Osteosarcoma without prior retinoblastoma related to RB1 low-penetrance germline pathogenic variants: A novel type of RB1-related hereditary predisposition syndrome?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) is the most common subtype of renal tumor. However, the molecular mechanisms of KIRC pathogenesis remain little known. The purpose of our study was to identify potential key genes related to the occurrence and prognosis of KIRC, which could serve as novel diagnostic a...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhang B,Wu Q,Wang Z,Xu R,Hu X,Sun Y,Wang Q,Ju F,Ren S,Zhang C,Qin L,Ma Q,Zhou YL

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Historically, groups that are most susceptible to health and healthcare disparities have been underrepresented in medical research. It is imperative to explore approaches that can facilitate the recruitment of underrepresented individuals into research studies. METHODS:Two approaches, hospital and community...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Bishop MR,Shah A,Shively M,Huskey ALW,Omeler SM,Bilgili EP,Jackson E,Daniell K,Stallworth E,Spina S,Shepp K,Bergstresser S,Davis A,Dean H,Gibson J,Johnson B,Merner ND

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN, OMIM 300894) is an X-linked neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in WDR45. WDR45 is required for autophagy, defect in WDR45 impaired autophagy which contributes for the pathogenesis of BPAN. Previously, we reported a novel de novo mutation ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Xiong Q,Li W,Li P,Zhao Z,Wu C,Xiao H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a common malignant tumor in the colon, colon cancer (CC) has high incidence and recurrence rates. This study is designed to build a prognostic model for CC. METHODS:The gene expression dataset, microRNA-seq dataset, copy number variation (CNV) dataset, DNA methylation dataset, and transcription factor (T...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Yang H,Jin W,Liu H,Wang X,Wu J,Gan D,Cui C,Han Y,Han C,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Site-1 Protease (S1P) is a Golgi-resident protein required for the activation of regulatory proteins that drive key cellular functions, including, the unfolded protein response (UPR) and lipid and cholesterol biosynthesis. While disruptions in S1P function have been widely characterized in animal models, to ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Schweitzer GG,Gan C,Bucelli RC,Wegner D,Schmidt RE,Shinawi M,Finck BN,Brookheart RT

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current practice by clinical diagnostic laboratories is to utilize online prediction programs to help determine the significance of novel variants in a given gene sequence. However, these programs vary widely in their methods and ability to correctly predict the pathogenicity of a given sequence change. The performanc...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Walters-Sen LC,Hashimoto S,Thrush DL,Reshmi S,Gastier-Foster JM,Astbury C,Pyatt RE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in mitochondrial aminoacyl tRNA synthetases form a subgroup of mitochondrial disorders often only perturbing brain function by affecting mitochondrial translation. Here we report two siblings with mitochondrial disease, due to compound heterozygous mutations in the mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA s...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Maffezzini C,Laine I,Dallabona C,Clemente P,Calvo-Garrido J,Wibom R,Naess K,Barbaro M,Falk A,Donnini C,Freyer C,Wredenberg A,Wedell A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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: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：BACKGROUND:Genetic factors associated with intellectual disability (ID) include chromosomal aberrations, copy number variations (CNVs), and pathogenic variants. Identifying the genetic etiologies is beneficial for patient classification, therapy, management, and prognostic evaluation. Emerging genetic tests are helpful...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Dai Y,Wei Y,Chen Y,Guo H,Zhong M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCLP) is a common birth defect affecting 135,000 newborns worldwide each year. While a multifactorial etiology has been suggested as the cause, despite decades of research, the genetic underpinnings of NSCLP remain largely unexplained. In our previous genome-wide l...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Cvjetkovic N,Maili L,Weymouth KS,Hashmi SS,Mulliken JB,Topczewski J,Letra A,Yuan Q,Blanton SH,Swindell EC,Hecht JT

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lead (Pb) is broadly used in various industries and causes irreversible damage to human tissues, organs, and systems. Studies have revealed that lead exerts toxic effects via interfering with calcium channel. METHODS:In the present study, we investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TRP...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Liu J,Zhang L,Feng L,Xu M,Gao Y,Zhou P,Yu Z,Zhu B,An Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fanconi anemia (FA) affects only one in 130,000 births, but has severe and diverse clinical consequences. It has been theorized that defects in the FA DNA cross-link repair complex lead to a spectrum of variants that are responsible for those diverse clinical phenotypes. METHODS:Using NextGen sequencing, we...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Velmurugan KR,Michalak P,Kang L,Fonville NC,Garner HR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma concentrations of antiretrovirals (ARVs) regimens have considerably varied in individuals of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of variations in the expression of drug-metabolizing and transporter genes. Transporter genes play an important role in the disposition of drugs. Polymorphism in tran...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Singh H,Lata S,Choudhari R,Dhole TN

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MYO3A, encoding the myosin IIIA protein, is associated with autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss. To date, only two missense variants located in the motor-head domain of MYO3A have been described in autosomal dominant families with progressive, mild-to-profound sensorineural h...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Doll J,Hofrichter MAH,Bahena P,Heihoff A,Segebarth D,Müller T,Dittrich M,Haaf T,Vona B

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been proposed that lncRNAs, widely transcribed from genomes, play pivotal regulatory roles in a variety of biological processes, but their function in regulating spermatogenesis in human males is rarely reported. METHODS:QRT-PCR was adopted to detect HOTTIP expression level in testicular tissues from...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Su Y,Zhou LL,Zhang YQ,Ni LY

更新日期：2019-09-01 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:Over 500 epigenetic regulators have been identified throughout the human genome. Of these, approximately 30 chromatin modifiers have been implicated thus far in human disease. Recently, variants in BRPF1, encoding a chromatin reader, have been associated with a previously unrecognized autosomal dominant synd...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Pode-Shakked N,Barel O,Pode-Shakked B,Eliyahu A,Singer A,Nayshool O,Kol N,Raas-Rothschild A,Pras E,Shohat M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a clinically heterogeneous disease characterized by extreme skeletal fragility. It is caused by mutations in genes frequently affecting collagen biosynthesis. Mutations in CREB3L1 encoding the ER stress transducer OASIS are very rare and are only reported in pediatric patients...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Cayami FK,Maugeri A,Treurniet S,Setijowati ED,Teunissen BP,Eekhoff EMW,Pals G,Faradz SM,Micha D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type 2 Stickler syndrome is usually a dominant disorder resulting from pathogenic variants in COL11A1 encoding the alpha 1 chain of type XI collagen. Typical molecular changes result in either substitution of an obligate glycine within the Gly-Xaa-Yaa amino acid sequence repeat region of the molecule, mRNA m...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Nixon T,Richards AJ,Lomas A,Abbs S,Vasudevan P,McNinch A,Alexander P,Snead MP

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive or prolonged usage of dexamethasone can cause serious side effects, but few studies reveal the related mechanism. Dexamethasone work differently in blood tumors and solid tumors, and the cause is still obscure. The aims of this study was to identify potential biomarkers associated with the side eff...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Jiang D,Jin H,Zuo J,Kong Y,Zhang X,Dong Q,Xu Z,Li Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) (OMIM #201910) is a complex disease most often caused by pathogenic variant of the CYP21A2 gene. We have designed an efficient multistep approach to diagnose and classify CAH cases due to CYP21A2 variant and to study the genotype-phenotype relationship. METHODS:A large c...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Chi DV,Tran TH,Nguyen DH,Luong LH,Le PT,Ta MH,Ngo HTT,Nguyen MP,Le-Anh TP,Nguyen DP,Bui TH,Ta VT,Tran VK

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNA-33a (miR-33a) plays the role of the tumor suppressor gene by regulating the expression level of downstream genes. However, the effects of miR-33a in renal cell cancer (RCC) remain unknown. Our study was designed to investigate the expression level and potential function of miR-33a in RCC. METHODS:R...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Jiang K,Sun F,Zhu J,Luo G,Ban Y,Zhang P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical cancer as one of the most common malignant tumors lead to bad prognosis among women. Some researches already focus on the carcinogenesis and pathogenesis of cervical cancer, but it is still necessary to identify more key genes and pathways. METHODS:Differentially expressed genes were identified by ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Yang HJ,Xue JM,Li J,Wan LH,Zhu YX

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare genetic disorder caused by functional impairment of cilia throughout the body. The involvement of copy number variation (CNV) in the development of PCD is largely unknown. METHODS:We examined 93 Japanese patients with clinically suspected PCD from 84 unrelated fami...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Takeuchi K,Xu Y,Kitano M,Chiyonobu K,Abo M,Ikegami K,Ogawa S,Ikejiri M,Kondo M,Gotoh S,Nagao M,Fujisawa T,Nakatani K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kleefstra Syndrome (KS) (MIM# 610253) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of euchromatic histone methyltransferase-1 (EHMT1, GLP). EHMT1 (MIM# 607001) encodes a histone methyltransferase that heterodimerizes with EHMT2 (also known as G9a, MIM# 604599), which together are responsibl...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Blackburn PR,Williams M,Cousin MA,Boczek NJ,Beek GJ,Lomberk GA,Urrutia RA,Babovic-Vuksanovic D,Klee EW

更新日期：2017-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PROX1 gene is specifically expressed in a subpopulation of endothelial cells that, by budding and sprouting, give rise to the lymphatic system. It also plays a critical role in neurogenesis and during development of many organs, such as the eye lens, liver, and pancreas. METHODS:We used next-generation ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ricci M,Amato B,Barati S,Compagna R,Veselenyiova D,Kenanoglu S,Stuppia L,Beccari T,Baglivo M,Kurti D,Krajcovic J,Serrani R,Dundar M,Basha SH,Chiurazzi P,Bertelli M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS, MIM #243800) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, nasal wing hypoplasia, hypodontia, and other abnormalities. JBS is caused by mutations of the UBR1 gene (MIM *605981), encoding a ubiquitin ligase of the N-end rule pa...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Sukalo M,Schäflein E,Schanze I,Everman DB,Rezaei N,Argente J,Lorda-Sanchez I,Deshpande C,Takahashi T,Kleger A,Zenker M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NIPAL4 gene is described to be implicated of Congenital Ichthyosiform Erythroderma (CIE). It encodes a magnesium transporter membrane-associated protein, hypothetically involved in epidermal lipid processing and in lamellar body formation. The aim of this work is to investigate the causative mutation in ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Laadhar S,Ben Mansour R,Marrakchi S,Miled N,Ennouri M,Fischer J,Kaddechi MA,Turki H,Fakhfakh F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00