Exome sequencing in Crisponi/cold-induced sweating syndrome-like individuals reveals unpredicted alternative diagnoses.

abstract：:Germline mutations of the STK11 gene mapped to chromosome 19p13.3 are responsible for Peutz Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a dominant disorder associated with characteristic gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and a predisposition to various cancers. We conducted a detailed investigation of germline STK11 alterations by pr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jiang CY,Esufali S,Berk T,Gallinger S,Cohen Z,Tobi M,Redston M,Bapat B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For Incontinentia pigmenti Bloch-Sulzberger (IP) and Aicardi syndrome, an X-linked dominant transmission with lethality in hemizygous males has been proposed. The typical transition from inflammation to verrucous hypertrophy and hyperpigmented skin areas in IP suggests a gradual replacement of defective cells by norma...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wieacker P,Zimmer J,Ropers HH

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biallelic mutations in the PLCB1 gene, encoding for a phospholipase C beta isoform strongly expressed in the brain, have been reported to cause infantile epileptic encephalopathy in only four children to date. We report here three additional patients to delineate the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the dis...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Desprairies C,Valence S,Maurey H,Helal SI,Weckhuysen S,Soliman H,Mefford HC,Spentchian M,Héron D,Leguern E,Nava C,Bouilleret V,Moretti R,Mignot C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sanfilippo syndrome type A (mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA; MPS IIIA) is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme haparan N-sulphatase (NS). The genomic DNA segments of the NS gene from two Chinese patients with MPS IIIA were amplified by polymerase chain reaction, followed by DNA sequencing to study the molecu...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee-Chen GJ,Lin SP,Ko MH,Chuang CK,Chen CP,Lee HH,Cheng SC,Shen CH,Tseng KL,Li CL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family with recurrent 11q23-qter deletion Jacobsen syndrome in two affected brothers, with unique mosaic deletion 'rescue' through development of uniparental disomy (UPD) in the mother and one of the brothers. Inheritance studies show that the deleted chromosome is of maternal origin in both boys, and mi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Johnson JP,Haag M,Beischel L,McCann C,Phillips S,Tunby M,Hansen J,Schwanke C,Reynolds JF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isodicentric X-chromosome idic(X) (pter----q26.1::q26.1----pter) was found in lymphocytes and ovarian tissue of a 40-year-old female patient with secondary amenorrhea. No mosaicism was observed. The phenotype-karyotype correlation of our case and of previously described non-mosaic cases of idic(X) (q::q) with diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ponzio G,Chiodo F,Messina M,Surico N,Libanori E,Folpini E,Porcelli A,Marchese C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage analysis has been performed on a large South African family of British origin in which 39 persons in 6 generations had early onset Type I autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP). Tight linkage was excluded between the disease and the D3S47 locus on chromosome 3. This finding is further evidence for gene...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Greenberg J,Babaya M,Ramesar R,Beighton P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An allele association study of 19 polymorphisms in surfactant proteins SP-A1, SP-A2, SP-B, and SP-D genes in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was carried out. Trend-test analysis revealed differences (p < 0.05) in the frequency of alleles for some of the microsatellite markers flanking SP-B, and for one poly...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lin Z,Pearson C,Chinchilli V,Pietschmann SM,Luo J,Pison U,Floros J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:46,XY gonadal dysgenesis was transmitted as an autosomal-dominant trait in a large family with multiple affected members. Expressivity of the trait was highly variable, ranging from pure to partial gonadal dysgenesis associated with normal female genitalia or sexual ambiguity, to mild hypospadias in otherwise normal m...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jawaheer D,Juo SH,Le Caignec C,David A,Petit C,Gregersen P,Dowbak S,Damle A,McElreavey K,Ostrer H

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:A study of the family of a patient who had an SLE-like syndrome and an extremely low serum C4 revealed an inheritance of C4 types and HLA region markers which indicated that the patient had 60--70% of "normal" C4 level prior to the onset of disease. Thus the extremely low C4 level during her disease may result from a ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cream JJ,Olaisen B,Teisberg P,Soler AV,Thompson RA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the DNAJB6 gene have been identified as a rare cause of dominantly inherited limb-girdle muscular dystrophy or distal-onset myopathy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Exome sequencing was performed to investigate a Taiwanese family with a dominantly inherited distal-onset myopathy. Functional effects of t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tsai PC,Tsai YS,Soong BW,Huang YH,Wu HT,Chen YH,Lin KP,Liao YC,Lee YC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific chromosome rearrangements associated with disease entities are invaluable resources for physical mapping. A deletion on the X chromosome of a male leads to the nullisomy for X-linked genes, resulting in the onset of genetic diseases and/or the absence of the DNA probe detectable sequences. This permits the lo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yang HM,Lund T,Niebuhr E,Nørby S,Schwartz M,Shen L

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the myelin protein zero (MPZ) gene are one of the frequent causes of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) hereditary neuropathies. Because the mutation rate of MPZ gene is rather high and some mutations are reported as polymorphisms, the proper clinical, electrophysiological examination and the segregation of the ne...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Brozková D,Mazanec R,Haberlová J,Sakmaryová I,Seeman P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytogenetic analysis of 23 Japanese patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is reported. G-banded chromosomes of cultured peripheral blood lymphocytes of one subject had a constitutional chromosomal translocation, t(7;13)(p22;q21). No constitutional chromosome abnormality was found in any of the other 22 Japan...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kaneko K,Saito F,Sunohara N,Ikeuchi T

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genes involved in the familial appearance of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (FTAAD) have been characterized recently, one of which is SMAD3. Mutations of SMAD3 cause a new syndromic form of aortic aneurysms and dissections associated with skeletal abnormalities. We discovered a small interstitial de...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hilhorst-Hofstee Y,Scholte AJ,Rijlaarsdam ME,van Haeringen A,Kroft LJ,Reijnierse M,Ruivenkamp CA,Versteegh MI,Pals G,Breuning MH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of trisomy 13 with cystic hygroma and generalized hydrops fetalis diagnosed prenatally by routine ultrasound prior to genetic amniocentesis in a 34-year-old woman. Although fetal cystic hygroma is usually associated with a 45,X karyotype, this and other previous reports suggest that it may be seen in ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Greenberg F,Carpenter RJ,Ledbetter DH

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen VI-related myopathy, caused by pathogenic variants in the genes encoding collagen VI, represents a clinical continuum from Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) to Bethlem myopathy (BM). Clinical data of 60 probands and their family members were collected and muscle biopsies of 26 patients were analyze...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fan Y,Liu A,Wei C,Yang H,Chang X,Wang S,Yuan Y,Bonnemann C,Wu Q,Wu X,Xiong H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a large Danish material of random families we selected families with dyslexia as reported by the families themselves and as recorded by a dyslexia institute. Among five "backcross families" studied for chromosome 15 polymorphisms we found only negative lod scores, and at theta = 0.10 a negative score of -3.42; i....

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bisgaard ML,Eiberg H,Møller N,Niebuhr E,Mohr J

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women who carry fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1)gene premutation expansions frequently report neurological or endocrine symptoms and prior studies have predominantly focused on questionnaire report of medical issues. Premutation carrier (PMC) women (n = 33) and non-carrier controls (n = 13) were recruited and eva...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hall D,Todorova-Koteva K,Pandya S,Bernard B,Ouyang B,Walsh M,Pounardjian T,Deburghraeve C,Zhou L,Losh M,Leehey M,Berry-Kravis E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic biallelic variants in the BLM/RECQL3 gene cause a rare autosomal recessive disorder called Bloom syndrome (BS). This syndrome is characterized by severe growth delay, immunodeficiency, dermatological manifestations and a predisposition to a wide variety of cancers, often multiple and very early in life. Lit...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Backers L,Parton B,De Bruyne M,Tavernier SJ,Van Den Bogaert K,Lambrecht BN,Haerynck F,Claes KBM

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male with hypomelanosis of Ito (HI) is reported. One of his two children had a postaxial ray defect of one leg but neither had cutaneous features of HI. Somatic mosaicism for a gene defect lethal to ectodermal derivatives offers the best explanation for HI in males, with consequent negligible recurrence ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Moss C,Burn J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family ascertained in the United States displays significant evidence of linkage to 17q25.3 (maximum two-point LOD score 6.32). The non-syndromic autosomal-dominant hearing-loss loci DFNA20 and DFNA26 map to this region. The 3-unit support interval and haplotype for this USA kindred falls within the interval for DFN...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： DeWan AT,Parrado AR,Leal SM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain insight into the genetic variation of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor gene in Korean patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), we used single-strand conformation polymorphism to screen all 18 exons and a promotor of the LDL receptor gene in 20 unrelated Korean FH patients. Four novel point...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shin JA,Kim SH,Kim UK,Chae JJ,Choe SJ,Namkoong Y,Kim HS,Park YB,Lee CC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of statins to strongly reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) varies interindividually and is partially influenced by genetic variants. Based on a comprehensive analysis of 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) known to be associated with pharmacokinetics and dynamics of statins, we develop...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ciuculete DM,Bandstein M,Benedict C,Waeber G,Vollenweider P,Lind L,Schiöth HB,Mwinyi J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with Marfan's syndrome, with coexistent obstructive sleep hypopnea (OSH) and restrictive lung disease, complicated by respiratory insufficiency, who was successfully treated with nasal intermittent positive airway pressure (NIPPV) and oxygen. NIPPV therapy turned out to be effective on arterial ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Verbraecken J,Paelinck BP,Willemen M,Van de Heyning P,De Backer W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 20-year-old male with severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and a de novo deletion (c.281delG, p.G94AfsX17) on the paternal PMP22 allele harboring c.353C>T (p.T118M). RNA-based sequence analysis confirmed the absence of nonsense-mediated decay and the presence of the mutant transcripts in Epstein-Bar...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Niedrist D,Joncourt F,Mátyás G,Müller A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exome sequencing is being offered for children with undiagnosed conditions to identify a primary (causative) variant. Parental preferences for learning secondary (incidental) variants are largely unexplored. Our objective was to characterize values and beliefs that shape parents' preferences for learning their childre...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sapp JC,Dong D,Stark C,Ivey LE,Hooker G,Biesecker LG,Biesecker BB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is classified into two types, the demyelinating (CMT1) and axonal forms (CMT2). CMT2 is further subdivided by linkage analysis into eight subgroups. Recently, mutations in the MFN2 gene, which encodes the mitochondrial GTPase mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) that regulates the mitochondrial network...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cho HJ,Sung DH,Kim BJ,Ki CS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cilia are microtubule-rich hair-like extensions protruding from the surface of most post-mitotic cells. They act as sensory organelles that help interpret various environmental cues. Mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in ciliogenesis or protein transport to the primary cilia lead to a wide variety o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ramamurthy V,Cayouette M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00