A putative frameshift variant in the CHM gene is associated with an unexpected splicing alteration in a choroideremia patient.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity has become the main health issue in developed countries as it impacts life expectancy and increases mortality of cerebrovascular or cardiovascular diseases. The leptin is one of the adipokines which presents in the serum in proportion to the amount of adipose tissue and is translated from LEP gene. I...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Duan DM,Jhang JY,Wu S,Teng MS,Hsu LA,Ko YL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal neurofibromatosis (SNF) is a related form of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) with a low incidence. Here, we report a SNF patient with NF1 (OMIM *613113) mutation in a classic NF1 family to enrich the case data. METHODS:We presented the clinical data of a 27-year-old female suffered from SNF. Two NF1 i...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ning Z,Yang Z,Chen G,Wu W,He L,Sun Y,Cai D,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sialidosis type 1 is a rare inherited disorder with a high disability. No genetically confirmed mainland Chinese patient with sialidosis type 1 has been reported. This study evaluated the phenotypes and genotypes of mainland Chinese patients with sialidosis type 1. METHODS:It was a retrospective case series...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Han X,Wu S,Wang M,Li H,Huang Y,Sui R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) caused by variants in DNAJC12 was reported and this suggested a new strategy for diagnosis. But DNAJC12-associated HPA is a rare in Chinese population so far. METHODS:The clinical information and blood samples from the patient and his family members were collected and an...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Li M,Yang Q,Yi S,Qin Z,Luo J,Fan X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medulloblastomas (MBs) are a heterogeneous group of childhood brain tumors with four consensus subgroups, namely MBSHH , MBWNT , MBGroup 3 , and MBGroup 4 , representing the second most common type of pediatric brain cancer after high-grade gliomas. They suffer from a high prevalence of genetic predispositio...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Tolonen JP,Hekkala A,Kuismin O,Tuominen H,Suo-Palosaari M,Tynninen O,Niinimäki R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opitz syndrome (OS) is a genetic disorder that affects mainly the development of midline structures, including the craniofacial region, embryonic heart, and urogenital system. The manifestations of X-linked OS are believed to be results of a malfunctioned gene, MID1, whose product has been shown to have ubiq...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Li B,Zhou T,Zou Y

更新日期：2015-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondrial DNA m.3243A>G mutation is one the most prevalent mutation causing mitochondrial disease in adult patients. Several cohort studies have used heteroplasmy levels in urinary epithelial cells (UEC) to correlate the genotype of the patients to the clinical severity. However, the interpretation o...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： de Laat P,Rodenburg RJ,Smeitink JAM,Janssen MCH

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical genetics and genomic medicine in Turkey: a bright future at a new era in life sciences. ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Özçelik T

更新日期：2017-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fanconi anemia (FA) is phenotypically diverse, hereditary condition associated with bone marrow failure, multiple physical abnormalities, and an increased susceptibility to the development of malignancies. Less recognized manifestations of FA include endocrine abnormalities. International discourse has highl...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Dillon B,Feben C,Segal D,du Plessis J,Reynders D,Wainwright R,Poole J,Krause A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definitive diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria (PH) currently utilizes sequential Sanger sequencing of the AGXT, GRPHR, and HOGA1 genes but efficacy is unproven. This analysis is time-consuming, relatively expensive, and delays in diagnosis and inappropriate treatment can occur if not pursued early in the diagnostic wo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Williams EL,Bagg EA,Mueller M,Vandrovcova J,Aitman TJ,Rumsby G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnostic workup in patients with a clinical suspicion of lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) is often difficult due to the variability in the clinical phenotype. The gold standard for diagnosis of LSDs consists of enzymatic testing. However, due to the sequential nature of this methodology and inconsisten...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Gheldof A,Seneca S,Stouffs K,Lissens W,Jansen A,Laeremans H,Verloo P,Schoonjans AS,Meuwissen M,Barca D,Martens G,De Meirleir L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eight different deletions and point variants of the X-chromosomal gene CNKSR2 have been reported in families with males presenting intellectual disability (ID) and epilepsy. Obligate carrier females with a frameshift variant in the N-terminal protein coding part of CNKSR2 or with a deletion of the complete g...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Polla DL,Saunders HR,de Vries BBA,van Bokhoven H,de Brouwer APM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome 14q11-q22 deletion syndrome (OMIM 613457) is a rare contiguous gene syndrome. Two regions of overlap (RO) of the 14q12q21.1 deletion have been identified: a proximal region (RO1), including FOXG1(*164874), NKX2-1(*600635), and PAX9(*167416) and a distal region (RO2), including NKX2-1 and PAX9. We ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ponzi E,Gentile M,Agolini E,Matera E,Palumbi R,Buonadonna AL,Peschechera A,Gabellone A,Antonucci MF,Margari L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy-specific syndrome with incompletely understood pathogenesis. Previous study has demonstrated that the decreased CXCR2 in preeclamptic placentas may contribute to the development of preeclampsia. The role of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of CXCR2 gene in the pathog...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Chen H,Zhang Y,Dai L,Song Y,Wang Y,Zhou B,Zhou R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are from the family of noncoding RNAs. Existing studies have shown that lncRNAs are involved in many biological processes and are strongly related to the occurrence and development of tumors. Recent studies have indicated that lncRNA GIHCG participates in the progression of many...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Liu G,Jiang Z,Qiao M,Wang F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fowler syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hydranencephaly-hydrocephaly and multiple pterygium due to fetal akinesia. To date, around 45 cases from 27 families have been reported, and the pathogenic bi-allelic mutations in FLVCR2 gene described in 15 families. The pathogenesis of...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Radio FC,Di Meglio L,Agolini E,Bellacchio E,Rinelli M,Toscano P,Boldrini R,Novelli A,Di Meglio A,Dallapiccola B

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Senior-Loken syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that presents with nephronophthisis and retinal degeneration, leading to end-stage renal disease and progressive blindness. The most frequent cause of juvenile nephronophthisis is a mutation in the nephronophthisis type 1 (NPHP1) gene. NPHP1 encodes the protei...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ning K,Song E,Sendayen BE,Prosseda PP,Chang KC,Ghaffarieh A,Alvarado JA,Wang B,Haider KM,Berbari NF,Hu Y,Sun Y

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A family with skeletal and craniofacial anomalies is presented. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis indicated a diagnosis of Larsen syndrome, although their clinical presentation does not include the hallmark joint dislocations typically observed in Larsen syndrome. METHODS:Patient consent for the sharing...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Kodra N,Diamonstein C,Hauser NS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pre-mRNA splicing is a complex process requiring the identification of donor site, acceptor site, and branch point site with an adjacent polypyrimidine tract sequence. Splicing is regulated by splicing regulatory elements (SREs) with both enhancer and suppressor functions. Variants located in exonic regions ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Katneni UK,Liss A,Holcomb D,Katagiri NH,Hunt R,Bar H,Ismail A,Komar AA,Kimchi-Sarfaty C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary myosin myopathies are a group of rare muscle disorders, caused by mutations in genes encoding for skeletal myosin heavy chains (MyHCs). MyHCIIa is encoded by MYH2 and is expressed in fast type 2A and 2B muscle fibers. MYH2 mutations are responsible for an autosomal dominant (AD) progressive myopat...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Telese R,Pagliarani S,Lerario A,Ciscato P,Fagiolari G,Cassandrini D,Grimoldi N,Conte G,Cinnante C,Santorelli FM,Comi GP,Sciacco M,Peverelli L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HSD10 mitochondrial disease (HSD10MD), originally described as a deficiency of 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (MHBD), is a rare X-linked disorder of a moonlighting protein encoded by the HSD17B10. The diagnosis is usually first suspected on finding elevated isoleucine degradation metabolites in ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Waters PJ,Lace B,Buhas D,Gravel S,Cyr D,Boucher RM,Bernard G,Lévesque S,Maranda B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess clinical chromosomal microarray (CMA) genomic testing reports for the following: (a) usage of reporting elements consistent with 2011 ACMG guidelines and other elements identified in the primary literature, (b) information quality, and (c) readability. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed genomic test...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Davis KW,Hamby Erby L,Fiallos K,Martin M,Wassman ER

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we want to add information to the paper "Genetics and genomic medicine in Argentina" that we considered it was lacking. Argentina is a big country with inequalities in the access to public health care, especially in medical genetics and genomics. ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Cotignola J,Rozental S,Buzzalino N,Dain L

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of body wall closing defects (abdominoschisis and thoracoabdominoschisis) in combination with other congenital malformations was studied in the pig (Sus scrofa domesticus). After clinical examination and literature review, body wall defects with multiple congenital anomalies in eight pigs were described, ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Martín-Alguacil N,Avedillo L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is characterized by a heterogeneous phenotypic spectrum of retinopathy, intellectual disability (ID), obesity, polydactyly, and kidney dysfunctions as the major clinical features. Genetic investigations have reported 21 BBS genes, the products of which are mostly located at the ce...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Muzammal M,Zubair M,Bierbaumer S,Blatterer J,Graf R,Gul A,Abbas S,Badar M,Abbasi AA,Khan MA,Windpassinger C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alport syndrome is a progressive hereditary kidney disease clinically presenting with haematuria, proteinuria, and early onset end-stage renal disease, and often accompanied by hearing loss and ocular abnormalities. The inheritance is X-linked in the majority of families and caused by sequence variants in th...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Helle OMB,Pedersen TH,Ousager LB,Thomassen M,Hertz JM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the second most common cause of inflammatory arthritis worldwide affecting the axial skeleton. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3) in the development of AS has few been investigated in Chinese population. METHODS:A total of 362 patients ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhu Y,Li S,Huang Z,Xing W,Li F,Da Y,Xue J,Li M,Sun K,Jia H,Yang X

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resources within the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), such as genome sequencing (GS) and model organisms aid in diagnosis and identification of new disease genes, but are currently difficult to access by clinical providers. While these resources do contribute to diagnoses in many cases, they are not alway...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Cope H,Spillmann R,Rosenfeld JA,Brokamp E,Signer R,Schoch K,Kelley EG,Sullivan JA,Macnamara E,Lincoln S,Golden-Grant K,Undiagnosed Diseases Network.,Orengo JP,Clark G,Burrage LC,Posey JE,Punetha J,Robertson A,Cogan J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:β3-αC loop is a highly conserved structural domain across oncogene families, which is a switch for kinase activity. There have been numerous researches on mutations within β3-αC loop in EGFR, but relatively less in ERBB2, BRAF, and MAP2K1. In addition, previous studies mainly focus on β3-αC deletion in EGFR,...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhang B,Chen Y,Dai P,Yu H,Ma J,Chen C,Zhang Y,Guan Y,Chen R,Liu T,Wang J,Yang L,Yi X,Xia X,Ma H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study set out to determine key lncRNAs correlated with sepsis via constructing competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network. METHODS:Three septic patients and three healthy controls were recruited to obtain lncRNA profiles in this current study. Combined with the mRNA profiles by RNA-sequencing, an integra...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Guo X,Qin Y,Wang L,Dong S,Yan Y,Bian X,Zhao C

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00