A mutation affecting polycystin-1 mediated heterotrimeric G-protein signaling causes PKD.

abstract：:We studied the association between common haplotypes in six relevant lipid metabolism genes with plasma lipid levels. We selected single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), hepatic triglyceride lipase (HL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol rece...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knoblauch H,Bauerfeind A,Krähenbühl C,Daury A,Rohde K,Bejanin S,Essioux L,Schuster H,Luft FC,Reich JG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centronuclear myopathies (CNM) are a subtype of congenital myopathies (CM) characterized by skeletal muscle weakness and an increase in the number of central myonuclei. We have previously identified three CNM probands, two with associated dilated cardiomyopathy, carrying striated preferentially expressed gene (SPEG) m...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Huntoon V,Widrick JJ,Sanchez C,Rosen SM,Kutchukian C,Cao S,Pierson CR,Liu X,Perrella MA,Beggs AH,Jacquemond V,Agrawal PB

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a serious complication frequently encountered in neurodegenerative disorders. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) is a devastating childhood neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder caused by palmitoyl-protein thioesterase-1 (PPT1) deficiency. It remains u...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Saha A,Sarkar C,Singh SP,Zhang Z,Munasinghe J,Peng S,Chandra G,Kong E,Mukherjee AB

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in gigaxonin were identified in giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), an autosomal recessive disorder. To understand how disruption of gigaxonin's function leads to neurodegeneration, we ablated the gene expression in mice using traditional gene targeting approach. Progressive neurological phenotypes and pathologic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ding J,Allen E,Wang W,Valle A,Wu C,Nardine T,Cui B,Yi J,Taylor A,Jeon NL,Chu S,So Y,Vogel H,Tolwani R,Mobley W,Yang Y

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is an essential messenger of sexual differentiation in the foetus and is an emerging biomarker of postnatal reproductive function in females. Due to a paucity of adequately sized studies, the genetic determinants of circulating AMH levels are poorly characterized. In samples from 2815 adol...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Perry JR,McMahon G,Day FR,Ring SM,Nelson SM,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast cancer gene, BRCA2, is essential for viability, yet patients with Fanconi anemia-D1 subtype are born alive with biallelic mutations in this gene. The hypomorphic nature of the mutations is believed to support viability, but this is not always apparent. One such mutation is IVS7+2T>G, which causes premature ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thirthagiri E,Klarmann KD,Shukla AK,Southon E,Biswas K,Martin BK,North SL,Magidson V,Burkett S,Haines DC,Noer K,Matthai R,Tessarollo L,Loncarek J,Keller JR,Sharan SK

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating X-linked disease affecting ~1 in 5000 males. DMD patients exhibit progressive muscle degeneration and weakness, leading to loss of ambulation and premature death from cardiopulmonary failure. We previously reported that mouse Laminin-111 (msLam-111) protein could redu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barraza-Flores P,Fontelonga TM,Wuebbles RD,Hermann HJ,Nunes AM,Kornegay JN,Burkin DJ

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that lead to muscle wasting and, in most cases, premature death. Cytokines and inflammatory factors are released during the disease process where they promote deleterious signaling events that directly participate in myofiber death. Here, we show that p38α, a kinase...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wissing ER,Boyer JG,Kwong JQ,Sargent MA,Karch J,McNally EM,Otsu K,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Superovulation or ovarian stimulation is currently an indispensable assisted reproductive technology (ART) for human subfertility/infertility treatment. Recently, increased frequencies of imprinting disorders have been correlated with ARTs. Significantly, for Angelman and Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndromes, patients have be...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Market-Velker BA,Zhang L,Magri LS,Bonvissuto AC,Mann MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a widespread, complex inflammatory disease of the mouth, which results in a loss of gingival tissue and alveolar bone, with aggressive periodontitis (AgP) as its most severe form. To identify genetic risk factors for periodontitis, we conducted a genome-wide association study in German AgP patients. W...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schaefer AS,Richter GM,Nothnagel M,Manke T,Dommisch H,Jacobs G,Arlt A,Rosenstiel P,Noack B,Groessner-Schreiber B,Jepsen S,Loos BG,Schreiber S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicentric chromosomes are often found in tumor cells and certain cell lines. How they are generated is not fully understood, though their stability suggests that they are non-functional during chromosome segregation. Growing evidence has implicated microtubule motor proteins in attachment of chromosomes to the mito...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Faulkner NE,Vig B,Echeverri CJ,Wordeman L,Vallee RB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the absence of dystrophin along muscle fibers. An attractive therapeutic avenue for DMD consists in the upregulation of utrophin A, a protein with high sequence identity and functional redundancy with dystrophin. Recent work has shown that pharmacological interventions th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Al-Rewashdy H,Ljubicic V,Lin W,Renaud JM,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are post-transcriptional and epigenetic regulators, whose implication in neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases remains poorly understood. We analyzed publicly available microarray data sets to identify dysregulated lncRNAs in multiple sclerosis (MS), a neuroinflammatory autoimmune di...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cardamone G,Paraboschi EM,Soldà G,Cantoni C,Supino D,Piccio L,Duga S,Asselta R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned, sequenced and annotated segments of DNA spanning the mouse, chicken and pufferfish alpha globin gene clusters and compared them with the corresponding region in man. This has defined a small segment ( approximately 135-155 kb) of synteny and conserved gene order, which may contain all of the elements r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Flint J,Tufarelli C,Peden J,Clark K,Daniels RJ,Hardison R,Miller W,Philipsen S,Tan-Un KC,McMorrow T,Frampton J,Alter BP,Frischauf AM,Higgs DR

更新日期：2001-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the possible role of STAT4 gene in the genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis (SSc) susceptibility or clinical phenotype. A total of 1317 SSc patients [896 with limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc) and 421 with diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc)] and 3113 healthy controls, from an in...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rueda B,Broen J,Simeon C,Hesselstrand R,Diaz B,Suárez H,Ortego-Centeno N,Riemekasten G,Fonollosa V,Vonk MC,van den Hoogen FH,Sanchez-Román J,Aguirre-Zamorano MA,García-Portales R,Pros A,Camps MT,Gonzalez-Gay MA,Coenen M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In model organisms, over 2,000 genes have been shown to modulate aging, the collection of which we call the ‘gerontome’. Although some individual aging-related genes have been the subject of intense scrutiny, their analysis as a whole has been limited. In particular, the genetic interaction of aging and age-related pa...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fernandes M,Wan C,Tacutu R,Barardo D,Rajput A,Wang J,Thoppil H,Thornton D,Yang C,Freitas A,de Magalhães JP

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome 22q11 region is susceptible to rearrangements that are associated with congenital anomaly disorders and malignant tumors. Three congenital anomaly disorders, cat-eye syndrome, der() syndrome and velo-cardio-facial syndrome/DiGeorge syndrome (VCFS/DGS) are associated with tetrasomy, trisomy or monosomy, ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Edelmann L,Pandita RK,Spiteri E,Funke B,Goldberg R,Palanisamy N,Chaganti RS,Magenis E,Shprintzen RJ,Morrow BE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of mitochondrial DNA are linked to many human diseases. Despite the identification of a large number of variants in the mitochondrially encoded rRNA (mt-rRNA) genes, the evidence supporting their pathogenicity is, at best, circumstantial. Establishing the pathogenicity of these variations is of major diagnos...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Smith PM,Elson JL,Greaves LC,Wortmann SB,Rodenburg RJ,Lightowlers RN,Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM,Taylor RW,Vila-Sanjurjo A

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:P-selectin is an adhesion molecule, expressed at the surface of activated cells, that mediates the interaction of activated endothelial cells or platelets with leukocytes. P-selectin expression is increased in atherosclerotic plaques, and high plasma levels of this molecule have been observed in patients with unstable...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Herrmann SM,Ricard S,Nicaud V,Mallet C,Evans A,Ruidavets JB,Arveiler D,Luc G,Cambien F

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:The early growth response 2 gene ( EGR2 ) is a Cys2His2zinc finger transcription factor which is thought to play a role in the regulation of peripheral nervous system myelination. This idea is based partly on the phenotype of homozygous Krox20 ( Egr2 ) knockout mice, which display hypomyelination of the PNS and a bloc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Warner LE,Svaren J,Milbrandt J,Lupski JR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome biogenesis disorders, including Zellweger syndrome (ZS), neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD) and infantile Refsum disease, are lethal hereditary diseases caused by abnormalities in peroxisomal assembly. To date, 12 genotypes have been identified. We now have evidence that the complete human cDNA encoding P...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shimozawa N,Suzuki Y,Zhang Z,Imamura A,Toyama R,Mukai S,Fujiki Y,Tsukamoto T,Osumi T,Orii T,Wanders RJ,Kondo N

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic (allergic) asthma is the most common disease of childhood and is strongly genetic in origin. Many genome-wide screens for asthma and its associated traits have now been carried out, and genetic linkage has been consistently identified in several regions. It is probable that these loci contain major genes influe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cookson WO,Moffatt MF

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the population differences in patterns of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for a 400 kb olfactory receptor (OR) gene cluster on human chromosome 17p13.3. Samples were drawn from 35 individuals, of four different ethnogeographical origins: Pygmies, Bedouins, Yemenite Jews and Ashkenazi Jews. Of th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Menashe I,Man O,Lancet D,Gilad Y

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:The Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a complex congenital disorder, arising from abnormalities in enteric nervous system (ENS) development. There is a gender disparity among the patients, with the male to female ratio as high as 5 : 1. Loss-of-function mutations of HSCR genes and haploinsufficiency of their gene product...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li Y,Kido T,Garcia-Barcelo MM,Tam PK,Tabatabai ZL,Lau YF

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) G recently has been mapped to the X chromosome. All mammals have a Y chromosome-encoded homologue of HNRNP G called RBMY, which is implicated with a role in male fertility and is a candidate for the azoospermia factor gene. We have identified a new member of th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Elliott DJ,Venables JP,Newton CS,Lawson D,Boyle S,Eperon IC,Cooke HJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A candidate gene for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) has been identified via positional cloning strategies. We now report messenger RNA expression in fibroblasts from 6 unrelated ALD patients. Four patients lacked the normal 4.2 kb transcript, three of them having deletions of the ALD gene. A fifth patient with a ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cartier N,Sarde CO,Douar AM,Mosser J,Mandel JL,Aubourg P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (MPS IVA; OMIM#253000), a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of N -acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase (GALNS), has variable clinical phenotypes. To date we have identified 65 missense mutations in the GALNS gene from MPS IVA patients, but the correlation between genotype a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sukegawa K,Nakamura H,Kato Z,Tomatsu S,Montaño AM,Fukao T,Toietta G,Tortora P,Orii T,Kondo N

更新日期：2000-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of the distal short arm of chromosome 9 (9p) has been reported in a number of cases to be associated with gonadal dysgenesis and XY sex reversal, suggesting that this region contains one or more genes required in two copies for normal testis development. Recent studies have greatly narrowed the interval conta...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Raymond CS,Parker ED,Kettlewell JR,Brown LG,Page DC,Kusz K,Jaruzelska J,Reinberg Y,Flejter WL,Bardwell VJ,Hirsch B,Zarkower D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00