The uptake and outcome of prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for Huntington's disease in the Netherlands (1998-2008).

abstract：:Biallelic mutations in the PLCB1 gene, encoding for a phospholipase C beta isoform strongly expressed in the brain, have been reported to cause infantile epileptic encephalopathy in only four children to date. We report here three additional patients to delineate the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the dis...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Desprairies C,Valence S,Maurey H,Helal SI,Weckhuysen S,Soliman H,Mefford HC,Spentchian M,Héron D,Leguern E,Nava C,Bouilleret V,Moretti R,Mignot C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the most frequent sensorineural disorder affecting 1 in 1000 newborns. In more than half of these babies, the hearing loss is inherited. Hereditary hearing loss is a very heterogeneous trait with about 100 gene localizations and 44 gene identifications for non-syndromic hearing loss. Transmembrane chan...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hilgert N,Alasti F,Dieltjens N,Pawlik B,Wollnik B,Uyguner O,Delmaghani S,Weil D,Petit C,Danis E,Yang T,Pandelia E,Petersen MB,Goossens D,Favero JD,Sanati MH,Smith RJ,Van Camp G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous fatal neurodegenerative disease. Around 10% of ALS cases are hereditary. ALS gene discoveries have provided most of our understanding of disease pathogenesis. We aimed to describe the genetic landscape of ALS in Australia by assessing 10...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： McCann EP,Williams KL,Fifita JA,Tarr IS,O'Connor J,Rowe DB,Nicholson GA,Blair IP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the CDH23 gene are known to be responsible for both Usher syndrome type ID (USH1D) and non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB12), and the molecular confirmation of the CDH23 gene has become important in the diagnosis of these conditions. The present study was performed to find whether the CDH23 mutations are al...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wagatsuma M,Kitoh R,Suzuki H,Fukuoka H,Takumi Y,Usami S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robinow Syndrome (RS), a rare skeletal dysplasia syndrome, is characterized by dysmorphic features resembling a fetal face, mesomelic limb shortening, hypoplastic external genitalia in males, and renal and vertebral anomalies. Both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive patterns of inheritance have been reported. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Roifman M,Marcelis CL,Paton T,Marshall C,Silver R,Lohr JL,Yntema HG,Venselaar H,Kayserili H,van Bon B,Seaward G,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Brunner HG,Chitayat D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome type III is an autosomal recessive disorder clinically characterized by the association of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), variable presence of vestibular dysfunction and progressive hearing loss, being the progression of the hearing impairment the critical parameter classically used to distinguish this form...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Aller E,Jaijo T,Oltra S,Alió J,Galán F,Nájera C,Beneyto M,Millán JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is rarely inherited in an X-linked recessive mode in pure and complicated forms. Recently, molecular linkage studies have suggested that these variant X-linked HSP conditions result from locus heterogeneity. In this paper we report on the clinical and linkage analysis of a kindred w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Goldblatt J,Ballo R,Sachs B,Moosa A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of genetic polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of recurrent miscarriage (RM) have been intensively studied. However, the results of these studies were inconsistent, especially when conducted in different populations. Therefore, we performed the current study to systematically review the broad spectrum of genet...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shi X,Xie X,Jia Y,Li S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical data are presented of a 29-year-old male, who shows progressive psychomotor retardation and a beta-galactosidase deficiency in leucocytes and cultured skin fibroblasts. Somatic cell hybridization studies show that this variant of GM1-gangliosidosis is based on a different gene mutation than is present in t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Koster JF,Niermeijer MF,Loonen MC,Gajaard H

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1a glycogen storage disease (GSD) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nucleotide sequence analysis were used to identify the location and nature of mutations at the G6Pase locus in two siblings affected with typ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee WJ,Lee HM,Chi CS,Shu SG,Lin LY,Lin WH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slowly progressive type of muscular dystrophy affecting 11 known members of several Southern Manitoba Hutterite colonies is described. Though encompassing the facial characteristics of the facio-scapulo-humeral type and the proximal distribution of the limb-girdle type, it was felt that this disease represents a dis...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shokeir MH,Kobrinsky NL

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child is described with most of the typical clinical features of the cri-du-chat syndrome. G- and C-banding studies revealed the karyotype 45,XX, -5, -15, +tdic (5;15) with the loss of short arm material from chromosome 5. Centromeric heterochromatin of the translocated No. 15 is still present in the translocation c...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gebauer HJ,Stumpf B,Hansmann I,Grimm T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hobbs et al. (N. Engl. J. Med. 317: 734-737, 1987) reported a large deletion of approximately 10 kilobases in the 5' portion of the human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor gene. This deletion affects about 60% of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) heterozygotes in the French Canadian population. We have developed...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ma YH,Bétard C,Roy M,Davignon J,Kessling AM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis of G-banded cells from 92 individuals consecutively referred to the Cytogenetics Laboratory show that the paracentromeric band in the short arm (6p11), which stains negatively with G-banding and darkly with C-banding, shows a marked increase in size in about 9% of chromosome no. 6. The results of t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Madan K,Bruinsma AH

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A genetic test for hemochromatosis has allowed for the first time, genotypic identification of heterozygotes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether genotyping of spouses of homozygotes results in fewer investigations of children and subsequent cost savings. METHODS:Two hundred and ninety one chi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Adams PC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The logistic regression model is a popular model for data analysis in epidemiological research. In this paper, we use this model to analyze genetic data collected from gene-longevity association studies. This new approach models the probability of observing one genotype as a function of the age of investigated individ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tan Q,Yashin AI,De Benedictis G,Cintolesi F,Rose G,Bonafe M,Franceschi C,Vach W,Vaupel JW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 patients with Angelman syndrome (AS) due to paternal uniparental disomy (UPD). One patient is a female aged 30 years and the other a male aged 4 1/2 years. Both have the characteristic wide mouth and big chin, moderate mental retardation, virtually no speech but some 30 words of sign language and a happy...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Smith A,Robson L,Buchholz B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alterations in GFER gene have been associated with progressive mitochondrial myopathy, congenital cataracts, hearing loss, developmental delay, lactic acidosis and respiratory chain deficiency in 3 siblings born to consanguineous Moroccan parents by homozygosity mapping and candidate gene approach (OMIM#6130...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nambot S,Gavrilov D,Thevenon J,Bruel AL,Bainbridge M,Rio M,Goizet C,Rötig A,Jaeken J,Niu N,Xia F,Vital A,Houcinat N,Mochel F,Kuentz P,Lehalle D,Duffourd Y,Rivière JB,Thauvin-Robinet C,Beaudet AL,Faivre L

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was performed on 40 families at risk for an unbalanced rearrangement in the fetus because one of the parents is a reciprocal translocation carrier. The overall risk at second trimester prenatal diagnosis was 14% (8/57). The individual risk for unbalanced offspring at second trimester prenatal diagnoses and...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Barisić I,Zergollern L,Muzinić D,Hitrec V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of personality disorders is based on deviant personality traits in both the DSM-III-R and ICD-10 classifications. A diagnosis of personality disorder can be made reliably with structured interviews. Many individuals are diagnosed with more than one personality disorder, and other mental disorders are often...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dahl AA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitric oxide synthase (NOS) gene is thought to be associated with essential hypertension (EH), because NO is implicated in endothelium-mediated vasodilation. We investigated the possible association between the alleles of simple tandem repeat DNA polymorphism of the endothelial constitutive NOS (cNOS) gene and EH ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nakayama T,Soma M,Takahashi Y,Izumi Y,Kanmatsuse K,Esumi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid function has been studied in 121 patients between 13 and 48 years old with proven Down syndrome. Chemically, hypothyroidism was found in 17% and hyperthyroidism in 2.5% of the patients; 18% of patients had goiter. Thyroid antibodies were detected in 33% of subjects studied. The abnormal findings were almost eq...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sare Z,Ruvalcaba RH,Kelley VC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypotrichosis is a human hereditary hair loss disorder in which affected individuals show sparse to complete absence of hair on scalp and/or on different body parts. To date, at least eight isolated autosomal recessive and dominant forms of hypotrichosis loci have been mapped on different human chromosomes, and the co...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Basit S,Wali A,Aziz A,Muhammad N,Jelani M,Ahmad W

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial 1555A>G mutation is one of the most common mutations responsible for hearing loss in Asians. Although the association with aminoglycoside exposure is well known, there is great variation in the severity of hearing loss. We analyzed hearing levels in 221 Japanese individuals with this mutation and att...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lu SY,Nishio S,Tsukada K,Oguchi T,Kobayashi K,Abe S,Usami S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) and Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) are two congenital disorders with opposite outcomes on fetal growth, overgrowth and growth restriction, respectively. Although both disorders are heterogeneous, most cases of BWS and SRS are associated with opposite epigenetic or genetic abnormalities...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jacob KJ,Robinson WP,Lefebvre L

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schematic presentation of NTRK1 protein structure. Variants identified in this study are shown in red and previously reported variants associated with CIPA are shown in black (LRM, leucine rich motif; Ig, immunoglobulin-like domain; TM, transmembrane domain; TK, tyrosine kinase domain). ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Amin S,Forrester N,Norman A,Lux A,Vijayakumar K

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are reported who presented with 4q deletion and r(4), respectively. Cytogenetic and FISH analysis defined the breakpoints respectively at bands 4q33-->q35 proximal to the telomere, and 4pter and 4q35.2 qter. Moreover in both cases rearranged chromosomes maintained telomeric sequences. The first patient sh...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Calabrese G,Giannotti A,Mingarelli R,Di Gilio MC,Piemontese MR,Palka G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death (SCD) has an enormous impact on those who are left behind, evoking strong feelings of anxiety and incomprehension because such a dramatic event was not anticipated. Moreover, over the last decade a prominent genetic contribution to the pathogenesis of SCD has been unveiled. As many inherited cardi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Saenen JB,Van Craenenbroeck EM,Proost D,Marchau F,Van Laer L,Vrints CJ,Loeys BL

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the family of a patient who had an SLE-like syndrome and an extremely low serum C4 revealed an inheritance of C4 types and HLA region markers which indicated that the patient had 60--70% of "normal" C4 level prior to the onset of disease. Thus the extremely low C4 level during her disease may result from a ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cream JJ,Olaisen B,Teisberg P,Soler AV,Thompson RA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis in a pregnancy at risk for Becker muscular dystrophy is reported. The diagnosis was made prior to 12 weeks of gestation by typing a CVS sample for DNA markers. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wood S,Shukin RJ,Yong SL,Wilson D,Kalousek D,Chudley A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00