De novo mutations in the BMPR2 gene in patients with heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension.

abstract：:Population samples from Liguria, Piacenza and Pavia provinces, and North Lombardy are compared for surnames and HLA gene frequencies. The genetic structure inferred from the principal coordinate analysis of surname frequencies is different from that inferred from HLA gene frequencies. The latter may represent ancient ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Guglielmino CR,De Silvestri A,Rossi A,De Micheli V

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exact probability and likelihood computation on complex pedigrees is often infeasible, since exact methods are too computationally intensive even with today's computing technology. A statistical tool, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), is increasingly being explored as a technique for estimating probabilities of genotyp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lin S,Thompson E,Wijsman E

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Archaeological, anthropological and pathological data suggest that thirteen skeletons found in a house at the Pompeii archaeological site, dated to 79 A.D., belong to one family. To verify this and to identify the relationships between these individuals, we analyzed DNA extracted from bone specimens. Specifically, hyp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Di Bernardo G,Del Gaudio S,Galderisi U,Cascino A,Cipollaro M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using in situ hybridization, c-erbA1 has been mapped immediately distal to the translocation breakpoint on chromosome 17 in fibroblasts with a karyotype 46,XX, t(15;17)(q22;q11). Previous work has shown that c-erbA1 is proximal to the translocation breakpoint on chromosome 17 in the t(15;17)(q22;q12-21) in acute promy...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sheer D,Sheppard DM,le Beau M,Rowley JD,San Roman C,Solomon E

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In case-control studies of complex disease genes, allele frequencies or allele positivities at candidate loci or markers are compared between cases and controls. Although 2 x 2 contingency tables based on allele frequency and allele positivity are generally used to perform simple statistical tests (e.g. a comparison o...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ohashi J,Yamamoto S,Tsuchiya N,Hatta Y,Komata T,Matsushita M,Tokunaga K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variations in cardiac ion channels have been implicated not only as the causes of inherited arrhythmic syndromes, but also as genetic risk factors for some acquired arrhythmias. To elucidate the potential roles of genetic polymorphisms of the alpha subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel type V (SCN5A) in ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Maekawa K,Saito Y,Ozawa S,Adachi-Akahane S,Kawamoto M,Komamura K,Shimizu W,Ueno K,Kamakura S,Kamatani N,Kitakaze M,Sawada J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study based on 173 individuals drawn from three endogamous, co-resident communities in the province of Punjab, the Awan, Khattar and Rajpoot, an analysis of 10 autosomal single tandem repeats on chromosomes 13 and 15 revealed distinctive genetic profiles in each community. A total of 99 different alleles were det...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang W,Sullivan SG,Ahmed S,Chandler D,Zhivotovsky LA,Bittles AH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating haplotype relative risks in a family-based study is complicated by phase ambiguity and the many parameters needed to quantify relative risks for all possible diplotypes. This problem becomes manageable if a particular haplotype has been implicated previously as relevant to risk. We fit log-linear models to ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shi M,Umbach DM,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Multiple imputation based on chained equations (MICE) is an alternative missing genotype method that can use genetic and nongenetic auxiliary data to inform the imputation process. Previously, MICE was successfully tested on strongly linked genetic data. We have now tested it on data of the HBA2 gene which, by the exp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sepúlveda N,Manjurano A,Drakeley C,Clark TG

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Acromesomelic dysplasia Maroteaux type (AMDM) is an autosomal recessive skeletal disorder characterized by disproportionate short stature with shortening of the acromesomelic sections of the limbs. AMDM is caused by mutations in the NPR2 gene located on chromosome 9p21-p12. The gene encodes the natriuretic peptide rec...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Irfanullah,Umair M,Khan S,Ahmad W

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human dopamine transporter (hDAT) participates in dopamine homeostasis by clearing dopamine from the extracellular space using secondary active transport. Dysregulation of hDAT has been reported to be associated with different neuropsychiatric disorders. Dopamine transporter deficiency syndrome (DTDS) is a complex...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Heidari E,Razmara E,Hosseinpour S,Tavasoli AR,Garshasbi M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies have shown that the peroxime proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARD) gene regulates glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. Genetic variation in the PPARD gene might affect physical endurance and has been associated with obesity. We investigated the independent and modifying effect of variants...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Villegas R,Williams S,Gao Y,Cai Q,Li H,Elasy T,Cai H,Edwards T,Xiang YB,Zheng W,Long J,Ou Shu X

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Regression of Offspring on Mid-Parent (ROMP) method is a test of association between a quantitative trait and a candidate locus. ROMP estimates the trait heritability and the heritability attributable to a locus and requires genotyping the offspring only. In this study, the theory underlying ROMP was revised (ROMP...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Roy-Gagnon MH,Mathias RA,Fallin MD,Jee SH,Broman KW,Wilson AF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic disorder, usually autosomal recessive, causing early respiratory disease and later subfertility. Whole exome sequencing may enable efficient analysis for locus heterogeneous disorders such as PCD. We whole-exome-sequenced one consanguineous Saudi Arabian with clinically di...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Alsaadi MM,Gaunt TR,Boustred CR,Guthrie PA,Liu X,Lenzi L,Rainbow L,Hall N,Alharbi KK,Day IN

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous functional studies have implicated PARL in relation to type 2 diabetes (T2D). We hypothesised that conflicting human association studies may be due to neighbouring causal variants being in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with PARL. We conducted a comprehensive candidate gene study of the extended LD genomic regio...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Direk K,Lau W,Small KS,Maniatis N,Andrew T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The robust sib-pair method introduced by Haseman & Elston (1972) is one of the most widely circulated allele-sharing methods for linkage analysis. The procedure evaluates linkage by significance testing of a regression coefficient and, hence, a standard t-test has traditionally been applied despite known violations of...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wan Y,Cohen J,Guerra R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This journal began in 1925 as the Annals of Eugenics. Much has changed since then. The original Editors' primary eugenic objective was not achieved, and eugenics justifiably became notorious for racism and gross abuse of human rights. But one founding aim was to publish advances in statistical genetics, and that objec...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Weiss KM,Lambert BW

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) represent an expanding group of conditions that result from defects in protein and lipid glycosylation. Different subgroups of CDG display considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity due to the highly complex nature of cellular glycosylation. This is further complicated ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bastaki F,Bizzari S,Hamici S,Nair P,Mohamed M,Saif F,Malik EM,Al-Ali MT,Hamzeh AR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medieval history of several populations often suffers from scarcity of contemporary records resulting in contradictory and sometimes biased interpretations by historians. This is the situation with the population of the island of Crete, which remained relatively undisturbed until the Middle Ages when multiple wars...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Drineas P,Tsetsos F,Plantinga A,Lazaridis I,Yannaki E,Razou A,Kanaki K,Michalodimitrakis M,Perez-Jimenez F,De Silvestro G,Renda MC,Stamatoyannopoulos JA,Kidd KK,Browning BL,Paschou P,Stamatoyannopoulos G

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there have been an increasing number of genetic variants associated with athletic phenotypes. Here, we selected a set of sports-relevant polymorphisms that have been previously suggested as genetic markers for human physical performance, and we examined their association with athletic status in a larg...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Guilherme JPLF,Bertuzzi R,Lima-Silva AE,Pereira ADC,Lancha Junior AH

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence on gene-environment effects of the G-protein beta-3 subunit C825T polymorphisms and sodium on blood pressure in the free-living general population is limited. We examined the associations between the C825T polymorphism and blood pressure levels, stratified by the sodium variables estimated by ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Yamagishi K,Tanigawa T,Cui R,Tabata M,Ikeda A,Yao M,Shimamoto T,Iso H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We set out to determine whether expansions in the C9ORF72 repeat found in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) families are associated with Parkinson disease (PD). We determined the repeat size in a total of 889 clinically ascertained patients (including PD and essential tremor plus Pa...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nuytemans K,Bademci G,Kohli MM,Beecham GW,Wang L,Young JI,Nahab F,Martin ER,Gilbert JR,Benatar M,Haines JL,Scott WK,Züchner S,Pericak-Vance MA,Vance JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium position is determined for the phenotypic distribution o f a continuous characteristic in a population which reproduces both randomly and assortatively, and wherein generations are overlapping. It is shown that the major assortative mating models so far proposed for continuous traits are not particular...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wilson SR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-gene interaction plays an important role in association studies for complex diseases. There have been different approaches to incorporating gene-gene interactions in candidate gene or genome-wide association studies, especially for those genes with no marginal effects but with interaction effects. However, there ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Yang Y,He C,Ott J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary alterations in splicing have been reported to produce semi-functional mRNA from several nonsense mutations in the dystrophin gene. Disruptions of exonic splicing enhancers by single nucleotide changes are thought to underlie such alterations. The precise frequencies of such nonsense mutation-dependent splici...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nishiyama A,Takeshima Y,Zhang Z,Habara Y,Tran TH,Yagi M,Matsuo M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a chromosomal microdeletion syndrome with variable phenotypic features such as supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS), facial appearance characteristics, growth retardation, and infantile hypercalcemia. This study aimed to detect the 7q11.23 microdeletion in 10 patients with early clini...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ghaffari M,Tahmasebi Birgani M,Kariminejad R,Saberi A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that parametric analysis of linkage disequilibrium conditional on linkage using an overly deterministic model can be optimal for family-based association analysis. However, if one applies this strategy carelessly, there is a risk of false inference. We analyse properties of such likelihood ratio test...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hiekkalinna T,Göring HH,Terwilliger JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00