A gene that regulates DNA replication in response to DNA damage is located on human chromosome 4q.

abstract：:Pedigrees used in the analysis of genetic or medical data are usually ascertained from sources subject to a variety of errors including misidentification of individuals, faults in historical documents or record linkage, nonpaternity, and unidentified adoption. Genetic markers can be used to verify putative family and ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Lathrop GM,Hooper AB,Huntsman JW,Ward RH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies are being widely conducted in order to identify rare variants associated with human diseases and disease-related traits. Classical single-marker association analyses for rare variants have limited power, and variant-set-based analyses are commonly used by researchers for analyzing...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Li Z,Li X,Liu Y,Shen J,Chen H,Zhou H,Morrison AC,Boerwinkle E,Lin X

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic rearrangements involving the peripheral myelin protein gene (PMP22) in human chromosome 17p12 are associated with neuropathy: duplications cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A), whereas deletions lead to hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP). Our previous studies showed th...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Zhang F,Seeman P,Liu P,Weterman MA,Gonzaga-Jauregui C,Towne CF,Batish SD,De Vriendt E,De Jonghe P,Rautenstrauss B,Krause KH,Khajavi M,Posadka J,Vandenberghe A,Palau F,Van Maldergem L,Baas F,Timmerman V,Lupski JR

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of recent natural selection in human populations has important applications to human history and medicine. Positive natural selection drives the increase in beneficial alleles and plays a role in explaining diversity across human populations. By discovering traits subject to positive selection, we can better...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Bhatia G,Patterson N,Pasaniuc B,Zaitlen N,Genovese G,Pollack S,Mallick S,Myers S,Tandon A,Spencer C,Palmer CD,Adeyemo AA,Akylbekova EL,Cupples LA,Divers J,Fornage M,Kao WH,Lange L,Li M,Musani S,Mychaleckyj JC,Og

更新日期：2011-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Significantly larger variation between sibships within families of male MZ twins than between sibships within families of female MZ twins, indicative of maternal influences, was found for 10 of 41 dermatoglyphic fingertip variables. Of these, five were thumb-related with the effect primarily on the thumb radial and ri...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Reed T,Evans MM,Norton JA Jr,Christian JC

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS; Seemanová II syndrome) and Berlin breakage syndrome (BBS), also known as ataxia-telangiectasia variants, are two clinically indistinguishable autosomal recessive familial cancer syndromes that share with ataxia-telangiectasia similar cellular, immunological, and chromosomal but not cli...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Saar K,Chrzanowska KH,Stumm M,Jung M,Nürnberg G,Wienker TF,Seemanová E,Wegner RD,Reis A,Sperling K

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of autism linkage studies have been difficult to interpret across research groups, prompting the use of ever-increasing sample sizes to increase power. However, increasing sample size by pooling disparate collections for a single analysis may, in fact, not increase power in the face of genetic heterogeneity. H...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Bartlett CW,Goedken R,Vieland VJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC) is a leukodystrophy characterized by early-onset macrocephaly and delayed-onset neurological deterioration. Recessive MLC1 mutations are observed in 75% of patients with MLC. Genetic-linkage studies failed to identify another gene. We recently showed tha...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： López-Hernández T,Ridder MC,Montolio M,Capdevila-Nortes X,Polder E,Sirisi S,Duarri A,Schulte U,Fakler B,Nunes V,Scheper GC,Martínez A,Estévez R,van der Knaap MS

更新日期：2011-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal hemoglobinopathy screening was chosen as a model system for the study of patient receptivity to unsolicited genetic information. Providers of prenatal care in Rochester, NY, were offered free testing of all their prenatal patients and genetic counseling of women found positive. The 18,907 prenatal samples tes...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Rowley PT,Loader S,Sutera CJ,Walden M,Kozyra A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid transaminase (GABAT, E.C.2.6.I.19) was phenotyped by starch-gel electrophoresis in post-mortem liver samples from 650 unrelated subjects of either sex, comprising 289 Chinese, 177 Indians, 140 Malays, and 44 from other racial groups from Southeast Asia. The estimated gene frequencies of GABAT1 ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Bhattacharyya SP,Saha N,Wee KP

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is considered to calculate effects of genetic drift on the expected proportion of new mutants amongst males affected by a sex-linked recessive lethal. We show how to relate the number of cases of the disorder in males to the expected deviations from the deterministic value of the proportion of new mutants. For...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Slatkin M,Thomson G,Sawyer S

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histones mediate dynamic packaging of nuclear DNA in chromatin, a process that is precisely controlled to guarantee efficient compaction of the genome and proper chromosomal segregation during cell division and to accomplish DNA replication, transcription, and repair. Due to the important structural and regulatory rol...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Flex E,Martinelli S,Van Dijck A,Ciolfi A,Cecchetti S,Coluzzi E,Pannone L,Andreoli C,Radio FC,Pizzi S,Carpentieri G,Bruselles A,Catanzaro G,Pedace L,Miele E,Carcarino E,Ge X,Chijiwa C,Lewis MES,Meuwissen M,Kenis S

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamete-competition model is an application of the Bradley-Terry model for ranking of sports teams. If allele i of a marker locus is assigned parameter taui>0, then the probability that a parent with heterozygous genotype i/j transmits allele i is Pr(i/j-->)=tau(i)/(tau(i) + tau(j). Mendelian segregation correspond...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Sinsheimer JS,Blangero J,Lange K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Admixture mapping (also known as "mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium," or MALD) provides a way of localizing genes that cause disease, in admixed ethnic groups such as African Americans, with approximately 100 times fewer markers than are required for whole-genome haplotype scans. However, it has not been pos...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Smith MW,Patterson N,Lautenberger JA,Truelove AL,McDonald GJ,Waliszewska A,Kessing BD,Malasky MJ,Scafe C,Le E,De Jager PL,Mignault AA,Yi Z,De The G,Essex M,Sankale JL,Moore JH,Poku K,Phair JP,Goedert JJ,Vlahov D,

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular geneticists are developing the third-generation human genome map with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which can be assayed via chip-based microarrays. One use of these SNP markers is the ability to locate loci that may be responsible for complex traits, via linkage/linkage-disequilibrium analysis. In...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Zhao LP,Aragaki C,Hsu L,Quiaoit F

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an unusual molecular defect in the mitochondrially encoded ND1 subunit of NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy and isolated complex I deficiency. The mutation is an inversion of seven nucleotides within the ND1 gene, which maintains the reading frame. The invers...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Musumeci O,Andreu AL,Shanske S,Bresolin N,Comi GP,Rothstein R,Schon EA,DiMauro S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) is an autosomal recessive progressive neurodegenerative disease that presents within the first 2 years of life and culminates in death by age 10 years. Affected individuals from two unrelated Bedouin Israeli kindreds were studied. Brain imaging demonstrated diffuse cerebellar atr...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Khateeb S,Flusser H,Ofir R,Shelef I,Narkis G,Vardi G,Shorer Z,Levy R,Galil A,Elbedour K,Birk OS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia (adPEO) is a disorder characterized by ptosis, progressive weakness of the external eye muscles, and general muscle weakness. The patients have multiple deletions of mtDNA on Southern blots or in PCR analysis of muscle DNA and a mild deficiency of one or more res...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kaukonen JA,Amati P,Suomalainen A,Rötig A,Piscaglia MG,Salvi F,Weissenbach J,Fratta G,Comi G,Peltonen L,Zeviani M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial orthostatic hypotensive disorder is characterized by light-headedness on standing, which may worsen to syncope, palpitations, and blue-purple ankle discoloration, and is accompanied by a marked decrease in systolic blood pressure, an increase in diastolic pressure, and tachycardia, all of which resolve when s...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： DeStefano AL,Baldwin CT,Burzstyn M,Gavras I,Handy DE,Joost O,Martel T,Nicolaou M,Schwartz F,Streeten DH,Farrer LA,Gavras H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low bone mineral density (BMD) is a major risk factor for osteoporotic fracture. Studies of BMD in families and twins have shown that this trait is under strong genetic control. To identify regions of the genome that contain quantitative trait loci (QTL) for BMD, we performed independent genomewide screens, using two ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Wilson SG,Reed PW,Bansal A,Chiano M,Lindersson M,Langdown M,Prince RL,Thompson D,Thompson E,Bailey M,Kleyn PW,Sambrook P,Shi MM,Spector TD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of the CFTR gene has made it technically possible to avert the unwanted birth of a child with cystic fibrosis (CF). Several large trials offering prenatal CF carrier screening suggest that such screening is practical and that identified carriers generally use the information obtained. Therefore, a critical...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Rowley PT,Loader S,Kaplan RM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pheochromocytomas are an important cause of secondary hypertension. Although pheochromocytoma susceptibility may be associated with germline mutations in the tumor-suppressor genes VHL and NF1 and in the proto-oncogene RET, the genetic basis for most cases of nonsyndromic familial pheochromocytoma is unknown. Rece...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Astuti D,Latif F,Dallol A,Dahia PL,Douglas F,George E,Sköldberg F,Husebye ES,Eng C,Maher ER

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADHD linkage findings have not all been consistently replicated, suggesting that other approaches to linkage analysis in ADHD might be necessary, such as the use of (quantitative) endophenotypes (heritable traits associated with an increased risk for ADHD). Genome-wide linkage analyses were performed in the Dutch subs...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Rommelse NN,Arias-Vásquez A,Altink ME,Buschgens CJ,Fliers E,Asherson P,Faraone SV,Buitelaar JK,Sergeant JA,Oosterlaan J,Franke B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles are a genetically influenced coronary disease risk factor. Lipoprotein lipase (LpL) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the formation of LDL particles. The current study examined genetic linkage of LDL particle size to the LpL gene in five families with structural mutations in th...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Hokanson JE,Brunzell JD,Jarvik GP,Wijsman EM,Austin MA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome, also known as microphthalmia with limb anomalies, ophthalmoacromelic syndrome, and anophthalmia-syndactyly, is a rare autosomal-recessive developmental disorder that has been mapped to 10p11.23. Here we show that this disease is heterogeneous by reporting on a consanguineous family, ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Abouzeid H,Boisset G,Favez T,Youssef M,Marzouk I,Shakankiry N,Bayoumi N,Descombes P,Agosti C,Munier FL,Schorderet DF

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the proportion of mutant mtDNA (mutation load) in 82 primary oocytes from a woman who harbored the A3243G mtDNA mutation. The frequency distribution of mutation load indicates that random drift is the principal mechanism that determines the level of mutant mtDNA within individual oocytes. ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Brown DT,Samuels DC,Michael EM,Turnbull DM,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic testing has increased the number of variants identified in disease genes, but the diagnostic utility is limited by lack of understanding variant function. CARD11 encodes an adaptor protein that expresses dominant-negative and gain-of-function variants associated with distinct immunodeficiencies. Here, we used ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Meitlis I,Allenspach EJ,Bauman BM,Phan IQ,Dabbah G,Schmitt EG,Camp ND,Torgerson TR,Nickerson DA,Bamshad MJ,Hagin D,Luthers CR,Stinson JR,Gray J,Lundgren I,Church JA,Butte MJ,Jordan MB,Aceves SS,Schwartz DM,Milner

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of HLA antigens in a sample of 124 Chagas serologically positive Chilean individuals was studied. The sample was subdivided according to the presence or absence of chagasic cardiomyopathy, in order to search for genetic differences associated with this pathological condition. The frequency of antigen ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Llop E,Rothhammer F,Acuña M,Apt W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-alpha-acetylation is a common co-translational protein modification that is essential for normal cell function in humans. We previously identified the genetic basis of an X-linked infantile lethal Mendelian disorder involving a c.109T>C (p.Ser37Pro) missense variant in NAA10, which encodes the catalytic subunit of t...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Cheng H,Dharmadhikari AV,Varland S,Ma N,Domingo D,Kleyner R,Rope AF,Yoon M,Stray-Pedersen A,Posey JE,Crews SR,Eldomery MK,Akdemir ZC,Lewis AM,Sutton VR,Rosenfeld JA,Conboy E,Agre K,Xia F,Walkiewicz M,Longoni M,H

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated complex I deficiency is a common biochemical phenotype observed in pediatric mitochondrial disease and often arises as a consequence of pathogenic variants affecting one of the ∼65 genes encoding the complex I structural subunits or assembly factors. Such genetic heterogeneity means that application of next-g...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Alston CL,Heidler J,Dibley MG,Kremer LS,Taylor LS,Fratter C,French CE,Glasgow RIC,Feichtinger RG,Delon I,Pagnamenta AT,Dolling H,Lemonde H,Aiton N,Bjørnstad A,Henneke L,Gärtner J,Thiele H,Tauchmannova K,Quaghebeur G

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00