Trisomy 2q and monosomy 11q in the same individual: the importance of considering the deleted segment.

abstract：:Single cells were sorted from cultured fibroblasts of five carriers of Fabry's disease using a cell sorter (FACS II). The alpha-galactosidase A activity in the single fibroblasts was assayed in nanoliter droplets with the help of quantitative microfluorimetric techniques. Two populations of fibroblasts were present in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jongkind JF,Verkerk A,Niermeijer MF

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:A study of Huntington's Chorea in South Wales has shown a prevalence of 7.61 per 100,000 in the counties of Gwent and Glamorgan, with a total population of 1.7 million. Heterozygote frequency is close to 1 in 5,000. Total ascertainment within this area has been attempted, and experience since conclusion of the study h...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Walker DA,Harper PS,Wells CE,Tyler A,Davies K,Newcombe RG

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：:Hepatic manifestations of tuberous sclerosis complex: a genotypic and phenotypic analysis. A retrospective review of the clinical records and radiological images of 205 patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) was performed to evaluate the prevalence and progression of hepatic lesions; examine the association of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Black ME,Hedgire SS,Camposano S,Paul E,Harisinghani M,Thiele EA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel missense mutations, 1939G to A (R518Q) and 2017A to G (Q544R) were identified in Japanese patients with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). They are located in exon 6, which encodes part of the putative adenosine triphosphate binding domain of ALD protein. The ALD protein carrying the R518Q mutation was undetectable...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Imamura A,Suzuki Y,Song XQ,Fukao T,Uchiyama A,Shimozawa N,Kamijo K,Hashimoto T,Orii T,Kondo N

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by ocular and cutaneous hypopigmentation and neurological manifestations. A few reports have been published since 1967. In this report, we present a new case of Cross syndrome with additional findings such as urinary tract abnormality, bilateral inguinal hernia, focal in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tezcan I,Demir E,Aşan E,Kale G,Müftüoğlu SF,Kotiloğlu E

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two children, the products of a consanguineous union, who died in infancy. Both children had severe microcephaly intracranial calcification, lissencephaly and polymicrogyria. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Burn J,Wickramasinghe HT,Harding B,Baraitser M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marinesco-Sjøgren syndrome and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism were observed in two kindreds, and they were found to occur togetherin 9 out of 10 affected individuals. The last patient had Marinesco-Sjøgren syndrome without manifestations of hypogonadism, and similar findings were observed in two affected sisters from ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Skre H,Berg K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second trimester amniotic fluid samples obtained transabdominally for genetic analysis not infrequently are contaminated with blood. There has been disagreement as to whether blood contamination interferes with the efficiency of culture of amniotic fluid cells for genetic diagnosis. A procedure using ammonium chloride...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Felix JS,Doherty RA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide data on fetal growth pattern on the molecular subtypes of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS): IC1 gain of methylation (IC1-GoM), IC2 loss of methylation (IC2-LoM), 11p15.5 paternal uniparental disomy (UPD), and CDKN1C mutation. In this observational study, gestational ages and neonatal growth parameters of 2...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mussa A,Russo S,de Crescenzo A,Freschi A,Calzari L,Maitz S,Macchiaiolo M,Molinatto C,Baldassarre G,Mariani M,Tarani L,Bedeschi MF,Milani D,Melis D,Bartuli A,Cubellis MV,Selicorni A,Silengo MC,Larizza L,Riccio A,Fe

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a female patient with a clinical picture of gonadal dysgenesis and the chromosome constitution with a monocentric isochromosome of one X and a marker chromosome 21 with deleted short arm. The proband's father and other members of the family suffered from Huntington's chorea and each of them possess...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gaál M,Tóth A,Bösze P,László J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast low density lipoprotein (LDL) plasma membrane receptor activity, measured as 125I-LDL association (plasma membrane binding plus intracellular accumulation) and degradation was determined in cell strains from 14 monozygotic (MZ) and 21 like-sexed dizygotic (DZ) normolipidemic twin pairs. The twins were betwe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Magnus P,Maartmann-Moe K,Golden W,Nance WE,Berg K

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately one in 2000 children is born with a genetic hearing impairment, mostly inherited as a non-syndromic, autosomal recessive trait, for which more than 30 different genes have been identified. Previous studies have shown that one of these genes, connexin 26 (GJB2), accounts for 30-60% of such deafness, but t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hutchin T,Coy NN,Conlon H,Telford E,Bromelow K,Blaydon D,Taylor G,Coghill E,Brown S,Trembath R,Liu XZ,Bitner-Glindzicz M,Mueller R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social stigmatization can disrupt the ability of individuals with genetic conditions to successfully adapt to their situation. We offer data on perceptions of stigma from a cross-sectional survey of 174 adults with Marfan syndrome by self-report. Fifty-six respondents (32%) reported feeling discriminated against or so...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Peters K,Apse K,Blackford A,McHugh B,Michalic D,Biesecker B

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed a 49 bp tandem duplication adjacent to the triplet repeat of the FMR1 gene and have shown it to occur as a variant in Finland. It affects the primers commonly used in molecular analysis of fragile X syndrome by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods. One concern is that females with the full mutation...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mononen T,von Koskull H,Airaksinen RL,Juvonen V

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:We describe two patients, a 19-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy, with mosaic trisomy 18 and pigmentary dysplasias. Both patients had profound growth and mental retardation, marked kyphoscoliosis, bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, simple ears, and joint contractures - clinical manifestations of long survivors with mosai...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Murano I,Ohashi H,Tsukahara M,Tonoki H,Okino F,Atsumi M,Kajii T

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Isolated cleft palate (CP) is considered to be a heterogeneous trait with an important genetic contribution to the etiology. Multifactorial-threshold models of non-syndromic CP inheritance assume a female predominance. The present study of 52 Danish birth cohorts, using several ascertainment sources, identified 2301 C...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Christensen K,Fogh-Andersen P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on an investigation into the differences in image quality of different components used in a digital image processing system for chromosome analysis. As chromosome aberrations are important tools in the cloning of genes, it is important to know if the introduction of computerized analysis systems inc...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nivall S,Holmquist D,Gustavsson T,Wahlström J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old Saudi female child with extreme failure to thrive, striking dysmorphic features, developmental delay, congenital hypoparathyroidism, UTI, seizures, chronic otitis media, chronic non-specific gastroenteritis and repeated life-threatening infections was followed from birth. She was the product of first-cous...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kalam MA,Hafeez W

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A third case of an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 6 with clinical features mimicking Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is presented. Although preliminary clinical evaluation in each case suggested PWS, further review revealed that the features in all three cases are not completely compatible with the ch...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Stein CK,Stred SE,Thomson LL,Smith FC,Hoo JJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skraban-Deardorff syndrome (a disease related to variations in the WDR26 gene; OMIM #617616) was first described in a cohort of 15 individuals in 2017. The syndrome comprises intellectual deficiency, severe speech impairment, ataxic gait, seizures, mild hypotonia with feeding difficulties during infancy, and dysmorphi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cospain A,Schaefer E,Faoucher M,Dubourg C,Carré W,Bizaoui V,Assoumani J,Van Maldergem L,Piton A,Gérard B,Mau-Them FT,Bruel AL,Faivre L,Demurger F,Pasquier L,Odent S,Fradin M,Lavillaureix A

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected a novel mutation in the adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) gene in skin fibroblasts in primary culture derived from a patient suffering from the adrenocortical insufficiency-only-phenotype of ALD. This nonsense mutation (C2400T/Q672X) is the only mutation reported to date affecting exon 10. It leads to a tran...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Holzinger A,Maier E,Stöckler-Ipsiroglu S,Braun A,Roscher AA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-mosaic males with a 46,XY karyotype and a MECP2 null mutation display a phenotype of severe neonatal-onset encephalopathy that is distinctly different from Rett syndrome (RTT). To increase awareness of this rare disorder, we are reporting novel findings in a sporadic case, compare them to 16 previously reported ca...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schüle B,Armstrong DD,Vogel H,Oviedo A,Francke U

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on current consensus guidelines and standard practice, many genetic variants detected in clinical testing are classified as disease causing based on their predicted impact on the normal expression or function of the gene in the absence of additional data. However, our laboratory has identified a subset of such v...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rosenthal ET,Bowles KR,Pruss D,van Kan A,Vail PJ,McElroy H,Wenstrup RJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report a 22-year-old male with an asymmetric skeletal dysplasia, affecting almost the whole right part of the body and closely resembling pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia. This "segmental" type of chondrodysplasia is apparently another rare example of a somatic mutation of an autosomal dominant gene in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fryns JP,van den Berghe H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is described in three cases: a 17-year-old man, his mother and his maternal grandmother. The onset of skin symptoms occurred from puberty to early adulthood. The skin was loose-hanging, wrinkled and without elasticity. X-ray examination showed numerous gastrointestinal diverticulae in the two older patients...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Damkier A,Brandrup F,Starklint H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some anencephalic fetuses exposed neural tissue mass of varied size can be demonstrated. This is known as exencephaly. The authors diagnosed by ultrasound 10 typical exencephalic cases prenatally between 14 and 21 weeks of gestation. Nine singular pregnancies were terminated and in the twin pregnancy a selective fe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Papp Z,Csécsei K,Tóth Z,Polgár K,Szeifert GT

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00