Age-associated epigenetic drift: implications, and a case of epigenetic thrift?

abstract：:Deletions within the neurexin 1 gene (NRXN1; 2p16.3) are associated with autism and have also been reported in two families with schizophrenia. We examined NRXN1, and the closely related NRXN2 and NRXN3 genes, for copy number variants (CNVs) in 2977 schizophrenia patients and 33 746 controls from seven European popula...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rujescu D,Ingason A,Cichon S,Pietiläinen OP,Barnes MR,Toulopoulou T,Picchioni M,Vassos E,Ettinger U,Bramon E,Murray R,Ruggeri M,Tosato S,Bonetto C,Steinberg S,Sigurdsson E,Sigmundsson T,Petursson H,Gylfason A,Olason

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that mutations in the widely expressed nuclear protein TOPORS (topoisomerase I-binding arginine/serine rich) are associated with autosomal dominant retinal degeneration. However, the precise localization and a functional role of TOPORS in the retina remain unknown. Here, we demonstrate that TOPORS...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chakarova CF,Khanna H,Shah AZ,Patil SB,Sedmak T,Murga-Zamalloa CA,Papaioannou MG,Nagel-Wolfrum K,Lopez I,Munro P,Cheetham M,Koenekoop RK,Rios RM,Matter K,Wolfrum U,Swaroop A,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our fundamental understanding of how several thousand diverse RNAs are recognized in the soma, sorted, packaged, transported and localized within the cell is fragmentary. The COPa and COPb proteins of the coatomer protein I (COPI) vesicle complex were reported to interact with specific RNAs and represent a candidate R...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Todd AG,Lin H,Ebert AD,Liu Y,Androphy EJ

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary trafficking defects are the underlying cause of many ciliopathies, including Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) is mediated by kinesin motor proteins; however, the function of the homodimeric Kif17 motor in cilia is poorly understood, whereas Kif7 is known to play an importan...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schwarz N,Lane A,Jovanovic K,Parfitt DA,Aguila M,Thompson CL,da Cruz L,Coffey PJ,Chapple JP,Hardcastle AJ,Cheetham ME

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the molecular mechanisms of impaired elastic fiber formation in recessive cutis laxa, we have investigated two disease-causing missense substitutions in fibulin-5, C217R and S227P. Pulse-chase immunoprecipitation experiments indicated that S227P mutant fibulin-5 was synthesized and secreted by skin fibrob...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hu Q,Loeys BL,Coucke PJ,De Paepe A,Mecham RP,Choi J,Davis EC,Urban Z

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) complementation group F was first reported in Japan and most XP-F patients reported to date are Japanese. The clinical features of XP-F patients are rather mild, including late onset of skin cancer. Recently a cDNA that corrects the repair deficiency of cultured XP-F cells was isolated. The ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Matsumura Y,Nishigori C,Yagi T,Imamura S,Takebe H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) is the most common human chromosomal deletion syndrome and is frequently associated with deletions on chromosome 22q11. Approximately 17% of patients with the phenotypic features of this syndrome have no detectable genomic deletion. Animal studies using mouse models have implicated Tbx1 as a cr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stoller JZ,Epstein JA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify genes in the Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome critical region, radiolabeled cDNA probes from poly(A)+ RNA from mouse tissues were used to identify potential exon-containing genomic DNA fragments in cosmid or phage clones from appropriate yeast artificial chromosomes, and these fragments were subsequ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nakao M,Sutcliffe JS,Durtschi B,Mutirangura A,Ledbetter DH,Beaudet AL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast cancer gene, BRCA2, is essential for viability, yet patients with Fanconi anemia-D1 subtype are born alive with biallelic mutations in this gene. The hypomorphic nature of the mutations is believed to support viability, but this is not always apparent. One such mutation is IVS7+2T>G, which causes premature ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thirthagiri E,Klarmann KD,Shukla AK,Southon E,Biswas K,Martin BK,North SL,Magidson V,Burkett S,Haines DC,Noer K,Matthai R,Tessarollo L,Loncarek J,Keller JR,Sharan SK

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ICF syndrome has been described as the association of variable immunodeficiency, facial anomalies and centromeric heterochromatin instability. Since the chromosome rearrangements seen in cells of ICF patients are reminiscent of the chromosomal changes induced by the undermethylating agent 5-azacytidine in the late S-p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jeanpierre M,Turleau C,Aurias A,Prieur M,Ledeist F,Fischer A,Viegas-Pequignot E

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome is a complex human disorder that generally associates a 45,X karyotype to a female phenotype presenting with gonadal dysgenesis, short stature and a number of characteristic somatic features. It has been hypothesized that this specific phenotype was the consequence of the haploinsufficiency of some X-l...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barbaux S,Vilain E,Raoul O,Gilgenkrantz S,Jeandidier E,Chadenas D,Souleyreau N,Fellous M,McElreavey K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) are associated with mutations in the genes encoding the acetylcholine receptor (AChR), an oligomeric protein with the structure alpha(2)betadelta epsilon. AChR deficiency is frequently due to homozygous or heteroallelic mutations in the AChR epsilon subunit, most of which cau...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ealing J,Webster R,Brownlow S,Abdelgany A,Oosterhuis H,Muntoni F,Vaux DJ,Vincent A,Beeson D

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have underscored the importance of loss of tumor suppressor genes in the development of human cancer. To identify these genes, we used somatic cell hybrids in a functional assay for tumor suppression in vivo. A tumor suppressor gene in 11p15.5 was detected by transferring single human chromosomes into...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Reid LH,West A,Gioeli DG,Phillips KK,Kelleher KF,Araujo D,Stanbridge EJ,Dowdy SF,Gerhard DS,Weissman BE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is an RNA-mediated disease caused by a non-coding CTG repeat expansion. A key feature of the RNA-mediated pathogenesis model for DM is the disrupted splicing of specific pre-mRNA targets. A link has been established between splicing regulation by CUG-BP1, a member of the CELF family of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ho TH,Bundman D,Armstrong DL,Cooper TA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are ubiquitously expressed enzymes implicated in several dominant and recessive disease phenotypes. The canonical function of ARSs is to couple an amino acid to a cognate transfer RNA (tRNA). We identified three novel disease-associated missense mutations in the alanyl-tRNA synthetase...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weterman MAJ,Kuo M,Kenter SB,Gordillo S,Karjosukarso DW,Takase R,Bronk M,Oprescu S,van Ruissen F,Witteveen RJW,Bienfait HME,Breuning M,Verhamme C,Hou YM,de Visser M,Antonellis A,Baas F

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hay-Wells syndrome, also known as ankyloblepharon-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting (AEC) syndrome (OMIM 106260), is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by congenital ectodermal dysplasia, including alopecia, scalp infections, dystrophic nails, hypodontia, ankyloblepharon and cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McGrath JA,Duijf PH,Doetsch V,Irvine AD,de Waal R,Vanmolkot KR,Wessagowit V,Kelly A,Atherton DJ,Griffiths WA,Orlow SJ,van Haeringen A,Ausems MG,Yang A,McKeon F,Bamshad MA,Brunner HG,Hamel BC,van Bokhoven H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presenilins 1 and 2 (PS1/2), causative molecules for familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD), are multipass transmembrane proteins localized predominantly in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus. Heteromeric protein complexes containing PS1/2 are thought to participate in several functions, including intramem...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang HQ,Nakaya Y,Du Z,Yamane T,Shirane M,Kudo T,Takeda M,Takebayashi K,Noda Y,Nakayama KI,Nishimura M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder and a leading genetic cause of infantile mortality. SMA is caused by mutation or deletion of Survival Motor Neuron-1 (SMN1). The clinical features of the disease are caused by specific degeneration of alpha-motor neurons in the spinal c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lorson CL,Rindt H,Shababi M

更新日期：2010-04-15 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：:Eukaryotic elongation factor 1A (EEF1A), is encoded by two distinct isoforms, EEF1A1 and EEF1A2; whereas EEF1A1 is expressed almost ubiquitously, EEF1A2 expression is limited such that it is only detectable in skeletal muscle, heart, brain and spinal cord. Currently, the role of EEF1A2 in normal cardiac development an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cao S,Smith LL,Padilla-Lopez SR,Guida BS,Blume E,Shi J,Morton SU,Brownstein CA,Beggs AH,Kruer MC,Agrawal PB

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia associated with the high metabolic demand of rods has been implicated in the pathology of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of adult blindness in the developed world. The majority of AMD-associated severe vision loss cases are due to exudative AMD, characterized by neovascularizatio...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang L,Cui X,Han Y,Park KS,Gao X,Zhang X,Yuan Z,Hu Y,Hsu CW,Li X,Bassuk AG,Mahajan VB,Wang NK,Tsang SH

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is a sensitive indicator of thyroid function. High and low TSH levels reflect hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, respectively. Even within the normal range, small differences in TSH levels, on the order of 0.5-1.0 mU/l, are associated with significant differences in blood pressure, B...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhan M,Chen G,Pan CM,Gu ZH,Zhao SX,Liu W,Wang HN,Ye XP,Xie HJ,Yu SS,Liang J,Gao GQ,Yuan GY,Zhang XM,Zuo CL,Su B,Huang W,Ning G,Chen SJ,Chen JL,Song HD,China Consortium for Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Promising results in several clinical studies have emphasized the potential of gene therapy to address important medical needs and initiated a surge of investments in drug development and commercialization. This enthusiasm is driven by positive data in clinical trials including gene replacement for Hemophilia B, X-lin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： van der Loo JC,Wright JF

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL), Batten disease, is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease associated with mutations in CLN3. CLN3 has no known homology to other proteins and a function has not yet been described. The predominant mutation in CLN3 is a 1.02 kb genomic deletion that accounts for...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Haskell RE,Carr CJ,Pearce DA,Bennett MJ,Davidson BL

更新日期：2000-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is an overgrowth malformation syndrome that maps to human chromosome 11p15.5, a region that harbours a number of imprinted genes. We studied the methylation status of H19 and KCNQ1OT1 (LIT1/KvDMR1) in a large series of BWS patients. Different patient groups were identified: group I pa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bliek J,Maas SM,Ruijter JM,Hennekam RC,Alders M,Westerveld A,Mannens MM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkin E3 ubiquitin-ligase activity and its role in mitochondria homeostasis are thought to play a role in Parkinson's disease (PD). We now report that AF-6 is a novel parkin interacting protein that modulates parkin ubiquitin-ligase activity and mitochondrial roles. Parkin interacts with the AF-6 PDZ region through i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Haskin J,Szargel R,Shani V,Mekies LN,Rott R,Lim GG,Lim KL,Bandopadhyay R,Wolosker H,Engelender S

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G and the virion infectivity factor (vif) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are a pair of antagonistic molecules. In the absence of vif, APOBEC3G induces a high rate of dC to dU mutations in the nascent reverse transcripts of HIV that leads to the degradation of the HIV genome. ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang J,Webb DM

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chr15q11-q13 imprinted cluster is linked to several disorders, including Prader-Willi (PWS) and Angelman (AS) syndromes. Recently, disease modeling approaches based on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been used to study these syndromes. A concern regarding the use of these cells for imprinted dise...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pólvora-Brandão D,Joaquim M,Godinho I,Aprile D,Álvaro AR,Onofre I,Raposo AC,Pereira de Almeida L,Duarte ST,da Rocha ST

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation is a hallmark of vascular injury and disease. Global hypomethylation occurs during SMC proliferation in culture and in vivo during neointimal formation. Regardless of the programmed or stochastic nature of hypomethylation, identifying these changes is important in understanding v...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connelly JJ,Cherepanova OA,Doss JF,Karaoli T,Lillard TS,Markunas CA,Nelson S,Wang T,Ellis PD,Langford CF,Haynes C,Seo DM,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ,Shah SH,Kraus WE,Hauser ER,Gregory SG

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human homologues of mouse cancer modifier genes may play a role in cancer risk and prognosis. A proportion of the familial risk of common cancers may be attributable to variants in such genes, each contributing to a small effect. The protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type J (PTPRJ) has been recently identified as ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lesueur F,Pharoah PD,Laing S,Ahmed S,Jordan C,Smith PL,Luben R,Wareham NJ,Easton DF,Dunning AM,Ponder BA

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00