Intergenic GWAS SNPs are key components of the spatial and regulatory network for human growth.

abstract：:The parent of origin-dependent expression of the IGF2 and H19 genes is controlled by the imprinting centre 1 (IC1) consisting in a methylation-sensitive chromatin insulator. Deletions removing part of IC1 have been found in patients affected by the overgrowth- and tumour-associated Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS). T...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cerrato F,Sparago A,Verde G,De Crescenzo A,Citro V,Cubellis MV,Rinaldi MM,Boccuto L,Neri G,Magnani C,D'Angelo P,Collini P,Perotti D,Sebastio G,Maher ER,Riccio A

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonic aciduria (MMA) cblB type is caused by mutations in the MMAB gene. This encodes the enzyme ATP:cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase (ATR), which converts reduced cob(I)alamin to an active adenosylcobalamin cofactor. We recently reported the presence of destabilizing pathogenic mutations that retain some resid...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jorge-Finnigan A,Brasil S,Underhaug J,Ruíz-Sala P,Merinero B,Banerjee R,Desviat LR,Ugarte M,Martinez A,Pérez B

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:NSDHL, for NAD(P)H steroid dehydrogenase-like, encodes a sterol dehydrogenase or decarboxylase involved in the sequential removal of two C-4 methyl groups in post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis. Mutations in this gene are associated with human CHILD syndrome (congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform nevus and li...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Caldas H,Herman GE

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked Kallmann's syndrome (KS) is a genetic disease characterized by anosmia and hypogonadism due to impairment in the development of olfactory axons and in the migration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-producing neurons. Deletions or point mutations of a gene located at Xp22.3 (KAL1) are responsible for t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cariboni A,Pimpinelli F,Colamarino S,Zaninetti R,Piccolella M,Rumio C,Piva F,Rugarli EI,Maggi R

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreases in the ratio of neurotrophic versus neurodegenerative signalling play a critical role in Huntington’s disease (HD) pathogenesis and recent evidence suggests that the p75 neurotrophin receptor (NTR) contributes significantly to disease progression. p75NTR signalling intermediates substantially overlap with th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Simmons DA,Belichenko NP,Ford EC,Semaan S,Monbureau M,Aiyaswamy S,Holman CM,Condon C,Shamloo M,Massa SM,Longo FM

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult body height is a quantitative trait for which genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci, primarily in European populations. These loci, comprising common variants, explain <10% of the phenotypic variance in height. We searched for novel associations between height and common (minor all...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Du M,Auer PL,Jiao S,Haessler J,Altshuler D,Boerwinkle E,Carlson CS,Carty CL,Chen YD,Curtis K,Franceschini N,Hsu L,Jackson R,Lange LA,Lettre G,Monda KL,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) GO Exome Sequencing

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human breast cancers result from an inherited predisposition to the disease. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene confer a high risk of breast cancer and are responsible for almost half of these cases. The recent cloning of the human BRCA2 gene has revealed that it encodes a large protein having little signific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connor F,Smith A,Wooster R,Stratton M,Dixon A,Campbell E,Tait TM,Freeman T,Ashworth A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a growing class of inherited neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease, which are caused by abnormal expansions of the polyQ stretch in each unrelated disease protein. The expanded polyQ stretch is thought to confer toxic properties on the disease proteins through alt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nagai Y,Fujikake N,Ohno K,Higashiyama H,Popiel HA,Rahadian J,Yamaguchi M,Strittmatter WJ,Burke JR,Toda T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP)-Associated Protein B (VAPB) is the causative gene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8 (ALS8) in humans. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective death of motor neurons leading to spasticity, muscle atrophy an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Forrest S,Chai A,Sanhueza M,Marescotti M,Parry K,Georgiev A,Sahota V,Mendez-Castro R,Pennetta G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the survival motor neuron (SMN1) gene lead to the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Although SMA is primarily considered as a motor neuron disease, the importance of muscle defects in its pathogenesis has not been fully examined. We use both primary cell culture and two different SMA mo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Boyer JG,Deguise MO,Murray LM,Yazdani A,De Repentigny Y,Boudreau-Larivière C,Kothary R

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, also known as Kennedy's disease) is one of nine neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by expansion of polyglutamine-encoding CAG repeats. Intracellular accumulation of abnormal proteins in these diseases, a pathological hallmark, is associated with defects in protein hom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bott LC,Badders NM,Chen KL,Harmison GG,Bautista E,Shih CC,Katsuno M,Sobue G,Taylor JP,Dantuma NP,Fischbeck KH,Rinaldi C

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide, a metabolite of sequential cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is a critical step in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) is highly expressed in AD brains and its genetic variants are linked to AD r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim BM,You MH,Chen CH,Suh J,Tanzi RE,Ho Lee T

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1). SMN-restoring therapies have recently emerged; however, preclinical and clinical studies revealed a limited therapeutic time window and systemic aspects of the disease. This raises a fundamental question of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Motyl AAL,Faller KME,Groen EJN,Kline RA,Eaton SL,Ledahawsky LM,Chaytow H,Lamont DJ,Wishart TM,Huang YT,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification plays a critical role in tumor progression. Hence, understanding the factors triggering this process in human cancers is an important concern. Unfortunately, the structures formed at early stages are usually unavailable for study, hampering the identification of the initiating events in tumors. Here...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ciullo M,Debily MA,Rozier L,Autiero M,Billault A,Mayau V,El Marhomy S,Guardiola J,Bernheim A,Coullin P,Piatier-Tonneau D,Debatisse M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide scans for linkage of chromosome regions to type 1 diabetes in affected sib pair families have revealed that the major susceptibility locus resides within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6p21 (lambda S = 2.4). It is recognized that the MHC contains multiple susceptibility loci (refe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Todd JA,Farrall M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galphaq, encoded by the human GNAQ gene, is an effector subunit of the Gq heterotrimeric G-protein and the convergence point for signaling of multiple Gq-coupled neurohormonal receptors. To identify naturally occurring mutations that could modify GNAQ transcription, we examined genomic DNA isolated from 355 normal sub...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liggett SB,Kelly RJ,Parekh RR,Matkovich SJ,Benner BJ,Hahn HS,Syed FM,Galvez AS,Case KL,McGuire N,Odley AM,Sparks L,Kardia SL,Dorn GW 2nd

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though heritability estimates suggest that the risk of asthma, hay fever and eczema is largely due to genetic factors, previous studies have not explained a large part of the genetics behind these diseases. In this genome-wide association study, we include 346 545 Caucasians from the UK Biobank to identify novel ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johansson Å,Rask-Andersen M,Karlsson T,Ek WE

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in North America. Despite advances in lung cancer treatment, the overall 5 year survival rate for those diagnosed with the disease is bleak presumably due to the late stage of diagnosis. Owing to the difficulty of early detection, preneoplastic specimens are rare. Howev...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Garnis C,Campbell J,Davies JJ,Macaulay C,Lam S,Lam WL

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most quantitative trait loci (QTL) studies have focused on detecting the genetic effects of individual QTLs. This study thoroughly dissected the genetic components of type 2 diabetic mice, including a search for epistatic interactions and multi-locus additive effects that result in variation in diabetes-related phenot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Togawa K,Moritani M,Yaguchi H,Itakura M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the cause of Parkinson's disease (PD), it is important to determine the functional interactions between factors linked to the disease. Parkin is associated with autosomal recessive early-onset PD, and controls the transcription of PGC-1α, a master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. These two factors ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zheng L,Bernard-Marissal N,Moullan N,D'Amico D,Auwerx J,Moore DJ,Knott G,Aebischer P,Schneider BL

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valosin-containing protein (VCP)-associated disease caused by mutations in the VCP gene includes combinations of a phenotypically heterogeneous group of disorders such as hereditary inclusion body myopathy, Paget's disease of bone, frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Currently, there are no effe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Llewellyn KJ,Nalbandian A,Jung KM,Nguyen C,Avanesian A,Mozaffar T,Piomelli D,Kimonis VE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are fundamental to all biological processes, and a comprehensive determination of all protein-protein interactions that can take place in an organism provides a framework for understanding biology as an integrated system. The availability of genome-scale sets of cloned open reading frames ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cusick ME,Klitgord N,Vidal M,Hill DE

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GM2 gangliosidoses are a group of lysosomal storage disorders which include Sandhoff disease and Tay-Sachs disease. Dysregulation of glutamate receptors has been recently postulated in the pathology of Sandhoff disease. Glutamate receptor association with neuronal pentraxins 1 and 2, and the neuronal pentraxin recepto...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hooper AWM,Alamilla JF,Venier RE,Gillespie DC,Igdoura SA

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional and genomic approaches can be integrated to screen efficiently for pathogenic alleles in founder populations. We applied such approaches to analysis of the cancer-associated cell cycle regulator CHEK2 in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. We first identified two extended haplotypes at CHEK2 that co-segregated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shaag A,Walsh T,Renbaum P,Kirchhoff T,Nafa K,Shiovitz S,Mandell JB,Welcsh P,Lee MK,Ellis N,Offit K,Levy-Lahad E,King MC

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen families with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) have been studied both by DNA sequencing and by emerin protein expression. Fourteen had mutations in the X-linked emerin gene, while three showed evidence of autosomal inheritance. Twelve of the 14 emerin mutations caused early termination of translation...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Manilal S,Recan D,Sewry CA,Hoeltzenbein M,Llense S,Leturcq F,Deburgrave N,Barbot J,Man N,Muntoni F,Wehnert M,Kaplan J,Morris GE

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental genetic relatedness may lead to adverse health and fitness outcomes in the offspring. However, the degree to which it affects human delivery timing is unknown. We use genotype data from ≃25 000 parent-offspring trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study to optimize runs of homozygosity (RO...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sole-Navais P,Bacelis J,Helgeland Ø,Modzelewska D,Vaudel M,Flatley C,Andreassen O,Njølstad PR,Muglia LJ,Johansson S,Zhang G,Jacobsson B

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The FMR1 gene, associated with fragile X syndrome, has recently been cloned and the sequence of partial cDNA clones is known. We have determined additional cDNA sequences both at the 5' and 3' end. We have characterized the expressed gene by means of RT-PCR in various tissues and have found that alternative splicing t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verkerk AJ,de Graaff E,De Boulle K,Eichler EE,Konecki DS,Reyniers E,Manca A,Poustka A,Willems PJ,Nelson DL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colobomatous macrophthalmia with microcornea syndrome (MACOM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 602499) is an autosomal dominantly inherited malformation of the eye, which is characterized by microcornea with increased axial length, coloboma of the iris and of the optic disc, and severe myopia. We performed w...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Beleggia F,Li Y,Fan J,Elcioğlu NH,Toker E,Wieland T,Maumenee IH,Akarsu NA,Meitinger T,Strom TM,Lang R,Wollnik B

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in FAM161A, a protein of unknown function localized at the cilium of retinal photoreceptor cells, cause retinitis pigmentosa, a form of hereditary blindness. By using different fragments of this protein as baits to screen cDNA libraries of human and bovine retinas, we defined a yeast two-hybrid-based FAM161A i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Di Gioia SA,Farinelli P,Letteboer SJ,Arsenijevic Y,Sharon D,Roepman R,Rivolta C

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Large expansions of hexanucleotide GGGGCC (G4C2) repeats (hundreds to thousands) in the first intron of the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) locus are the strongest known genetic factor associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Different hypotheses exist about the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Swaminathan A,Bouffard M,Liao M,Ryan S,Callister JB,Pickering-Brown SM,Armstrong GAB,Drapeau P

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00