Wide allelic heterogeneity with predominance of large IDS gene complex rearrangements in a sample of Mexican patients with Hunter syndrome.

abstract：:We describe an 11-year-old girl with PLACK Syndrome (peeling skin, leukonychia, acral punctate keratosis, cheilitis, and knuckle pads), who was found to have a novel homozygous variant in CAST, the pathogenicity of which was confirmed using blood-derived RNA. There is no established treatment for PLACK syndrome. Howev...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sawan ZA,Almehaidib A,Binamer Y,Monies D,Alsaleem KA,Aldekhail W,Alkuraya FS,Abanemai M

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 120 meiotic analyses of infertile men there were three cases with a particular meiotic anomaly: low chiasma count at diakinesis and spermatogenic arrest. All clinical findings, hormonal analyses and karyotypes from peripheral blood were normal. Meiotic studies showed that pachytene pairing was complete, but in d...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mićić M,Mićić S,Diklić V

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the analysis of altogether 1050 suspected hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) families, 524 fully screened for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations and 526 tested only for the most common mutations. Of the 119 families with pathogenic mutations, 40 (33.6%) had the BRCA2 c.156_157insAlu rearrangement and 15 (12.6%) the ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Peixoto A,Santos C,Pinto P,Pinheiro M,Rocha P,Pinto C,Bizarro S,Veiga I,Principe AS,Maia S,Castro F,Couto R,Gouveia A,Teixeira MR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family with recurrent 11q23-qter deletion Jacobsen syndrome in two affected brothers, with unique mosaic deletion 'rescue' through development of uniparental disomy (UPD) in the mother and one of the brothers. Inheritance studies show that the deleted chromosome is of maternal origin in both boys, and mi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Johnson JP,Haag M,Beischel L,McCann C,Phillips S,Tunby M,Hansen J,Schwanke C,Reynolds JF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life-span of Menkes syndrome patients is discussed in connection with a boy suffering from this disease who lived to the age of 13.5 years. The copper metabolism defect is described. Therapeutic trials, mainly copper substitution, and prospects are summed up. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sander C,Niederhoff H,Horn N

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients, a 19-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy, with mosaic trisomy 18 and pigmentary dysplasias. Both patients had profound growth and mental retardation, marked kyphoscoliosis, bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, simple ears, and joint contractures - clinical manifestations of long survivors with mosai...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Murano I,Ohashi H,Tsukahara M,Tonoki H,Okino F,Atsumi M,Kajii T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole exome sequencing and chromosomal microarrays are two powerful technologies that have transformed the ability of researchers to search for potentially causal variants in human disease. This study combines these tools to search for causal variants in a patient found to have maternal uniparental isodisomy of chromo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Carmichael H,Shen Y,Nguyen TT,Hirschhorn JN,Dauber A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To create a diagnostic document describing the utilization of pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT) in the absence of monitoring and regulation. Retrospective cohort study of couples undergoing PGT between 2004 and 2007 in Lebanon. The clinical indications for 192 PGT cycles performed during the study period were gen...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Farra C,Nassar A,Arawi T,Ashkar H,Monsef C,Awwad J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallmann syndrome is defined by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia. A previously unreported association of Kallmann syndrome and choanal atresia in a family is reported. The mechanism of the embryopathic association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, anosmia, and choanal atresia is though to b...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Klein VR,Friedman JM,Brookshire GS,Brown OE,Edman CD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with trisomy for 18p and the proximal segment of 18q (trisomy 18q-) are reported and compared with similar cases from the literature. The phenotype of trisomy 18q- resembles that of full trisomy 18 but differs mainly in the birdlike face, small mouth, more pronounced microretrognathia, minor skeletal dysp...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Turleau C,Chavin-Colin F,Narbouton R,Asensi D,de Grouchy J

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), is a heterogeneous disorder, primarily characterized by the formation of cysts in the kidneys, and the late development in life of progressive chronic kidney failure. Three genes are implicated in causing ADPKD. One on chromosome 16, PKD1, accounts for 85-90% of al...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Deltas CC,Christodoulou K,Tjakouri C,Pierides A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of xanthomatosis in the county of Ostfold, Norway (approximately 220,000 inhabitants), it was found that 20% (37 out of 185) of the probands belonges to seven large kindreds where xanthomatosis and hyper-beta-lipoproteinaemia segregated. Almost complete ascertainment (99%) of living subjects in the sibships...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Heiberg A

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an 18-month-old girl who has both the cri du chat and Marfan syndromes. She was born at term to a 29-year-old woman with the clinical diagnosis of Marfan syndrome. An evaluation for developmental delay at 2 months of age showed a karyotype of 46,XX,del(5)(15.1), consistent with cri du chat syndrome. At ag...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： McClellan MW,Golden WL,Wilson WG

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the family of a patient who had an SLE-like syndrome and an extremely low serum C4 revealed an inheritance of C4 types and HLA region markers which indicated that the patient had 60--70% of "normal" C4 level prior to the onset of disease. Thus the extremely low C4 level during her disease may result from a ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cream JJ,Olaisen B,Teisberg P,Soler AV,Thompson RA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytogenetic survey of an unselected group of mentally retarded persons in a geographically limited area was made in order to establish the frequency of chromosome abnormalities within this group. In the area there were 2,157 patients, both institutionalized and living at home. A chromosome analysis was performed in ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rasmussen K,Nielsen J,Dahl G

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for aneuploidies using cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood has been reported to have a high accuracy, only little evidence about its cost-effectiveness is available. We systematically reviewed and assessed quality of economic evaluation studies published between January 1...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nshimyumukiza L,Menon S,Hina H,Rousseau F,Reinharz D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a class of long RNAs, are longer than 200 nucleotides in length but lack protein-coding capacity. LncRNAs, as critical genomic regulators, are involved in genomic imprinting regulation, histone modification and gene expression regulation as well as tumor initiation and progression. Howe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhang HD,Jiang LH,Zhong SL,Li J,Sun DW,Hou JC,Wang DD,Zhou SY,Tang JH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This brief account of Woody Guthrie is instructive to clinical geneticists. It tells the story of one famous man's understanding of, and struggle with, Huntington's disease. The philatelic illustration depicts Woody Guthrie playing his guitar in the years before advancement of the disease. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Innes AM,Chudley AE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique substitution of glycine 934 by glutamic acid in the triple helical domain of type III collagen was identified in a proband with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV. The substitution was due to the transition of G 3302 to A in alpha 1(III) cDNA which is encoded by exon 46 of COL3A1. It resulted in a severe deficien...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： McGrory J,Weksberg R,Thorner P,Cole WG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GNE myopathy or hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM) is an ultra-rare severely disabling autosomal recessive adult onset muscle disease which affects roughly one to three individuals per million worldwide. Genetically, HIBM is caused by mutations in the glucosamine (UDP-N-acetyl)-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine k...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Khademian H,Mehravar E,Urtizberea J,Sagoo S,Sandoval L,Carbajo R,Darvish B,Valles-Ayoub Y,Darvish D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of an intragenic BamHI restriction fragment length polymorphism within the 5' end of the retinoblastoma gene (RB1) provided improved genetic counselling for five familial and ten non-familial retinoblastoma patients and their relatives. All other polymorphic probes within RB1 were uninformative in three families, ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Goddard AD,Phillips RA,Greger V,Passarge E,Höpping W,Zhu XP,Gallie BL,Horsthemke B

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmology has been an early adopter of personalized medicine. Drawing on genomic advances to improve molecular diagnosis, such as next-generation sequencing, and basic and translational research to develop novel therapies, application of genetic technologies in ophthalmology now heralds development of gene replace...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Porter LF,Black GC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to determine the impact of parental consanguinity on congenital malformations in a mixed urban and rural Arab community in Jerusalem, Israel. Arab mothers admitted to four hospitals in west Jerusalem were interviewed after delivery. Demographic and obstetric data were recorded. Neonatal data w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bromiker R,Glam-Baruch M,Gofin R,Hammerman C,Amitai Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with three children with Waardenburg syndrome born to normal, unrelated parents is reported. This appears to be the first report suggesting germ-line mosaicism in Waardenburg syndrome. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kapur S,Karam S

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the CDH23 gene are known to be responsible for both Usher syndrome type ID (USH1D) and non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB12), and the molecular confirmation of the CDH23 gene has become important in the diagnosis of these conditions. The present study was performed to find whether the CDH23 mutations are al...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wagatsuma M,Kitoh R,Suzuki H,Fukuoka H,Takumi Y,Usami S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is characterised by redundant, inelastic skin with deep wrinkling and additional variable systemic involvement. Mutations in fibulin-4 (EFEMP2) and fibulin-5 (FBLN5) were described to be causative for autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 1 in a few families each. The female patient was born to healthy consan...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hoyer J,Kraus C,Hammersen G,Geppert JP,Rauch A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of mental retardation is always a challenge to clinicians. The recognition of specific physical or behavioral characteristics can vastly improve diagnostic yield. Several genetic disorders have been identified to have certain behavioral characteristics, such as Williams syndrome, Smith-Magenis syndrome,...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Prasad C,Prasad AN,Chodirker BN,Lee C,Dawson AK,Jocelyn LJ,Chudley AE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CuZnSOD is produced in overdose in cells with trisomy 21. This has been considered to be a cause of increased oxidative stress. In the present work we have studied the catalase and glutathione peroxidase activity in fibroblasts from 6, and blood cells from 30, subjects affected by Down syndrome. In the fibroblasts, ca...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Crosti N,Bajer J,Gentile M,Resta G,Serra A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) and Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) are two congenital disorders with opposite outcomes on fetal growth, overgrowth and growth restriction, respectively. Although both disorders are heterogeneous, most cases of BWS and SRS are associated with opposite epigenetic or genetic abnormalities...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jacob KJ,Robinson WP,Lefebvre L

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:436 index patients with major congenital urinary tract malformations, 385 with upper and 51 with lower urinary tract anomalies, were studied. A significant male sex predominance was noted in each group. No apparent correlation was found between parental age, birth order, birth weight and incidence of these malformatio...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bois E,Feingold J,Benmaiz H,Briard ML

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00