Hyperactive Ras/MAPK signaling is critical for tibial nonunion fracture in neurofibromin-deficient mice.

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an incurable disorder linked to ectopic expression of DUX4. However, DUX4 is notoriously difficult to detect in FSHD muscle cells, while DUX4 target gene expression is an inconsistent biomarker for FSHD skeletal muscle biopsies, displaying efficacy only on pathologicall...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Banerji CRS,Panamarova M,Zammit PS

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in MECP2 cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome (RTT OMIM 312750). Alternative inclusion of MECP2/Mecp2 exon 1 with exons 3 and 4 encodes MeCP2-e1 or MeCP2-e2 protein isoforms with unique amino termini. While most MECP2 mutations are located in exons 3 and 4 thus affecting both isoforms, MECP2 e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yasui DH,Gonzales ML,Aflatooni JO,Crary FK,Hu DJ,Gavino BJ,Golub MS,Vincent JB,Carolyn Schanen N,Olson CO,Rastegar M,Lasalle JM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTEN, a tumor suppressor phosphatase that dephosphorylates both protein and lipid substrates, is mutated in both heritable and sporadic breast cancer. Until recently, PTEN-mediated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis were thought to occur through its well-documented cytoplasmic activities. We have shown that PTEN localize...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chung JH,Ostrowski MC,Romigh T,Minaguchi T,Waite KA,Eng C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal muscle wasting disorder caused by mutations in the DMD gene that leads to the absence or severe reduction of dystrophin protein in muscle. The mdx mouse, also dystrophin deficient, is the model most widely used to study the pathology and test potential therapies, but the p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Coles CA,Gordon L,Hunt LC,Webster T,Piers AT,Kintakas C,Woodman K,Touslon SL,Smythe GM,White JD,Lamandé SR

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants in one-carbon folate metabolism have been identified as risk factors for disease because they may impair the production or use of one-carbon folates required for nucleotide synthesis and methylation. p.R653Q (1958G>A) is a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the 10-formyltetrahydrofolate (formylTH...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Christensen KE,Deng L,Leung KY,Arning E,Bottiglieri T,Malysheva OV,Caudill MA,Krupenko NI,Greene ND,Jerome-Majewska L,MacKenzie RE,Rozen R

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing the mouse homologue of the human choroideremia cDNA as a probe, we have identified a homologous human gene. The consensus cDNA of this gene, designated human choroideremia-like (hCHML) gene, encompasses an open reading frame of 1968 base pairs. The deduced polypeptide of hCHML displays several regions of hom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cremers FP,Molloy CM,van de Pol DJ,van den Hurk JA,Bach I,Geurts van Kessel AH,Ropers HH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetazolamide responsive hereditary paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (APCA) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by attacks of cerebellar ataxia and dysarthria with normal or near normal neurologic function between attacks. A genome-wide search using polymorphic di- and tri-nucleotide repeats was initiated ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： von Brederlow B,Hahn AF,Koopman WJ,Ebers GC,Bulman DE

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genes with an essential role in the regulation of eating behavior and body weight are considered candidates involved in the etiology of eating disorders (ED), but no relevant susceptibility genes with a major effect on anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa (BN) have been identified. Brain-derived neurotroph...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ribasés M,Gratacòs M,Fernández-Aranda F,Bellodi L,Boni C,Anderluh M,Cavallini MC,Cellini E,Di Bella D,Erzegovesi S,Foulon C,Gabrovsek M,Gorwood P,Hebebrand J,Hinney A,Holliday J,Hu X,Karwautz A,Kipman A,Komel R,Na

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptomeningeal glioneuronal heterotopia (LGH) is a focal malformation of the cerebral cortex and frequently found in patients with thanatophoric dysplasia (TD). The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying LGH formation are still largely unclear because of difficulties in obtaining brain samples from human TD patients...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Matsumoto N,Kobayashi N,Uda N,Hirota M,Kawasaki H

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, sperm-oocyte fusion initiates Ca(2+) oscillations leading to a series of events called oocyte activation, which is the first stage of embryo development. Ca(2+) signaling is elicited by the delivery of an oocyte-activating factor by the sperm. A sperm-specific phospholipase C (PLCZ1) has emerged as the lik...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Escoffier J,Lee HC,Yassine S,Zouari R,Martinez G,Karaouzène T,Coutton C,Kherraf ZE,Halouani L,Triki C,Nef S,Thierry-Mieg N,Savinov SN,Fissore R,Ray PF,Arnoult C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the varepsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene appears as an important biological marker for Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility, other genetic determinants are clearly implicated in the AD process. Here, we propose that a genetic variation in the transcriptional factor LBP-1c/CP2/LSF gene, located c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lambert JC,Goumidi L,Vrièze FW,Frigard B,Harris JM,Cummings A,Coates J,Pasquier F,Cottel D,Gaillac M,St Clair D,Mann DM,Hardy J,Lendon CL,Amouyel P,Chartier-Harlin MC

更新日期：2000-09-22 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：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in North America. Despite advances in lung cancer treatment, the overall 5 year survival rate for those diagnosed with the disease is bleak presumably due to the late stage of diagnosis. Owing to the difficulty of early detection, preneoplastic specimens are rare. Howev...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Garnis C,Campbell J,Davies JJ,Macaulay C,Lam S,Lam WL

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraoxonase is an arylesterase enzyme that is expressed in the liver and found in the circulation in association with apoA1 and the high-density lipoprotein, and prevents the accumulation of oxidized lipids in low-density lipoproteins in vitro. Common polymorphisms in genes encoding paraoxonase are established risk fa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Erlich PM,Lunetta KL,Cupples LA,Huyck M,Green RC,Baldwin CT,Farrer LA,MIRAGE Study Group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of a polyglutamine tract in ataxin-3 (AT3) results in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease, one of the nine polyglutamine neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding the normal functions of AT3 as well as its function in the context of expansion of the polyglutamine tract is critical for unders...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhong X,Pittman RN

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine is thought to act on brain monoamine systems that normally mediate diverse motivational behaviors. How monoamine-related genes contribute to behavioral traits (e.g. responses to novel stimuli) comorbid with the susceptibility to nicotine addiction is still poorly understood. We examined the impact of constitu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Agatsuma S,Lee M,Zhu H,Chen K,Shih JC,Seif I,Hiroi N

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of mouse models for the various forms of human neurosensory non-syndromic recessive deafness would constitute a major advance in the study of human deafness. Here we describe the localization of a human gene for neurosensory, nonsyndromic recessive deafness (NSRD2) to chromosome 11q13.5 by linkage a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Guilford P,Ayadi H,Blanchard S,Chaib H,Le Paslier D,Weissenbach J,Drira M,Petit C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autosomal recessive mouse mutation retinal degeneration 6 (rd6) causes small, white retinal spots and progressive photoreceptor degeneration similar to that observed in human flecked retinal diseases. Using a positional cloning approach, we determined that rd6 mice carry a splice donor mutation in the mouse homolo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kameya S,Hawes NL,Chang B,Heckenlively JR,Naggert JK,Nishina PM

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:Apoptosis is a morphologically distinct form of cell death involved in many physiological and pathological processes. The regulation of Fas/Apo-1 involved in membrane-mediated apoptosis has also been known to play crucial roles in many systems. More and more naturally occurring antisense RNAs are now known to regulate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yan MD,Hong CC,Lai GM,Cheng AL,Lin YW,Chuang SE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in RBM20, a gene encoding an RNA-binding protein, is associated with high familial penetrance, risk of progressive heart failure and sudden death. Although genetic investigations and physiological models have established the linkage of RBM20 with early-onset DCM, the under...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Beraldi R,Li X,Martinez Fernandez A,Reyes S,Secreto F,Terzic A,Olson TM,Nelson TJ

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility (MHS) is an autosomal dominant disorder of skeletal muscle which manifests as a life-threatening hypermetabolic crisis triggered by commonly-used inhalation anaesthetics and depolarizing muscle relaxants. Defects in the ryanodine receptor (RYR1) protein have been proposed to under...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Iles DE,Segers B,Sengers RC,Monsieurs K,Heytens L,Halsall PJ,Hopkins PM,Ellis FR,Hall-Curran JL,Stewart AD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the loss of expression of imprinted genes in chromosome 15q11-q13. Affected individuals exhibit neonatal hypotonia, developmental delay and childhood-onset obesity. Necdin, a protein implicated in the terminal differentiation of neurons, is the only PWS candidate gene to reduce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Kozlov S,Hernandez L,Chamberlain SJ,Brannan CI,Stewart CL,Wevrick R

更新日期：2000-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromas are one of the most characteristic features of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), an inherited autosomal-dominant neurogenetic disorder affecting 1 in 3500 individuals worldwide. These benign tumors mainly consist of Schwann cells (SCs) and fibroblasts. Recent evidence demonstrates that somatic mutations at...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Serra E,Rosenbaum T,Winner U,Aledo R,Ars E,Estivill X,Lenard HG,Lázaro C

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism is a heterogeneous condition that is likely to result from the combined effects of multiple genetic factors interacting with environmental factors. Given its complexity, the study of autism associated with Mendelian single gene disorders or known chromosomal etiologies provides an important perspective. We used...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nishimura Y,Martin CL,Vazquez-Lopez A,Spence SJ,Alvarez-Retuerto AI,Sigman M,Steindler C,Pellegrini S,Schanen NC,Warren ST,Geschwind DH

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of multiple signals at individual loci could explain additional phenotypic variance ('missing heritability') of common traits, and help identify causal genes. We examined gene expression levels as a model trait because of the large number of strong genetic effects acting in cis. Using expression pro...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wood AR,Hernandez DG,Nalls MA,Yaghootkar H,Gibbs JR,Harries LW,Chong S,Moore M,Weedon MN,Guralnik JM,Bandinelli S,Murray A,Ferrucci L,Singleton AB,Melzer D,Frayling TM

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Although most glaucoma patients are elderly, congenital glaucoma and glaucomas of childhood are also important causes of visual disability. Primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) is isolated, non-syndromic glaucoma that occurs in the first three years of li...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lewis CJ,Hedberg-Buenz A,DeLuca AP,Stone EM,Alward WLM,Fingert JH

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor 154 (GPR154) is a recently discovered asthma susceptibility gene upregulated in the airways of asthma patients. We previously observed increased pulmonary mRNA expression of the murine ortholog Gpr154 in a mouse model of ovalbumin (OVA)-induced inflammation. However, the expression profile o...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pulkkinen V,Majuri ML,Wang G,Holopainen P,Obase Y,Vendelin J,Wolff H,Rytilä P,Laitinen LA,Haahtela T,Laitinen T,Alenius H,Kere J,Rehn M

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF2 loss of imprinting (LOI) is fairly prevalent and implicated in the pathogenesis of human cancer and developmental disease; however, the causes of this phenomenon are largely unknown. We determined whether the post-weaning diet of mice affects allelic expression and CpG methylation of Igf2. C57BL/6JxCast/EiJ F1 hy...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Waterland RA,Lin JR,Smith CA,Jirtle RL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquinone (UQ), a.k.a. coenzyme Q, is a redox-active lipid that participates in several cellular processes, in particular mitochondrial electron transport. Primary UQ deficiency is a rare but severely debilitating condition. Mclk1 (a.k.a. Coq7) encodes a conserved mitochondrial enzyme that is necessary for UQ biosynt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang Y,Hekimi S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00