Abnormality of chromosome 16 and its phenotypic expression.

abstract：:A sibship consisting of three siblings, one male and two females with unrelated parents, showed a clinical syndrome including: infantile spasms with hypsarrhythmia, microcephaly, severe mental retardation and spastic quadriplegia. The pneumoencephalogram performed in two sibs showed agenesis of the corpus callosum and...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cao A,Cianchetti C,Signorini E,Loi M,Sanna G,De Virgiliis S

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic knowledge of genetics is essential for understanding genetic testing and counseling. The lack of a written, English language, validated, published measure has limited our ability to evaluate genetic knowledge of patients and families. Here, we begin the psychometric analysis of a true/false genetic knowledge mea...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fitzgerald-Butt SM,Bodine A,Fry KM,Ash J,Zaidi AN,Garg V,Gerhardt CA,McBride KL

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, cytogenetic, and immunological data of a 5-year-old Japanese girl with Bloom's syndrome are described. Growth deficiency, photosensitivity, and a very mild facial telangiectatic erythema were present. Cytological studies revealed chromosomal aberrations and the characteristic high frequency in sister chromat...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kawashima H,Sato T,Taniguchi N,Yagi T,Ishizaki K,Takebe H

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hobbs et al. (N. Engl. J. Med. 317: 734-737, 1987) reported a large deletion of approximately 10 kilobases in the 5' portion of the human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor gene. This deletion affects about 60% of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) heterozygotes in the French Canadian population. We have developed...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ma YH,Bétard C,Roy M,Davignon J,Kessling AM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidase A (Pep A) activity assigned to chromosome 18q23 was biochemically examined in fibroblasts cultured from two patients with trisomy 18 and in fibroblasts derived from normal individuals. The trisomy 18 fibroblasts showed approximately a 1.5-fold increase in Pep A activity over that of the control fibroblasts. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Namba M,Nakatsuka S,Etoh H,Kataoka N,Kimoto T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital aniridia is due to deletions and point mutations in the PAX6 gene. We describe here a case of a mother and her two sons with a syndrome comprising congenital aniridia, ptosis, and slight mental retardation. The sons also show behavioral changes. The possibility of deletion around the PAX6 locus was excluded...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Malandrini A,Mari F,Palmeri S,Gambelli S,Berti G,Bruttini M,Bardelli AM,Williamson K,van Heyningen V,Renieri A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 120 meiotic analyses of infertile men there were three cases with a particular meiotic anomaly: low chiasma count at diakinesis and spermatogenic arrest. All clinical findings, hormonal analyses and karyotypes from peripheral blood were normal. Meiotic studies showed that pachytene pairing was complete, but in d...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mićić M,Mićić S,Diklić V

更新日期：1982-11-01 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 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：:In a Danish family highly susceptible to ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia did not simply cosegregate with a previously undescribed 10 bp deletion in the LDL receptor gene causing heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). This mutation, designated as FH DK-4, deletes 10 nucleotides from exon 4 coding for t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jensen HK,Hansen PS,Jensen LG,Kristensen MJ,Klausen IC,Kjeldsen M,Lemming L,Bolund L,Gregersen N,Faergeman O

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal analyses of cultured lymphocytes from nine patients with familial multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) syndrome type I from six families and two patients - father and daughter - with familial MEA syndrome type II showed an increased frequency of chromosomal breakage. The frequency of sister chromatid exch...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gustavson KH,Jansson R,Oberg K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis in a pregnancy at risk for Becker muscular dystrophy is reported. The diagnosis was made prior to 12 weeks of gestation by typing a CVS sample for DNA markers. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wood S,Shukin RJ,Yong SL,Wilson D,Kalousek D,Chudley A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal translocations were studied in two groups of balanced carrier couples: 202 had 210 translocation aneuploid between (LB) infants, and 95 couples had repetitive abortions (AB) without liveborn aneuploids. The observed translocation aneuploidies in the LB group were compared to predicted potential aneuploidies...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Davis JR,Rogers BB,Hagaman RM,Thies CA,Veomett IC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study of 212 families for whom genetic counseling had been provided was performed to assess the effectiveness of the non-directive genetic counseling service at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The preliminary result have been reported previously (Godmilow & Hirschhorn 1977). Of those famil...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Abramovsky I,Godmilow L,Hirschhorn K,Smith H Jr

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aniridia is a severe, congenital ocular malformation inherited in an autosomal-dominant fashion with high penetrance and variable expression. Eye morphogenesis in humans involves a molecular genetic cascade in which a number of developmental genes interact in a highly organized process during the embryonic period to p...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kokotas H,Petersen MB

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) usually becomes symptomatic between the third and fifth decades. We studied ten families segregating for ADPKD in which children were observed with typical manifestations of the disease at birth or in early childhood. In these families, linkage analysis was carried ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gal A,Wirth B,Kääriäinen H,Lucotte G,Landais P,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Müller-Wiefel DE,Zerres K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer screening recommendations for patients with Lynch-like syndrome (LLS) are not well defined. We evaluated adherence to Lynch syndrome (LS) screening recommendations, cancer risk perceptions, and communication within the families among colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors with LLS. Thirty-four participants with LLS ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Katz LH,Burton-Chase AM,Advani S,Fellman B,Polivka KM,Yuan Y,Lynch PM,Peterson SK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the kindred with Marner's cataract (CAM), which now comprises nine generations, was examined for linkage with 14 marker loci. We found strong evidence for linkage to haptoglobin, zmax = 8.33 at thetamax = 0.05 for males and thetamax = 0.04 for females. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Eiberg H,Marner E,Rosenberg T,Mohr J

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:Marfan syndrome is a clinically and allelic heterogeneous, heritable connective tissue disorder with infrequently reported neuromuscular features. This study is the first to delineate these symptoms in a non-selected population. Neuromuscular involvement was evaluated in 10 Marfan patients through a standardized quest...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Voermans Nc,Timmermans J,van Alfen N,Pillen S,op den Akker J,Lammens M,Zwarts MJ,van Rooij IA,Hamel BC,van Engelen BG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited knowledge exists on phenotypes associated with the D1152H cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation. METHODS:Subjects with a D1152H allele in trans with another CFTR mutation were identified using the French Cystic Fibrosis Registry. Phenotypic characteristics were compared...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Burgel PR,Fajac I,Hubert D,Grenet D,Stremler N,Roussey M,Siret D,Languepin J,Mely L,Fanton A,Labbé A,Domblides P,Vic P,Dagorne M,Reynaud-Gaubert M,Counil F,Varaigne F,Bienvenu T,Bellis G,Dusser D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmology has been an early adopter of personalized medicine. Drawing on genomic advances to improve molecular diagnosis, such as next-generation sequencing, and basic and translational research to develop novel therapies, application of genetic technologies in ophthalmology now heralds development of gene replace...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Porter LF,Black GC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic biallelic variants in the BLM/RECQL3 gene cause a rare autosomal recessive disorder called Bloom syndrome (BS). This syndrome is characterized by severe growth delay, immunodeficiency, dermatological manifestations and a predisposition to a wide variety of cancers, often multiple and very early in life. Lit...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Backers L,Parton B,De Bruyne M,Tavernier SJ,Van Den Bogaert K,Lambrecht BN,Haerynck F,Claes KBM

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:The reliable evaluation of chromosomal mosaics is still considered to be difficult in clinical diagnosis if aberrant metaphases are only present at low frequencies. Classical cytogenetic findings cannot significantly exclude low mosaic levels, obviously, because of the relatively low number of analyzed metaphases. To ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schliephacke M,Maier CI,Majlinger G,Tomiuk J,Leipoldt M,Kaiser P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

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：:We present a dysmorphic syndrome in eight males of the same family (four brothers, three cousins and one uncle) that is characterised by: mental retardation, facial dysmorphia, abnormal growth of teeth, skin dimple at the lower back, clinodactyly, patella luxation, malformation of lower limbs, abnormalities of the fun...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Prieto F,Badía L,Mulas F,Monfort A,Mora F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the CDH23 gene are known to be responsible for both Usher syndrome type ID (USH1D) and non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB12), and the molecular confirmation of the CDH23 gene has become important in the diagnosis of these conditions. The present study was performed to find whether the CDH23 mutations are al...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wagatsuma M,Kitoh R,Suzuki H,Fukuoka H,Takumi Y,Usami S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are reported who presented with 4q deletion and r(4), respectively. Cytogenetic and FISH analysis defined the breakpoints respectively at bands 4q33-->q35 proximal to the telomere, and 4pter and 4q35.2 qter. Moreover in both cases rearranged chromosomes maintained telomeric sequences. The first patient sh...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Calabrese G,Giannotti A,Mingarelli R,Di Gilio MC,Piemontese MR,Palka G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) may be the result of Lynch syndrome (LS) caused by mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes, a syndrome of unknown etiology called familial colorectal cancer type-X (FCCTX), or familial serrated neoplasia associated with the colorectal cancer (CRC) somatic BRAF mutati...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Warden G,Harnett D,Green J,Wish T,Woods MO,Green R,Dicks E,Rahman P,Zhai G,Parfrey P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00