Identification and validation of seven new loci showing differential DNA methylation related to serum lipid profile: an epigenome-wide approach. The REGICOR study.

abstract：:Mutations in GDAP1 lead to recessively or dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, CMT), indicating that GDAP1 is essential for the viability of cells in the peripheral nervous system. GDAP1 contains domains characteristic of glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), is located in the outer ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Noack R,Frede S,Albrecht P,Henke N,Pfeiffer A,Knoll K,Dehmel T,Meyer Zu Hörste G,Stettner M,Kieseier BC,Summer H,Golz S,Kochanski A,Wiedau-Pazos M,Arnold S,Lewerenz J,Methner A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein ataxin-3 (ATX3) triggers an amyloid-related neurodegenerative disease when its polyglutamine stretch is expanded beyond a critical threshold. We formerly demonstrated that the polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) could redirect amyloid aggregation of a full-length, expanded ATX3 (ATX3-Q55) towards ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Visentin C,Pellistri F,Natalello A,Vertemara J,Bonanomi M,Gatta E,Penco A,Relini A,De Gioia L,Airoldi C,Regonesi ME,Tortora P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the telomere hypothesis of senescence, the progressive shortening of telomeres that occurs upon division of normal somatic cells eventually leads to cellular senescence. The immortalisation of human cells is associated with the acquisition of a telomere maintenance mechanism which is usually dependent upo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bryan TM,Marusic L,Bacchetti S,Namba M,Reddel RR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in human mitochondrial tRNA genes are associated with a number of multisystemic disorders. Using an assay that combines tRNA oxidation and circularization we have determined the relative amounts and states of aminoacylation of mutant and wild-type tRNAs in tissue samples from patients with MELAS syndrome (mi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Börner GV,Zeviani M,Tiranti V,Carrara F,Hoffmann S,Gerbitz KD,Lochmüller H,Pongratz D,Klopstock T,Melberg A,Holme E,Pääbo S

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lifetime accumulation of low-abundance, somatic mtDNA re-arrangements (sublimons) has been proposed as a potential contributor to aging, and also to diseases such as cardiomyopathy or coronary heart disease. Tissue-specific sublimons, varying in abundance by three orders of magnitude between individuals, have rece...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kajander OA,Karhunen PJ,Jacobs HT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded CAG trinucleotide repeat in the first exon of the HD gene, which results in a toxic polyglutamine stretch within huntingtin, the protein it encodes. Understanding the normal function of this essential protein is vital to u...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Strehlow AN,Li JZ,Myers RM

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour suppressor gene PTEN encodes a dual-specificity phosphatase that recognizes protein substrates and phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate. PTEN seems to play multiple roles in tumour suppression and the blockade of phosphoinositide-3-kinase signalling is important for its growth suppressive effects, althou...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weng LP,Smith WM,Brown JL,Eng C

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease, an X-linked inborn error of glycosphingolipid catabolism, results from mutations in the alpha-galactosidase A gene at Xq22.1. To determine the nature and frequency of the molecular lesions causing the classical and milder variant Fabry phenotypes, and for precise carrier detection in Fabry families, the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Eng CM,Niehaus DJ,Enriquez AL,Burgert TS,Ludman MD,Desnick RJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage, association and postmortem studies have implicated regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4), which negatively modulates signal transduction at G-protein-coupled receptors, as a candidate schizophrenia susceptibility gene. We compared RGS4 mRNA expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), between...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lipska BK,Mitkus S,Caruso M,Hyde TM,Chen J,Vakkalanka R,Straub RE,Weinberger DR,Kleinman JE

更新日期：2006-09-15 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：:Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) identified over 500 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing cancer risk. It is logical to expect the cancer-associated genes to cluster in pathways directly involved in carcinogenesis, e.g. cell cycle. Nevertheless, analyses of the GWAS-detected cancer risk genes usua...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gorlova OY,Demidenko EI,Amos CI,Gorlov IP

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of DNA replication appears to be an important epigenetic regulator of gene expression during development. Replication of active genes in expressing tissues occurs earlier than does replication of their inactive counterparts in nonexpressing tissues. This pattern is also observed for active and inactive alle...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hansen RS,Canfield TK,Gartler SM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned, sequenced and annotated segments of DNA spanning the mouse, chicken and pufferfish alpha globin gene clusters and compared them with the corresponding region in man. This has defined a small segment ( approximately 135-155 kb) of synteny and conserved gene order, which may contain all of the elements r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Flint J,Tufarelli C,Peden J,Clark K,Daniels RJ,Hardison R,Miller W,Philipsen S,Tan-Un KC,McMorrow T,Frampton J,Alter BP,Frischauf AM,Higgs DR

更新日期：2001-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are among the most common motor neuron diseases to afflict the human population. A deficiency of the survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein causes SMA and is also reported to be an exacerbating factor in the development of ALS. However, pathways lin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kariya S,Re DB,Jacquier A,Nelson K,Przedborski S,Monani UR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'dynamic mutation' was introduced to distinguish the unique properties of expanding, unstable DNA repeat sequences from other forms of mutation. The past decade has seen dynamic mutations uncovered as the molecular basis for a growing number of human genetic diseases and for all of the characterized 'rare' ch...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Richards RI

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) and myotonic dystrophy (DM1) are caused by trinucleotide repeat expansions. The repeats show different instability patterns according to the disorder, cell type and developmental stage. Here we studied the behavior of these repeats in DM1- and HD-derived human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) bef...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seriola A,Spits C,Simard JP,Hilven P,Haentjens P,Pearson CE,Sermon K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type (LD, MIM 254780) is a fatal autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the presence of progressive neurological deterioration, myoclonus, epilepsy and polyglucosan intracellular inclusion bodies, called Lafora bodies. Lafora bodies resemble glycogen with reduced branchi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fernández-Sánchez ME,Criado-García O,Heath KE,García-Fojeda B,Medraño-Fernández I,Gomez-Garre P,Sanz P,Serratosa JM,Rodríguez de Córdoba S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a consanguineous couple who lost four pregnancies associated with skeletal dysplasia. Radiological examination of one fetus was inconclusive. Parental exome sequencing showed that both parents were heterozygous for a novel missense variant, p.(Pro133Leu), in the SLC35D1 gene encoding a nucleotide...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rautengarten C,Quarrell OW,Stals K,Caswell RC,De Franco E,Baple E,Burgess N,Jokhi R,Heazlewood JL,Offiah AC,Ebert B,Ellard S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common inherited cancer predisposition syndrome. The NF1 gene product, neurofibromin, is hypothesized to function as a tumor suppressor and nearly all NF1 patients develop benign peripheral nerve tumors. These neurofibromas presumably arise from NF1 inactivation in S100(+)Schwann ce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rutkowski JL,Wu K,Gutmann DH,Boyer PJ,Legius E

更新日期：2000-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), an X-linked disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations of EFNB1, exhibits a paradoxical sex reversal in phenotypic severity: females characteristically have frontonasal dysplasia, craniosynostosis and additional minor malformations, but males are usually more mildly affected with ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Twigg SR,Babbs C,van den Elzen ME,Goriely A,Taylor S,McGowan SJ,Giannoulatou E,Lonie L,Ragoussis J,Sadighi Akha E,Knight SJ,Zechi-Ceide RM,Hoogeboom JA,Pober BR,Toriello HV,Wall SA,Rita Passos-Bueno M,Brunner HG,Mathi

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is an autosomal dominant disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding protein kinase C gamma (PKC gamma). We report an SCA14 family with a novel deletion of a termination-codon-containing region, resulting in a missense change and a C-terminal 13-amino-acid extension with inc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Asai H,Hirano M,Shimada K,Kiriyama T,Furiya Y,Ikeda M,Iwamoto T,Mori T,Nishinaka K,Konishi N,Udaka F,Ueno S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:The gene which is defective in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the largest known gene. The product of the gene in muscle, dystrophin, is a 427 kDa protein. The same gene encodes at least six additional products: two non-muscle dystrophin isoforms transcribed from promoters located in the 5'-end region of the gene...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang J,Pansky A,Venuti JM,Yaffe D,Nudel U

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XX males and XY females have a sex reversal disorder which can be caused by an abnormal interchange between the X and the Y chromosomes. We have isolated and characterized a novel gene on the Y chromosome, PRKY. This gene is highly homologous to a previously isolated gene from Xp22.3, PRKX, and represents a member of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schiebel K,Winkelmann M,Mertz A,Xu X,Page DC,Weil D,Petit C,Rappold GA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP) are two neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the accumulation of TDP-43. TDP-43 is proteolitically cleaved to generate two major C-terminal fragments of 35 and 25 kDa. The latter, known as TDP-25, is a consistent feature of FT...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Caccamo A,Shaw DM,Guarino F,Messina A,Walker AW,Oddo S

更新日期：2015-08-15 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：:Andersen's syndrome (AS) is a rare and dominantly inherited pathology, linked to the inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir2.1. AS patients exhibit a triad of symptoms that include periodic paralysis, cardiac dysrhythmia and bone malformations. Some progress has been made in understanding the contribution of the Ki...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sacco S,Giuliano S,Sacconi S,Desnuelle C,Barhanin J,Amri EZ,Bendahhou S

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eiken syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia. We identified a truncation mutation in the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of the parathyroid hormone (PTH)/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) type 1 receptor (PTHR1) gene as the cause of this syndrome. Eiken syndrome differs from Jansen and Blomstrand chondrodyspl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Duchatelet S,Ostergaard E,Cortes D,Lemainque A,Julier C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limited life span of normal human cells represents a substantial obstacle for biochemical analysis, genetic manipulation and genetic screens. To overcome this technical barrier, immortal human cell lines are often derived from tumors or produced by transformation with viral oncogenes such as SV40 large T antigen. ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ouellette MM,McDaniel LD,Wright WE,Shay JW,Schultz RA

更新日期：2000-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD/BMD) are caused by mutations in the human dystrophin gene. About two-thirds of DMD/BMD patients exhibit gross rearrangements in the gene whereas the mutations in the remaining one third are thought to be point mutations or minor structural lesions. By means of various prog...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lenk U,Hanke R,Thiele H,Speer A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00