A small number of candidate gene SNPs reveal continental ancestry in African Americans.

abstract：:Birth weight, placental weight and gestation time of 26258 single births at Ramathibodi Hospital during 1973-7 were studied in relation to natural selection by fitting quadratic function to natural log of survivors-to-nonsurvivors ratios. The survival criterion was 7 days after delivery. The estimated optimal values o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Promboon S,Mi MP,Chaturachinda K

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to evaluate the effect of four common variants (rs2237892, rs2283228, rs2237895, and rs2237897) in KCNQ1 on susceptibility of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by performing a case-control study as well as a comprehensive meta-analysis. We genotyped these four variants in two sets of Chinese Han population, comprising a ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang H,Miao K,Zhao J,Liu L,Cui G,Chen C,Wang DW,Ding H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven phage clones containing human sequences were picked at random from a human genomic library cloned in Charon 4A. The clones are devoid of repetitive sequences and can be used to recognize restriction fragment length polymorphisms (Feder et al. 1985). The chromosomal locations of the sequences defined by the seven...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Spurr NK,Feder J,Bodmer WF,Goodfellow PN,Solomon E,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new AAT allele (PI Zbristol) has been discovered in a woman with an obstetric history of three perinatal deaths from fulminant liver disease and no living offspring. She and her father were both PI M1Zbristol heterozygotes. The Zbristol protein is active as a proteinase inhibitor but appeared to be deficient in the ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lovegrove JU,Jeremiah S,Gillett GT,Temple IK,Povey S,Whitehouse DB

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue distribution of the adenylate kinase isozymes in man has been examined using various substrates. The isozymes attributable to the AK1 and AK2 loci were identified, and an additional set of isozymes probably attributable to a third locus was also found. This locus has been provisionally designated AK3. The A...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wilson DE,Povey S,Harris H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is an important antiatherosclerotic agent. The main determinant of nitric oxide levels is enzyme nitric oxide synthase encoded by the NOS3 gene, the common variants in this gene may be responsible for variations in plasma enzyme levels. The association of NOS3 variants with coronary artery disease (CAD) v...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shahid SU,Shabana.,Rehman A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with a cumulative prevalence of greater than one per thousand. To date three independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have investigated the genetic susceptibility to PD. These studies implicated several genes as PD risk loci with strong, but not ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Edwards TL,Scott WK,Almonte C,Burt A,Powell EH,Beecham GW,Wang L,Züchner S,Konidari I,Wang G,Singer C,Nahab F,Scott B,Stajich JM,Pericak-Vance M,Haines J,Vance JM,Martin ER

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The odour threshold bimodality for exaltolide described by Whissell-Buechy & Amoore (1973) among American whites is confirmed for a population sample in London. A highly correlated bimodality presumed to be caused by the absence of inactivity of certain receptor sites is shown to exist for another structurally differe...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kalmus H,Seedburgh D

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Muslim Arab village, relatively isolated because of the preference of consanguineous marriages, we studied the fate of 12 mutations in 5 different genes. The study was based on carriers detected among relatives of affected patients and of carriers discovered in a random sample of 424 adults. Most of the mutations...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zlotogora J,Hujerat Y,Barges S,Shalev SA,Chakravarti A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of hex S to hex C in normal and Sandhoff's fibroblasts was determined to be between 1:1 and 1:2 by differential staining of hex S at pH 4.4 with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-N-acetylgalactosaminide and of hex C at pH 7.0 with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-N-acetylglucosaminide. Hex S and hex C were also semi-q...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Beutler E,Kuhl W

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific language impairment (SLI) is defined as an inability to develop appropriate language skills without explanatory medical conditions, low intelligence or lack of opportunity. Previously, a genome scan of 98 families affected by SLI was completed by the SLI Consortium, resulting in the identification of two quan...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Monaco AP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly informative dinucleotide repeat polymorphism has been identified at the D11S614 locus on chromosome 11q23. Ten different alleles have been observed at this locus, and the heterozygosity frequency is approximately 85%. Physical localization of this marker in a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing chromosom...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Benham F,Sugiyama R,Hunt D,Gillett G,Smith M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polygenic threshold model assumes that the distribution of the underlying liability is approximately normal. This paper examines the impact of deviations from normality in the underlying liability distribution when the number of loci affecting liability is finite, but large (e.g. 5-10). Skewness and kurtosis of th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kendler KS,Kidd KK

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Robertsonian translocation (RT) is a common cause for male infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, and birth defects. Studying meiotic recombination in RT-carrier patients helps decipher the mechanism and improve the clinical management of infertility and birth defects caused by RT. Here we present a new method to stud...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sha Y,Sha Y,Ji Z,Ding L,Zhang Q,Ouyang H,Lin S,Wang X,Shao L,Shi C,Li P,Song Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Succession Rule of Laplace (1795) and related reasoning, this paper shows how to give unbiased counselling to patients when predictions are to be based on small samples. The recombination fraction can be regarded as a probability parameter, theta, which itself has a probability distribution between the limit...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Renwick JH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated denaturing high pressure liquid chromatography (DHPLC) as a scanning method for mutation detection in TSC2, and compared it to conformation-sensitive gel electrophoresis (CSGE) and single-stranded conformation polymorphism analysis (SSCP). The first 20 exons of TSC2 were amplified from 84 TSC patients and...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Choy YS,Dabora SL,Hall F,Ramesh V,Niida Y,Franz D,Kasprzyk-Obara J,Reeve MP,Kwiatkowski DJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:Research suggests pulse pressure (PP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease, and genes likely influence PP levels. Additionally, gender may be an effect modifier between PP and cardiovascular disease. This study addresses whether two renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) variants are associated with PP in a s...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lynch AI,Arnett DK,Davis BR,Boerwinkle E,Ford CE,Eckfeldt JH,Leiendecker-Foster C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated population groups are useful in conducting association studies of complex diseases to avoid various pitfalls, including those arising from population stratification. Since DNA resequencing is expensive, it is recommended that genotyping be carried out at tagSNP (tSNP) loci. For this, tSNPs identified in one i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sarkar Roy N,Farheen S,Roy N,Sengupta S,Majumder PP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is considered to be a kind of autoimmune disorder resulting from dysfunction of neuromuscular transmission caused by autoantibodies against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A number of studies have identified Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) as a candidate gene for MG. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li F,Yuan W,Wu X

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the HLA-DQB1 gene as a Southern hybridization probe with TaqI-digested genomic DNA in a study of 600 haplotypes from unrelated individuals and have characterized HLA-DQB1 RFLP patterns associated with the DR specificities DR1-DRw10 and DN1. For six of the specificities (DR2, 4, w6, 7, w8 and 9), we have a...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Gogolin KJ,Kolaga VJ,Baker L,Lisak RP,Zmijewski CM,Spielman RS

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human population is heterogeneous in genetic susceptibility, chromosomal instability and disease risk; all factors which depend on inherited genetic constitution and acquired nongenetic environmental and occupational factors. Recently, special attention has been directed to the identification of sources of potenti...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hoyos-Giraldo LS,Escobar-Hoyos LF,Reyes-Carvajal I,García JJ,Córdoba L,Gómez AS,García-Vallejo F,Cajas-Salazar N,Carvajal S,Bedoya G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate whether an increased hazard of developing ischemic heart disease (IHD) is associated with any of the three genotypes A560T832/A560T832, A560T832/A560G832 and A560T832/T560T832, defined by variations in two non-coding SNPs in the 5' promoter region of the apolipoprotein E (AP...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Stengård JH,Frikke-Schmidt R,Tybjaerg-Hansen A,Nordestgaard BG,Sing CF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for interdisciplinary assessments and interpretations of -omics underpinnings of human complex diseases. However, often investigators from different, yet overlapping, disciplines experience difficulties in understanding the other discipline's language and there is a clear need for establishing a platfo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van Steen K,Sleegers K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify interacting loci in genetic epidemiological studies the application of multi-locus methods of analysis is warranted. Several more advanced classification methods have been developed in the past years, including multiple logistic regression, sum statistics, logic regression, and the multifactor dimensionali...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Vermeulen SH,Den Heijer M,Sham P,Knight J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis is a common autosomal recessive disorder that primarily affects the epithelial cells in the intestine, respiratory system, pancreas, gall bladder and sweat glands. Over one thousand mutations have currently been identified in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene that are ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Rowntree RK,Harris A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based genetic association analysis may suffer from the failure to control for confounders such as population stratification (PS). There has been extensive study on the influence of PS on candidate gene-disease association analysis, but much less attention has been paid to its influence on marker-disease ass...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li T,Li Z,Ying Z,Zhang H

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified around 20 common genetic variants influencing the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Likewise, a number of variants have been associated with diabetes-related quantitative glycaemic traits, but to date the overlap between these genes and variants has been low. The majo...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Franklin CS,Aulchenko YS,Huffman JE,Vitart V,Hayward C,Polašek O,Knott S,Zgaga L,Zemunik T,Rudan I,Campbell H,Wright AF,Wild SH,Wilson JF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of human cytosolic alanine aminotransferase (AAT1) and the individual human chromosomes has been studied in 27 secondary and tertiary rat hepatoma-human (liver) fibroblast hybrids. The staining solution used to visualize AAT activity on starch gels was specific for AAT since it was visualized only when...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Astrin KH,Arredondo-Vega FX,Desnick RJ,Smith M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00