Drosophila FMRP participates in the DNA damage response by regulating G2/M cell cycle checkpoint and apoptosis.

abstract：:We have used the direct cDNA screening protocol to identify sequences transcribed in cerebral cortex from a reference library of human Xq28. To derive coding sequences from these genomic clones, we first identified fragments containing transcribed sequences and subjected these to exon trapping or to partial sequencing...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lawrence BJ,Schwabe W,Kioschis P,Coy JF,Poustka A,Brennan MB,Hochgeschwender U

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first 17 amino acids of Huntington's disease (HD) protein, huntingtin, comprise an amphipathic alpha-helical domain that can target huntingtin to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). N17 is phosphorylated at two serines, shown to be important for disease development in genetic mouse models, and shown to be modified by ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Maiuri T,Woloshansky T,Xia J,Truant R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the huntingtin-interacting protein-1 (HIP1) family, HIP1 and HIP1-related (HIP1r), are multi-domain proteins that interact with inositol lipids, clathrin and actin. HIP1 is over-expressed in a variety of cancers and both HIP1 and HIP1r prolong the half-life of multiple growth factor receptors. To better...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bradley SV,Hyun TS,Oravecz-Wilson KI,Li L,Waldorff EI,Ermilov AN,Goldstein SA,Zhang CX,Drubin DG,Varela K,Parlow A,Dlugosz AA,Ross TS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical manifestations of inherited neurodegenerative diseases are often delayed for periods from years to decades. This observation has led to the idea that, in these disorders, neurons die from cumulative damage. A critical prediction of the cumulative damage hypothesis is that the probability of neuronal death...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Clarke G,Lumsden CJ,McInnes RR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein-E (apoE) protects against coronary artery disease via hepatic removal of atherogenic remnant lipoproteins, sequestration of cholesterol from vessel walls and local anti-oxidant, anti-platelet and anti-inflammatory actions. ApoE gene transfer may thus ameliorate a hyperlipidaemic profile and have benefic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Athanasopoulos T,Owen JS,Hassall D,Dunckley MG,Drew J,Goodman J,Tagalakis AD,Riddell DR,Dickson G

更新日期：2000-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene's transcriptional output is the combined product of two inputs: diffusible factors in the cellular milieu acting in trans, and chromatin state acting in cis. Here, we describe a strategy for dissecting the relative contribution of cis versus trans mechanisms to gene regulation. Referred to as trans complementat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee JH,Bugarija B,Millan EJ,Walton NM,Gaetz J,Fernandes CJ,Yu WH,Mekel-Bobrov N,Vallender TW,Snyder GE,Xiang AP,Lahn BT

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 21 families with Wilson disease (WND), using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in the 13q14.3 region, to measure linkage of these markers to the disease locus. In addition to previously described markers, we include linkage data for a newly isolated marker (D13S86) and an established ma...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thomas GR,Roberts EA,Rosales TO,Moroz SP,Lambert MA,Wong LT,Cox DW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AFF (AF4/FMR2) family of genes includes four members: AFF1/AF4, AFF2/FMR2, AFF3/LAF4 and AFF4/AF5q31. AFF2/FMR2 is silenced in FRAXE intellectual disability, while the other three members have been reported to form fusion genes as a consequence of chromosome translocations with the myeloid/lymphoid or mixed lineag...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Melko M,Douguet D,Bensaid M,Zongaro S,Verheggen C,Gecz J,Bardoni B

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the nuclear receptor gene, NR2E3, cause a disorder of human retinal photoreceptor development characterized by hyperfunction and excess of the minority S (short wavelength or blue) cone photoreceptor type, but near absence of function of the majority rod receptor. NR2E3 disease can also progress to blindn...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobson SG,Sumaroka A,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Schwartz SB,Roman AJ,McInnes RR,Sheffield VC,Stone EM,Swaroop A,Wright AF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common inherited disorders. The gene responsible for the disease has a very high mutation rate, approximately fifty per cent of NF1 patients appear to have a de novo mutation. The search for mutations is hampered by the large size of the NF1 gene and up to date, relati...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Valero MC,Velasco E,Moreno F,Hernández-Chico C

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although considered the most common heritable cause of neurodevelopmental disability, precise prevalence figures for the FMR1 mutation in the general population are lacking. Since no fragile X premutation alleles have yet been observed to originate from FMR1 alleles within the normal size range, there is also little i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Reiss AL,Kazazian HH Jr,Krebs CM,McAughan A,Boehm CD,Abrams MT,Nelson DL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We, amongst others, have shown that CC homozygosity at the -22C>T promoter polymorphism in presenilin 1 (PSEN1) is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Also, studies in AD brains suggested that CC homozygosity increased the risk for AD by increasing the Abeta load. We characterized the PSEN1 pr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Theuns J,Remacle J,Killick R,Corsmit E,Vennekens K,Huylebroeck D,Cruts M,Van Broeckhoven C

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and functionally characterize six mutations of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) epsilon subunit gene in three congenital myasthenic syndrome patients. Endplate studies demonstrated severe endplate AChR deficiency, dispersed endplate regions and well preserved junctional folds in all three patients. Electr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ohno K,Quiram PA,Milone M,Wang HL,Harper MC,Pruitt JN 2nd,Brengman JM,Pao L,Fischbeck KH,Crawford TO,Sine SM,Engel AG

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreases in the ratio of neurotrophic versus neurodegenerative signalling play a critical role in Huntington’s disease (HD) pathogenesis and recent evidence suggests that the p75 neurotrophin receptor (NTR) contributes significantly to disease progression. p75NTR signalling intermediates substantially overlap with th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Simmons DA,Belichenko NP,Ford EC,Semaan S,Monbureau M,Aiyaswamy S,Holman CM,Condon C,Shamloo M,Massa SM,Longo FM

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Titin-truncating variants (TTNtv) are the most common genetic cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. TTNtv occur in ~1% of the general population and causes subclinical cardiac remodeling in asymptomatic carriers. In rat models with either proximal or distal TTNtv, we previously showed altered cardiac metabolism at baseline...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhou J,Ng B,Ko NSJ,Fiedler LR,Khin E,Lim A,Sahib NE,Wu Y,Chothani SP,Schafer S,Bay BH,Sinha RA,Cook SA,Yen PM

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a 448-amino-acid head-to-tail dimeric enzyme that hydrolyzes triglycerides within capillaries. LPL is secreted by parenchymal cells into the interstitial spaces; it then binds to GPIHBP1 (glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored high density lipoprotein-binding protein 1) on the basolateral fa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gin P,Goulbourne CN,Adeyo O,Beigneux AP,Davies BS,Tat S,Voss CV,Bensadoun A,Fong LG,Young SG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmological and molecular genetic studies were performed in a consanguineous family with individuals showing either retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or cone-rod dystrophy (CRD). Assuming pseudodominant (recessive) inheritance of allelic defects, linkage analysis positioned the causal gene at 1p21-p13 (lod score 4.22), a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cremers FP,van de Pol DJ,van Driel M,den Hollander AI,van Haren FJ,Knoers NV,Tijmes N,Bergen AA,Rohrschneider K,Blankenagel A,Pinckers AJ,Deutman AF,Hoyng CB

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction plays an important role in the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the progressive nature of neuronal loss in genetic models of mitochondrial dysfunction suggests the presence of compensatory mechanisms promoting neuronal survival under these conditions. Here, we identified the e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Germain M,Nguyen AP,Khacho M,Patten DA,Screaton RA,Park DS,Slack RS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. We studied 754 affected individuals, comprising 425 sibling pairs, to identify PD susceptibility genes. Screening of the parkin gene was performed in a subset of the sample having earlier age of PD onset or a positive LOD score with a marker ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pankratz N,Nichols WC,Uniacke SK,Halter C,Murrell J,Rudolph A,Shults CW,Conneally PM,Foroud T,Parkinson Study Group.

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the paired-domain transcription factor PAX9 are associated with non-syndromic tooth agenesis that preferentially affects posterior dentition. Of the 18 mutations identified to date, eight are phenotypically well-characterized missense mutations within the DNA-binding paired domain. We determined the struc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang Y,Groppe JC,Wu J,Ogawa T,Mues G,D'Souza RN,Kapadia H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment isolated from a human genomic library, was reported to be present at all human centromeres and present at 16-32 copies per genome. Reintroduction of this DNA into mammalian cells as a concatenated phage clone gave rise to dicentric chromosomes which gave rise to a new, stable, chromosome. Taken together...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McGill NI,Fantes J,Cooke H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental genetic relatedness may lead to adverse health and fitness outcomes in the offspring. However, the degree to which it affects human delivery timing is unknown. We use genotype data from ≃25 000 parent-offspring trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study to optimize runs of homozygosity (RO...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sole-Navais P,Bacelis J,Helgeland Ø,Modzelewska D,Vaudel M,Flatley C,Andreassen O,Njølstad PR,Muglia LJ,Johansson S,Zhang G,Jacobsson B

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome 22q11 region is susceptible to rearrangements that are associated with congenital anomaly disorders and malignant tumors. Three congenital anomaly disorders, cat-eye syndrome, der() syndrome and velo-cardio-facial syndrome/DiGeorge syndrome (VCFS/DGS) are associated with tetrasomy, trisomy or monosomy, ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Edelmann L,Pandita RK,Spiteri E,Funke B,Goldberg R,Palanisamy N,Chaganti RS,Magenis E,Shprintzen RJ,Morrow BE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) are bilateral and symmetric ribbons of gray matter found in the central white matter between the cortex and the ventricular surface, which comprises the less severe end of the lissencephaly (agyria-pachygyria-band) spectrum of malformations. Mutations in DCX (also known as XLIS ) hav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pilz DT,Kuc J,Matsumoto N,Bodurtha J,Bernadi B,Tassinari CA,Dobyns WB,Ledbetter DH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) results from reduced expression of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. Previous studies using in vitro model systems and lower organisms have suggested that low levels of Smn protein disrupt prenatal developmental processes in lower motor neurons, infl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Murray LM,Lee S,Bäumer D,Parson SH,Talbot K,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DUX4 transcription factor is normally expressed in the cleavage-stage embryo and regulates genes involved in embryonic genome activation. Misexpression of DUX4 in skeletal muscle, however, is toxic and causes facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). We recently showed DUX4-induced toxicity is due, in part, t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shadle SC,Bennett SR,Wong CJ,Karreman NA,Campbell AE,van der Maarel SM,Bass BL,Tapscott SJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal, muscle degenerative disease causing premature death of affected children. DMD is characterized by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in a loss of the dystrophin protein. Loss of dystrophin causes an associated reduction in proteins of the dystrophin glycoprotein...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fontelonga TM,Jordan B,Nunes AM,Barraza-Flores P,Bolden N,Wuebbles RD,Griner LM,Hu X,Ferrer M,Marugan J,Southall N,Burkin DJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease is caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat encoding an extended glutamine tract in a protein called huntingtin. Here, we provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that somatic increases of mutation length play a role in the progressive nature and cell-selective aspects of HD pathogenesis. Results f...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shelbourne PF,Keller-McGandy C,Bi WL,Yoon SR,Dubeau L,Veitch NJ,Vonsattel JP,Wexler NS,US-Venezuela Collaborative Research Group.,Arnheim N,Augood SJ

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of mutations in the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of mitochondrial DNA polymerase γ (POLγA) cause human disease. The Y955C mutation is common and leads to a dominant disease with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and other symptoms. The biochemical effect of the Y955C mutation has been extensiv...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Atanassova N,Fusté JM,Wanrooij S,Macao B,Goffart S,Bäckström S,Farge G,Khvorostov I,Larsson NG,Spelbrink JN,Falkenberg M

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in human mitochondrial tRNA genes are associated with a number of multisystemic disorders. Using an assay that combines tRNA oxidation and circularization we have determined the relative amounts and states of aminoacylation of mutant and wild-type tRNAs in tissue samples from patients with MELAS syndrome (mi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Börner GV,Zeviani M,Tiranti V,Carrara F,Hoffmann S,Gerbitz KD,Lochmüller H,Pongratz D,Klopstock T,Melberg A,Holme E,Pääbo S

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00