DUX4 expressing immortalized FSHD lymphoblastoid cells express genes elevated in FSHD muscle biopsies, correlating with the early stages of inflammation.

abstract：:Development of gene therapy for the muscular dystrophies represents a daunting challenge requiring significant advances in our knowledge of the defective genes, muscle promoters, viral vectors, immune system surveillance and methods for systemic delivery of vectors. However, tremendous progress has been made in develo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chamberlain JS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA for Fanconi anaemia complementation group C (FACC) has recently been cloned. We have now isolated a yeast artificial chromosome clone containing the FACC gene, and used vectorette PCR to determine its exon structure. The 1674-nucleotide coding sequence of the gene is highly interrupted, and contains 14 exons ra...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gibson RA,Buchwald M,Roberts RG,Mathew CG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate goal of muscular dystrophy gene therapy is to treat all muscles in the body. Global gene delivery was demonstrated in dystrophic mice more than a decade ago using adeno-associated virus (AAV). However, translation to affected large mammals has been challenging. The only reported attempt was performed in n...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yue Y,Pan X,Hakim CH,Kodippili K,Zhang K,Shin JH,Yang HT,McDonald T,Duan D

更新日期：2015-10-15 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：:The RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs)--RIG-I, IFIH1 (or MDA5) and LGP2--are thought to be key actors in the innate immune system, as they play a major role in sensing RNA viruses in the cytosol of host cells. Despite the increasingly recognized importance of the RLR family in antiviral immunity, no population genetic studie...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vasseur E,Patin E,Laval G,Pajon S,Fornarino S,Crouau-Roy B,Quintana-Murci L

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:First- and second-generation sequencing technologies have led the way in revolutionizing the field of genomics and beyond, motivating an astonishing number of scientific advances, including enabling a more complete understanding of whole genome sequences and the information encoded therein, a more complete characteriz...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schadt EE,Turner S,Kasarskis A

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PARK8, encoding leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), are a frequent cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). Nonetheless, the physiological role of LRRK2 remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that LRRK2 participates in canonical Wnt signaling as a scaffold. LRRK2 interacts with key Wnt signaling proteins of th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Berwick DC,Harvey K

更新日期：2012-11-15 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：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in aging and degenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Continuous fission and fusion of mitochondria shapes their morphology and is essential to maintain oxidative phosphorylation. Loss-of-function mutations in PTEN-induced kinase1 (PINK1) or Parkin cause a recess...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Sterky FH,Mourier A,Terzioglu M,Cullheim S,Olson L,Larsson NG

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer demonstrates the highest mortality in the UK. Previous studies have implicated allelic loss at chromosome 17q in the development of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), and a number of known and putative tumour-suppressor genes reside within this region. One candidate tumour-suppressor gene is cytoglobin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Xinarianos G,McRonald FE,Risk JM,Bowers NL,Nikolaidis G,Field JK,Liloglou T

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine-encoding CAG repeat expansion in the ATXN3 gene. This expansion leads to misfolding and aggregation of mutant ataxin-3 (ATXN3) and degeneration of select brain regions. A key unanswered question in SCA3 and other polyglutami...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ramani B,Panwar B,Moore LR,Wang B,Huang R,Guan Y,Paulson HL

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of a poly glutamine (polyQ) stretch in the huntingtin protein (HTT) that is necessary to cause pathology and formation of HTT aggregates. Here we ask whether expanded polyQ is sufficient to cause pathology and aggregate formation. By addressing the sufficiency questi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chongtham A,Bornemann DJ,Barbaro BA,Lukacsovich T,Agrawal N,Syed A,Worthge S,Purcell J,Burke J,Chin TM,Marsh JL

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomorphic mutations of the NBS1 gene are responsible for Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), characterized by microcephaly, chromosomal instability, radiosensitivity, immunodeficiency and high cancer predisposition. Over 90% of NBS patients are homozygous for the 657Delta5 mutation and are of Slavic origin; however, 1...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Varon R,Dutrannoy V,Weikert G,Tanzarella C,Antoccia A,Stöckl L,Spadoni E,Krüger LA,di Masi A,Sperling K,Digweed M,Maraschio P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with no efficient treatment that is caused in the majority of cases by mutations in the gene methyl-CpG binding-protein 2 (MECP2). RTT becomes manifest after a period of apparently normal development and causes growth deceleration, severe psychomotor impairment and ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ricciardi S,Boggio EM,Grosso S,Lonetti G,Forlani G,Stefanelli G,Calcagno E,Morello N,Landsberger N,Biffo S,Pizzorusso T,Giustetto M,Broccoli V

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the role of the epigenome in protein-misfolding diseases remains a challenge in light of genetic diversity found in the world-wide population revealed by human genome sequencing efforts and the highly variable response of the disease population to therapeutics. An ever-growing body of evidence has shown ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Anglès F,Hutt DM,Balch WE

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the imprinting status of the insulin-like growth factor II gene (IGF2) in a series of 20 human breast disease samples to determine if disrupted imprinting (as evidenced by biallelic expression), was a demonstrable mechanism of altered gene expression. These samples included benign (n = 7) and malignant bre...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McCann AH,Miller N,O'Meara A,Pedersen I,Keogh K,Gorey T,Dervan PA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CREB-binding protein (CBP, CREBBP, KAT3A) and its closely related paralogue p300 (EP300, KAT3B), together termed p300/CBP, are histone/lysine acetyl-transferases that control gene expression by modifying chromatin-associated proteins. Here, we report roles for both of these chromatin-modifying enzymes in mouse sex det...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Carré GA,Siggers P,Xipolita M,Brindle P,Lutz B,Wells S,Greenfield A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis IV (MLIV) is an orphan neurodevelopmental disease that causes severe neurologic dysfunction and loss of vision. Currently there is no therapy for MLIV. It is caused by loss of function of the lysosomal channel mucolipin-1, also known as TRPML1. Knockout of the Mcoln1 gene in a mouse model mirrors clinica...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weinstock LD,Furness AM,Herron SS,Smith SS,Sankar SB,DeRosa SG,Gao D,Mepyans ME,Scotto Rosato A,Medina DL,Vardi A,Ferreira NS,Cho SM,Futerman AH,Slaugenhaupt SA,Wood LB,Grishchuk Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nebulin is a large skeletal muscle protein wound around the thin filaments, with its C-terminus embedded within the Z-disk and its N-terminus extending out toward the thin filament pointed end. While nebulin's C-terminus has been implicated in both sarcomeric structure and function as well as the development of nemali...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li F,Barton ER,Granzier H

更新日期：2019-05-15 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：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are ubiquitously expressed enzymes implicated in several dominant and recessive disease phenotypes. The canonical function of ARSs is to couple an amino acid to a cognate transfer RNA (tRNA). We identified three novel disease-associated missense mutations in the alanyl-tRNA synthetase...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weterman MAJ,Kuo M,Kenter SB,Gordillo S,Karjosukarso DW,Takase R,Bronk M,Oprescu S,van Ruissen F,Witteveen RJW,Bienfait HME,Breuning M,Verhamme C,Hou YM,de Visser M,Antonellis A,Baas F

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and consequent loss of mitochondrial function underlie the mitochondrial theory of aging. In this study, we systematically analyzed the mtDNA control region somatic mutation pattern in 2864 single hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and progenitors, isolated by flow cytometry sorti...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yao YG,Ellison FM,McCoy JP,Chen J,Young NS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapse abnormalities in Huntington's disease (HD) patients can precede clinical diagnosis and neuron loss by decades. The polyglutamine expansion in the huntingtin (htt) protein that underlies this disorder leads to perturbations in many cellular pathways, including the disruption of Rab11-dependent endosomal recycli...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Steinert JR,Campesan S,Richards P,Kyriacou CP,Forsythe ID,Giorgini F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PKD1 cause dominant polycystic kidney disease (PKD), characterized by large fluid-filled kidney cysts in adult life, but the molecular mechanism of cystogenesis remains obscure. Ostrom et al. [Dev. Biol., 219, 250-258 (2000)] showed that reduced dosage of Pax2 caused increased apoptosis, and ameliorated c...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stayner C,Iglesias DM,Goodyer PR,Ellis L,Germino G,Zhou J,Eccles MR

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in RET cause abnormal development of the enteric nervous system, a congenital condition known as Hirschsprung disease. Hirschsprung mutations in the extracellular domain of RET (RETECD) affect processing in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and prevent RET expression at the cell surface. We hav...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kjaer S,Ibáñez CF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the NF1 tumor suppressor gene cause Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Neurofibromin, the protein product of NF1, functions as a negative regulator of Ras activity. Some NF1 patients develop cardiovascular disease, which represents an underrecognized disease complication and contributes to excess morbidity a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stansfield BK,Bessler WK,Mali R,Mund JA,Downing B,Li F,Sarchet KN,DiStasi MR,Conway SJ,Kapur R,Ingram DA Jr

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FMR1 gene, associated with fragile X syndrome, has recently been cloned and the sequence of partial cDNA clones is known. We have determined additional cDNA sequences both at the 5' and 3' end. We have characterized the expressed gene by means of RT-PCR in various tissues and have found that alternative splicing t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verkerk AJ,de Graaff E,De Boulle K,Eichler EE,Konecki DS,Reyniers E,Manca A,Poustka A,Willems PJ,Nelson DL

更新日期：1993-04-01 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

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