Low arylsulphatase A activity in a family without metachromatic leukodystrophy.

abstract：:Two semen samples from a 47,XXY male were examined using chromosome-specific DNA probes and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to determine the distribution of sex chromosomes and an autosome (chromosome 17) in the sperm. A motile population of sperm was also prepared from one sample using the swim-up technique ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Han TH,Ford JH,Flaherty SP,Webb GC,Matthews CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of statins to strongly reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) varies interindividually and is partially influenced by genetic variants. Based on a comprehensive analysis of 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) known to be associated with pharmacokinetics and dynamics of statins, we develop...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ciuculete DM,Bandstein M,Benedict C,Waeber G,Vollenweider P,Lind L,Schiöth HB,Mwinyi J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic abortions were performed in two cases of spina bifida which were diagnosed by determination of the lafa fetoprotein levels in the amniotic fluid and maternal serum. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Malmqvist E,Lindsten J,Nøorgaard-Pedersen B,Hellström B,Sundberg B

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent trisomy 21: four cases in three generations. While gonadal mosaicism can lead to recurrence of trisomy 21 (T21) for a single couple, the recurrence of free T21 in multiple members of a single pedigree has rarely been reported. We present an unusual pedigree with four cases of Down syndrome (DS) with free T21...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gair JL,Arbour L,Rupps R,Jiang R,Bruyère H,Robinson WP

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) is an autosomal dominant disorder manifested in cleft lip and/or palate and lip pits. Isolated clefts of the lip and/or palate (ICLP) have both genotype and phenotype overlap with VWS. Subjects with ICLP have abnormalities in brain structure and function. Given the similarities between VWS...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nopoulos P,Richman L,Andreasen NC,Murray JC,Schutte B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of apolipoprotein (apo) A-IV genotype on serum glucose, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglyceride and glucose concentrations were ascertained in a population of 373 men and 361 women with a mean age of about 57 years. Subjects wer...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Larson IA,Ordovas JM,Sun Z,Barnard,Lohrmann J,Feussner G,Lamon-Fava S,Schaefer EJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have investigated the close association that exists between CAG repeat number and the age at onset in SCA2 = spinocerebellar ataxia type 2. These studies have focused on affected individuals. To further characterize this association and estimate the risk of a carrier developing SCA2 at a particular ag...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Almaguer-Mederos LE,Falcón NS,Almira YR,Zaldivar YG,Almarales DC,Góngora EM,Herrera MP,Batallán KE,Armiñán RR,Manresa MV,Cruz GS,Laffita-Mesa J,Cyuz TM,Chang V,Auburger G,Gispert S,Pérez LV

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:A female child is described with multiple anomalies including epicanthus, frontal bossing, short sternum, polydactyly, cleft of the larynx, renal cysts, and unusual dermatoglyphics. She died aged 3 months and was found to have a unique de novo deletion of chromosome No. 4 (q22-q25). This case is compared with other lo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Butler LJ,Palmer AV,Spencer T,Tabios-Broadway R,Wall WJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is a rare X-linked semidominant syndrome characterized by severe psychomotor retardation, facial dysmorphism, digit abnormalities and progressive skeletal deformations. CLS is caused by mutations in a gene located in Xp22.2, RPS6KA3. This gene encodes for a growth factor-regulated serin...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Delaunoy JP,Dubos A,Marques Pereira P,Hanauer A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alterations in GFER gene have been associated with progressive mitochondrial myopathy, congenital cataracts, hearing loss, developmental delay, lactic acidosis and respiratory chain deficiency in 3 siblings born to consanguineous Moroccan parents by homozygosity mapping and candidate gene approach (OMIM#6130...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nambot S,Gavrilov D,Thevenon J,Bruel AL,Bainbridge M,Rio M,Goizet C,Rötig A,Jaeken J,Niu N,Xia F,Vital A,Houcinat N,Mochel F,Kuentz P,Lehalle D,Duffourd Y,Rivière JB,Thauvin-Robinet C,Beaudet AL,Faivre L

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several sequence variations were examined for being endogenous "risk markers" in the development of CHD. The "markers" in this study included: the PstI-SstI RFLPs in the apo AI-CIII gene cluster, the EcoRI-MspI RFLPs in the apo B100 gene and the SstI RFLP in the 5' flanking region of the insulin gene. The study popula...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wick U,Witt E,Engel W

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large variety of mutations within the genes encoding hepcidin (HAMP) and hemojuvelin (HJV) have been identified in patients with the severe iron overload disorder juvenile hemochromatosis (JH). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the molecular background of JH in patients from central parts of Europe. Seque...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gehrke SG,Pietrangelo A,Kascák M,Braner A,Eisold M,Kulaksiz H,Herrmann T,Hebling U,Bents K,Gugler R,Stremmel W

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the clinical, laboratory, and genetic spectra in Korean patients with dysferlinopathy to clarify its genotype-phenotype correlation. We retrospectively reviewed 101 patients from 96 unrelated families with pathogenic variants of DYSF. The most common initial phenotype was Miyoshi myopathy in 50 patient...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Park HJ,Hong YB,Hong JM,Yun UK,Kim SW,Shin HY,Kim SM,Choi YC

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) or hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV is a rare, autosomal recessive neurologic disorder, characterized by absence of reaction to painful stimuli, mental retardation, self- mutilating behavior, anhidrosis, and recurrent episodes of hyperthermia. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Suriu C,Khayat M,Weiler M,Kfir N,Cohen C,Zinger A,Aslanidis C,Schmitz G,Falik-Zaccai TC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the NPC1 or NPC2 gene are responsible for Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease (OMIM #257220), an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder caused by an incorrect regulation of intracellular lipid trafficking. A molecular analysis carried out in 30 unrelated patients identified 43 dist...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Macías-Vidal J,Rodríguez-Pascau L,Sánchez-Ollé G,Lluch M,Vilageliu L,Grinberg D,Coll MJ,Spanish NPC Working Group.

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carriers for chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) and patients with lupus erythematosus (LE) share several characteristics: They are mostly females, they reduce nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) poorly in their neutrophils, and, in some cases, they have similar skin lesions. We thus investigated 19 female LE patients for the...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Humbert JR,Fishman CB,Weston WL,DeArmey PA,Thoren CH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robinow Syndrome (RS), a rare skeletal dysplasia syndrome, is characterized by dysmorphic features resembling a fetal face, mesomelic limb shortening, hypoplastic external genitalia in males, and renal and vertebral anomalies. Both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive patterns of inheritance have been reported. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Roifman M,Marcelis CL,Paton T,Marshall C,Silver R,Lohr JL,Yntema HG,Venselaar H,Kayserili H,van Bon B,Seaward G,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Brunner HG,Chitayat D

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes, including HLA-A, -B, -C and -DR and complotypes (BF, C2, C4A and C4B) were determined in a large family with inherited C4 deficiency. The propositus, a 12-year-old girl with complete C4 deficiency and SLE, had the MHC haplotypes HLA-A2,Cw3,-B40,-DR6,BFS,C2C,C4AQO,C4AB...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sjöholm AG,Kjellman NI,Löw B

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 patients with Angelman syndrome (AS) due to paternal uniparental disomy (UPD). One patient is a female aged 30 years and the other a male aged 4 1/2 years. Both have the characteristic wide mouth and big chin, moderate mental retardation, virtually no speech but some 30 words of sign language and a happy...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Smith A,Robson L,Buchholz B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the genes FBN1, TGFBR1, and TGFBR2 can result in heritable connective tissue disorders comprising the Marfan syndrome and the Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Dural ectasia is a characteristic manifestation of both syndromes. However, dural ectasia has not yet been investigated in connective tissue disorders that ar...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sheikhzadeh S,Rybczynski M,Habermann CR,Bernhardt AM,Arslan-Kirchner M,Keyser B,Kaemmerer H,Mir TS,Staebler A,Oezdal N,Robinson PN,Berger J,Meinertz T,von Kodolitsch Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concurrence of a short arm isochromosome and a translocation of the entire long arm of the same chromosome to a telomere of another chromosome, implying trisomy for 4p, 5p, 7p, 9p, 10p or 12p, has been described in 13 patients. We have now used fluorescence in situ hybrization (FISH) to better characterize one of ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rivera H,Vásquez AI,Perea FJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which a mother and her two children carry a tandem duplication of the short arm of chromosome 8. Their phenotypes are similar and characterised by distinct facial dysmorphism, small stature and mild mental retardation. This is one of the first cases of direct familial transmission of a partial...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dhooge C,Van Roy N,Craen M,Speleman F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results of the multidisciplinary evaluation in patients with Fabry disease and the same genetic mutation and their outcomes using different approved enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). We measured baseline data and serial results of neuropathic pain assessment and renal, cardiac and cerebrovascular funct...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Politei J,Schenone AB,Cabrera G,Heguilen R,Szlago M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CDKL5 gene has been implicated in infantile spasms and more recently in a Rett syndrome-like phenotype. We report a case of a young girl presenting generalized convulsions at 10 days of life. Subsequent mutation analysis by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography of MECP2 and CDKL5 genes revealed heteroz...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Nectoux J,Heron D,Tallot M,Chelly J,Bienvenu T

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life-span of Menkes syndrome patients is discussed in connection with a boy suffering from this disease who lived to the age of 13.5 years. The copper metabolism defect is described. Therapeutic trials, mainly copper substitution, and prospects are summed up. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sander C,Niederhoff H,Horn N

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization was used to characterize an undetected chromosome translocation in a child whose metaphase chromosome analysis in peripheral blood and in skin culture revealed apparent monosomy 21. The cytogenetic study revealed 45 chromosomes, and no other structural anomalies were detected with G banding. In s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： López-Pajares I,Martin-Ancel A,Cabello P,Delicado A,Garcia-Alix A,San Roman C

更新日期：1993-02-01 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