Rescue of neural crest-derived phenotypes in a zebrafish CHARGE model by Sox10 downregulation.

abstract：:Ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) is a rare form of type 2 diabetes, mostly observed in subjects of west African origin (west Africans and African-Americans), characterized by fulminant and phasic insulin dependence, but lacking markers of autoimmunity observed in type 1 diabetes. PAX4 is a transcription factor essential f...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mauvais-Jarvis F,Smith SB,Le May C,Leal SM,Gautier JF,Molokhia M,Riveline JP,Rajan AS,Kevorkian JP,Zhang S,Vexiau P,German MS,Vaisse C

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions of the 22q11.2 region distal to the 22q11.21 microdeletion syndrome region have recently been described in individuals with mental retardation and congenital anomalies. Because these deletions are mediated by low-copy repeats (LCRs), located distal to the 22q11.21 DiGeorge/velocardiofacial microdeletion regi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Coppinger J,McDonald-McGinn D,Zackai E,Shane K,Atkin JF,Asamoah A,Leland R,Weaver DD,Lansky-Shafer S,Schmidt K,Feldman H,Cohen W,Phalin J,Powell B,Ballif BC,Theisen A,Geiger E,Haldeman-Englert C,Shaikh TH,Saitta S,

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are major sources of new exons in higher eukaryotes. Almost half of the human genome is derived from TEs, and many types of TEs have the potential to exonize. In this work, we conducted a large-scale analysis of human exons derived from mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs), a class of...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lin L,Jiang P,Shen S,Sato S,Davidson BL,Xing Y

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Previous data have shown that MECP2 RNA is present in all mouse and human tissues tested, but the timing of expression and regional distribution have not been explored. We investigated the spatial...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shahbazian MD,Antalffy B,Armstrong DL,Zoghbi HY

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA class II (DRB1 and DQB1) associations with sarcoidosis have been studied by several groups but often without consistent results. In this paper, we consider the hypothesis that observed inconsistencies relate to distinct, genetically encoded disease phenotypes which differ in prevalence between centres. We ther...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sato H,Woodhead FA,Ahmad T,Grutters JC,Spagnolo P,van den Bosch JM,Maier LA,Newman LS,Nagai S,Izumi T,Wells AU,du Bois RM,Welsh KI

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in huntingtin protein, leading to accumulation of huntingtin in the nuclei of striatal neurons. The 18 amino-acid amino-terminus of huntingtin is an amphipathic alpha helical membrane-binding domain that can reversibly target to vesicles and the endopla...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Atwal RS,Xia J,Pinchev D,Taylor J,Epand RM,Truant R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With progress in genome-wide association studies of depression, from identifying zero hits in ~16 000 individuals in 2013 to 223 hits in more than a million individuals in 2020, understanding the genetic architecture of this debilitating condition no longer appears to be an impossible task. The pressing question now i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cai N,Choi KW,Fried EI

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Missing teeth (hypodontia and oligodontia) are a common developmental abnormality in humans and heterozygous mutations of PAX9 have recently been shown to underlie a number of familial, non-syndromic cases. Whereas PAX9 haploinsufficiency has been suggested as the underlying genetic mechanism, it is not known how this...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kist R,Watson M,Wang X,Cairns P,Miles C,Reid DJ,Peters H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular accumulations of mutant, misfolded proteins are major pathological hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and related disorders. Recently, mutations in Sigma receptor 1 (SigR1) have been found to cause a form of ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Our goal was to pinpoint alterati...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Prause J,Goswami A,Katona I,Roos A,Schnizler M,Bushuven E,Dreier A,Buchkremer S,Johann S,Beyer C,Deschauer M,Troost D,Weis J

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking is a leading modifiable cause of death worldwide. We hypothesized that cigarette smoking induces extensive transcriptomic changes that lead to target-organ damage and smoking-related diseases. We performed a meta-analysis of transcriptome-wide gene expression using whole blood-derived RNA from 10,233...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Huan T,Joehanes R,Schurmann C,Schramm K,Pilling LC,Peters MJ,Mägi R,DeMeo D,O'Connor GT,Ferrucci L,Teumer A,Homuth G,Biffar R,Völker U,Herder C,Waldenberger M,Peters A,Zeilinger S,Metspalu A,Hofman A,Uitterlinden

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify genes in the Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome critical region, radiolabeled cDNA probes from poly(A)+ RNA from mouse tissues were used to identify potential exon-containing genomic DNA fragments in cosmid or phage clones from appropriate yeast artificial chromosomes, and these fragments were subsequ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nakao M,Sutcliffe JS,Durtschi B,Mutirangura A,Ledbetter DH,Beaudet AL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoglobin (CYGB) is frequently downregulated in many types of human malignancies, and its exogenous overexpression reduces proliferation of cancer cells. Despite its implied tumour suppressor (TSG) functions, its exact role in carcinogenesis remains unclear as CYGB upregulation is also associated with tumour hypoxia ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Oleksiewicz U,Liloglou T,Tasopoulou KM,Daskoulidou N,Bryan J,Gosney JR,Field JK,Xinarianos G

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin E (IgE) concentration in serum is elevated in atopic diseases such as asthma. A large genomic region on chromosome 5 has previously been implicated in the control of IgE levels and bronchial hyperreactivity and may, therefore, harbor genes predisposing to asthma. In an effort to confirm this linkage and...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Laitinen T,Kauppi P,Ignatius J,Ruotsalainen T,Daly MJ,Kääriäinen H,Kruglyak L,Laitinen H,de la Chapelle A,Lander ES,Laitinen LA,Kere J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a number of novel genetic associations with complex human diseases. In spite of these successes, results from GWAS generally explain only a small proportion of disease heritability, an observation termed the 'missing heritability problem'. Several sources f...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cusanovich DA,Billstrand C,Zhou X,Chavarria C,De Leon S,Michelini K,Pai AA,Ober C,Gilad Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the two common neurodegenerative diseases that have been associated with the GGGGCC·GGCCCC repeat RNA expansion in a noncoding region of C9orf72. It has been previously reported that unconventional repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tao Z,Wang H,Xia Q,Li K,Li K,Jiang X,Xu G,Wang G,Ying Z

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare genetic syndrome that gives rise to a variety of disorders in affected individuals. Remarkably, all causative gene mutations identified to date share a link to telomere/telomerase biology. We found that the most prevalent dyskerin mutation in DC (A353V) did not affect formation of...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Trahan C,Martel C,Dragon F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is one of nine dominantly inherited neurodegenerative diseases caused by polyglutamine tract expansion. In SCA1, the expanded polyglutamine tract is in the ataxin-1 (ATXN1) protein. ATXN1 is part of an in vivo complex with retinoid acid receptor-related orphan receptor alpha (Rora)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gehrking KM,Andresen JM,Duvick L,Lough J,Zoghbi HY,Orr HT

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of muscular dystrophy, advances in understanding the molecular basis of the various disorders in this group have been rapidly translated into readily applicable diagnostic tests, allowing the provision of more accurate prognostic and genetic counselling. The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) have re...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bushby KM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about genes regulating male puberty. Further, while many identified pubertal timing variants associate with age at menarche, a late manifestation of puberty, and body mass, little is known about these variants' relationship to pubertal initiation or tempo. To address these questions, we performed genom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cousminer DL,Stergiakouli E,Berry DJ,Ang W,Groen-Blokhuis MM,Körner A,Siitonen N,Ntalla I,Marinelli M,Perry JR,Kettunen J,Jansen R,Surakka I,Timpson NJ,Ring S,Mcmahon G,Power C,Wang C,Kähönen M,Viikari J,Lehtimäki

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) remains difficult to diagnose before irreversible damage to sacroiliac joint is noticeable. Circulating microRNAs have demonstrated to serve as diagnostic tools for several human diseases. Here, we analysed plasma microRNAs to identify potential AS biomarkers. Higher expression levels of mi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Perez-Sanchez C,Font-Ugalde P,Ruiz-Limon P,Lopez-Pedrera C,Castro-Villegas MC,Abalos-Aguilera MC,Barbarroja N,Arias-de la Rosa I,Lopez-Montilla MD,Escudero-Contreras A,Lopez-Medina C,Collantes-Estevez E,Jimenez-Gomez Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is generally the consequence of an interstitial microdeletion at 7q11.23, which includes the elastin gene, thus causing hemizygosity at the elastin gene locus. The origin of the deletion has been reported by many authors to be maternal in approximately 60% and paternal in 40% of cases. S...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dutly F,Schinzel A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) deficiency is amongst the most encountered defects of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system and is associated with a wide variety of clinical signs and symptoms. Mutations in complex I nuclear structural genes are the most common cause of isolated comple...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ugalde C,Janssen RJ,van den Heuvel LP,Smeitink JA,Nijtmans LG

更新日期：2004-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolfram syndrome (WS) is a heterogeneous multisystem neurodegenerative disorder with two allelic variations in addition to a separate subtype known as WS type 2. The wide phenotypic spectrum of WS includes diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy which is often accompanied by diabetes insipidus, deafness, urological and ne...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Riachi M,Yilmaz S,Kurnaz E,Aycan Z,Çetinkaya S,Tranebjærg L,Rendtorff ND,Bitner-Glindzicz M,Bockenhauer D,Hussain K

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RAD51C was defined by Meindl et al. in 2010 as a high-risk gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Although this role seems to be clear, nowadays there is controversy about the indication of including the gene in routine clinical genetic testing, due to the lower prevalence or the absence of mutations ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Osorio A,Endt D,Fernández F,Eirich K,de la Hoya M,Schmutzler R,Caldés T,Meindl A,Schindler D,Benitez J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in gene expression resulting from epigenetic and/or genetic changes play an important role in the evolutionary divergence of phenotypes. To explore how epigenetic and genetic changes are linked during primate evolution, we have compared the genome-wide DNA methylation profiles (methylomes) of humans and chimpa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fukuda K,Inoguchi Y,Ichiyanagi K,Ichiyanagi T,Go Y,Nagano M,Yanagawa Y,Takaesu N,Ohkawa Y,Imai H,Sasaki H

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions are associated with clinically heterogeneous disorders transmitted as mendelian traits. Dominant missense mutations were found in the gene encoding the heart and skeletal muscle-specific isoform of the adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT1) in families with autosomal dominant progr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Palmieri L,Alberio S,Pisano I,Lodi T,Meznaric-Petrusa M,Zidar J,Santoro A,Scarcia P,Fontanesi F,Lamantea E,Ferrero I,Zeviani M

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:First- and second-generation sequencing technologies have led the way in revolutionizing the field of genomics and beyond, motivating an astonishing number of scientific advances, including enabling a more complete understanding of whole genome sequences and the information encoded therein, a more complete characteriz...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schadt EE,Turner S,Kasarskis A

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term goal of modeling Huntington's disease (HD) is to recapitulate the cardinal features of the disease in mice that express both mutant and wild-type (WT) huntingtin (Htt), as HD commonly manifests as a heterozygous condition in humans, and loss of WT Htt is associated with loss-of-function. In a new heterozyg...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith GA,Rocha EM,McLean JR,Hayes MA,Izen SC,Isacson O,Hallett PJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates in the brain is a major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ is generated from the cleavage of C-terminal fragments of the amyloid precursor protein (APP-CTFs) by γ-secretase, an intramembrane-cleaving protease with multiple substrates, including the Notc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mosser S,Alattia JR,Dimitrov M,Matz A,Pascual J,Schneider BL,Fraering PC

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether thrombospondin (TSP)-1 promotes macrophage activity and disease progression in dysferlinopathy. First, we found that levels of TSP-1 are elevated in blood of non-ambulant dysferlinopathy patients compared with ambulant patients and healthy controls, supporting the ide...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Urao N,Mirza RE,Corbiere TF,Hollander Z,Borchers CH,Koh TJ

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00