and the overall structures of the corresponding proteins are very similar to that of FMRP. Using antibodies raised a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Khandjian EW,Bardoni B,Corbin F,Sittler A,Giroux S,Heitz D,Tremblay S,Pinset C,Montarras D,Rousseau F,Mandel J

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Proper localization and anchorage of nuclei within skeletal muscle is critical for cellular function. Alterations in nuclear anchoring proteins modify a number of cellular functions including mechanotransduction, nuclear localization, chromatin positioning/compaction and overall organ function. In skeletal muscle, nes...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chapman MA,Zhang J,Banerjee I,Guo LT,Zhang Z,Shelton GD,Ouyang K,Lieber RL,Chen J

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic defect underlying myotonic dystrophy (DM) has been identified as the expansion of an unstable trinucleotide repeat sequence, and this discovery has led to new approaches to diagnosis and genetic counselling in families with the disorder. We report the genetic analysis of a consanguineous DM family in which...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cobo A,Martinez JM,Martorell L,Baiget M,Johnson K

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FMR1 protein expression was studied in different tissues. In human, monkey and murine tissues, high molecular mass FMR1 proteins (67-80 kDa) are found, as shown in lymphoblastoid cells lines. The identity of these proteins was confirmed by their absence in tissues from patients with the fragile X syndrome and a FMR1 k...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verheij C,de Graaff E,Bakker CE,Willemsen R,Willems PJ,Meijer N,Galjaard H,Reuser AJ,Oostra BA,Hoogeveen AT

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by polyglutamine expansion in the disease protein, huntingtin. In HD patients and transgenic mice, the affected neurons form characteristic ubiquitin-positive nuclear inclusions (NIs). We have established ecdysone-inducible stable mou...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jana NR,Tanaka M,Wang Gh,Nukina N

更新日期：2000-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a learning disability seen in individuals who have >200 CGG•CCG repeats in the 5' untranslated region of the X-linked FMR1 gene. Such alleles are associated with a fragile site, FRAXA, a gap or constriction in the chromosome that is coincident with the repeat and is induced by folate stress...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yudkin D,Hayward BE,Aladjem MI,Kumari D,Usdin K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease (CAD) at chromosome 9p21 has recently been reported, which may influence the age of onset of CAD. We sought to replicate these findings among white subjects and to examine whether these results are consistent with other racial/ethnic groups by genotyping three single ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Assimes TL,Knowles JW,Basu A,Iribarren C,Southwick A,Tang H,Absher D,Li J,Fair JM,Rubin GD,Sidney S,Fortmann SP,Go AS,Hlatky MA,Myers RM,Risch N,Quertermous T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoachondroplasia (PSACH) is one of the more common skeletal dysplasias and results from mutations in cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP). Most COMP mutations identified to date cluster in the TSP3 repeat region of COMP and the mutant protein is retained in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) of chondrocyt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Piróg-Garcia KA,Meadows RS,Knowles L,Heinegård D,Thornton DJ,Kadler KE,Boot-Handford RP,Briggs MD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spastic paraplegia 35 (SPG35) (OMIM: 612319) or fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration (FAHN) is caused by deficiency of fatty acid 2-hydroxylase (FA2H). This enzyme synthesizes sphingolipids containing 2-hydroxylated fatty acids, which are particularly abundant in myelin. Fa2h-deficient (Fa2h-/-) mice de...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hardt R,Jordans S,Winter D,Gieselmann V,Wang-Eckhardt L,Eckhardt M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of a poly glutamine (polyQ) stretch in the huntingtin protein (HTT) that is necessary to cause pathology and formation of HTT aggregates. Here we ask whether expanded polyQ is sufficient to cause pathology and aggregate formation. By addressing the sufficiency questi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chongtham A,Bornemann DJ,Barbaro BA,Lukacsovich T,Agrawal N,Syed A,Worthge S,Purcell J,Burke J,Chin TM,Marsh JL

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome (OMIM 193300) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by deletions or mutations in a tumor suppressor gene on human chromosome 3p25. It is characterized clinically by vascular tumors including benign hemangioblastomas of the cerebellum, spine, brain stem and retina. Clear-cell ren...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Friedrich CA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the growth of renal cysts that ultimately destroy kidney function. Mutations in the PKD1 and PKD2 genes cause ADPKD. Their protein products, polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2) have been proposed to form a calcium-permeable receptor-channel...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Parnell SC,Magenheimer BS,Maser RL,Pavlov TS,Havens MA,Hastings ML,Jackson SF,Ward CJ,Peterson KR,Staruschenko A,Calvet JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis is a common, complex disease with no curative therapy. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on disease aetiopathogenesis and outline genetics and genomics approaches that are helping catalyse a much-needed improved understanding of the biological underpinning of disease development and progres...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cibrián Uhalte E,Wilkinson JM,Southam L,Zeggini E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a fatal, dominant neurodegenerative disorder. MJD results from polyglutamine repeat expansion in the MJD-1 gene, conferring a toxic gain of function to the ataxin-3 protein. In this study, we aimed at overexpressing ataxin-3 in the rat brain using lentiviral vectors (LV), to generate an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Alves S,Régulier E,Nascimento-Ferreira I,Hassig R,Dufour N,Koeppen A,Carvalho AL,Simões S,de Lima MC,Brouillet E,Gould VC,Déglon N,de Almeida LP

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart defects comprise the most common form of major birth defects, affecting 0.7% of all newborn infants. Jacobsen syndrome (11q-) is a rare chromosomal disorder caused by deletions in distal 11q. We have previously determined that a wide spectrum of the most common congenital heart defects occur in 11q-, ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ye M,Coldren C,Liang X,Mattina T,Goldmuntz E,Benson DW,Ivy D,Perryman MB,Garrett-Sinha LA,Grossfeld P

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the ORF15 exon of the RPGR gene cause a common form of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, which often results in severe loss of vision. In dogs and mice, gene augmentation therapy has been shown to arrest the progressive degeneration of rod and cone photoreceptors. However, the distribution of potentially tre...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Charng J,Cideciyan AV,Jacobson SG,Sumaroka A,Schwartz SB,Swider M,Roman AJ,Sheplock R,Anand M,Peden MC,Khanna H,Heon E,Wright AF,Swaroop A

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a polyglutamine expansion mutation in the huntingtin protein that confers a toxic gain-of-function and causes the protein to become aggregate-prone. Aggregate-prone proteins are cleared by macroautophagy, and upregulating this process by rapamycin, which inhibits the mammalian ta...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sarkar S,Krishna G,Imarisio S,Saiki S,O'Kane CJ,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS-VI), caused by mutational inactivation of the glycosaminoglycan-degrading enzyme arylsulfatase B (Arsb), is a lysosomal storage disorder primarily affecting the skeleton. We have previously reported that Arsb-deficient mice display high trabecular bone mass and impaired skeletal grow...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hendrickx G,Danyukova T,Baranowsky A,Rolvien T,Angermann A,Schweizer M,Keller J,Schröder J,Meyer-Schwesinger C,Muschol N,Paganini C,Rossi A,Amling M,Pohl S,Schinke T

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia may arise from subtle abnormalities in brain development due to alterations in the functions of candidate susceptibility genes such as Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) and Neuregulin 1 (NRG1). To provide novel insights into the functions of DISC1 in brain development, we mapped the expression of zebr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wood JD,Bonath F,Kumar S,Ross CA,Cunliffe VT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00