Behavioral abnormalities are common and severe in patients with distal 22q11.2 microdeletions and microduplications.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biallelic pathogenic variants in CBS gene cause the most common form of homocystinuria, the classical homocystinuria (HCU). The worldwide prevalence of HCU is estimated to be 0.82:100,000 [95% CI, 0.39-1.73:100,000] according to clinical records and 1.09:100,000 [95% CI, 0.34-3.55:100,000] by neonatal screen...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Weber Hoss GR,Sperb-Ludwig F,Schwartz IVD,Blom HJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The deletion of the distal 7q region is a rare chromosomal syndrome characterized by wide phenotypic manifestations including growth and psychomotor delay, facial dysmorphisms, and genitourinary malformations. METHODS:We describe a 6-year-old child with a 12-Mb deletion of the region 7q35q36.3. RESULTS:Amo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Di Stolfo G,Accadia M,Mastroianno S,Leone MP,Palumbo O,Palumbo P,Potenza D,Maccarone P,Sacco M,Russo A,Carella M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isolated cardiac arrhythmia due to a variant in CACNA1C is of recent knowledge. Most reports have been of singleton cases or of quite small families, and estimates of penetrance and expressivity have been difficult to obtain. We here describe a large pedigree, from which such estimates have been calculated. ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Gardner RJM,Crozier IG,Binfield AL,Love DR,Lehnert K,Gibson K,Lintott CJ,Snell RG,Jacobsen JC,Jones PP,Waddell-Smith KE,Kennedy MA,Skinner JR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:22q11 deletion syndrome (22qDS) is caused by deletion of chromosome region 22q11.2. However, mosaic cases with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) are rarely reported. METHODS:Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) and fluorescence in situ hybridization fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were perfor...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Chen W,Li X,Sun L,Sheng W,Huang G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fanconi anemia (FA) affects only one in 130,000 births, but has severe and diverse clinical consequences. It has been theorized that defects in the FA DNA cross-link repair complex lead to a spectrum of variants that are responsible for those diverse clinical phenotypes. METHODS:Using NextGen sequencing, we...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Velmurugan KR,Michalak P,Kang L,Fonville NC,Garner HR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic providers face the challenge of having adequate time to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (hEDS) syndrome has a complex array of symptoms. An initial visit can involve approximately 60-80 min and an additional 45 min for the check-in and checkout process. We propose a mode...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Prakash P,Eble TN,Dhar SU

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCLP) is a common birth defect affecting 135,000 newborns worldwide each year. While a multifactorial etiology has been suggested as the cause, despite decades of research, the genetic underpinnings of NSCLP remain largely unexplained. In our previous genome-wide l...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Cvjetkovic N,Maili L,Weymouth KS,Hashmi SS,Mulliken JB,Topczewski J,Letra A,Yuan Q,Blanton SH,Swindell EC,Hecht JT

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alport syndrome is a progressive hereditary kidney disease clinically presenting with haematuria, proteinuria, and early onset end-stage renal disease, and often accompanied by hearing loss and ocular abnormalities. The inheritance is X-linked in the majority of families and caused by sequence variants in th...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Helle OMB,Pedersen TH,Ousager LB,Thomassen M,Hertz JM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia can lead to adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. There are few studies on the genetic factors associated with preeclampsia in Africa in general and in Sudan in specific. METHODS:A case-control study (60 women in each arm) was conducted at Saad Abualila Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, from Marc...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Hamid HM,Abdalla SE,Sidig M,Adam I,Hamdan HZ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medulloblastomas (MBs) are a heterogeneous group of childhood brain tumors with four consensus subgroups, namely MBSHH , MBWNT , MBGroup 3 , and MBGroup 4 , representing the second most common type of pediatric brain cancer after high-grade gliomas. They suffer from a high prevalence of genetic predispositio...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Tolonen JP,Hekkala A,Kuismin O,Tuominen H,Suo-Palosaari M,Tynninen O,Niinimäki R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary myosin myopathies are a group of rare muscle disorders, caused by mutations in genes encoding for skeletal myosin heavy chains (MyHCs). MyHCIIa is encoded by MYH2 and is expressed in fast type 2A and 2B muscle fibers. MYH2 mutations are responsible for an autosomal dominant (AD) progressive myopat...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Telese R,Pagliarani S,Lerario A,Ciscato P,Fagiolari G,Cassandrini D,Grimoldi N,Conte G,Cinnante C,Santorelli FM,Comi GP,Sciacco M,Peverelli L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a congenital neurodevelopmental disorder manifesting as small brain and intellectual disability. It underlies isolated reduction of the cerebral cortex that is reminiscent of early hominids which makes it suitable model disease to study the hominin-specific volumetric expansion...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Rasool S,Baig JM,Moawia A,Ahmad I,Iqbal M,Waseem SS,Asif M,Abdullah U,Makhdoom EUH,Kaygusuz E,Zakaria M,Ramzan S,Haque SU,Mir A,Anjum I,Fiaz M,Ali Z,Tariq M,Saba N,Hussain W,Budde B,Irshad S,Noegel AA,Höning

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) has high fatality and permanent disability rates due to the severe damage to brain cells and inflammation. The SERPINE1 gene that encodes PAI-1 for the regulation of tissue plasminogen activator is considered an important therapeutic target for aSAH. METHODS:Six SNP...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Lin M,Griessenauer CJ,Starke RM,Tubbs RS,Shoja MM,Foreman PM,Vyas NA,Walters BC,Harrigan MR,Hendrix P,Fisher WS,Pittet JF,Mathru M,Lipsky RH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim (ZTTK, OMIM# 617140) syndrome is a rare, autosomal dominant genetic disorder caused by heterozygous variants in the SON gene (OMIM#182465, GenBank#NC_000021.9). There are only 33 cases and 26 causative SON variants reported to date since the first report in 2015. Here, we report a n...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Yang L,Yang F

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare genetic disorder caused by functional impairment of cilia throughout the body. The involvement of copy number variation (CNV) in the development of PCD is largely unknown. METHODS:We examined 93 Japanese patients with clinically suspected PCD from 84 unrelated fami...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Takeuchi K,Xu Y,Kitano M,Chiyonobu K,Abo M,Ikegami K,Ogawa S,Ikejiri M,Kondo M,Gotoh S,Nagao M,Fujisawa T,Nakatani K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) caused by variants in DNAJC12 was reported and this suggested a new strategy for diagnosis. But DNAJC12-associated HPA is a rare in Chinese population so far. METHODS:The clinical information and blood samples from the patient and his family members were collected and an...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Li M,Yang Q,Yi S,Qin Z,Luo J,Fan X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the impact genomics has on the health and readiness of the military service member, highlight several examples of the current and future plans for genomic medicine within the military, discuss challenges to implementation and provide recommendations to address some of those challenges. ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： De Castro MJ,Turner CE

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS, MIM #243800) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, nasal wing hypoplasia, hypodontia, and other abnormalities. JBS is caused by mutations of the UBR1 gene (MIM *605981), encoding a ubiquitin ligase of the N-end rule pa...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Sukalo M,Schäflein E,Schanze I,Everman DB,Rezaei N,Argente J,Lorda-Sanchez I,Deshpande C,Takahashi T,Kleger A,Zenker M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin resistance (IR), known to reduce the response to insulin action, develops with obesity leading to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The PC-1 gene has been associated with dyslipidemia, polycystic ovarian disease and T2DM in different regions of the world. The objective of the present study was to inve...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Albegali AA,Shahzad M,Ullah MI,Mahmood S,Rashid M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the availability of raw DNA generated from direct-to-consumer (DTC) testing companies, there has been a proliferation of third-party online services that are available to interpret the raw data for both genealogy and/or health purposes. This study examines the current landscape and downstream clinical i...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Wang C,Cahill TJ,Parlato A,Wertz B,Zhong Q,Cunningham TN,Cummings JJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NIPAL4 gene is described to be implicated of Congenital Ichthyosiform Erythroderma (CIE). It encodes a magnesium transporter membrane-associated protein, hypothetically involved in epidermal lipid processing and in lamellar body formation. The aim of this work is to investigate the causative mutation in ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Laadhar S,Ben Mansour R,Marrakchi S,Miled N,Ennouri M,Fischer J,Kaddechi MA,Turki H,Fakhfakh F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrated chromosome, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) analyses have been effective in defining unbalanced chromosomal rearrangements. Discordant chromosome and aCGH results are rarely reported. METHODS:Routine cytogenomic analyses and literature ...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Chai H,Grommisch B,DiAdamo A,Wen J,Hui P,Li P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impairment of the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) causes elevation of phenylalanine levels in blood and other body fluids resulting in the most common inborn error of amino acid metabolism (phenylketonuria). Persistently high levels of phenylalanine lead to irreversible damage to the nervo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ferreira F,Azevedo L,Neiva R,Sousa C,Fonseca H,Marcão A,Rocha H,Carmona C,Ramos S,Bandeira A,Martins E,Campos T,Rodrigues E,Garcia P,Diogo L,Ferreira AC,Sequeira S,Silva F,Rodrigues L,Gaspar A,Janeiro P,Amorim A

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess clinical chromosomal microarray (CMA) genomic testing reports for the following: (a) usage of reporting elements consistent with 2011 ACMG guidelines and other elements identified in the primary literature, (b) information quality, and (c) readability. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed genomic test...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Davis KW,Hamby Erby L,Fiallos K,Martin M,Wassman ER

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis is the most common malignant disease in the world. The disease is caused by changes in the metabolism, the structure and function of multiple joints, and joint tissues. Sumac is one of the indigenous plants of Iran and has traditionally been used as a spice in Iran. The aim of this study was t...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Momeni A,Maghsoodi H,Rezapour S,Shiravand M,Mardani M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT) is a key enzyme in galactose metabolism, particularly important in the neonatal period due to ingestion of galactose-containing milk. GALT deficiency results in the genetic disorder classic galactosemia, whose pathophysiology is still not fully elucidated. Whereas class...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Coelho AI,Trabuco M,Ramos R,Silva MJ,Tavares de Almeida I,Leandro P,Rivera I,Vicente JB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definitive diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria (PH) currently utilizes sequential Sanger sequencing of the AGXT, GRPHR, and HOGA1 genes but efficacy is unproven. This analysis is time-consuming, relatively expensive, and delays in diagnosis and inappropriate treatment can occur if not pursued early in the diagnostic wo...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Williams EL,Bagg EA,Mueller M,Vandrovcova J,Aitman TJ,Rumsby G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNA-33a (miR-33a) plays the role of the tumor suppressor gene by regulating the expression level of downstream genes. However, the effects of miR-33a in renal cell cancer (RCC) remain unknown. Our study was designed to investigate the expression level and potential function of miR-33a in RCC. METHODS:R...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Jiang K,Sun F,Zhu J,Luo G,Ban Y,Zhang P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Senior-Loken syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that presents with nephronophthisis and retinal degeneration, leading to end-stage renal disease and progressive blindness. The most frequent cause of juvenile nephronophthisis is a mutation in the nephronophthisis type 1 (NPHP1) gene. NPHP1 encodes the protei...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Ning K,Song E,Sendayen BE,Prosseda PP,Chang KC,Ghaffarieh A,Alvarado JA,Wang B,Haider KM,Berbari NF,Hu Y,Sun Y

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CYP1B1 variants and deletions are the most common cause of primary congenital glaucoma (PCG). METHODS:We investigated an individual with PCG from the Australian and New Zealand Registry of Advanced Glaucoma. We performed sequencing of the CYP1B1 gene, followed by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplifica...

journal_title：Molecular genetics & genomic medicine

authors： Souzeau E,Dubowsky A,Ruddle JB,Craig JE

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00