Low chiasma frequency as an aetiological factor in male infertility.

abstract：:Steatocystoma Multiplex (S.M.) is an inherited condition characterized by the appearance of cysts during the first or second decade of life. Familial cases have occasionally been reported. We studied 13 patients affected by S.M. from two unrelated families, focusing our attention on HLA, Gm and Km genotypes and on chr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cuccia-Belvedere M,Brazzelli V,Martinetti M,Berardesca E,Dugoujon JM,De Paoli F,Borroni G,Rabbiosi G

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Clinical evaluation of a 13 1/2-year-old male revealed a 4.4-cm leg length discrepancy and a small penis with a normal endocrine evaluation. Cytogenetic analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes and skin fibroblasts derived from the back showed 45,X/46,XY mosaicism with similar percentages of 45,X cells, 36% and 30% re...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Papenhausen PR,Mueller OT,Bercu B,Salazar J,Tedesco TA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid function has been studied in 121 patients between 13 and 48 years old with proven Down syndrome. Chemically, hypothyroidism was found in 17% and hyperthyroidism in 2.5% of the patients; 18% of patients had goiter. Thyroid antibodies were detected in 33% of subjects studied. The abnormal findings were almost eq...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sare Z,Ruvalcaba RH,Kelley VC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome type III is an autosomal recessive disorder clinically characterized by the association of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), variable presence of vestibular dysfunction and progressive hearing loss, being the progression of the hearing impairment the critical parameter classically used to distinguish this form...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Aller E,Jaijo T,Oltra S,Alió J,Galán F,Nájera C,Beneyto M,Millán JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:46,XY gonadal dysgenesis was transmitted as an autosomal-dominant trait in a large family with multiple affected members. Expressivity of the trait was highly variable, ranging from pure to partial gonadal dysgenesis associated with normal female genitalia or sexual ambiguity, to mild hypospadias in otherwise normal m...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jawaheer D,Juo SH,Le Caignec C,David A,Petit C,Gregersen P,Dowbak S,Damle A,McElreavey K,Ostrer H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighty-one male and 48 female myocardial infarction (MI) survivors and 172 male and 194 female controls were studied with respect to a possible association between premature parental MI (before age 61 years in mothers and/or before age 56 years in fathers) and an insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism i...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bøhn M,Berge KE,Bakken A,Erikssen J,Berg K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic chromosome analyses performed on 820 infertile men revealed 60 (7.3%) men with some kind of chromosomal abnormality. Sex chromosomal abnormalities were detected in 28 (3.4%) and autosomal translocations in 9 (1.0%). Pericentric inversions of chromosome 9, with possible adverse effect on reproduction, was found...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mićić M,Mićić S,Diklić V

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Most but not all epidemiologic studies have shown that lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Lp(a) levels are also strongly genetically influenced. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between Lp(a) levels in adult offspring and parental CVD mortality in 61 kind...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kim H,Marcovina SM,Edwards KL,McKnight B,Bradley CM,McNeely MJ,Psaty BM,Motulsky AG,Austin MA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of array-comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in patients with developmental delay (DD), mental retardation and/or dysmorphic features has allowed the recent recognition of numerous genomic imbalances, including the 15q13.3 microdeletion. Patients w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Masurel-Paulet A,Andrieux J,Callier P,Cuisset JM,Le Caignec C,Holder M,Thauvin-Robinet C,Doray B,Flori E,Alex-Cordier MP,Beri M,Boute O,Delobel B,Dieux A,Vallee L,Jaillard S,Odent S,Isidor B,Beneteau C,Vigneron J,

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth retardation is a relatively consistent feature of Noonan syndrome but a standardized growth curve for height has never been calculated. Analysis of retrospective growth data on 112 patients with Noonan syndrome has permitted the establishment of preliminary reference growth standards for height for males and fe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Witt DR,Keena BA,Hall JG,Allanson JE

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of whole-exome next-generation sequencing (WES) has been pivotal for the molecular characterization of Mendelian disease; however, the clinical applicability of WES has remained relatively unexplored. We describe our exploration of WES as a diagnostic tool in a 3½-year old female patient with a 2-year histo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hanchard NA,Murdock DR,Magoulas PL,Bainbridge M,Muzny D,Wu Y,Wang M,Lupski JR,Gibbs RA,Brown CW

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:This article provides an overview of the current knowledge on medical complications, health characteristics, and psychosocial issues in adults with achondroplasia. We have used a scoping review methodology particularly recommended for mapping and summarizing existing research evidence, and to identify knowledge gaps. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fredwall SO,Maanum G,Johansen H,Snekkevik H,Savarirayan R,Lidal IB

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with the oro-facial-digital syndrome II or Mohr syndrome presented laryngeal anomalies and hallucal and postaxial polysyndactyly of the feet. Those rare malformations are typically observed in patients with the Majewski syndrome, a lethal, short rib-polydactyly skeletal dysplasia with orofacial findings a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Silengo MC,Bell GL,Biagioli M,Franceschini P

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An African American male of West Indies descent was diagnosed to have elevated transferrin saturation, hyperferritinemia, severe iron deposition in hepatocytes, and hepatic cirrhosis at age 4. He was treated with serial phlebotomy to maintain a normal serum ferritin concentration thereafter. We evaluated him at age 23...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Murugan RC,Lee PL,Kalavar MR,Barton JC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoanthropometric method, which enables an objective description of facial structures, was used to better delineate the craniofacial characteristics of 29 individuals with Williams syndrome (WS; 18 males and 11 females) between the ages of 0 to 10 years, with an average age of 4.0 years. Facial parameters were mea...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hovis CL,Butler MG

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3R1 mutations cause syndromic insulin resistance with lipoatrophy. Thauvin-Robinet et al. (2013) The American Journal of Human Genetics 93: 141-149 SHORT syndrome with partial lipodystrophy due to impaired phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase signalling. Chudasama et al. (2013) The American Journal of Human Genetics 93: 1...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chung BK,Gibson WT

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganglioside GM2 and its asialo-derivative, GA2 were radiolabeled in their N-acetyl-D-galactosaminyl moieties by oxidation with galactose oxidase and reduction with tritiated sodium borohydride. Specific activities of 6 X 10(4) dpm/nmol (GM2) and 1.8 X 10(6) dpm/nmol (GA2) were achieved. About 98% of the label was in N...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： O'Brien JS,Norden GW,Miller AL,Frost RG,Kelly TE

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lynch syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2. The novel MSH2 c.[2635-3T>C; 2635-5C>T] mutation was identified in 4 Lynch families, cosegregating with the disease. This mutation, located in intron 15, was predicted to alter the correct mRNA processing by in silico...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Menéndez M,Castellví-Bel S,Pineda M,de Cid R,Muñoz J,González S,Teulé A,Balaguer F,Ramón y Cajal T,Reñé JM,Blanco I,Castells A,Capellà G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with Marfan's syndrome, with coexistent obstructive sleep hypopnea (OSH) and restrictive lung disease, complicated by respiratory insufficiency, who was successfully treated with nasal intermittent positive airway pressure (NIPPV) and oxygen. NIPPV therapy turned out to be effective on arterial ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Verbraecken J,Paelinck BP,Willemen M,Van de Heyning P,De Backer W

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Morquio syndrome, also known as Mucopolysaccharidosis Type IV, is well known to pediatricians and geneticists, although it is rare. Many do not know much about the physician who first described this lysosomal disorder. In this brief review, the person and the disease are described, along with philatelic illustrations ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chudley AE,Chakravorty C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is reported with an autosomal dominant inherited syndrome presenting some of the typical features of the tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome type II (TRP II) or Langer-Giedion syndrome. The critical region for the expression of the syndrome seems to be at band 8q24.1. In the affected members of the family report...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shabtai F,Sandowski U,Nissimov R,Klar D,Halbrecht I

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear growth failure can be caused by many different genetic abnormalities. In many cases, the genetic defect affects not only the growth plate, causing short stature but also other organs/tissues causing additional clinical abnormalities. A 10-year old boy was evaluated for impaired postnatal linear growth (height 1...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jee YH,Sowada N,Markello TC,Rezvani I,Borck G,Baron J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1994 and 1998, the 23 UK genetics departments, which form the UK Huntington's Disease Consortium, have undertaken 161 direct mutation adult predictive tests on individuals whose at-risk parent was alive or had died without showing signs of Huntington's disease (HD) (5.7% of total UK tests). This study describe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Benjamin CM,Lashwood A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliopathies, a growing pleotropic class of diseases due to mutations in genes that play an important role in primary cilia function. These highly conserved organelles are key to cell signaling. We now know, that mutations in one gene may lead to more than one ciliopathy phenotype and that one ciliopathy phenotype may...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Moran J,G Sanderson K,Maynes J,Vig A,Batmanabane V,Kannu P,Tavares E,Vincent A,Héon E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally presumed that the cystic fibrosis (CF) population is relatively homogeneous, and predominantly of European origin. The complex ethnic make-up observed in the CF patients collected by the North American CF Modifier Gene Consortium has brought this assumption into question, and suggested the potential fo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Li W,Sun L,Corey M,Zou F,Lee S,Cojocaru AL,Taylor C,Blackman SM,Stephenson A,Sandford AJ,Dorfman R,Drumm ML,Cutting GR,Knowles MR,Durie P,Wright FA,Strug LJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00