Inverted duplication, triplication and quintuplication through sequential breakage-fusion-bridge events induced by a terminal deletion at 5p in a case of spontaneous abortion.

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:TOP2B encodes type II topoisomerase beta, which controls topological changes during DNA transcription. TOP2B is expressed in the developing nervous system and is involved in brain development and neural differentiation. Recently, a de novo missense TOP2B variant (c.187C>T) has been identified in an individua...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Hiraide T,Watanabe S,Matsubayashi T,Yanagi K,Nakashima M,Ogata T,Saitsu H

更新日期：2020-03-01 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:Biallelic pathogenic variants in CBS gene cause the most common form of homocystinuria, the classical homocystinuria (HCU). The worldwide prevalence of HCU is estimated to be 0.82:100,000 [95% CI, 0.39-1.73:100,000] according to clinical records and 1.09:100,000 [95% CI, 0.34-3.55:100,000] by neonatal screen...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Weber Hoss GR,Sperb-Ludwig F,Schwartz IVD,Blom HJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease with colorectal adenomatous polyps as the main clinical manifestations. The objective of this study was to analyze and compare the expression levels of tumor proliferation and angiogenesis-related genes in different tissue secti...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Wang D,Xu C,Li Y,Yu Y,Chen C,Li M,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-12-01 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: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: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：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: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：: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: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:Congenital scoliosis (CS) is defined as a lateral curvature of the spine due to the vertebral malformations and has an incidence of 0.5-1/1,000 births. We previously examined TBX6 in Japanese CS patients and revealed that approximately 10% of CS was caused by TBX6 mutations. However, the genetic cause of rem...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Takeda K,Kou I,Mizumoto S,Yamada S,Kawakami N,Nakajima M,Otomo N,Ogura Y,Miyake N,Matsumoto N,Kotani T,Sudo H,Yonezawa I,Uno K,Taneichi H,Watanabe K,Shigematsu H,Sugawara R,Taniguchi Y,Minami S,Nakamura M,Matsum

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the implementation of a research project providing whole genome sequencing (WGS) to all pediatric cancer patients in Denmark (2016-2019), we sought to investigate healthcare professionals' views on WGS as it was actively being implemented in pediatric oncology. METHODS:Semistructured interviews were ca...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Byrjalsen A,Stoltze UK,Castor A,Wahlberg A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donohue syndrome (DS) is a rare and lethal autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the insulin receptor (INSR) gene, manifesting marked insulin resistance, severe growth retardation, hypertrichosis, and characteristic dysmorphic features. We report the clinical, molecular, and biochemical characterization o...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Falik Zaccai TC,Kalfon L,Klar A,Elisha MB,Hurvitz H,Weingarten G,Chechik E,Fleisher Sheffer V,Haj Yahya R,Meidan G,Gross-Kieselstein E,Bauman D,Hershkovitz S,Yaron Y,Orr-Urtreger A,Wertheimer E

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Considering that variability in immune response genes has been associated with susceptibility to leprosy and with disease severity, leprosy presents clinicopathological variants that are highly associated with the immune response, HLA-G has a well-recognized role in the modulation of the immune response, and polymorph...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Lucena-Silva N,Teixeira MA,Ramos Ade L,de Albuquerque RS,Diniz GT,Mendes-Junior CT,Castelli EC,Donadi EA

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Mutation-induced activation of splice sites in intronic repetitive sequences has contributed significantly to the evolution of exon-intron structure and genetic disease. Such events have been associated with mutations within transposable elements, most frequently in mutation hot-spots of Alus. Here, we report a case o...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Nozu K,Iijima K,Ohtsuka Y,Fu XJ,Kaito H,Nakanishi K,Vorechovsky I

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of cryptic relatedness (CR) on genomic association studies is well studied and known to inflate false-positive rates as reported by several groups. In contrast, conventional epidemiological studies for environmental risks, the confounding effect of CR is still uninvestigated. In this study, we investigated ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Shibata K,Hozawa A,Tamiya G,Ueki M,Nakamura T,Narimatsu H,Kubota I,Ueno Y,Kato T,Yamashita H,Fukao A,Kayama T,Yamagata University Genomic Cohort Consortiuma.

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The birth year-dependent onset of breast cancer (BC) in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers suggests a risk-modifying role for reproductive and life style factors. We therefore examined possible associations between these factors and age at diagnosis. METHODS:Cox regression analysis and log-Rank testing were used to ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Rieder V,Salama M,Glöckner L,Muhr D,Berger A,Tea MK,Pfeiler G,Rappaport-Fuerhauser C,Gschwantler-Kaulich D,Weingartshofer S,Singer CF

更新日期：2015-12-10 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: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:The impairment of the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) causes elevation of phenylalanine levels in blood and other body fluids resulting in the most common inborn error of amino acid metabolism (phenylketonuria). Persistently high levels of phenylalanine lead to irreversible damage to the nervo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ferreira F,Azevedo L,Neiva R,Sousa C,Fonseca H,Marcão A,Rocha H,Carmona C,Ramos S,Bandeira A,Martins E,Campos T,Rodrigues E,Garcia P,Diogo L,Ferreira AC,Sequeira S,Silva F,Rodrigues L,Gaspar A,Janeiro P,Amorim A

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CYP1B1 variants and deletions are the most common cause of primary congenital glaucoma (PCG). METHODS:We investigated an individual with PCG from the Australian and New Zealand Registry of Advanced Glaucoma. We performed sequencing of the CYP1B1 gene, followed by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplifica...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Souzeau E,Dubowsky A,Ruddle JB,Craig JE

更新日期：2019-08-01 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:p.Ser43Asn is a very rare transthyretin (TTR) mutation leading to familial amyloidosis of transthyretin type, ATTR amyloidosis. It was previously observed in four patients worldwide and is associated almost invariably with an isolated cardiac phenotype. METHODS AND RESULTS:We report here on an Italian famil...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Papathanasiou M,Carpinteiro A,Kersting D,Jakstaite AM,Hagenacker T,Schlosser TW,Rischpler C,Rassaf T,Luedike P

更新日期：2020-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant worldwide health problem, and is caused by Mycobacteria tuberculosis. Recent studies have suggested that FOXO3 plays vital roles in the risk of immune-related infectious diseases such as TB. METHODS AND RESULTS:The present study aimed to evaluate FOXO3 genetic variants and...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Wang B,Wang Y,Wang L,He X,He Y,Bai M,Zhu L,Zheng J,Yuan D,Jin T

更新日期：2019-08-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deletional hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH)/δβ-thalassemia and δ-thalassemia are rare inherited disorders which may complicate the diagnosis of β-thalassemia. The aim of this study was to reveal the frequency of these two disorders in Southwestern China. METHODS:A total of 33,596 subjects w...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhang J,Yang Y,Li P,Yan Y,Lv T,Zhao T,Zeng X,Li D,Zhou X,Chen H,Su J,Yang T,He J,Zhu B

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00