Primary congenital and developmental glaucomas.

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects motor neurons and, though less evidently, other neuronal systems. About 75% of sporadic and familial ALS patients show a subclinical degeneration of small-diameter fibers, as measured by...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sassone J,Taiana M,Lombardi R,Porretta-Serapiglia C,Freschi M,Bonanno S,Marcuzzo S,Caravello F,Bendotti C,Lauria G

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A glaucoma locus, GLC1A, was identified previously on chromosome 1q. A gene within this locus (encoding the protein myocilin) subsequently was shown to harbor mutations in 2-4% of primary open angle glaucoma patients. A total of 1703 patients was screened from five different populations representing three racial group...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fingert JH,Héon E,Liebmann JM,Yamamoto T,Craig JE,Rait J,Kawase K,Hoh ST,Buys YM,Dickinson J,Hockey RR,Williams-Lyn D,Trope G,Kitazawa Y,Ritch R,Mackey DA,Alward WL,Sheffield VC,Stone EM

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:Autism is a heterogeneous condition that is likely to result from the combined effects of multiple genetic factors interacting with environmental factors. Given its complexity, the study of autism associated with Mendelian single gene disorders or known chromosomal etiologies provides an important perspective. We used...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nishimura Y,Martin CL,Vazquez-Lopez A,Spence SJ,Alvarez-Retuerto AI,Sigman M,Steindler C,Pellegrini S,Schanen NC,Warren ST,Geschwind DH

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoglycans are a group of single-pass transmembrane glycoproteins. In striated muscle, sarcoglycans interact with dystrophin and other dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs) to form the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex (DGC). The DGC protects the sarcolemma from contraction-induced injury. Duchenne muscular...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li D,Long C,Yue Y,Duan D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been substantial progress in psychiatric genetics in recent years, through collaborative efforts to build large samples sizes for case/control analyses for a number of psychiatric disorders. The identification of replicated trait-associated genomic loci represents a large stride forward in a field where litt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hodgson K,McGuffin P,Lewis CM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal X-linked recessive disorder with a high spontaneous mutation rate and no effective treatment, hence development of genetic based therapies is an important goal. We report that expression of a recombinant human minidystrophin cDNA, compatible with current viral vectors, can...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wells DJ,Wells KE,Asante EA,Turner G,Sunada Y,Campbell KP,Walsh FS,Dickson G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies with tiling arrays have revealed more genomic transcription than previously anticipated. Whole new groups of non-coding transcripts (NCTs) have been detected. Some of these NCTs, including miRNAs, can regulate gene expression. To date, most known NCTs studied have been relatively short, but several impo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Perez DS,Hoage TR,Pritchett JR,Ducharme-Smith AL,Halling ML,Ganapathiraju SC,Streng PS,Smith DI

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell pathology in lysosomal storage diseases is characterized by the formation of distended vacuoles with characteristics of lysosomes. Our previous studies in mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB (MPSIIIB), a disease in which a genetic defect induces the accumulation of undigested heparan sulfate (HS) fragments, led to th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Roy E,Bruyère J,Flamant P,Bigou S,Ausseil J,Vitry S,Heard JM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood-onset mitochondrial encephalomyopathies are severe, relentlessly progressive conditions. However, reversible infantile respiratory chain deficiency (RIRCD), due to a homoplasmic mt-tRNA(Glu) mutation, and reversible infantile hepatopathy, due to tRNA 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thiouridylate methyltransferase (TRM...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Boczonadi V,Smith PM,Pyle A,Gomez-Duran A,Schara U,Tulinius M,Chinnery PF,Horvath R

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the MLC1 gene are responsible for one form of the neurological disorder megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC). The disease is a type of vacuolating myelinopathy. The biochemical properties and the function of the MLC1 protein are unknown. To characterize MLC1, we generated polyc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Teijido O,Martínez A,Pusch M,Zorzano A,Soriano E,Del Río JA,Palacín M,Estévez R

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies comprise a large group of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of tau protein. While much effort has focused on understanding the function of tau, little is known about the endogenous mechanisms regulating tau metabolism in vivo and ho...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith PY,Hernandez-Rapp J,Jolivette F,Lecours C,Bisht K,Goupil C,Dorval V,Parsi S,Morin F,Planel E,Bennett DA,Fernandez-Gomez FJ,Sergeant N,Buée L,Tremblay MÈ,Calon F,Hébert SS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KDM6B/JMJD3 is a histone H3 lysine demethylase with an important gene regulatory role in development and physiology. Here, we show that human JMJD3 expression is induced by the active vitamin D metabolite 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) (1,25(OH)(2)D(3)) and that JMJD3 modulates the gene regulatory action of this hormone....

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pereira F,Barbáchano A,Silva J,Bonilla F,Campbell MJ,Muñoz A,Larriba MJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X syndrome is characterized at the molecular level by expansion and methylation of a CGG trinucleotide repeat located within the FMR1 locus. The tissues of most full mutation carriers are mosaic for repeat size, but these mutational patterns tend to be well conserved when comparing multiple tissues within ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Burman RW,Popovich BW,Jacky PB,Turker MS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease, a prevalent lysosomal storage disease (LSD), is caused by insufficient activity of acid β-glucosidase (GCase) and the resultant glucosylceramide (GC)/glucosylsphingosine (GS) accumulation in visceral organs (Type 1) and the central nervous system (Types 2 and 3). Recent clinical and genetic studies im...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Xu YH,Xu K,Sun Y,Liou B,Quinn B,Li RH,Xue L,Zhang W,Setchell KD,Witte D,Grabowski GA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in DNAJC13 gene have been linked to familial form of Parkinson's disease (PD) with Lewy pathology. DNAJC13 is an endosome-related protein and believed to regulate endosomal membrane trafficking. However, the mechanistic link between DNAJC13 mutation and α-synuclein (αSYN) pathology toward neurodegeneration r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yoshida S,Hasegawa T,Suzuki M,Sugeno N,Kobayashi J,Ueyama M,Fukuda M,Ido-Fujibayashi A,Sekiguchi K,Ezura M,Kikuchi A,Baba T,Takeda A,Mochizuki H,Nagai Y,Aoki M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small, submicroscopic, genomic deletions and duplications (1 kb to 10 Mb) constitute up to 15% of all mutations underlying human monogenic diseases. Novel genomic technologies such as microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) allow the mapping of genomic copy number alterations at this submicrosco...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vissers LE,Veltman JA,van Kessel AG,Brunner HG

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal recessive ciliopathy with multisystem involvement. So far, 18 BBS genes have been identified and the majority of them are essential for the function of BBSome, a protein complex involved in transporting membrane proteins into and from cilia. Yet defects in the identified gen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aldahmesh MA,Li Y,Alhashem A,Anazi S,Alkuraya H,Hashem M,Awaji AA,Sogaty S,Alkharashi A,Alzahrani S,Al Hazzaa SA,Xiong Y,Kong S,Sun Z,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Menkes disease is an X-linked recessive copper deficiency disorder caused by mutations in the ATP7A (MNK) gene. The MNK gene encodes a copper-transporting P-type ATPase, MNK, which is localized predominantly in the trans-Golgi network (TGN). The MNK protein relocates to the plasma membrane in cells exposed to elevated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Petris MJ,Strausak D,Mercer JF

更新日期：2000-11-22 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：:The FUS gene at 16p11 fuses with DDIT3 and ATF1 as the result of translocations with chromosome band 12q13 in myxoid liposarcoma and angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, respectively, and with ERG as the result of a t(16;21)(p11;q22) in acute myeloid leukemia. We here show that a t(7;16)(q33;p11) in two cases of low grad...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Storlazzi CT,Mertens F,Nascimento A,Isaksson M,Wejde J,Brosjo O,Mandahl N,Panagopoulos I

更新日期：2003-09-15 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：:SPEG, a member of the myosin light chain kinase family, is localized at the level of triad surrounding myofibrils in skeletal muscles. In humans, SPEG mutations are associated with centronuclear myopathy and cardiomyopathy. Using a striated muscle specific Speg-knockout (KO) mouse model, we have previously shown that ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Luo S,Li Q,Lin J,Murphy Q,Marty I,Zhang Y,Kazerounian S,Agrawal PB

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR, aganglionic megacolon) is a frequent congenital malformation regarded as a multigenic neurocristopathy. Two susceptibility genes have been recently identified in HSCR, namely the RET proto-oncogene and the endothelin B receptor (EDNRB) gene. Hitherto however, homozygosity for EDNRB mutation...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Amiel J,Attié T,Jan D,Pelet A,Edery P,Bidaud C,Lacombe D,Tam P,Simeoni J,Flori E,Nihoul-Fékété C,Munnich A,Lyonnet S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy holds great promise for curing Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common fatal inherited childhood muscle disease. Success of DMD gene therapy depends upon functional improvement in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Numerous gene transfer studies have been performed to correct skeletal muscle pat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yue Y,Skimming JW,Liu M,Strawn T,Duan D

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spliceosomal Uridine-rich small ribonucleo protein (U snRNP) assembly is an active process mediated by the macromolecular survival motor neuron (SMN) complex. This complex contains the SMN protein and six additional proteins, named Gemin2-7, according to their localization to nuclear structures termed gems. Here, we p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grimmler M,Otter S,Peter C,Müller F,Chari A,Fischer U

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The congenital malformation split hand/foot (SHFM) is characterized by missing central fingers and dysmorphology or fusion of the remaining ones. Type-1 SHFM is linked to deletions/rearrangements of the DLX5-DLX6 locus and point mutations in the DLX5 gene. The ectrodactyly phenotype is reproduced in mice by the double...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Conte D,Garaffo G,Lo Iacono N,Mantero S,Piccolo S,Cordenonsi M,Perez-Morga D,Orecchia V,Poli V,Merlo GR

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) belongs to a group of genetically and clinically heterogeneous disorders in retinal vascular development. To date, in approximately 50% of patients with FEVR, pathogenic mutations have been detected in FZD4, LRP5, TSPAN12, NDP and ZNF408. In this study, we identified two het...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wu JH,Liu JH,Ko YC,Wang CT,Chung YC,Chu KC,Liu TT,Chao HM,Jiang YJ,Chen SJ,Chung MY

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a large Danish family of seven generations in which autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP), a heterogeneous genetic form of retinal dystrophy, was segregating. After linkage had been excluded to all known adRP loci on chromosomes 3q, 6p, 7p, 7q, 8q, 17p, 17q and 19q, a genome screening was performed...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Xu SY,Schwartz M,Rosenberg T,Gal A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00