Partial trisomy 14 (q23 leads to qter) via segregation of a 14/X translocation.

abstract：:Cigarette smoke, containing reactive oxygen species, is the most important risk factor for chronic pulmonary emphysema (CPE). Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) plays a protective role as an antioxidant in the lung. A (GT)n dinucleotide repeat in the 5'-flanking region of human HO-1 gene shows length polymorphism and could modul...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Yamada N,Yamaya M,Okinaga S,Nakayama K,Sekizawa K,Shibahara S,Sasaki H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer occurrence in 164 families with breast/ovarian cancer and germline BRCA2 mutations was studied to evaluate the evidence for genotype-phenotype correlations. Mutations in a central portion of the gene (the "ovarian cancer cluster region" [OCCR]) were associated with a significantly higher ratio of cases of ovari...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Thompson D,Easton D,Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium.

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the three class I alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes (ADH2 and ADH3) encode known functional variants that act on alcohol with different efficiencies. Variants at both these genes have been implicated in alcoholism in some populations because allele frequencies differ between alcoholics and controls. Specificall...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Osier M,Pakstis AJ,Kidd JR,Lee JF,Yin SJ,Ko HC,Edenberg HJ,Lu RB,Kidd KK

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorineural deafness and retinitis pigmentosa (RP) are the hallmarks of Usher syndrome (USH) but are also prominent features in peroxisomal biogenesis defects (PBDs); both are autosomal recessively inherited. The firstborn son of unrelated parents, who both had sensorineural deafness and RP diagnosed as USH, present...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Raas-Rothschild A,Wanders RJ,Mooijer PA,Gootjes J,Waterham HR,Gutman A,Suzuki Y,Shimozawa N,Kondo N,Eshel G,Espeel M,Roels F,Korman SH

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether smoking-associated DNA methylation has a causal effect on lung function has not been thoroughly evaluated. We first investigated the causal effects of 474 smoking-associated CpGs on forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) in UK Biobank (n = 321,047) by using two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) and then repl...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Jamieson E,Korologou-Linden R,Wootton RE,Guyatt AL,Battram T,Burrows K,Gaunt TR,Tobin MD,Munafò M,Davey Smith G,Tilling K,Relton C,Richardson TG,Richmond RC

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations in the genes for fibroblast growth factor receptors 1-3 (FGFR1-3) are responsible for a diverse group of skeletal disorders. In general, mutations in FGFR1 and FGFR2 cause the majority of syndromes involving craniosynostosis, whereas the dwarfing syndromes are largely associated with FGFR3 mutatio...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： White KE,Cabral JM,Davis SI,Fishburn T,Evans WE,Ichikawa S,Fields J,Yu X,Shaw NJ,McLellan NJ,McKeown C,Fitzpatrick D,Yu K,Ornitz DM,Econs MJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of pathways that underlie common disease has been greatly impacted by the study of rare families that segregate single genes with large effect. Intracranial aneurysm is a common neurological problem; the rupture of these aneurysms constitutes a frequently catastrophic neurologic event. The pathogene...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Nahed BV,Seker A,Guclu B,Ozturk AK,Finberg K,Hawkins AA,DiLuna ML,State M,Lifton RP,Gunel M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While genetic causes are known for many syndromes involving developmental anomalies, a large number of individuals with overlapping phenotypes remain undiagnosed. Using exome-sequencing analysis and review of matchmaker databases, we have discovered four de novo missense variants predicted to affect the N-terminal reg...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Reis LM,Sorokina EA,Thompson S,Muheisen S,Velinov M,Zamora C,Aylsworth AS,Semina EV

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four subjects with thermolabile methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) were discovered among 16 "obligate" heterozygotes for severe MTHFR deficiency and their family members. All four subjects had less than 25% of normal mean MTHFR specific activity in lymphocyte extracts. Three of them with normal serum folate a...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kang SS,Wong PW,Bock HG,Horwitz A,Grix A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that an X-linked recessive form of chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIIPX) maps to Xq28. To select candidate genes for the disease, we analyzed the expression in murine fetal brain and intestine of 56 genes from the critical region. We selected and sequenced seven genes and...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Gargiulo A,Auricchio R,Barone MV,Cotugno G,Reardon W,Milla PJ,Ballabio A,Ciccodicola A,Auricchio A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated biological process by which the number of gene products for any given gene can be greatly expanded. Genomic variants in splicing regulatory sequences can disrupt splicing and cause disease. Recent developments in sequencing technologies and computational biology have allowed...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Park E,Pan Z,Zhang Z,Lin L,Xing Y

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is a genetic disorder characterized by the development of multiple nervous-system tumors in young adulthood. The NF2 gene has recently been isolated and found to encode a new member of the protein 4.1 family of cytoskeletal associated proteins, which we have named merlin. To define the molecu...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： MacCollin M,Ramesh V,Jacoby LB,Louis DN,Rubio MP,Pulaski K,Trofatter JA,Short MP,Bove C,Eldridge R

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernumerary marker chromosomes (SMCs) of chromosome 15, designated "SMC(15)s," are the most common SMC in humans, accounting for as much as 60% of all those observed. We report the characterization of 46 large SMC(15)s, using both fluorescence in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction analysis within and d...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Roberts SE,Maggouta F,Thomas NS,Jacobs PA,Crolla JA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that human lymphocytes can respond to the synthetic polypeptide GLPhe upon in vitro challenge by the antigen similar to that of (H,G)-A--L, (T,G)-A--L, (Phe,G)-A--L, and GAT. Family studies further support our postulation that responses to these synthetic polymers are under dual gene control. Thre...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Chan MM,Bias WB,Hsu SH,Meyers DA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider sequential sampling of pedigrees for genetic analysis. Cannings and Thompson (1977) gave simple, general guidelines for valid sequential sampling schemes. We show that their formulation of the likelihood contains an error, which is, however, easily corrected so as to maintain the validity of the sequential...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Hodge SE,Boehnke M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uniparental disomy (UPD) refers to the presence of two copies of a chromosome from one parent and none from the other parent. In genetic studies of UPDs, many genetic markers are usually used to identify the stage of nondisjunction that leads to UPD and to uncover the associated unusual patterns of recombinations. How...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Zhao H,Li J,Robinson WP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent somatic variants in SPOP are cancer specific; endometrial and prostate cancers result from gain-of-function and dominant-negative effects toward BET proteins, respectively. By using clinical exome sequencing, we identified six de novo pathogenic missense variants in SPOP in seven individuals with development...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Nabais Sá MJ,El Tekle G,de Brouwer APM,Sawyer SL,Del Gaudio D,Parker MJ,Kanani F,van den Boogaard MH,van Gassen K,Van Allen MI,Wierenga K,Purcarin G,Elias ER,Begtrup A,Keller-Ramey J,Bernasocchi T,van de Wiel L,Gilissen

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is a common autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease with early adult-onset motor abnormalities and dementia. Many studies of HD show that huntingtin (CAG)n repeat-expansion length is a sensitive and specific marker for HD. However, there are a significant number of examples of HD in the ab...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Moore RC,Xiang F,Monaghan J,Han D,Zhang Z,Edström L,Anvret M,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joubert syndrome (JBTS) is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by a distinctive mid-hindbrain malformation, developmental delay with hypotonia, ocular-motor apraxia, and breathing abnormalities. Although JBTS was first described more than 40 years ago in French Canadian siblings, the causal mutations have no...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Srour M,Schwartzentruber J,Hamdan FF,Ospina LH,Patry L,Labuda D,Massicotte C,Dobrzeniecka S,Capo-Chichi JM,Papillon-Cavanagh S,Samuels ME,Boycott KM,Shevell MI,Laframboise R,Désilets V,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Maranda B,

更新日期：2012-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Split hand/split foot (SHFD) is a human developmental defect characterized by missing digits, fusion of remaining digits, and a deep median cleft in the hands and feet. Cytogenetic studies of deletions and translocations associated with this disorder have indicated that an autosomal dominant split hand/split foot locu...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Scherer SW,Poorkaj P,Allen T,Kim J,Geshuri D,Nunes M,Soder S,Stephens K,Pagon RA,Patton MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the implementation of predictive-testing programs for Huntington disease (HD), significant concern was raised concerning the likelihood of catastrophic events (CEs), particularly in those persons receiving an increased-risk result. We have investigated the frequency of CEs-that is, suicide, suicide attempt, a...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Almqvist EW,Bloch M,Brinkman R,Craufurd D,Hayden MR

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hpa I restriction endonuclease site polymorphism that results in some human beta globin genes being contained in a 13-kilobase (kb) DNA restriction fragment rather than in the usual 7.6-kb fragment has been reported to be in linkage disequilibrium with the beta S mutation. The frequency of the 13-kb fragment among...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Panny SR,Scott AF,Smith KD,Phillips JA 3rd,Kazazian HH Jr,Talbot CC Jr,Boehm CD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosomy for the X chromosome in humans creates a genetic Achilles' heel for nature to deal with. We report that the human X chromosome appears to have one-third the density of the coding sequence of the autosomes and, because of partial shielding from the high mutation rate of the male sex, that it should also have a...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Giannelli F,Green PM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeric-mapping methods have been used to investigate the association between altered recombination and meiotic nondisjunction in humans. For trisomies, current methods are based on the genotypes from a trisomic offspring and both parents. Because it is sometimes difficult to obtain samples from both parents and b...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Feingold E,Brown AS,Sherman SL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family with a novel disorder characterized by episodic muscle weakness and X-linked inheritance. Eight males in three generations demonstrate the characteristic features of the disorder. Episodes of severe muscle weakness are typically precipitated by febrile illness and affect the facial and extraocular...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Ryan MM,Taylor P,Donald JA,Ouvrier RA,Morgan G,Danta G,Buckley MF,North KN

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are strong correlates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, but little is known about their genetic determinants. Using data on nondiabetics from Mexican American families and a multipoint linkage approach, we scanned the genome and identified a major locus near marker D6S403 for fast...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Duggirala R,Blangero J,Almasy L,Arya R,Dyer TD,Williams KL,Leach RJ,O'Connell P,Stern MP

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus and neurodegeneration are common diseases for which shared genetic factors are still only partly known. Here, we show that loss of the BiP (immunoglobulin heavy-chain binding protein) co-chaperone DNAJC3 leads to diabetes mellitus and widespread neurodegeneration. We investigated three siblings with ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Synofzik M,Haack TB,Kopajtich R,Gorza M,Rapaport D,Greiner M,Schönfeld C,Freiberg C,Schorr S,Holl RW,Gonzalez MA,Fritsche A,Fallier-Becker P,Zimmermann R,Strom TM,Meitinger T,Züchner S,Schüle R,Schöls L,Prokisch H

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Paget disease of bone (PDB) is characterized by increased osteoclast activity and localized abnormal bone remodeling. PDB has a significant genetic component, with evidence of linkage to chromosomes 6p21.3 (PDB1) and 18q21-22 (PDB2) in some pedigrees. There is evidence of genetic heterogeneity, with other pedigrees sh...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Good DA,Busfield F,Fletcher BH,Duffy DL,Kesting JB,Andersen J,Shaw JT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is gaining popularity as a complementary assay to genome sequencing for precisely identifying the molecular causes of rare disorders. A powerful approach is to identify aberrant gene expression levels as potential pathogenic events. However, existing methods for detecting aberrant read counts ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Brechtmann F,Mertes C,Matusevičiūtė A,Yépez VA,Avsec Ž,Herzog M,Bader DM,Prokisch H,Gagneur J

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological disorder that affects 5%-12% of all whites. To genetically dissect this complex disease, we characterized 15 large and extended multiplex pedigrees, consisting of 453 subjects (134 affected with RLS). A familial aggregation analysis was performed, and SAGE FCOR was...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Chen S,Ondo WG,Rao S,Li L,Chen Q,Wang Q

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00