Determining zygosity in the Vietnam Era Twin Registry: an approach using questionnaires.

abstract：:Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome (BWCFF) (BRWS; MIM #243310, 614583) is a rare developmental disorder affecting multiple organ systems. It is characterised by intellectual disability (mild to severe) and distinctive facial appearance (metopic ridging/trigonocephaly, bilateral ptosis, hypertelorism). The a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yates TM,Turner CL,Firth HV,Berg J,Pilz DT

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unrelated children with partial deletion of the long arm of a chromosome no. 5 are reported. The boy presented with severe hypotonia, developmental delay, and a few minor defects of the face including frontal bossing, antimongoloid slant of the palpebral fissures, depressed nasal bridge and bilateral epicanthal fo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Silengo MC,Luzzatti L,Centerwall WR,Costello JM,Parslow M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between characteristics of family relationships and family trends in cancer worry and the psychological adjustment of recipients of genetic testing for cancer susceptibility were investigated. Data provided by 178 individuals from 24 families with Lynch syndrome who participated in a cohort study inve...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ashida S,Hadley DW,Vaughn BK,Kuhn NR,Jenkins JF,Koehly LM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression during pregnancy can have serious consequences for families. Indications of fetal aneuploidy can induce maternal stress, a risk factor for depression. Few studies have assessed symptoms of depression in pregnant women soon after they receive results indicating increased risk for fetal aneuploidy. We compare...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hippman C,Oberlander TF,Honer WG,Misri S,Austin JC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal analyses of cultured lymphocytes from nine patients with familial multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) syndrome type I from six families and two patients - father and daughter - with familial MEA syndrome type II showed an increased frequency of chromosomal breakage. The frequency of sister chromatid exch...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gustavson KH,Jansson R,Oberg K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the clinical and investigative findings in a 31-year-old man with Hunter's syndrome, showing evidence of severe multisystem involvement. Papilloedema has been present for at least 8 years with no evidence of progressive visual impairment. His most serious and life-threatening complications are la...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Young ID,Harper PS

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical descriptions of individuals with partial deletion of the distal short arm of chromosome three have been reported rarely. A characteristic phenotype has been proposed. We present another patient with this cytogenetic abnormality whose physical and developmental features show similarities with, as well as diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Witt DR,Biedermann B,Hall JG

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two brothers showed ichthyosis, bilateral cryptorchidism, hypogenitalism and mental retardation. In addition, the younger brother had short stature associated with disorders of secretions of insulin, ACTH and GH. This is the third reported case of the syndrome of ichthyosis and hypogonadism. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Abe K,Matsuda I,Matsuura N,Murayama T,Uzuki K,Okuno A

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome (NFNS) has been described as a unique phenotype, combining manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and Noonan syndrome, which are separate syndromes. Potential etiologies of NFNS include a discrete syndrome of distinct etiology, co-segregation of two mutated common genes, var...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Stevenson DA,Viskochil DH,Rope AF,Carey JC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seven-generation pedigree of apparent X-linked, nonspecific mental retardation is reported. There are 19 known affected males who appear to have received the gene through normal mothers. Retardation, lack of fine motor coordination, hyperactivity and a speech defect are the characteristics of affected individuals st...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yarbrough KM,Howard-Peebles PN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical Menkes disease is an X-linked recessive neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in ATP7A, which is located at Xq13.1-q21. ATP7A encodes a copper-transporting P-type ATPase and plays a critical role in development of the central nervous system. With rare exceptions involving sex chromosome aneuploidy o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Desai V,Donsante A,Swoboda KJ,Martensen M,Thompson J,Kaler SG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is the prototype of the cardiac ion channelopathies which cause syncope and sudden death. LQT1, due to mutations of KCNQ1 (KVLQT1), is the most common form. This study describes the genotype-phenotype characteristics in 10 families with mutations of KCNQ1, including 5 novel mutations. One hundr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chen S,Zhang L,Bryant RM,Vincent GM,Flippin M,Lee JC,Brown E,Zimmerman F,Rozich R,Szafranski P,Oberti C,Sterba R,Marangi D,Tchou PJ,Chung MK,Wang Q

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability or inability to taste the compound phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is a classic inherited trait in humans and has been the subject of genetic and anthropological studies for over 70 years. This trait has also been shown to correlate with a number of dietary preferences and thus may have important implications fo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kim UK,Drayna D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of Huntington's Chorea in South Wales has shown a prevalence of 7.61 per 100,000 in the counties of Gwent and Glamorgan, with a total population of 1.7 million. Heterozygote frequency is close to 1 in 5,000. Total ascertainment within this area has been attempted, and experience since conclusion of the study h...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Walker DA,Harper PS,Wells CE,Tyler A,Davies K,Newcombe RG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 2-year-old female patient who had megaloblastic anaemia caused by selective vitamin B12 malabsorption (Imerslund-Grasbeck syndrome) and del(21)(q22). To our knowledge, this is the first observation of Imerslund-Grasbeck syndrome associated with del(21)(q22) in the literature. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Celep F,Karagüzel A,Aynaci FM,Erduran E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syndrome of spastic paresis, mental retardation and glaucoma has been described only once previously (Heijbel & Jagell 1981). We describe three brothers, products of a marriage between first cousins once-removed, who appear to have the same syndrome. The brothers are not dysmorphic but they have slowly progressive s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chenevix-Trench G,Leshner R,Mamunes P

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of peroneal muscular atrophy, or Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), disease represents the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy, with a prevalence of about 1 per 2500. The disease is usually transmitted in an autosomal dominant fashion, although it can display all the mendelian patterns of inheritance. The...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Guzzetta V,Santoro L,Gasparo-Rippa P,Ragno M,Vita G,Caruso G,Andria G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sibship consisting of three siblings, one male and two females with unrelated parents, showed a clinical syndrome including: infantile spasms with hypsarrhythmia, microcephaly, severe mental retardation and spastic quadriplegia. The pneumoencephalogram performed in two sibs showed agenesis of the corpus callosum and...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cao A,Cianchetti C,Signorini E,Loi M,Sanna G,De Virgiliis S

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer screening recommendations for patients with Lynch-like syndrome (LLS) are not well defined. We evaluated adherence to Lynch syndrome (LS) screening recommendations, cancer risk perceptions, and communication within the families among colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors with LLS. Thirty-four participants with LLS ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Katz LH,Burton-Chase AM,Advani S,Fellman B,Polivka KM,Yuan Y,Lynch PM,Peterson SK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney and urinary tract malformations are among the most frequent developmental defects identified in newborns. Ranging from asymptomatic to neonatal lethal, these malformations represent an important clinical challenge. Recent progress in understanding the developmental origin of urinary tract defects in the mouse a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Uetani N,Bouchard M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic knowledge of genetics is essential for understanding genetic testing and counseling. The lack of a written, English language, validated, published measure has limited our ability to evaluate genetic knowledge of patients and families. Here, we begin the psychometric analysis of a true/false genetic knowledge mea...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fitzgerald-Butt SM,Bodine A,Fry KM,Ash J,Zaidi AN,Garg V,Gerhardt CA,McBride KL

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synostoses of the carpals and metacarpals with oligodactyly were noted in a man whose brother was similarly affected. Since the proband's two children are normal, autosomal recessive transmission is probable. Although abnormalities of the feet, and particularly radioulnar synostosis, are lacking, this malformation is ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Pfeiffer RA,Meisel-Stosiek M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which a mother and her two children carry a tandem duplication of the short arm of chromosome 8. Their phenotypes are similar and characterised by distinct facial dysmorphism, small stature and mild mental retardation. This is one of the first cases of direct familial transmission of a partial...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dhooge C,Van Roy N,Craen M,Speleman F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is described in three cases: a 17-year-old man, his mother and his maternal grandmother. The onset of skin symptoms occurred from puberty to early adulthood. The skin was loose-hanging, wrinkled and without elasticity. X-ray examination showed numerous gastrointestinal diverticulae in the two older patients...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Damkier A,Brandrup F,Starklint H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed cytogenetic and molecular analyses of 45,X mosaics involving structurally abnormal Y chromosomes. Karyotypes were performed by standard cytogenetic methods and, in some cases, by fluorescence in situ hybridization, to distinguish monocentric and dicentric chromosomes. In addition, the deletions of Yq...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jakubowski L,Jeziorowska A,Constantinou M,Kałuzewski B

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosomal microarray analysis is the first-tier test for the evaluation of developmental disabilities and congenital anomalies. In this report, we present CMA results of 971 patient and 301 parent samples. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Among 971 patient samples, 133 (13.6%) had pathogenic variants. RESULTS:While...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ozyilmaz B,Kirbiyik O,Koc A,Ozdemir TR,Kaya OO,Guvenc MS,Erdoğan KM,Kutbay YB

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Two cases of previously unreported simultaneous presence of A and B postaxial polydactyly in two brothers out of 12 affected members of a kindred are reported. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that in this family A and b types of postaxial polydactyly are caused by a single gene rather than by two diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ventruto V,Theo G,Celona A,Fioretti G,Pagano L,Stabile M,Cavaliere ML

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：: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