SPEG-deficient skeletal muscles exhibit abnormal triad and defective calcium handling.

abstract：:We recently reported that mutations in the widely expressed nuclear protein TOPORS (topoisomerase I-binding arginine/serine rich) are associated with autosomal dominant retinal degeneration. However, the precise localization and a functional role of TOPORS in the retina remain unknown. Here, we demonstrate that TOPORS...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chakarova CF,Khanna H,Shah AZ,Patil SB,Sedmak T,Murga-Zamalloa CA,Papaioannou MG,Nagel-Wolfrum K,Lopez I,Munro P,Cheetham M,Koenekoop RK,Rios RM,Matter K,Wolfrum U,Swaroop A,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Losing of ovarian functions prior to natural menopause age causes female infertility and early menopause. Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is defined as the loss of ovarian activity before 40 years of age. Known genetic causes account for 25-30% of POI cases, demonstrating the high genetic heterogeneity of POI an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chen Q,Ke H,Luo X,Wang L,Wu Y,Tang S,Li J,Jin L,Zhang F,Qin Y,Chen X

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic and germline mutations in PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) are found in sporadic cancers and Cowden syndrome patients, respectively. Recent identification of naturally occurring cancer and germline mutations within the ATP-binding motifs of PTEN (heretofore referred to as PTEN ATP...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： He X,Ni Y,Wang Y,Romigh T,Eng C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS; MIM #610883), characterized by neurobehavioral abnormalities, intellectual disability and congenital anomalies, is caused by a 3.7-Mb duplication in 17p11.2. Neurobehavioral studies determined that ∼70-90% of PTLS subjects tested positive for autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lacaria M,Spencer C,Gu W,Paylor R,Lupski JR

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CHD7 mutations are implicated in a majority of cases of the congenital disorder, CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE, an autosomal dominant syndrome, is known to affect multiple tissues including eye, heart, ear, craniofacial nerves and skeleton and genital organs. Using a morpholino-antisense-oligonucleotide-based zebrafish mode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Asad Z,Pandey A,Babu A,Sun Y,Shevade K,Kapoor S,Ullah I,Ranjan S,Scaria V,Bajpai R,Sachidanandan C

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the regulatory regions of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene modify the well-established epsilon4-associated risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Sequencing of the APOE gene regulatory regions revealed four previously reported promo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Belbin O,Dunn JL,Ling Y,Morgan L,Chappell S,Beaumont H,Warden D,Smith DA,Kalsheker N,Morgan K

更新日期：2007-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GM2 gangliosidoses are a group of lysosomal storage disorders which include Sandhoff disease and Tay-Sachs disease. Dysregulation of glutamate receptors has been recently postulated in the pathology of Sandhoff disease. Glutamate receptor association with neuronal pentraxins 1 and 2, and the neuronal pentraxin recepto...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hooper AWM,Alamilla JF,Venier RE,Gillespie DC,Igdoura SA

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia (FSP) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder displaying anticipation for which three loci have been mapped to the chromosomal positions 14q11.2-q24.3 (SPG3), 2p21-p24 (SPG4) and 15q11.1 (SPG6). The repeat expansion detection (RED) method has been used t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Benson KF,Horwitz M,Wolff J,Friend K,Thompson E,White S,Richards RI,Raskind WH,Bird TD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17p13.3 microduplication syndrome is a newly identified genetic disorder characterized by duplications in the 17p13.3 chromosome locus, resulting in a variety of disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Importantly, a minimum duplication region has been defined, and this region exclusively contains the gene...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cornell B,Wachi T,Zhukarev V,Toyo-Oka K

更新日期：2016-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:FMR1 protein expression was studied in different tissues. In human, monkey and murine tissues, high molecular mass FMR1 proteins (67-80 kDa) are found, as shown in lymphoblastoid cells lines. The identity of these proteins was confirmed by their absence in tissues from patients with the fragile X syndrome and a FMR1 k...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verheij C,de Graaff E,Bakker CE,Willemsen R,Willems PJ,Meijer N,Galjaard H,Reuser AJ,Oostra BA,Hoogeveen AT

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a fatal, dominant neurodegenerative disorder. MJD results from polyglutamine repeat expansion in the MJD-1 gene, conferring a toxic gain of function to the ataxin-3 protein. In this study, we aimed at overexpressing ataxin-3 in the rat brain using lentiviral vectors (LV), to generate an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Alves S,Régulier E,Nascimento-Ferreira I,Hassig R,Dufour N,Koeppen A,Carvalho AL,Simões S,de Lima MC,Brouillet E,Gould VC,Déglon N,de Almeida LP

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C disease (NP-C) is a progressive lysosomal lipid storage disease caused by mutations in the NPC1 and NPC2 genes. NPC1 is essential for transporting cholesterol and other lipids out of lysosomes, but little is known about the mechanisms that control its cellular abundance and localization. Here we sh...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ebrahimi-Fakhari D,Wahlster L,Bartz F,Werenbeck-Ueding J,Praggastis M,Zhang J,Joggerst-Thomalla B,Theiss S,Grimm D,Ory DS,Runz H

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations of the X-chromosome gene UPF3B cause male neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) via largely unknown mechanisms. We investigated initially by interrogating a novel synonymous UPF3B variant in a male with absent speech. In silico and functional studies using cell lines derived from this individu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Domingo D,Nawaz U,Corbett M,Espinoza JL,Tatton-Brown K,Coman D,Wilkinson MF,Gecz J,Jolly LA

更新日期：2020-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine diseases are a family of nine neurodegenerative disorders caused by expansion in different genes of a CAG triplet repeat stretch, which encodes an elongated polyglutamine tract. This polyglutamine tract is thought to confer a toxic gain of function to the bearing proteins, which leads to late onset and p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pennuto M,Palazzolo I,Poletti A

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the GLA gene coding for α-galactosidase A (α-GalA). The deleterious mutations lead to accumulation of α-GalA substrates, including globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and globotriaosylsphingosine. Progressive glycolipid storage results in cellular ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Welford RWD,Mühlemann A,Garzotti M,Rickert V,Groenen PMA,Morand O,Üçeyler N,Probst MR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence indicates that excess brain cholesterol regulates amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, which in turn can regulate cholesterol homeostasis. Moreover, Aβ neurotoxicity is potentiated, in part, by mitochondrial glutathione (mGSH) depletion. To better understand the relationship between alterations in cholesterol h...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barbero-Camps E,Fernández A,Martínez L,Fernández-Checa JC,Colell A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells are the myelinating glia of the peripheral nervous system and dysfunction of these cells causes motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy. The transcription factor SOX10 is critical for Schwann cell development and maintenance, and many SOX10 target genes encode proteins required for Schwann cell function....

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fogarty EA,Brewer MH,Rodriguez-Molina JF,Law WD,Ma KH,Steinberg NM,Svaren J,Antonellis A

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of CAG.CTG trinucleotide repeats has been associated with an increasing number of human diseases. Once into the expanded disease-associated range, the repeats become dramatically unstable in the germline and also throughout the soma. Instability is expansion-biased, contributing towards the unusual genet...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gomes-Pereira M,Fortune MT,Monckton DG

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with cardiomyopathy, is caused by severely reduced frataxin, a mitochondrial protein involved in Fe-S cluster assembly. We have recently generated mouse models that reproduce important progressive pathological and biochemical features of the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seznec H,Simon D,Monassier L,Criqui-Filipe P,Gansmuller A,Rustin P,Koenig M,Puccio H

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal storage diseases are due to inherited deficiencies in various enzymes involved in basic metabolic processes. As with other genetic diseases, accurate structure data for these enzymatic proteins should help in better understanding the molecular effects of mutations identified in patients with the correspondin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Durand P,Fabrega S,Henrissat B,Mornon JP,Lehn P

更新日期：2000-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type (CNF or NPHS1) is an autosomal recessive kidney disorder resulting in severe proteinurea and renal dysfunction. Although the disease occurs predominantly in the Finnish population, many cases in other populations have also been reported. The disease gene (NPHS1) encode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu L,Doné SC,Khoshnoodi J,Bertorello A,Wartiovaara J,Berggren PO,Tryggvason K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy, an adaptive process that responds to increased wall stress, is characterized by the enlargement of cardiomyocytes and structural remodeling. It is stimulated by various growth signals, of which the mTORC1 pathway is a well-recognized source. Here, we show that loss of Flcn, a novel AMPK-mTOR inter...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hasumi Y,Baba M,Hasumi H,Huang Y,Lang M,Reindorf R,Oh HB,Sciarretta S,Nagashima K,Haines DC,Schneider MD,Adelstein RS,Schmidt LS,Sadoshima J,Marston Linehan W

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal inherited neurological disease caused by a CAG-repeat expansion in the first exon of huntingtin gene encoding for the huntingtin protein (Htt). In HD, there is an accumulation of intracellular aggregates of mutant Htt that negatively influence cellular functions. The aggregate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hyrskyluoto A,Bruelle C,Lundh SH,Do HT,Kivinen J,Rappou E,Reijonen S,Waltimo T,Petersén Å,Lindholm D,Korhonen L

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene's transcriptional output is the combined product of two inputs: diffusible factors in the cellular milieu acting in trans, and chromatin state acting in cis. Here, we describe a strategy for dissecting the relative contribution of cis versus trans mechanisms to gene regulation. Referred to as trans complementat...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee JH,Bugarija B,Millan EJ,Walton NM,Gaetz J,Fernandes CJ,Yu WH,Mekel-Bobrov N,Vallender TW,Snyder GE,Xiang AP,Lahn BT

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelsolin amyloidosis is a dominantly inherited, incurable type of amyloidosis. A single point mutation in the gelsolin gene (G654A is most common) results in the loss of a Ca2+  binding site in the second gelsolin domain. Consequently, this domain partly unfolds and exposes an otherwise buried furin cleavage site at t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verhelle A,Nair N,Everaert I,Van Overbeke W,Supply L,Zwaenepoel O,Peleman C,Van Dorpe J,Lahoutte T,Devoogdt N,Derave W,Chuah MK,VandenDriessche T,Gettemans J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow channel congenital myasthenic syndrome (SCCMS) is a disorder of the neuromuscular synapse caused by dominantly inherited missense mutations in genes that encode the muscle acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subunits. Here we investigate the potential of post-transcriptional gene silencing using RNA interference (RNAi)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Abdelgany A,Wood M,Beeson D

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CUL4A and CUL4B are closely related cullin family members and can each assemble a Cullin-RING E3 ligase complex (CRL) and participate in a variety of biological processes. While the CRLs formed by the two cullin members may have common targets, the two appeared to have very different consequences when mutated or disru...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhao X,Jiang B,Hu H,Mao F,Mi J,Li Z,Liu Q,Shao C,Gong Y

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomization procedure to evaluate the significance level and the false-discovery rate in complex microarray experiments is proposed. A related graph can be used to compare different test statistics that can be used to analyze the same experiment. This graph is closely related to receiver operator characteristic (R...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kooperberg C,Sipione S,LeBlanc M,Strand AD,Cattaneo E,Olson JM

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of thymidine kinase 2 (TK2) is a frequent cause of isolated myopathy or encephalomyopathy in children with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion. To determine the bases of disease onset, organ specificity and severity of TK2 deficiency, we have carefully characterized Tk2 H126N knockin mice (Tk2-/-). Although...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dorado B,Area E,Akman HO,Hirano M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00