FUdR induction of the X chromosome fragile site: evidence for the mechanism of folic acid and thymidine inhibition.

abstract：:A mutation in transthyretin (TTR Asn 90) has been identified in the Portuguese and German populations. This variant has a lower pI and was found by screening analyses in 2/4,000 German subjects and in 4/1,200 Portuguese by using either double one-dimensional (D1-D) electrophoresis with isoelectric focusing (IEF) or hy...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Saraiva MJ,Almeida MR,Alves IL,Moreira P,Gawinowicz M,Costa PP,Rauh S,Banhzoff A,Altland K

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many disorders are associated with altered serum protein concentrations, including malnutrition, cancer, and cardiovascular, kidney, and inflammatory diseases. Although these protein concentrations are highly heritable, relatively little is known about their underlying genetic determinants. Through transethnic meta-an...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Franceschini N,van Rooij FJ,Prins BP,Feitosa MF,Karakas M,Eckfeldt JH,Folsom AR,Kopp J,Vaez A,Andrews JS,Baumert J,Boraska V,Broer L,Hayward C,Ngwa JS,Okada Y,Polasek O,Westra HJ,Wang YA,Del Greco M F,Glazer NL,

更新日期：2012-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of acquired partial lipodystrophy (APL, also called "Barraquer-Simons syndrome") is unknown. Genomic DNA mutations affecting the nuclear lamina protein lamin A cause inherited partial lipodystrophy but are not found in patients with APL. Because it also encodes a nuclear lamina protein (lamin B2) and its ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Hegele RA,Cao H,Liu DM,Costain GA,Charlton-Menys V,Rodger NW,Durrington PN

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene(s) whose expression is regulated by allergy risk variants is unknown for many loci identified through genome-wide association studies. Addressing this knowledge gap might point to new therapeutic targets for allergic disease. The aim of this study was to identify the target gene(s) and the functional variant(...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Vicente CT,Edwards SL,Hillman KM,Kaufmann S,Mitchell H,Bain L,Glubb DM,Lee JS,French JD,Ferreira MA

更新日期：2015-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign infantile familial convulsions is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by nonfebrile seizures, with the first attack occurring at age 3-12 mo. It is one of the rare forms of epilepsy that are inherited as monogenic Mendelian traits, thus providing a powerful tool for mapping genes involved in epileptic ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Szepetowski P,Rochette J,Berquin P,Piussan C,Lathrop GM,Monaco AP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is an autosomal dominant disorder of craniofacial development, the features of which include conductive hearing loss and cleft palate. The TCS locus has been mapped to human chromosome 5q31.3-32 and the mutated gene identified. In the current investigation, 25 previously undescribed mut...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Edwards SJ,Gladwin AJ,Dixon MJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem considered is that of estimating the age or rate of increase of a variant on the basis of the present number of replicates observed in a population. In place of previous diffusion equation analyses of age probability distributions, the likelihood for the age is studied on the basis of a discrete branching ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Thompson EA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare germ-line polymorphism in codon 47 of the p53 gene replaces the wild-type proline (CCG) with a serine (TCG). Restriction analysis of 101 human samples revealed the frequency of the rare allele to be 0% (n = 69) in Caucasians and 4.7% (3/64, n = 32) among African-Americans. To investigate the consequence of this...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Felley-Bosco E,Weston A,Cawley HM,Bennett WP,Harris CC

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the role of inherited BRCA2 mutations in American families--particularly the appearance in America of European founder mutations--the BRCA2 coding sequence, 5' UTR, and 3' UTR were screened in 22 Caucasian American kindreds with four or more cases of breast or ovarian cancer. Six mutations were fo...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Schubert EL,Lee MK,Mefford HC,Argonza RH,Morrow JE,Hull J,Dann JL,King MC

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDGs) are disorders of abnormal protein glycosylation that affect multiple organ systems. Because most CDGs have been described in only a few individuals, our understanding of the associated phenotypes and the mechanisms of individual survival are limited. In the process of study...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kane MS,Davids M,Adams C,Wolfe LA,Cheung HW,Gropman A,Huang Y,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Ng BG,Freeze HH,Adams DR,Gahl WA,Boerkoel CF

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular mechanism for the expression of the fragile site at Xq28 is unknown. We tested the effect of 5-azacytidine and methionine on fragile X expression in lymphocytes and lymphoblastoid cells in an attempt to determine if DNA methylation was involved. We were unable to demonstrate a consistent dosage effect of ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Abruzzo MA,Mayer M,Jacobs PA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly-educated, socially aware group of persons presented themselves for Tay-Sachs screening having learned about it mainly from friends, newspapers, radio, and television but not from physicians or rabbis. After learning that screening was possible and deciding that it is in principle a good idea, and after discus...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Childs B,Gordis L,Kaback MM,Kazazian HH Jr

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between HLA-DR and -DQ and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in a defined high-incidence area was analyzed in a total of 58 population-based patients, representing 77% of IDDM patients with age at onset below 16 years, and in 92 unrelated parents in control families without IDDM. HLA haplotype...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kockum I,Wassmuth R,Holmberg E,Michelsen B,Lernmark A

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinocerebellar ataxia 3 locus (SCA3) for type I autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA type I), a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders, has been mapped to chromosome 14q32.1. ADCA type I patients from families segregating SCA3 share clinical features in common with tho...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Cancel G,Abbas N,Stevanin G,Dürr A,Chneiweiss H,Néri C,Duyckaerts C,Penet C,Cann HM,Agid Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary multiple exostoses (EXT) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the formation of cartilage-capped prominences that develop from the growth centers of the long bones. EXT is genetically heterogeneous, with three loci, currently identified on chromosomes 8q24.1, 11p13, and 19q. The EXT1 gene, loca...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Hecht JT,Hogue D,Wang Y,Blanton SH,Wagner M,Strong LC,Raskind W,Hansen MF,Wells D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS) is an X-linked disorder that exhibits a paradoxical sex reversal in phenotypic severity: females characteristically have frontonasal dysplasia, craniosynostosis, and additional minor malformations, but males are usually mildly affected with hypertelorism only. Despite this, males appe...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Twigg SR,Matsumoto K,Kidd AM,Goriely A,Taylor IB,Fisher RB,Hoogeboom AJ,Mathijssen IM,Lourenco MT,Morton JE,Sweeney E,Wilson LC,Brunner HG,Mulliken JB,Wall SA,Wilkie AO

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation results in the random transcriptional silencing of one of the two X chromosomes early in female development. After random inactivation, certain deleterious X-linked mutations can create a selective disadvantage for cells in which the mutation is on the active X chromosome, leading to X inacti...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Plenge RM,Tranebjaerg L,Jensen PK,Schwartz C,Willard HF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Research Council recommended the use of the ceiling principle in forensic applications of DNA testing on the grounds that the ceiling principle was believed to be "conservative," giving estimates greater than or equal to the actual genotype frequencies in the appropriate reference population. We show here...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Slimowitz JR,Cohen JE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome scan of the hoarding phenotype (a component of obsessive-compulsive disorder) was conducted on 77 sib pairs collected by the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics (TSAICG). All sib pairs were concordant for a diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). However, the analyse...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Zhang H,Leckman JF,Pauls DL,Tsai CP,Kidd KK,Campos MR,Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics.

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for human apolipoprotein C2 (APOC2), situated on the proximal long arm of chromosome 19, is closely linked to the gene for the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy (DM). Six APOC2 RFLPs (TaqI, BglI, BanI, BamHI, NcoI, and AvaII) have been identified to date. We have conducted a com...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： MacKenzie AE,MacLeod HL,Hunter AG,Korneluk RG

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several RFLPs have been detected using a cDNA fragment encoding the amino-terminal half of the A subunit of factor XIII. The RFLPs show little linkage disequilibrium and form many different haplotypes that can be used to identify chromosomes transmitting factor XIII A subunit deficiency. Southern blot analysis of thre...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Board PG,Chapple R,Coggan M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X syndrome is due to the new class of dynamic mutations. It is associated with an expansion of a trinucleotide repeat (CGG) in exon 1 of the fragile X mental retardation gene 1 gene (FMR1). Here we present a fragile X family with an unique female patient who was rendered hemizygous for the FRAXA locus due ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Grønskov K,Hjalgrim H,Bjerager MO,Brøndum-Nielsen K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To resolve the phylogeny of the autochthonous mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups of India and determine the relationship between the Indian and western Eurasian mtDNA pools more precisely, a diverse subset of 75 macrohaplogroup N lineages was chosen for complete sequencing from a collection of >800 control-region s...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Palanichamy MG,Sun C,Agrawal S,Bandelt HJ,Kong QP,Khan F,Wang CY,Chaudhuri TK,Palla V,Zhang YP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened DNA from unrelated individuals for RFLPs in the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) genes. These RFLP markers can be used for genetic linkage and association studies to test the hypothesis that receptor structure or regulation is involved in the development of myasthenia gravis (MG). The cDNAs...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Lobos EA,Rudnick CH,Watson MS,Isenberg KE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with three children with trisomy 21 in which the mother is a phenotypically normal, trisomy 21/normal mosaic was studied. Chromosome 21 fluorescent heteromorphisms were used to document that two of the three number 21's in two of the Down syndrome offspring were of maternal origin. Five cytogenetic surveys in...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Harris DJ,Begleiter ML,Chamberlin J,Hankins L,Magenis RE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomewide screen for quantitative-trait loci (QTLs) that underlie asthma was performed on 533 Chinese families with asthma, by the unified Haseman-Elston method. Nine asthma-related phenotypes were studied, including forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), airway responsiveness as indic...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Xu X,Fang Z,Wang B,Chen C,Guang W,Jin Y,Yang J,Lewitzky S,Aelony A,Parker A,Meyer J,Weiss ST,Xu X

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate colorectal cancer (CRC) risk prediction models are critical for identifying individuals at low and high risk of developing CRC, as they can then be offered targeted screening and interventions to address their risks of developing disease (if they are in a high-risk group) and avoid unnecessary screening and i...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Thomas M,Sakoda LC,Hoffmeister M,Rosenthal EA,Lee JK,van Duijnhoven FJB,Platz EA,Wu AH,Dampier CH,de la Chapelle A,Wolk A,Joshi AD,Burnett-Hartman A,Gsur A,Lindblom A,Castells A,Win AK,Namjou B,Van Guelpen B,Tangen

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor homologous factors (FHFs) are intracellular proteins which regulate voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels in the brain and other tissues. FHF dysfunction has been linked to neurological disorders including epilepsy. Here, we describe two sibling pairs and three unrelated males who presented in i...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Fry AE,Marra C,Derrick AV,Pickrell WO,Higgins AT,Te Water Naude J,McClatchey MA,Davies SJ,Metcalfe KA,Tan HJ,Mohanraj R,Avula S,Williams D,Brady LI,Mesterman R,Tarnopolsky MA,Zhang Y,Yang Y,Wang X,Genomics England R

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. To identify genes that affect the risk for alcoholism, we systematically ascertained and carefully assessed individuals in families with multiple alcoholics. Linkage and association analyses suggested that a region of chromosome 4p conta...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Edenberg HJ,Dick DM,Xuei X,Tian H,Almasy L,Bauer LO,Crowe RR,Goate A,Hesselbrock V,Jones K,Kwon J,Li TK,Nurnberger JI Jr,O'Connor SJ,Reich T,Rice J,Schuckit MA,Porjesz B,Foroud T,Begleiter H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic-dissection studies carried out with Down syndrome (DS) murine models point to the critical contribution of Dyrk1A overexpression to the motor abnormalities and cognitive deficits displayed in DS individuals. In the present study we have used a murine model overexpressing Dyrk1A (TgDyrk1A mice) to evaluate whet...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Ortiz-Abalia J,Sahún I,Altafaj X,Andreu N,Estivill X,Dierssen M,Fillat C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00