Primary congenital glaucoma due to paternal uniparental isodisomy of chromosome 2 and CYP1B1 deletion.

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:Isomerism or heterotaxy syndrome is the loss of normal asymmetry of the internal thoraco-abdominal organs in the left-right axis and is associated with cardiovascular malformations. Mutations within DNAH11 can be associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia and heterotaxy syndromes. METHODS:We report a family...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Namavarian A,Eid A,Goh ES,Thakur V

更新日期：2020-09-01 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: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:Genetic association studies for gastroschisis have highlighted several candidate variants. However, genetic basis in gastroschisis from noninvestigated heritable factors could provide new insights into the human biology for this birth defect. We aim to identify novel gastroschisis susceptibility variants by ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Salinas-Torres VM,Gallardo-Blanco HL,Salinas-Torres RA,Cerda-Flores RM,Lugo-Trampe JJ,Villarreal-Martínez DZ,Ibarra-Ramírez M,Martínez de Villarreal LE

更新日期：2020-05-01 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: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: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:Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a rare genetically heterogeneous cutaneous disease predominantly characterized by erythroderma, generalized abnormal scaling of the whole body and a collodion membrane at birth. Numerous causative genes have been demonstrated to be responsible for ARCI incl...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Li L,Liu W,Xu Y,Li M,Tang Q,Yu B,Cai R,Liu S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are one of the most common intracranial tumors; approximately half of PAs are prolactin (PRL)-secreting PAs (prolactinomas). The genetic alterations prevalent in prolactinomas are unknown. METHODS:Here, we present a patient with an extremely aggressive and giant prolactinoma accompa...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Miao Y,Li C,Guo J,Wang H,Gong L,Xie W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malan syndrome is a recently introduced overgrowth disorder described in a limited number of individuals. Haploinsufficiency and also point mutations of NFIX gene have been proposed as its leading causative mechanism, however, due to the limited number of cases and different deletion sizes, genotype/phenotyp...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Bellucco FT,de Mello CB,Meloni VA,Melaragno MI

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare group of disorders characterized by increased susceptibility to fractures due to genetically determined bone fragility. About 90% of cases are due to mutations in COL1A1 (17q21.33) or COL1A2 (7q21.3) resulting in quantitative or qualitative defects in type I collagen, a...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Numbere N,Weber DR,Porter G Jr,Iqbal MA

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:Maple sirup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive inherited metabolic disorder. The disease-causing mutations can affect the BCKDHA, BCKDHB, and DBT genes encoding for the E1α, E1β, and E2 subunits of the multienzyme branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCKDH) complex. In the present study, nov...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Nguyen TTN,Vu CD,Nguyen NL,Nguyen TTH,Nguyen NK,Nguyen HH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple myeloma (MM) is a disease characterized by heterogeneous clinical presentations as well as complex genetic and molecular abnormalities. In MM, cytogenetic analysis is a challenge because of the low proliferation of malignant plasma cells. Thus, interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), p...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Hamdaoui H,Benlarroubia O,Ait Boujmia OK,Mossafa H,Ouldim K,Belkhayat A,Smyej I,Benrahma H,Dehbi H,Chegdani F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homozygous inactivating GCK mutations have been repeatedly reported to cause severe hyperglycemia, presenting as permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM). Conversely, only two cases of GCK homozygous mutations causing mild hyperglycemia have been so far described. We here report a novel GCK mutation (c.11...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Marucci A,Biagini T,Di Paola R,Menzaghi C,Fini G,Castellana S,Cardinale GM,Mazza T,Trischitta V

更新日期：2019-07-01 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:Insulin resistance (IR), known to reduce the response to insulin action, develops with obesity leading to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The PC-1 gene has been associated with dyslipidemia, polycystic ovarian disease and T2DM in different regions of the world. The objective of the present study was to inve...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Albegali AA,Shahzad M,Ullah MI,Mahmood S,Rashid M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epilepsy belongs to a group of chronic and highly heterogeneous brain disorders. Many types of epilepsy and epileptic syndromes are caused by genetic factors. The neural amino acid y-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. It regulates activity...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Markus F,Angelini C,Trimouille A,Rudolf G,Lesca G,Goizet C,Lasseaux E,Arveiler B,van Slegtenhorst M,Brooks AS,Abou Jamra R,Korenke GC,Neidhardt J,Owczarek-Lipska M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The heritability of several psychiatric disorders is high, and specific at-risk variants have been identified. Therefore, genetic counseling and genetic testing can be prescribed to some psychiatric patients, but these services are not standardized for most of the population. The aims of the study were to ga...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Martorell L,Sanfeliu A,Blázquez A,Lojo E,Cortés MJ,de Pablo J,Vilella E

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very recently, compound heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in TELO2 were shown to underlie the newly-described You-Hoover-Fong syndrome. TELO2 forms part of the co-chaperone triple T complex (TTT complex), which plays an important role in the maturation and stabilization of the phosphatidylinositol 3-ki...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Moosa S,Altmüller J,Lyngbye T,Christensen R,Li Y,Nürnberg P,Yigit G,Vogel I,Wollnik B

更新日期：2017-07-28 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: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: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:Neural tube defects (NTDs) are severe congenital malformations. Diabetes during pregnancy is a risk factor for NTDs, but its mechanism remains elusive. Emerging evidence suggests that protein malonylation is involved in diabetes. Here, we report the correlation between histone lysine malonylation in diabetes...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Zhang Q,Cai T,Xiao Z,Li D,Wan C,Cui X,Bai B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:General practitioners (GPs) have an increasing role in referring patients with putative mutation in BRCA1/2 genes for genetics consultation and for long-term follow-up of mutation carriers. METHODS:We compared the expectations of the GPs' role according to BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and to GPs themselves. R...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Vande Perre P,Toledano D,Corsini C,Escriba E,Laporte M,Bertet H,Yauy K,Toledano A,Galibert V,Baudry K,Clotet L,Million E,Picot MC,Geneviève D,Pujol P

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Point mutations in intronic regions near mRNA splice junctions can affect the splicing process. To identify novel splicing variants from exome sequencing data, we developed a bioinformatics splice-site prediction procedure to analyze next-generation sequencing (NGS) data (SpliceFinder). SpliceFinder integrates two fun...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Spinelli R,Pirola A,Redaelli S,Sharma N,Raman H,Valletta S,Magistroni V,Piazza R,Gambacorti-Passerini C

更新日期：2013-11-01 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:The deletion of the distal 7q region is a rare chromosomal syndrome characterized by wide phenotypic manifestations including growth and psychomotor delay, facial dysmorphisms, and genitourinary malformations. METHODS:We describe a 6-year-old child with a 12-Mb deletion of the region 7q35q36.3. RESULTS:Amo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Di Stolfo G,Accadia M,Mastroianno S,Leone MP,Palumbo O,Palumbo P,Potenza D,Maccarone P,Sacco M,Russo A,Carella M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00