Prenatal diagnosis in Becker muscular dystrophy.

abstract：:Serum-trypsin-inhibitory-capacity (STIC) and alpha1-antitrypsin (AAT) genotypes were evaluated in 83 twins and 112 paired parents-of-twins. An increased prevalence (17.0--21.9%) of intermediate AAT deficiency (STIC less than 0.95 units/ml) was detected in both of these groups as compared to a prevalence of 4.1% in 1,8...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lieberman J,Borhani NO,Feinleib M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitric oxide synthase (NOS) gene is thought to be associated with essential hypertension (EH), because NO is implicated in endothelium-mediated vasodilation. We investigated the possible association between the alleles of simple tandem repeat DNA polymorphism of the endothelial constitutive NOS (cNOS) gene and EH ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nakayama T,Soma M,Takahashi Y,Izumi Y,Kanmatsuse K,Esumi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus occurs in growth-retarded infants, has an incidence of 1 in 400000 live births and has been associated with both paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 and paternal duplications of 6q. We analysed samples from our cohort of patients with transient neonatal diabetes mellitus fo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gardner RJ,Robinson DO,Lamont L,Shield JP,Temple IK

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apoB) signal peptide (sp) polymorphism was characterized by polymerase chain reaction in blood samples of 58 coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and 319 control individuals of Chinese Han ethnic origin in Taiwan. In the CAD group, 77% of the observed alleles were sp27 (sp with 27 amino acids), and...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wu JH,Wen MS,Lo SK,Chern MS

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-six percent of the at-risk persons and 74% of the partners in a large survey in Belgium have the intention of making use of predictive testing for Huntington's disease. One third of them, however, have expressed the intention of postponing the final decision for various reasons. The intention to be tested is not...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Evers-Kiebooms G,Swerts A,Cassiman JJ,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 patients with Angelman syndrome (AS) due to paternal uniparental disomy (UPD). One patient is a female aged 30 years and the other a male aged 4 1/2 years. Both have the characteristic wide mouth and big chin, moderate mental retardation, virtually no speech but some 30 words of sign language and a happy...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Smith A,Robson L,Buchholz B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate whether the CF carrier status has any lasting effect on anxiety and on self-concept at least 1 year after the disclosure of the test result, an in-depth interview and additional psychological tests were administered in a group of adults who participated in a previous study which suggested a slight stigmati...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Denayer L,Welkenhuysen M,Evers-Kiebooms G,Cassiman JJ,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of more stringent diagnostic criteria, it has recently been shown that some large pedigrees of Alport's and non-Alport's hereditary nephritis fit sex-linked dominant inheritance (O'Neill et al. 1978). We have used similar diagnostic criteria and have studied a number of Michigan pedigrees in order to see ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Evans SH,Erickson RP,Kelsch R,Peirce JC

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acrocephalosyndactylies (ACS) are a group of inherited disorders characterized by premature fusion of cranial sutures in association with abnormalities of the hands and feet. Based on their clinical features, different types of ACS have been described. We here report on a family with 9 individuals affected with AC...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Niemann-Seyde SC,Eber SW,Zoll B

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Mental retardation affects 1-3% of the general population, and the genetic causes in many cases are unknown. Cytogenetically undetected chromosomal imbalances have been indicated as an explanation. Nowadays, due to the development of molecular cytogenetic techniques, it is possible to identify cryptic rearrangements i...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rodriguez-Revenga L,Badenas C,Sánchez A,Mallolas J,Carrió A,Pedrinaci S,Barrionuevo JL,Milà M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated cleft palate (CP) is considered to be a heterogeneous trait with an important genetic contribution to the etiology. Multifactorial-threshold models of non-syndromic CP inheritance assume a female predominance. The present study of 52 Danish birth cohorts, using several ascertainment sources, identified 2301 C...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Christensen K,Fogh-Andersen P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with deletions of the terminal portion of the long arm of chromosome 2 [del (2) (q37)] are described and their clinical findings compared to published cases of 2q terminal deletions. Common clinical findings include development delay, macrocephaly, frontal bossing, depressed nasal bridge and cardiac ano...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Conrad B,Dewald G,Christensen E,Lopez M,Higgins J,Pierpont ME

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 15 surface measurements taken directly from the craniofacial region were determined in 51 patients with Waardenburg syndrome type I (WSI). A roentgencephamometric analysis including 20 linear dimensions was also performed by the use of cephalograms of 28 patients. Pairs between patients and controls of the sa...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： da-Silva EO,Batista JE,Medeiros MA,Fonteles SM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 children with Down syndrome (DS), the parental origin of the supernumery chromosome 21 was investigated. In 76 out of the 100 cases the polymorphic regions were informative, i.e. the nondisjunction could be traced. Assessment of the alpha 1-antitrypsin/alpha 1-protease inhibitor (PI) types in these DS children ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jongbloet PH,Frants RR,Hamers AJ

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An MYH2 mutation p.(Glu706Lys) was originally described in a family with autosomal dominant inheritance, where the affected family members presented with multiple congenital contractures and ophthalmoplegia, progressing to a proximal myopathy in adulthood. Another patient with a dominant mutation p.(Leu1870Pro) was de...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cabrera-Serrano M,Fabian VA,Boutilier J,Wise C,Faiz F,Lamont PJ,Laing NG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a female patient with a clinical picture of gonadal dysgenesis and the chromosome constitution with a monocentric isochromosome of one X and a marker chromosome 21 with deleted short arm. The proband's father and other members of the family suffered from Huntington's chorea and each of them possess...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gaál M,Tóth A,Bösze P,László J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85). 1/130 boys studied (0.8%) had the fragile site at Xq27.3 while it was not found in any girl (0/110). In two children an autosomal rare fragile site at 2q11.2 (2/240, 0.8%) was seen. In addition ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kähkönen M,Leisti J,Thoden CJ,Autio S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the genes FBN1, TGFBR1, and TGFBR2 can result in heritable connective tissue disorders comprising the Marfan syndrome and the Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Dural ectasia is a characteristic manifestation of both syndromes. However, dural ectasia has not yet been investigated in connective tissue disorders that ar...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sheikhzadeh S,Rybczynski M,Habermann CR,Bernhardt AM,Arslan-Kirchner M,Keyser B,Kaemmerer H,Mir TS,Staebler A,Oezdal N,Robinson PN,Berger J,Meinertz T,von Kodolitsch Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-exome sequencing (WES) has transformed our ability to detect mutations causing rare diseases. FORGE (Finding Of Rare disease GEnes) and Care4Rare Canada are nation-wide projects focused on identifying disease genes using WES and translating this technology to patient care. Rare forms of epilepsy are well-suited ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dyment DA,Tétreault M,Beaulieu CL,Hartley T,Ferreira P,Chardon JW,Marcadier J,Sawyer SL,Mosca SJ,Innes AM,Parboosingh JS,Bulman DE,Schwartzentruber J,Majewski J,Tarnopolsky M,Boycott KM,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Care4Rar

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial disorders (MDs) are caused by defects in 1 or multiple complexes of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) machinery. MDs are associated with a broad range of clinical signs and symptoms, and have considerable clinical overlap with other neuromuscular syndromes. This overlap might be due to involvement o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Panneman DM,Smeitink JA,Rodenburg RJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the most frequent sensorineural disorder affecting 1 in 1000 newborns. In more than half of these babies, the hearing loss is inherited. Hereditary hearing loss is a very heterogeneous trait with about 100 gene localizations and 44 gene identifications for non-syndromic hearing loss. Transmembrane chan...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hilgert N,Alasti F,Dieltjens N,Pawlik B,Wollnik B,Uyguner O,Delmaghani S,Weil D,Petit C,Danis E,Yang T,Pandelia E,Petersen MB,Goossens D,Favero JD,Sanati MH,Smith RJ,Van Camp G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is an important genetic trait associated with cardiovascular disease. While Lp(a) levels have been demonstrated to be approximately twice as high in black adults and children compared with whites, this relationship has not been assessed in the elderly. During the 1987 recall of the Charleston He...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Knapp RG,Schreiner PJ,Sutherland SE,Keil JE,Gilbert GE,Klein RL,Hames C,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is reported with an autosomal dominant inherited syndrome presenting some of the typical features of the tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome type II (TRP II) or Langer-Giedion syndrome. The critical region for the expression of the syndrome seems to be at band 8q24.1. In the affected members of the family report...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shabtai F,Sandowski U,Nissimov R,Klar D,Halbrecht I

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the role of three polymorphic genes of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) as independent risk factors for myocardial infarction (MI) and their correlation with three of the major coronary risk factors: serum cholesterol (CH), hypertension (HT) and smoking (SM). A population of 392 men was genotyped for...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fernández-Arcás N,Dieguez-Lucena JL,Muñoz-Morán E,Ruiz-Galdón M,Espinosa-Caliani S,Aranda-Lara P,Rius-Diaz F,Gaitán-Arroyo MJ,De Teresa-Galván E,Reyes-Engel A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP), a peroxisomal disorder, is considered to be a lethal neonatal autosomal recessive chondrodysplasia. We report five patients, three of whom survived beyond 1 year, and we summarize the findings in 21 patients from a literature review who survived beyond 1 year. In those pati...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wardinsky TD,Pagon RA,Powell BR,McGillivray B,Stephan M,Zonana J,Moser A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear growth failure can be caused by many different genetic abnormalities. In many cases, the genetic defect affects not only the growth plate, causing short stature but also other organs/tissues causing additional clinical abnormalities. A 10-year old boy was evaluated for impaired postnatal linear growth (height 1...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jee YH,Sowada N,Markello TC,Rezvani I,Borck G,Baron J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) constitute a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders. The transglutaminase 6 (TGM6) gene was recently suggested as a SCA causative gene in Chinese SCA families. In this study, two affected members of a three-generation Chinese family with SCA characterized by progres...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Li M,Pang SY,Song Y,Kung MH,Ho SL,Sham PC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split-hand/split-foot malformation (SHFM) is a severe form of congenital limb deformity characterized by the absence of 1 or more digits and/or variable degree of median clefts of hands and feet. The present study describes an investigation of a consanguineous family of Pakistani origin segregating SHFM in an autosoma...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Umair M,Ullah A,Abbas S,Ahmad F,Basit S,Ahmad W

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic mechanisms driving normal brain development remain largely unknown. We performed genomic and immunohistochemical characterization of a novel, fatal human phenotype including extreme microcephaly with cerebral growth arrest at 14-18 weeks gestation in three full sisters born to healthy, non-consanguineous p...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ramos EI,Bien-Willner GA,Li J,Hughes AE,Giacalone J,Chasnoff S,Kulkarni S,Parmacek M,Cole FS,Druley TE

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00