Ubiquitin-specific protease-14 reduces cellular aggregates and protects against mutant huntingtin-induced cell degeneration: involvement of the proteasome and ER stress-activated kinase IRE1α.

abstract：:To enhance our understanding of the autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), patients from six genetically distinct forms (LGMD2A to LGMD2F) were studied with antibodies directed against four sarcoglycan subunits (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-SG), dystrophin, beta-dystroglycan (beta-DG) and merosin. ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vainzof M,Passos-Bueno MR,Canovas M,Moreira ES,Pavanello RC,Marie SK,Anderson LV,Bonnemann CG,McNally EM,Nigro V,Kunkel LM,Zatz M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in aging and degenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Continuous fission and fusion of mitochondria shapes their morphology and is essential to maintain oxidative phosphorylation. Loss-of-function mutations in PTEN-induced kinase1 (PINK1) or Parkin cause a recess...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Sterky FH,Mourier A,Terzioglu M,Cullheim S,Olson L,Larsson NG

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent, de novo, meiotic non-allelic homologous recombination events between low copy repeats, termed LCR22s, leads to the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS; velo-cardio-facial syndrome/DiGeorge syndrome). Although most 22q11.2DS patients have a similar sized 3 million base pair (Mb), LCR22A-D deletion, some hav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Guo T,Diacou A,Nomaru H,McDonald-McGinn DM,Hestand M,Demaerel W,Zhang L,Zhao Y,Ujueta F,Shan J,Montagna C,Zheng D,Crowley TB,Kushan-Wells L,Bearden CE,Kates WR,Gothelf D,Schneider M,Eliez S,Breckpot J,Swillen A,

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in SOX18, VEGFC and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 3 underlie the hereditary lymphatic disorders hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia (HLT), Milroy-like lymphedema and Milroy disease, respectively. Genes responsible for hereditary lymphedema are key regulators of lymphatic vascular development in the ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kartopawiro J,Bower NI,Karnezis T,Kazenwadel J,Betterman KL,Lesieur E,Koltowska K,Astin J,Crosier P,Vermeren S,Achen MG,Stacker SA,Smith KA,Harvey NL,François M,Hogan BM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome is often portrayed as consisting of three sequence types, each distinguished by their mode of evolution. Purifying selection is estimated to act on 2.5-5.0% of the genome, whereas virtually all remaining sequence is considered to have evolved neutrally and to be devoid of functionality. The third mode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ponting CP,Lunter G

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the effects of genetic risk score (GRS) on secondary prevention is scarce and mixed. We investigated whether coronary artery disease (CAD) susceptible loci can be used to predict the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in a cohort with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). A total of 1667 patien...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jiang J,Zheng Q,Han Y,Qiao S,Chen J,Yuan Z,Yu B,Ge L,Jia J,Gong Y,Wang Z,Chen D,Zhang Y,Huo Y

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in GDAP1 lead to recessively or dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, CMT), indicating that GDAP1 is essential for the viability of cells in the peripheral nervous system. GDAP1 contains domains characteristic of glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), is located in the outer ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Noack R,Frede S,Albrecht P,Henke N,Pfeiffer A,Knoll K,Dehmel T,Meyer Zu Hörste G,Stettner M,Kieseier BC,Summer H,Golz S,Kochanski A,Wiedau-Pazos M,Arnold S,Lewerenz J,Methner A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) deficiency is the major cause of homocystinuria in humans. The most frequent symptoms of homocystinuria include: dislocated optic lenses, vascular disorders, skeletal abnormalities and mental retardation. Patients with this deficiency have elevated levels of homocyst(e)ine, methionine...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kraus JP,Le K,Swaroop M,Ohura T,Tahara T,Rosenberg LE,Roper MD,Kozich V

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal diabetes can either remit and hence be transient or else may be permanent. These two phenotypes were considered to be genetically distinct. Abnormalities of 6q24 are the commonest cause of transient neonatal diabetes (TNDM). Mutations in KCNJ11, which encodes Kir6.2, the pore-forming subunit of the ATP-sensit...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gloyn AL,Reimann F,Girard C,Edghill EL,Proks P,Pearson ER,Temple IK,Mackay DJ,Shield JP,Freedenberg D,Noyes K,Ellard S,Ashcroft FM,Gribble FM,Hattersley AT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked dominant disabling neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss of function mutations in the MECP2 gene, located at Xq28, which encodes a multifunctional protein. MECP2 expression is regulated in a developmental stage and cell-type-specific manner. The need for tightly controlled MeCP2...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu J,Francke U

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) describes a broad group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous inherited defects of dental enamel bio-mineralization. Despite identification of a number of genetic mutations underlying AI, the precise causal mechanisms have yet to be determined. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, we...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barron MJ,Brookes SJ,Kirkham J,Shore RC,Hunt C,Mironov A,Kingswell NJ,Maycock J,Shuttleworth CA,Dixon MJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells are the myelinating glia of the peripheral nervous system and dysfunction of these cells causes motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy. The transcription factor SOX10 is critical for Schwann cell development and maintenance, and many SOX10 target genes encode proteins required for Schwann cell function....

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fogarty EA,Brewer MH,Rodriguez-Molina JF,Law WD,Ma KH,Steinberg NM,Svaren J,Antonellis A

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the N-terminal region of the huntingtin protein (N17). Here, we analysed the relative contribution of each phosphorylatable residue in the N17 region (T3, S13 and S16) towards huntingtin exon 1 (HTTex1) oligomerization, aggregati...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Branco-Santos J,Herrera F,Poças GM,Pires-Afonso Y,Giorgini F,Domingos PM,Outeiro TF

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) tagging is widely used as a way of saving genotyping costs in association studies. A number of different tagging methods have been developed to reduce the number of markers to be genotyped while maintaining power for detecting effects on non-assayed SNPs. How the different methods ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ke X,Miretti MM,Broxholme J,Hunt S,Beck S,Bentley DR,Deloukas P,Cardon LR

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine leiomyomata (UL), also known as fibroids, are the most common pelvic tumors in women of reproductive age and are the primary indication for hysterectomy in the USA. Many lines of evidence indicate a strong genetic component to the development of these tumors. In fact, approximately 40% of UL have non-random, t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hodge JC,Morton CC

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently described DNA replication-based mechanisms of fork stalling and template switching (FoSTeS) and microhomology-mediated break-induced replication (MMBIR) were previously shown to catalyze complex exonic, genic and genomic rearrangements. By analyzing a large number of isochromosomes of the long arm of chro...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Koumbaris G,Hatzisevastou-Loukidou H,Alexandrou A,Ioannides M,Christodoulou C,Fitzgerald T,Rajan D,Clayton S,Kitsiou-Tzeli S,Vermeesch JR,Skordis N,Antoniou P,Kurg A,Georgiou I,Carter NP,Patsalis PC

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy, caused by defective laforin or malin, insidiously present in normal teenagers with cognitive decline, followed by rapidly intractable epilepsy, dementia and death. Pathology reveals neurodegeneration with neurofibrillary tangle formation and Lafora bodies (LBs). LBs are deposits ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lohi H,Ianzano L,Zhao XC,Chan EM,Turnbull J,Scherer SW,Ackerley CA,Minassian BA

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In-frame exon deletions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene produce internally truncated proteins that typically lead to Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), a milder allelic disorder of DMD. We hypothesized that differences in the structure of mutant dystrophin may be responsible for the clinical heterogeneity ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nicolas A,Raguénès-Nicol C,Ben Yaou R,Ameziane-Le Hir S,Chéron A,Vié V,Claustres M,Leturcq F,Delalande O,Hubert JF,Tuffery-Giraud S,Giudice E,Le Rumeur E,French Network of Clinical Reference Centres for Neuromuscular Diseases (

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the putative role of BRCA1, a gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, in sporadic ovarian tumors among Japanese women, we examined 76 unselected primary ovarian cancers for mutations in the coding region of BRCA1 using the single-strand conformation polymorphism technique. Although no som...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Matsushima M,Kobayashi K,Emi M,Saito H,Saito J,Suzumori K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies over the last decades have firmly connected a number of genes and molecular pathways to aging, the aging process as a whole still remains poorly understood. To gain novel insights into the mechanisms underlying aging, instead of considering aging genes individually, we studied their characteristics at...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang Q,Nogales-Cadenas R,Lin JR,Zhang W,Cai Y,Vijg J,Zhang ZD

更新日期：2016-07-15 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：: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：:Osteoarthritis (OA), a common skeletal disease, is a leading cause of disability among the elderly populations. OA is characterized by gradual loss of articular cartilage, but the etiology and pathogenesis of OA are largely unknown. Epidemiological and genetic studies have demonstrated that genetic factors play an imp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mototani H,Mabuchi A,Saito S,Fujioka M,Iida A,Takatori Y,Kotani A,Kubo T,Nakamura K,Sekine A,Murakami Y,Tsunoda T,Notoya K,Nakamura Y,Ikegawa S

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a pathological expansion of a CAG repeat in the first exon of the gene coding for huntingtin, resulting in an abnormally long polyglutamine stretch. Despite its widespread expression, mutant huntingtin leads to selective neuronal loss in the striatum and cortex. Here we report th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Modregger J,DiProspero NA,Charles V,Tagle DA,Plomann M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor 1 (CR1) is an Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility locus that also influences AD-related traits such as episodic memory decline and neuritic amyloid plaque deposition. We implemented a functional fine-mapping approach, leveraging intermediate phenotypes to identify functional variant(s) within t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Keenan BT,Shulman JM,Chibnik LB,Raj T,Tran D,Sabuncu MR,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.,Allen AN,Corneveaux JJ,Hardy JA,Huentelman MJ,Lemere CA,Myers AJ,Nicholson-Weller A,Reiman EM,Evans DA,Bennett DA,De J

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of mitochondrial DNA are linked to many human diseases. Despite the identification of a large number of variants in the mitochondrially encoded rRNA (mt-rRNA) genes, the evidence supporting their pathogenicity is, at best, circumstantial. Establishing the pathogenicity of these variations is of major diagnos...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith PM,Elson JL,Greaves LC,Wortmann SB,Rodenburg RJ,Lightowlers RN,Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM,Taylor RW,Vila-Sanjurjo A

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CHD7 mutations are implicated in a majority of cases of the congenital disorder, CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE, an autosomal dominant syndrome, is known to affect multiple tissues including eye, heart, ear, craniofacial nerves and skeleton and genital organs. Using a morpholino-antisense-oligonucleotide-based zebrafish mode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Asad Z,Pandey A,Babu A,Sun Y,Shevade K,Kapoor S,Ullah I,Ranjan S,Scaria V,Bajpai R,Sachidanandan C

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Grb10-Interacting GYF Protein 2 (GIGYF2) was initially identified through its interaction with Grb10, an adapter protein that binds activated IGF-I and insulin receptors. The GIGYF2 gene maps to human chromosome 2q37 within a region linked to familial Parkinson's disease (PARK11 locus), and association of GIGYF2 mutat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Giovannone B,Tsiaras WG,de la Monte S,Klysik J,Lautier C,Karashchuk G,Goldwurm S,Smith RJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome (USH) is a genetically heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive deaf-blinding disorders. Pathophysiology leading to the blinding retinal degeneration in USH is uncertain. There is evidence for involvement of the photoreceptor cilium, photoreceptor synapse, the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobson SG,Cideciyan AV,Aleman TS,Sumaroka A,Roman AJ,Gardner LM,Prosser HM,Mishra M,Bech-Hansen NT,Herrera W,Schwartz SB,Liu XZ,Kimberling WJ,Steel KP,Williams DS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in glucokinase (GCK) cause a spectrum of glycemic disorders. Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations cause mild fasting hyperglycemia irrespective of mutation severity due to compensation from the unaffected allele. Conversely, homozygous loss-of-function mutations cause permanent neonatal diabetes requiring...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Raimondo A,Chakera AJ,Thomsen SK,Colclough K,Barrett A,De Franco E,Chatelas A,Demirbilek H,Akcay T,Alawneh H,International NDM Consortium.,Flanagan SE,Van De Bunt M,Hattersley AT,Gloyn AL,Ellard S,International NDM Consor

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00