Genetics and genomic medicine in Cuba.

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: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:Congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) type I is a group of rare disorders caused by recessive mutations in up to 25 genes that impair the N-glycan precursor formation and its transfer to proteins resulting in hypoglycosylation of multiple proteins. Congenital disorder of glycosylation causes multisystem...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： de la Morena-Barrio ME,Sabater M,de la Morena-Barrio B,Ruhaak RL,Miñano A,Padilla J,Toderici M,Roldán V,Gimeno JR,Vicente V,Corral J

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：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: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: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: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:Alcohol-induced osteonecrosis of femoral head (ONFH) is a complex disease and genetic factors are one of the causes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of RETN (resistin; OMIM: 605565) and LDLR (low density lipoprotein receptor; OMIM: 606945) polymorphisms on the risk of alcohol-induced ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Liu C,An F,Cao Y,Wang J,Tian Y,Wu H,Wang J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pathogenic variants in ryanodine receptor 1 (RYR1, MIM# 180901) are the cause of congenital myopathy with fiber-type disproportion, malignant hyperthermia susceptibility type 1, central core disease of muscle, multiminicore disease and other congenital myopathies. METHODS:We present a patient with global de...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Blackburn PR,Selcen D,Gass JM,Jackson JL,Macklin S,Cousin MA,Boczek NJ,Klee EW,Dimberg EL,Kennelly KD,Atwal PS

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) has high fatality and permanent disability rates due to the severe damage to brain cells and inflammation. The SERPINE1 gene that encodes PAI-1 for the regulation of tissue plasminogen activator is considered an important therapeutic target for aSAH. METHODS:Six SNP...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Lin M,Griessenauer CJ,Starke RM,Tubbs RS,Shoja MM,Foreman PM,Vyas NA,Walters BC,Harrigan MR,Hendrix P,Fisher WS,Pittet JF,Mathru M,Lipsky RH

更新日期：2019-08-01 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:CAP+1 [A>C] (HBB:c.-50A>C) is a rare silent β-thalassemia (β-thal) mutation. Carrier individuals of this mutation show borderline hemoglobin (Hb), mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and Hb A2 levels. This mutation was previously reported in combination with different β-thalassemia mutations, leading to variable p...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Murad H,Moassas F,Fakseh NAL

更新日期：2021-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are from the family of noncoding RNAs. Existing studies have shown that lncRNAs are involved in many biological processes and are strongly related to the occurrence and development of tumors. Recent studies have indicated that lncRNA GIHCG participates in the progression of many...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Liu G,Jiang Z,Qiao M,Wang F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Achondroplasia (ACH), the most common form of short-limbed skeletal dysplasia, is caused by gain-of-function mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) gene. More than 97% of patients result from a heterozygous p.G380R mutation in the FGFR3 gene. We present here a child who had two de novo ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Nagata T,Matsushita M,Mishima K,Kamiya Y,Kato K,Toyama M,Ogi T,Ishiguro N,Kitoh H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe six individuals with microdeletions and microduplications in the distal 22q11.2 region detected by microarray. Five of the abnormalities have breakpoints in the low-copy repeats (LCR) in this region and one patient has an atypical rearrangement. Two of the six patients with abnormalities in the region betw...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Lindgren V,McRae A,Dineen R,Saulsberry A,Hoganson G,Schrift M

更新日期：2015-07-01 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: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: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:Milroy-like disease is the diagnostic definition used for patients with phenotypes that resemble classic Milroy disease (MD) but are negative to genetic testing for FLT4. In this study, we aimed at performing a genetic characterization and biochemical analysis of VEGF-C variations found in a female proband b...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Mukenge S,Jha SK,Catena M,Manara E,Leppänen VM,Lenti E,Negrini D,Bertelli M,Brendolan A,Jeltsch M,Aldrighetti L

更新日期：2020-09-01 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: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: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: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:Recently hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) caused by variants in DNAJC12 was reported and this suggested a new strategy for diagnosis. But DNAJC12-associated HPA is a rare in Chinese population so far. METHODS:The clinical information and blood samples from the patient and his family members were collected and an...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Li M,Yang Q,Yi S,Qin Z,Luo J,Fan X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA repair genes are crucial for maintaining genomic stability by preventing mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. The present retrospective cohort study aimed at investigating whether MLH1, APEX1, MUTYH, OGG1, NUDT1, XRCC5, XPA, and ERCC2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with colorectal cance...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Kamiza AB,Hsieh LL,Tang R,Chien HT,Lai CH,Chiu LL,Lo TP,Hung KY,You JF,Wang WC,Hsiung CA,Yeh CC

更新日期：2018-04-17 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: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:Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a rare intraocular malignant tumor in children with high overall survival. Predisposition to Rb is linked to RB1 germline mutations with high penetrance, but rare RB1 low-penetrance variants are also known. Rb survivors are at risk of second primary malignancies (SPMs), mostly osteosar...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Imbert-Bouteille M,Gauthier-Villars M,Leroux D,Meunier I,Aerts I,Lumbroso-Le Rouic L,Lejeune S,Delnatte C,Abadie C,Pujol P,Houdayer C,Corsini C

更新日期：2019-12-01 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