The biological impact of blood pressure-associated genetic variants in the natriuretic peptide receptor C gene on human vascular smooth muscle.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by both amyloid and Tau pathologies. The amyloid component and altered cholesterol metabolism are closely linked, but the relationship between Tau pathology and cholesterol is currently unclear. Brain cholesterol is synthesized in situ and cannot cross the blood-brain barrier:...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Burlot MA,Braudeau J,Michaelsen-Preusse K,Potier B,Ayciriex S,Varin J,Gautier B,Djelti F,Audrain M,Dauphinot L,Fernandez-Gomez FJ,Caillierez R,Laprévote O,Bièche I,Auzeil N,Potier MC,Dutar P,Korte M,Buée L,Blum D,

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cluster of imprinted genes on human chromosome 15q11-q13 (the PWS/AS domain) and its ortholog on mouse chromosome 7c is believed to be regulated by an imprinting control center. Although minideletions in this region in Angelman syndrome (AS) and Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) patients revealed that two elements, shorte...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kantor B,Makedonski K,Green-Finberg Y,Shemer R,Razin A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though heritability estimates suggest that the risk of asthma, hay fever and eczema is largely due to genetic factors, previous studies have not explained a large part of the genetics behind these diseases. In this genome-wide association study, we include 346 545 Caucasians from the UK Biobank to identify novel ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johansson Å,Rask-Andersen M,Karlsson T,Ek WE

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relationship between fragile sites, specific genomic regions visible as gaps or breaks on cultivated chromosomes, and human disease has been proposed many years ago. Evidence for a role of the ubiquitously expressed common fragile sites characterized by peculiar genome architecture in cancer has been accumulated ove...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Debacker K,Kooy RF

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relationship between the genotype and phenotype of adult CF patients we have selected from a group of 512 CF patients attending centres in France, all these of greater than 35 years. We have analysed the entire coding sequence of their CFTR genes. The complete genotype was determined in 7 of the 8 patien...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Férec C,Verlingue C,Guillermit H,Quéré I,Raguénès O,Feigelson J,Audrézet MP,Moullier P,Mercier B

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent extension (CE) is a fundamental morphogenetic mechanism that underlies numerous processes in vertebrate development, and its disruption can lead to human congenital disorders such as neural tube closure defects. The dynamic, oriented cell intercalation during CE is regulated by a group of core proteins iden...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seo HS,Habas R,Chang C,Wang J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment isolated from a human genomic library, was reported to be present at all human centromeres and present at 16-32 copies per genome. Reintroduction of this DNA into mammalian cells as a concatenated phage clone gave rise to dicentric chromosomes which gave rise to a new, stable, chromosome. Taken together...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McGill NI,Fantes J,Cooke H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency results in Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND), where affected individuals exhibit a characteristic neurobehavioral disorder that has been linked with dysfunction of dopaminergic pathways of the basal ganglia. Since the functions of HPRT, a housekeeping enzyme res...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ceballos-Picot I,Mockel L,Potier MC,Dauphinot L,Shirley TL,Torero-Ibad R,Fuchs J,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the powerhouses of the eukaryotic cell, mitochondria must maintain their genomes which encode proteins essential for energy production. Mitochondria are characterized by guanine-rich DNA sequences that spontaneously form unusual three-dimensional structures known as G-quadruplexes (G4). G4 structures can be problem...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Butler TJ,Estep KN,Sommers JA,Maul RW,Moore AZ,Bandinelli S,Cucca F,Tuke MA,Wood AR,Bharti SK,Bogenhagen DF,Yakubovskaya E,Garcia-Diaz M,Guilliam TA,Byrd AK,Raney KD,Doherty AJ,Ferrucci L,Schlessinger D,Ding J,Bro

更新日期：2020-05-28 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：:Missense mutations and extra copies of the alpha-Synuclein gene result in Parkinson disease (PD). Human stem and progenitor cells can be expanded from embryonic tissues and provide a source of non-transformed neural cells to explore the effects of these pathogenic mutations specifically in human nervous tissue. We ove...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schneider BL,Seehus CR,Capowski EE,Aebischer P,Zhang SC,Svendsen CN

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that results from the expansion of a cryptic CAG repeat within the exon 1 of the SCA2 gene. The CAG repeat in normal individuals varies in length from 14 to 31 repeats and is frequently interrupted by one or more CAA triplets, whereas ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Choudhry S,Mukerji M,Srivastava AK,Jain S,Brahmachari SK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sex chromosomes are thought to be descended from a homologous pair of autosomes: a testis-determining allele which defined the Y chromosome arose, recombination between the nascent X and Y chromosomes became restricted and the Y chromosome gradually lost its non-essential genetic functions. This model was or...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mitchell MJ,Wilcox SA,Watson JM,Lerner JL,Woods DR,Scheffler J,Hearn JP,Bishop CE,Graves JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Synuclein and mutant huntingtin are the major constituents of the intracellular aggregates that characterize the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD), respectively. α-Synuclein is likely to be a major contributor to PD, since overexpression of this protein resulting from genetic tripli...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Corrochano S,Renna M,Carter S,Chrobot N,Kent R,Stewart M,Cooper J,Brown SD,Rubinsztein DC,Acevedo-Arozena A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the most common form of inherited retinal degeneration, is clinically and genetically heterogeneous and can appear as syndromic or non-syndromic. Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIC (MPS IIIC) is a lethal disorder, caused by mutations in the heparan-alpha-glucosaminide N-acetyltransferase (HGSNA...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Haer-Wigman L,Newman H,Leibu R,Bax NM,Baris HN,Rizel L,Banin E,Massarweh A,Roosing S,Lefeber DJ,Zonneveld-Vrieling MN,Isakov O,Shomron N,Sharon D,Den Hollander AI,Hoyng CB,Cremers FP,Ben-Yosef T

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF) contains 27 coding exons and more than 300 independent mutations have been identified. An efficient and optimized strategy is required to identify additional mutations and/or to screen patient samples for the presence of known mutations. We have tested several different co...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ravnik-Glavac M,Glavac D,Dean M

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genetic variations in several genes encoding for synaptic adhesion proteins have been found to be associated with autism spectrum disorders, one of the most consistently replicated genes has been CNTNAP2, encoding for contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2), a multidomain transmembrane protein of the neu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Falivelli G,De Jaco A,Favaloro FL,Kim H,Wilson J,Dubi N,Ellisman MH,Abrahams BS,Taylor P,Comoletti D

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:The members of the huntingtin-interacting protein-1 (HIP1) family, HIP1 and HIP1-related (HIP1r), are multi-domain proteins that interact with inositol lipids, clathrin and actin. HIP1 is over-expressed in a variety of cancers and both HIP1 and HIP1r prolong the half-life of multiple growth factor receptors. To better...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bradley SV,Hyun TS,Oravecz-Wilson KI,Li L,Waldorff EI,Ermilov AN,Goldstein SA,Zhang CX,Drubin DG,Varela K,Parlow A,Dlugosz AA,Ross TS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haploinsufficiency of the single-minded homology 1 (SIM1) gene in humans and mice leads to severe obesity, suggesting that altered expression of SIM1, by way of regulatory elements such as enhancers, could predispose individuals to obesity. Here, we identified transcriptional enhancers that could regulate SIM1, using ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Oksenberg N,Hoffmann TJ,Vaisse C,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1). SMN-restoring therapies have recently emerged; however, preclinical and clinical studies revealed a limited therapeutic time window and systemic aspects of the disease. This raises a fundamental question of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Motyl AAL,Faller KME,Groen EJN,Kline RA,Eaton SL,Ledahawsky LM,Chaytow H,Lamont DJ,Wishart TM,Huang YT,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an X-linked motoneuron disease due to a CAG triplet-repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (AR) gene, which is translated into an elongated polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in AR protein (ARpolyQ). ARpolyQ toxicity is activated by the AR ligand testosterone (or dihydrotestost...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Giorgetti E,Rusmini P,Crippa V,Cristofani R,Boncoraglio A,Cicardi ME,Galbiati M,Poletti A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transcription map of the Huntington disease gene region was generated by a direct cDNA selection strategy using genomic DNA from the 4p16.3 region surrounding the D4S95 and D4S127 loci. A total of 58 cDNA fragments were obtained from cDNAs derived from fetal brain, frontal cortex, liver and bone marrow following hyb...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rommens JM,Lin B,Hutchinson GB,Andrew SE,Goldberg YP,Glaves ML,Graham R,Lai V,McArthur J,Nasir J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia associated with the high metabolic demand of rods has been implicated in the pathology of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of adult blindness in the developed world. The majority of AMD-associated severe vision loss cases are due to exudative AMD, characterized by neovascularizatio...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang L,Cui X,Han Y,Park KS,Gao X,Zhang X,Yuan Z,Hu Y,Hsu CW,Li X,Bassuk AG,Mahajan VB,Wang NK,Tsang SH

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While constructing a cDNA library of human embryos, we have isolated a clone homologous to jumonji, a mouse gene required for neural tube formation. We have determined the complete coding sequence of the human homologue (JMJ) and deduced the amino acid sequence of the putative protein. We show here that human and mous...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bergé-Lefranc JL,Jay P,Massacrier A,Cau P,Mattei MG,Bauer S,Marsollier C,Berta P,Fontes M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal common fragile sites (CFSs) are genetically unstable regions of the genome that are induced by conditions that impair DNA replication. In this report, we show that treatment with the DNA polymerase inhibitor, aphidicolin (APH), slows the replication rate throughout S phase. To investigate the unusual sensi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Palakodeti A,Lucas I,Jiang Y,Young DJ,Fernald AA,Karrison T,Le Beau MM

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Actinic keratosis (AK) is a pre-malignant skin disease, highly prevalent in elderly Europeans. This study investigates genetic susceptibility to AK with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). A full body skin examination was performed in 3194 elderly individuals from the Rotterdam Study (RS) of exclusive north-wester...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobs LC,Liu F,Pardo LM,Hofman A,Uitterlinden AG,Kayser M,Nijsten T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peak bone mass achieved in adolescence is a determinant of bone mass in later life. In order to identify genetic variants affecting bone mineral density (BMD), we performed a genome-wide association study of BMD and related traits in 1518 children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). We c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Timpson NJ,Tobias JH,Richards JB,Soranzo N,Duncan EL,Sims AM,Whittaker P,Kumanduri V,Zhai G,Glaser B,Eisman J,Jones G,Nicholson G,Prince R,Seeman E,Spector TD,Brown MA,Peltonen L,Smith GD,Deloukas P,Evans DM

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromas are one of the most characteristic features of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), an inherited autosomal-dominant neurogenetic disorder affecting 1 in 3500 individuals worldwide. These benign tumors mainly consist of Schwann cells (SCs) and fibroblasts. Recent evidence demonstrates that somatic mutations at...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Serra E,Rosenbaum T,Winner U,Aledo R,Ars E,Estivill X,Lenard HG,Lázaro C

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00