Molecular genetic investigations identify new clinical phenotypes associated with BCS1L-related mitochondrial disease.

abstract：:Bloom's syndrome (BS) is an autosomal recessive disorder that is invariably characterized by severe growth retardation and cancer predisposition. The Bloom's syndrome helicase (BLM), mutations of which lead to BS, localizes to promyelocytic leukemia protein bodies and to the nucleolus of the cell, the site of RNA poly...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grierson PM,Lillard K,Behbehani GK,Combs KA,Bhattacharyya S,Acharya S,Groden J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoachondroplasia (PSACH) is one of the more common skeletal dysplasias and results from mutations in cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP). Most COMP mutations identified to date cluster in the TSP3 repeat region of COMP and the mutant protein is retained in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) of chondrocyt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Piróg-Garcia KA,Meadows RS,Knowles L,Heinegård D,Thornton DJ,Kadler KE,Boot-Handford RP,Briggs MD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial infantile myasthenia is an autosomal recessive disorder, recently classified as congenital myasthenic syndrome type Ia. Onset of symptoms is at birth to early childhood with significant myasthenic weakness and possible respiratory distress, followed later in life by symptoms of mild to moderate myasthenia. Th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Christodoulou K,Tsingis M,Deymeer F,Serdaroglu P,Ozdemir C,Al-Shehab A,Bairactaris C,Mavromatis I,Mylonas I,Evoli A,Kyriallis K,Middleton LT

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine individuals have been identified with deletions or translocations involving the short arm of chromosome 5. While most display the classical phenotype of the cri-du-chat syndrome, several of the patients do not have the syndrome or have only a subset of the clinical features. Somatic cell hybrids containing ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Overhauser J,Huang X,Gersh M,Wilson W,McMahon J,Bengtsson U,Rojas K,Meyer M,Wasmuth JJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is an imprinted genetic obesity disorder characterized by abnormalities of growth and metabolism. Multiple mouse models with deficiency of one or more PWS candidate genes have partially correlated individual genes with aspects of the PWS phenotype, although the genetic origin of defects in ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bischof JM,Stewart CL,Wevrick R

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Type V collagen is a constituent of type I collagen-rich fibrils in many connective tissues and is a regulator of fibril diameter. In tissues, type V collagen is a heterotrimer with the molecular structure: alpha 1(V)2 alpha 2(V) or alpha 1(V) alpha 2(V) alpha 3(V). We report that genomic polymorphisms at the pro alph...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wenstrup RJ,Langland GT,Willing MC,D'Souza VN,Cole WG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) is a heterogeneous set of progressive retinopathies caused by several distinct genes. One locus, the RP10 form of adRP, maps to human chromosome 7q31.1 and may account for 5-10% of adRP cases among Americans and Europeans. We identified two American families with the RP10...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bowne SJ,Sullivan LS,Blanton SH,Cepko CL,Blackshaw S,Birch DG,Hughbanks-Wheaton D,Heckenlively JR,Daiger SP

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Paraspeckles are nuclear bodies formed by a set of specialized proteins assembled on the long non-coding RNA NEAT1; they have a role in nuclear retention of hyperedited transcripts and are associated with response to cellular stress. Fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein, linked to a number of neurodegenerative disorders, is...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shelkovnikova TA,Robinson HK,Troakes C,Ninkina N,Buchman VL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of thymidine kinase 2 (TK2), an essential component of the mitochondrial nucleotide salvage pathway, can give rise to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndromes (MDS). These clinically heterogeneous disorders are characterized by severe reduction in mtDNA copy number in affected tissues and are associated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bartesaghi S,Betts-Henderson J,Cain K,Dinsdale D,Zhou X,Karlsson A,Salomoni P,Nicotera P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of protein aggregates is the hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and frontotemporal dementia. Many ubiquitin-associated proteins are recruited to protein aggregates, such as sequestosome 1/p62 (p62), parkin, and cereblon (CRBN). However, the roles of thes...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhou L,Hao Z,Wang G,Xu G

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRPS1 gene codes for a 1281 amino acids nuclear transcription factor with an unusual combination of different types of zinc finger motifs, including GATA-type DNA-binding and IKAROS-like zinc fingers. TRPS1 is a repressor of GATA-regulated genes and implicated in the human tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndromes. We fou...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kaiser FJ,Tavassoli K,Van den Bemd GJ,Chang GT,Horsthemke B,Möröy T,Lüdecke HJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an extra Y chromosome in males is a relatively common occurrence, the 47,XYY karyotype being found in approximately 1 in 1000 male births. The error of disjunction must occur either during paternal meiosis II or as a post-zygotic mitotic error, both of which are rare events for other chromosomes. It is...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Robinson DO,Jacobs PA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved understanding of the expression of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) will assist our approach to preventing the organ damage caused by cystic fibrosis (CF). We have studied the expression of CFTR in human fetal tissues at different gestational ages using in situ hybridization to detect CFTR mRNA. CFTR was pr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tizzano EF,Chitayat D,Buchwald M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the growth of renal cysts that ultimately destroy kidney function. Mutations in the PKD1 and PKD2 genes cause ADPKD. Their protein products, polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2) have been proposed to form a calcium-permeable receptor-channel...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Parnell SC,Magenheimer BS,Maser RL,Pavlov TS,Havens MA,Hastings ML,Jackson SF,Ward CJ,Peterson KR,Staruschenko A,Calvet JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is an RNA-mediated disease caused by a non-coding CTG repeat expansion. A key feature of the RNA-mediated pathogenesis model for DM is the disrupted splicing of specific pre-mRNA targets. A link has been established between splicing regulation by CUG-BP1, a member of the CELF family of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ho TH,Bundman D,Armstrong DL,Cooper TA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB), an autosomal recessive disorder prevalent in Finland, is characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy, brain malformation and ocular abnormalities. Since the MEB phenotype overlaps substantially with those of Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) and Walker-Warburg syndro...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Taniguchi K,Kobayashi K,Saito K,Yamanouchi H,Ohnuma A,Hayashi YK,Manya H,Jin DK,Lee M,Parano E,Falsaperla R,Pavone P,Van Coster R,Talim B,Steinbrecher A,Straub V,Nishino I,Topaloglu H,Voit T,Endo T,Toda T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in MECP2 cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome (RTT OMIM 312750). Alternative inclusion of MECP2/Mecp2 exon 1 with exons 3 and 4 encodes MeCP2-e1 or MeCP2-e2 protein isoforms with unique amino termini. While most MECP2 mutations are located in exons 3 and 4 thus affecting both isoforms, MECP2 e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yasui DH,Gonzales ML,Aflatooni JO,Crary FK,Hu DJ,Gavino BJ,Golub MS,Vincent JB,Carolyn Schanen N,Olson CO,Rastegar M,Lasalle JM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amphibian homologue of the human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene has been isolated from Xenopus laevis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The 4455bp sequence encodes a predicted polypeptide of 1485 amino acids which has an overall homology at the amino acid level of 77...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tucker SJ,Tannahill D,Higgins CF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the link between mutant huntingtin (Htt) and neuronal damage in relation to mitochondria in Huntington's disease (HD). In an earlier study, we determined the relationship between mutant Htt and mitochondrial dynamics/synaptic viability in HD patients. We found mitochondrial...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shirendeb UP,Calkins MJ,Manczak M,Anekonda V,Dufour B,McBride JL,Mao P,Reddy PH

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor SOX10 is mutated in the human neurocristopathy Waardenburg-Shah syndrome (WS4), which is characterized by enteric aganglionosis and pigmentation defects. SOX10 directly regulates genes expressed in neural crest lineages, including the enteric ganglia and melanocytes. Although some SOX10 target...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Antonellis A,Bennett WR,Menheniott TR,Prasad AB,Lee-Lin SQ,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Green ED,Paisley D,Kelsh RN,Pavan WJ,Ward A

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is one of a class of inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by a CAG/polyglutamine repeat expansion. We have previously generated mice that are transgenic for exon 1 of the HD gene carrying highly expanded CAG repeats which develop a progressive movement disorder an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sathasivam K,Hobbs C,Turmaine M,Mangiarini L,Mahal A,Bertaux F,Wanker EE,Doherty P,Davies SW,Bates GP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a consanguineous couple who lost four pregnancies associated with skeletal dysplasia. Radiological examination of one fetus was inconclusive. Parental exome sequencing showed that both parents were heterozygous for a novel missense variant, p.(Pro133Leu), in the SLC35D1 gene encoding a nucleotide...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rautengarten C,Quarrell OW,Stals K,Caswell RC,De Franco E,Baple E,Burgess N,Jokhi R,Heazlewood JL,Offiah AC,Ebert B,Ellard S

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:The molecular defects responsible for three cases of severe (type III) osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) were investigated. The mutation sites were localized in pro alpha 1(I) and pro alpha 2(I) mRNA molecules, respectively, by chemical cleavage of mismatch in heteroduplex nucleic acids. Mutation identification was achieve...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Forlino A,Zolezzi F,Valli M,Pignatti PF,Cetta G,Brunelli PC,Mottes M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multiorgan recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Gene therapy efforts have focused on treating the lung, since it manifests the most significant life-threatening disease. Over two decades have past since the first...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yan Z,McCray PB Jr,Engelhardt JF

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningiomas are common nervous system tumors, whose molecular pathogenesis is poorly understood. To date, the most frequent genetic alteration detected in these tumors is loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on chromosome 22q. This finding led to the identification of the neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor gene on 22q...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gutmann DH,Donahoe J,Perry A,Lemke N,Gorse K,Kittiniyom K,Rempel SA,Gutierrez JA,Newsham IF

更新日期：2000-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in RBM20, a gene encoding an RNA-binding protein, is associated with high familial penetrance, risk of progressive heart failure and sudden death. Although genetic investigations and physiological models have established the linkage of RBM20 with early-onset DCM, the under...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Beraldi R,Li X,Martinez Fernandez A,Reyes S,Secreto F,Terzic A,Olson TM,Nelson TJ

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal neuraminidase is the key enzyme for the intralysosomal catabolism of sialylated glycoconjugates and is deficient in two neurodegenerative lysosomal disorders, sialidosis and galactosialidosis. Here we report the identification of eight novel mutations in the neuraminidase gene of 11 sialidosis patients with ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bonten EJ,Arts WF,Beck M,Covanis A,Donati MA,Parini R,Zammarchi E,d'Azzo A

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00