Confirmation of the relationship of HLA (chromosome 6) genes to depression and manic depression. II. The Ontario follow-up and analysis of 117 kindreds.

abstract：:Increased levels of fetal hemoglobin (HbF: α2γ2) can ameliorate the clinical severity of the β-hemoglobinopathies. Microarray analysis represents a powerful approach to identify novel genetic factors regulating the γ-globin gene. Gene expression profiling was previously performed on 14 individuals with high or normal ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Jia S,Jia W,Yu S,Hu Y,He Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to describe the isonymic structure of Paraguay, the distribution of 4,843,868 surnames of 2,882,163 persons was studied in the 18 departments and 237 districts of the nation. The correlations between isonymic and geographic distances for departments were r = 0.713 ± 0.052 for Euclidean distance, 0.597 ± 0.074...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Dipierri J,Rodriguez-Larralde A,Alfaro E,Scapoli C,Mamolini E,Salvatorelli G,Caramori G,De Lorenzi S,Sandri M,Carrieri A,Barrai I

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Except for subgroup A2 and minor A, O and B alleles (Ax, O2 and B(A)), which occur at low frequencies in the population, the major ABO alleles are considered to be homogeneous entities. The present study is the first demonstration of an extensive variability linked to the more common alleles of the blood A and O genes...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zago MA,Tavella MH,Simões BP,Franco RF,Guerreiro JF,Santos SB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated population groups are useful in conducting association studies of complex diseases to avoid various pitfalls, including those arising from population stratification. Since DNA resequencing is expensive, it is recommended that genotyping be carried out at tagSNP (tSNP) loci. For this, tSNPs identified in one i...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sarkar Roy N,Farheen S,Roy N,Sengupta S,Majumder PP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is the fourth most common muscular dystrophy, with progressive proximal muscle weakness. However, a large number of neuromuscular conditions are similarly presented. Because of this, the use of high-throughput methods such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) is importa...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Özyilmaz B,Kirbiyik Ö,Özdemir TR,Kaya Özer Ö,Kutbay YB,Erdogan KM,Güvenç MS,Kale MY,Gazeteci H,Kiliç B,Sertpoyraz F,Diniz G,Baydan F,Gençpinar P,Dündar NO,Yiş U

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sherman et al. (1984) concluded from a cytogenetic and genetic analysis of families with the marker (X) syndrome that the rate of the mutation leading to this syndrome is extraordinarily high (7.2 X 10(-4) in male germ cells), and that these mutations occur exclusively in male germ cells. It is shown by some model cal...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Vogel F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a landmark study Rosenberg et al. (2002) analyzed human genome diversity with 377 microsatellites in the HGDP-CEPH Genome Diversity Panel and reported that the populations were structured into five geographical regions: America, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Oceania and a cluster composed of Europe, the Middle Eas...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bastos-Rodrigues L,Pimenta JR,Pena SD

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary alterations in splicing have been reported to produce semi-functional mRNA from several nonsense mutations in the dystrophin gene. Disruptions of exonic splicing enhancers by single nucleotide changes are thought to underlie such alterations. The precise frequencies of such nonsense mutation-dependent splici...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nishiyama A,Takeshima Y,Zhang Z,Habara Y,Tran TH,Yagi M,Matsuo M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of activity and electrophoretic mobility of GALT in patients with various chromosome 9 deletions and duplications confirms the assignment of its locus to 9p and suggests its locus is in the segment 9cen leads to p22. Two inversions of 9qh (inv(9)(p11q12)) did not alter GALT expression. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sparkes RS,Sparkes MC,Funderburk SJ,Moedjono S

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects and be rather inbred. By disentangling my own South African pedigree, that is on average 12 generations deep, I try to quantify the genetic heritage of an Afrikaner...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Greeff JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the HLA-DQB1 gene as a Southern hybridization probe with TaqI-digested genomic DNA in a study of 600 haplotypes from unrelated individuals and have characterized HLA-DQB1 RFLP patterns associated with the DR specificities DR1-DRw10 and DN1. For six of the specificities (DR2, 4, w6, 7, w8 and 9), we have a...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Gogolin KJ,Kolaga VJ,Baker L,Lisak RP,Zmijewski CM,Spielman RS

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typically genetic studies of continuous traits such as cholesterol levels or blood pressure assume that interindividual variability follows a normal distribution. Here we develop methods to analyze positively skewed data by assuming a lognormal distribution. We develop a variance components approach for identifying su...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wan Y,De Andrade M,Yu L,Cohen J,Amos CI

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hearing impairment is the most genetically heterogeneous trait known in humans. So far, 50 published autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing impairment (ARNSHI) loci have been mapped, and 23 ARNSHI genes have been identified. Here, we report the mapping of a novel ARNSHI locus, DFNB63, to chromosome 11q13...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Tlili A,Masmoudi S,Dhouib H,Bouaziz S,Rebeh IB,Chouchen J,Turki K,Benzina Z,Charfedine I,Drira M,Ayadi H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For characterizing the genetic mechanisms of complex diseases familial data with multiple correlated quantitative traits are usually collected in genetic studies. To analyze such data, various multivariate tests have been proposed to investigate the association between the underlying disease genes and the multiple tra...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hsieh TJ,Chang SH,Tai JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood from six patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and six controls were cultured in three types of media known to produce fragile sites. A total of 3000 metaphases per group were scrutinized in a blind coded study. No significantly specific 'hot-spot' was found capable of differentiating between HD pat...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Beverstock GC,Mol A,Wienhofer E

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between interleukin-10 (IL-10)-1082 (-1087) A > G polymorphism and either chronic (CP) or aggressive periodontitis (AgP) susceptibility was conflicting. This meta-analysis aimed to quantitatively estimate the association. METHODS:Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and WANFAN databases were sear...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Li Y,Hu B,Feng G,Chen Q,Zhu M,Ying S,Song J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of IBD proportions from a large set of affected sib-pair data to estimate some or all of the main parameters describing the inheritance of a disease susceptibility gene is here considered. We assume there is no recombination present and neglect ascertainment bias, and assume that there are four distinct parent...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Green JR,Shah S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Families segregating for PEPD have been investigated for linkage between PEPD and CYP1. The results provide evidence for close linkage between PEPD and CYP1 in males. ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Davis MB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel method for analysis of marker genotype data from admixed populations, based on a hybrid of Bayesian and frequentist approaches in which the posterior distribution is generated by Markov chain simulation and score tests are obtained from the missing-data likelihood. We analysed data on unrelated ind...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： McKeigue PM,Carpenter JR,Parra EJ,Shriver MD

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isoelectric focusing method for human GDH is described which reveals seven GDH phenotypes. Family studies demonstrate that the variation is genetically determined by three alleles at an autosomal locus with gene frequencies GDH1 = 0.723, GDH2 = 0.194, GDH3 = 0.083. Linkage analysis shows that GDH may be closely lin...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： King J,Cook PJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimate the population genetics parameter FST (also referred to as the fixation index) from short tandem repeat (STR) allele frequencies, comparing many worldwide human subpopulations at approximately the national level with continental-scale populations. FST is commonly used to measure population differentiation,...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Steele CD,Court DS,Balding DJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the impact of natural selection through stillbirth on the Italian population, taking into account the socio-economic heterogeneity of the country. The results suggest that older age at delivery and lower cultural level of the mothers, indicators of critical biological and socio-economic conditions, eve...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zonta LA,Astolfi P,Ulizzi L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new AAT allele (PI Zbristol) has been discovered in a woman with an obstetric history of three perinatal deaths from fulminant liver disease and no living offspring. She and her father were both PI M1Zbristol heterozygotes. The Zbristol protein is active as a proteinase inhibitor but appeared to be deficient in the ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lovegrove JU,Jeremiah S,Gillett GT,Temple IK,Povey S,Whitehouse DB

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author proposes a method to test the genetic relation between two individuals using a panel of SNPs. The method does not require information about the allele frequencies, and as such it can be used to test any pair of individuals from any population(s). ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lee WC

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic transmission rates from parents to cases are frequently stratified by an environmental risk factor E and compared, with heterogeneity interpreted as gene-environment interaction or GxE. Though generally invalid, such analyses continue to appear. We revisit why heterogeneity is not equivalent to GxE in a range ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shin JH,McNeney B,Graham J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) represent an expanding group of conditions that result from defects in protein and lipid glycosylation. Different subgroups of CDG display considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity due to the highly complex nature of cellular glycosylation. This is further complicated ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bastaki F,Bizzari S,Hamici S,Nair P,Mohamed M,Saif F,Malik EM,Al-Ali MT,Hamzeh AR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased function of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) was reported to cause late-onset obesity and insulin resistance in rodents. Thus mutations in the MC4R gene drew strong attention as a possible cause of obesity and diabetes. We screened for mutations in the MC4R gene in extremely obese [body mass index (BMI) > ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ohshiro Y,Sanke T,Ueda K,Shimajiri Y,Nakagawa T,Tsunoda K,Nishi M,Sasaki H,Takasu N,Nanjo K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibship methods have been shown to be more powerful than traditional sib-pair methods in mapping quantative trait loci. We propose a statistical procedure which integrates data on sibships into a so-called 'contrast function', a natural extension of the classical squared sib-pair trait difference proposed by Haseman &...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Ghosh S,Reich T

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polygenic threshold model assumes that the distribution of the underlying liability is approximately normal. This paper examines the impact of deviations from normality in the underlying liability distribution when the number of loci affecting liability is finite, but large (e.g. 5-10). Skewness and kurtosis of th...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Kendler KS,Kidd KK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reconsiders the relevant contribution of Sasieni in the validity of allele-based tests in case-control genetic association studies. In particular, the author clearly demonstrates that the classical chi-square test applied to allelic contingency tables is biased when the combined case-control population is n...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Guedj M,Nuel G,Prum B

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00