C4 allotypes and HLA-DR antigens in the family of a patient with C4 deficiency.

abstract：:A seven-generation pedigree of apparent X-linked, nonspecific mental retardation is reported. There are 19 known affected males who appear to have received the gene through normal mothers. Retardation, lack of fine motor coordination, hyperactivity and a speech defect are the characteristics of affected individuals st...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Yarbrough KM,Howard-Peebles PN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described a complex multisystem syndrome in which mild-moderate myopia segregated as an independent trait. A plethora of genes has been related to sporadic and familial myopia. More recently, in Chinese patients severe myopia (MYP25, OMIM:617238) has been linked to mutations in P4HA2 gene. Seven family mem...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Napolitano F,Di Iorio V,Testa F,Tirozzi A,Reccia MG,Lombardi L,Farina O,Simonelli F,Gianfrancesco F,Di Iorio G,Melone MAB,Esposito T,Sampaolo S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genealogical survey of familial amyloid polyneuropathy in the Arao district of Japan was undertaken, and the data were analysed statistically. The survey revealed 92 patients (46 males and 46 females) in 9 families. Thirty-one of the patients (16 males and 15 females) are alive. For 44 patients, the mean age of onse...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sakoda S,Suzuki T,Higa S,Ueji M,Kishimoto S,Hayashi A,Yasuda N,Takaba Y,Nakajima A

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-ribosylation factor-like 2 (ARL2) protein participates in a broad range of cellular processes and acts as a mediator for mutant ARL2BP in cilium-associated retinitis pigmentosa and for mutant HRG4 in mitochondria-related photoreceptor degeneration. However, mutant ARL2 has not been linked t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cai XB,Wu KC,Zhang X,Lv JN,Jin GH,Xiang L,Chen J,Huang XF,Pan D,Lu B,Lu F,Qu J,Jin ZB

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have reported on possible relationships between a hypervariable sequence near the 5' end of the insulin gene and some common diseases. Control populations within these studies appear to disobey the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. In this study we have ascertained the allele frequencies in 181 random in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hubbard AL,Clayton JF

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:The effect of folic acid intake on the frequency of fragile X positive cells and some behavioural characteristics were evaluated in 5 boys and 4 adult males with the fragile X syndrome. The expression of fragile X was nullified in 6 and decreased in 3 of the 9 patients. Behavioural and motor ability were considered to...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gustavson KH,Dahlbom K,Flood A,Holmgren G,Blomquist HK,Sanner G

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rare developmental disorder Roberts' syndrome, prophase and metaphase chromosomes display premature sister-chromatid separation, most prominently at certain regions in which the chromatin is composed of highly reiterated base sequences. In addition, interphase nuclei present a striking distortion in their conto...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： German J

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of hypoxanthine, resistance to 8-azaguanine and activation by lyophilisation have been studied in cultured human fibroblasts. Cells from one family where there was a boy with Lesch-Nyham syndrome, from two families with variant H-PRT mutations and three cell strains from patients with the Lesch-Nyham syn...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Willers I,Held KR,Singh S,Goedde HW

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This quantitative study determines the values, beliefs, and attitudes influencing the intention of men to undergo or defer genetic testing for prostate cancer risk using a model based on components of the Theory of Reasoned Action and Health Belief Model. Telephone interviews of a community sample of 400 men in a larg...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Doukas DJ,Localio AR,Li Y

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of fetal and maternal genes to the variation in birth weight was estimated in a sample of 5,625 grandchildren of monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Fetal and maternal genetic effects were separated by comparing the covariance structure for offspring of daughters of twins with that for offspring of sons ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Magnus P

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a child with partial trisomy of the short arm of chromosome 17, which was characterized by 24-color spectral karyotyping (SKY) and other fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) methods. The child had phenotypic features previously associated with trisomy 17p, including facial characteristics, d...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Morelli SH,Deubler DA,Brothman LJ,Carey JC,Brothman AR

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:A 26-week gestation, premature neonate who developed a transient myeloproliferative disorder is presented. The morphological features of Down syndrome were not obvious at this gestational age, and the cytogenetic studies gave a misleading normal karyotype after the infant received non-irradiated blood. The diagnosis o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Druce M,Cohen IJ,Naor N,Shohat M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1984, we interviewed 105 Belgian families with a Cystic Fibrosis (CF) child in order to assess the impact of the birth of their CF-child on subsequent family planning and to evaluate their attitudes towards prenatal diagnosis. Three years later, in 1987, they received a mailed questionnaire for an updating of the r...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Evers-Kiebooms G,Denayer L,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase activity was assayed in platelets from 32 apparently healthy subjects using phenethylamine as substrate and two concentrations of oxygen (0.06 and 0.12 mM). Apparent Km (microM) and Vmax (nmol/mg protein/5 min) values were estimated from double reciprocal plots. The means of the Km and Vmax values we...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Koide Y,Sääf J,Roos SB,Wahlund LO,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous fatal neurodegenerative disease. Around 10% of ALS cases are hereditary. ALS gene discoveries have provided most of our understanding of disease pathogenesis. We aimed to describe the genetic landscape of ALS in Australia by assessing 10...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： McCann EP,Williams KL,Fifita JA,Tarr IS,O'Connor J,Rowe DB,Nicholson GA,Blair IP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two families in which one or two children had a severe disorder of skeletal development detected by prenatal ultrasonography. The children died postnatally and showed typical radiological and biochemical findings of perinatal hypophosphatasia. Biochemical analysis revealed a low activity of alkaline phosp...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gehring B,Mornet E,Plath H,Hansmann M,Bartmann P,Brenner RE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single mandibular incisor and an unusually narrow mandible and tongue were noted in an 8-year-old moderately retarded boy with 18p- (45, XY, der dic (18) (18qter-p11.2::22p 11.2-qter). While a single maxillary incisor, considered a minor feature of holoprosencephaly, was reported in three cases of 18p-, reduction of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Pfeiffer RA,Hertrich K,Cohen M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old mentally retarded woman was found to have a complex rearrangement of one chromosome 4. Her karyotype is interpreted as 46,XX,inv(4) (pter----p14::q12----p14::q12----qter) del (4) (pter----15.33::p15.2----qter). Clinically she does not show the features of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. Her phenotype and c...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Romain DR,Columbano-Green LM,Parfitt RG,Chapman CJ,Smythe RH,Gebbie OB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tricho-dento-osseous (TDO) syndrome is an autosomal dominant trait characterized by curly kinky hair at birth, enamel hypoplasia, taurodontism, thickening of cortical bones and variable expression of craniofacial morphology. Genetic studies have identified a 4-bp deletion in the DLX3 gene that is associated with TDO; ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nguyen T,Phillips C,Frazier-Bower S,Wright T

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an epidemiological study, infants identified at birth as having sex chromosome anomalies are enrolled in a voluntary, long term evaluations program. Case histories are presented of the first four boys in the series to have a 47,XXY karyotype. They have been followed from birth for 6 to 9 years, with physical and ps...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Puck M,Tennes K,Frankenburg W,Bryant K,Robinson A

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations (eg, BRCA1/2) have prognostic and treatment implications for ovarian cancer (OVCA) patients. Thus, national guidelines recommend genetic testing for OVCA patients. The present study examines patterns and predictors of genetics referral in OVCA patients. Electronic medical record data were abstracted...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mallen AR,Conley CC,Townsend MK,Wells A,Boac BM,Todd S,Gandhi A,Kuznicki M,Augusto BM,McIntyre M,Fridley BL,Tworoger SS,Wenham RM,Vadaparampil ST

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns two patients with clinical features typical for tetrasomy 18p syndrome. Chromosomal analysis revealed a male karyotype in both cases, with an additional small metacentric marker chromosome, putatively an i(18p). Fluorescent in situ hybridization with a chromosome 18-specific paint confirmed that t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Back E,Toder R,Voiculescu I,Wildberg A,Schempp W

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1a glycogen storage disease (GSD) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nucleotide sequence analysis were used to identify the location and nature of mutations at the G6Pase locus in two siblings affected with typ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee WJ,Lee HM,Chi CS,Shu SG,Lin LY,Lin WH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old woman who complained of irregular menstruation was diagnosed as suffering from trisomy 18 mosaicism. She was karyotyped because of her characteristic face, mild mental retardation and aberrant hyperpigmentation of the skin. Her motor function was within normal range. Physical and laboratory examinations,...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Uehara S,Obara Y,Obara T,Funato T,Yaegashi N,Fukaya T,Yajima A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of the performance of 17-18-year-old high school students on standard intelligence tests confirms previous reports that nearsighted persons consistently achieve scores approximately eight I.O. points higher than non-myopes. Comparison of tests administered to the same students 10 years earlier suggests that...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Karlsson JL

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a class of long RNAs, are longer than 200 nucleotides in length but lack protein-coding capacity. LncRNAs, as critical genomic regulators, are involved in genomic imprinting regulation, histone modification and gene expression regulation as well as tumor initiation and progression. Howe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhang HD,Jiang LH,Zhong SL,Li J,Sun DW,Hou JC,Wang DD,Zhou SY,Tang JH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with the Tricho-Rhino-Phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) with normal mentation, without exostoses and with a partial microdeletion of 8q23. Although she had the phenotypic characteristics of TRPS Type I, karyotypic analysis demonstrated the 8q-microdeletion usually associated with TRPS Type II, in which...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Goldblatt J,Smart RD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00