Ultra-sensitive FISH using peroxidase-mediated deposition of biotin- or fluorochrome tyramides.

abstract：:We previously identified Peg1/Mest as a novel paternally expressed gene in the developing mouse embryo. The human PEG1 gene was recently assigned to 7q32 and shown to be imprinted and paternally expressed. Therefore, PEG1 deficiency could participate in the aetiology of pre- and post-natal growth retardation associate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lefebvre L,Viville S,Barton SC,Ishino F,Surani MA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2 (BSCL2) is the most severe form of human lipodystrophy and is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the BSCL2/seipin gene. Exactly how seipin may regulate adipogenesis remains unclear. A recent study in vitro suggested that seipin may function to inhibit the activity...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gao M,Liu L,Wang X,Mak HY,Liu G,Yang H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy, is caused by an expanded (CTG)n repeat in the 3' untranslated region of the DM protein kinase (DMPK) gene. The toxic RNA transcripts produced from the mutant allele alter the function of RNA-binding proteins leading to the functio...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim YK,Mandal M,Yadava RS,Paillard L,Mahadevan MS

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spliceosomal Uridine-rich small ribonucleo protein (U snRNP) assembly is an active process mediated by the macromolecular survival motor neuron (SMN) complex. This complex contains the SMN protein and six additional proteins, named Gemin2-7, according to their localization to nuclear structures termed gems. Here, we p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grimmler M,Otter S,Peter C,Müller F,Chari A,Fischer U

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition associated with the formation of intraneuronal aggregates by mutant huntingtin. Aggregate formation is a property shared by the nine related diseases caused by polyglutamine codon expansion mutations and also by other neurodegenerative conditions like P...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Vacher C,Garcia-Oroz L,Rubinsztein DC

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is caused by mutations in the lamin A/C gene (LMNA) encoding A-type nuclear lamins, intermediate filament proteins of the nuclear envelope. Classically, the disease manifests as scapulo-humero-peroneal muscle wasting and weakness, early joint contractures and dilated ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thomasson R,Vignier N,Peccate C,Mougenot N,Noirez P,Muchir A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beside the well-known polyglutamine expansions involved in several neurodegenerative disorders, convergent recent findings pointed to the expansion of polyalanine stretches as a disease mechanism in congenital malformations, skeletal dysplasia and nervous system anomalies. Polyalanine stretches have been predicted in ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Amiel J,Trochet D,Clément-Ziza M,Munnich A,Lyonnet S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-B cell leukemia factor 1 (PBX1) is an essential developmental transcription factor, mutations in which have recently been associated with CAKUTHED syndrome, characterized by multiple congenital defects including congenital heart disease (CHD). During analysis of a whole-exome-sequenced cohort of heterogeneous CHD ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Alankarage D,Szot JO,Pachter N,Slavotinek A,Selleri L,Shieh JT,Winlaw D,Giannoulatou E,Chapman G,Dunwoodie SL

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genomic instability syndrome ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), caused by mutations in the gene encoding the DNA damage checkpoint kinase ATM, is characterized by multisystem defects including neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency and increased cancer predisposition. ATM is central to a pathway that responds to doub...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Balmus G,Zhu M,Mukherjee S,Lyndaker AM,Hume KR,Lee J,Riccio ML,Reeves AP,Sutter NB,Noden DM,Peters RM,Weiss RS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in LKB1 have been reported to underlie familial Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) with intestinal hamartomatous polyps and an elevated risk of various neoplasms. To investigate the prevalence of LKB1 germline mutations in PJS more generally, we studied samples from 33 unrelated PJS patients including eig...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ylikorkala A,Avizienyte E,Tomlinson IP,Tiainen M,Roth S,Loukola A,Hemminki A,Johansson M,Sistonen P,Markie D,Neale K,Phillips R,Zauber P,Twama T,Sampson J,Järvinen H,Mäkelä TP,Aaltonen LA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease H2 plays an essential role for genome stability as it removes ribonucleotides misincorporated into genomic DNA by replicative polymerases and resolves RNA/DNA hybrids. Biallelic mutations in the genes encoding the three RNase H2 subunits cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS), an early-onset inflammatory ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kind B,Muster B,Staroske W,Herce HD,Sachse R,Rapp A,Schmidt F,Koss S,Cardoso MC,Lee-Kirsch MA

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether thrombospondin (TSP)-1 promotes macrophage activity and disease progression in dysferlinopathy. First, we found that levels of TSP-1 are elevated in blood of non-ambulant dysferlinopathy patients compared with ambulant patients and healthy controls, supporting the ide...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Urao N,Mirza RE,Corbiere TF,Hollander Z,Borchers CH,Koh TJ

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation causing myotonic dystrophy (DM) has recently been identified as an unstable CTG trinucleotide repeat located in the 3' untranslated region of a gene encoding for a protein with putative serine-threonine protein kinase activity. In this report we present the genomic sequences of the human and murine DM kin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mahadevan MS,Amemiya C,Jansen G,Sabourin L,Baird S,Neville CE,Wormskamp N,Segers B,Batzer M,Lamerdin J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the powerhouses of the eukaryotic cell, mitochondria must maintain their genomes which encode proteins essential for energy production. Mitochondria are characterized by guanine-rich DNA sequences that spontaneously form unusual three-dimensional structures known as G-quadruplexes (G4). G4 structures can be problem...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Butler TJ,Estep KN,Sommers JA,Maul RW,Moore AZ,Bandinelli S,Cucca F,Tuke MA,Wood AR,Bharti SK,Bogenhagen DF,Yakubovskaya E,Garcia-Diaz M,Guilliam TA,Byrd AK,Raney KD,Doherty AJ,Ferrucci L,Schlessinger D,Ding J,Bro

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is one of a class of inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by a CAG/polyglutamine repeat expansion. We have previously generated mice that are transgenic for exon 1 of the HD gene carrying highly expanded CAG repeats which develop a progressive movement disorder an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sathasivam K,Hobbs C,Turmaine M,Mangiarini L,Mahal A,Bertaux F,Wanker EE,Doherty P,Davies SW,Bates GP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though autoimmune diseases are heterogeneous, believed to result from the interaction between genetic and environmental components, patients with these disorders exhibit reproducible patterns of gene expression in their peripheral blood mononuclear cells. A portion of this gene expression profile is a property of...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu Z,Maas K,Aune TM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) is a rare form of type 2 diabetes, mostly observed in subjects of west African origin (west Africans and African-Americans), characterized by fulminant and phasic insulin dependence, but lacking markers of autoimmunity observed in type 1 diabetes. PAX4 is a transcription factor essential f...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mauvais-Jarvis F,Smith SB,Le May C,Leal SM,Gautier JF,Molokhia M,Riveline JP,Rajan AS,Kevorkian JP,Zhang S,Vexiau P,German MS,Vaisse C

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal recessive ciliopathy with multisystem involvement. So far, 18 BBS genes have been identified and the majority of them are essential for the function of BBSome, a protein complex involved in transporting membrane proteins into and from cilia. Yet defects in the identified gen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aldahmesh MA,Li Y,Alhashem A,Anazi S,Alkuraya H,Hashem M,Awaji AA,Sogaty S,Alkharashi A,Alzahrani S,Al Hazzaa SA,Xiong Y,Kong S,Sun Z,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that results from the expansion of a cryptic CAG repeat within the exon 1 of the SCA2 gene. The CAG repeat in normal individuals varies in length from 14 to 31 repeats and is frequently interrupted by one or more CAA triplets, whereas ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Choudhry S,Mukerji M,Srivastava AK,Jain S,Brahmachari SK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have underscored the importance of loss of tumor suppressor genes in the development of human cancer. To identify these genes, we used somatic cell hybrids in a functional assay for tumor suppression in vivo. A tumor suppressor gene in 11p15.5 was detected by transferring single human chromosomes into...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Reid LH,West A,Gioeli DG,Phillips KK,Kelleher KF,Araujo D,Stanbridge EJ,Dowdy SF,Gerhard DS,Weissman BE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to islet cell identity in response to type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been reported in rodent models, but are less well characterized in humans. We assessed the effects of aspects of the diabetic microenvironment on hormone staining, total gene expression, splicing regulation and the alternative splicing patterns o...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jeffery N,Richardson S,Chambers D,Morgan NG,Harries LW

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is an epigenetic mechanism that silences the majority of genes on one X chromosome in females. Previous studies have suggested that the spread of XCI might be facilitated in part by common repeats such as long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs). However, owing to the unusual sequence...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bala Tannan N,Brahmachary M,Garg P,Borel C,Alnefaie R,Watson CT,Thomas NS,Sharp AJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 20 (SCA20) has been linked to chromosome 11q12, but the underlying genetic defect has yet to be identified. We applied single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping to detect structural alterations in the genomic DNA of patients with SCA20. We found a 260 kb duplication within the previously li...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knight MA,Hernandez D,Diede SJ,Dauwerse HG,Rafferty I,van de Leemput J,Forrest SM,Gardner RJ,Storey E,van Ommen GJ,Tapscott SJ,Fischbeck KH,Singleton AB

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RAD51C was defined by Meindl et al. in 2010 as a high-risk gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Although this role seems to be clear, nowadays there is controversy about the indication of including the gene in routine clinical genetic testing, due to the lower prevalence or the absence of mutations ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Osorio A,Endt D,Fernández F,Eirich K,de la Hoya M,Schmutzler R,Caldés T,Meindl A,Schindler D,Benitez J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine (Q) expansion diseases are a family of degenerative disorders caused by the lengthening of CAG triplet repeats present in the coding sequences of seemingly unrelated genes whose mutant proteins drive pathogenesis. Despite all the molecular evidence for the genetic basis of these diseases, how mutant poly-Q p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Xiao H,Yu Z,Wu Y,Nan J,Merry DE,Sekiguchi JM,Ferguson DO,Lieberman AP,Dressler GR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal aneuploidy, the gain or loss of whole chromosomes, is a hallmark of pathological conditions and a causal factor of birth defects and cancer. A number of studies indicate that aneuploid cells are present at a high frequency in the brain of mice and humans, suggesting that mosaic aneuploidies are compatible ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Faggioli F,Wang T,Vijg J,Montagna C

更新日期：2012-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Xq28 has been of special interest in human genetics because a large number of diseases map to this region. As a step in the molecular analysis of the as yet uncloned disease genes, and as a test for the detailed analysis of larger regions of the genome, we have constructed YAC clone contigs covering the 7.5 Mb region ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rogner UC,Kioschis P,Wilke K,Gong W,Pick E,Dietrich A,Zechner U,Hameister H,Pragliola A,Herman GE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic fragmentation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 is a concomitant and modifier of the molecular pathogenesis of Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), the most common autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia. Calpains, a group of calcium-dependent cysteine proteases, are important mediators of ataxin-3 cleavage and imp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Weber JJ,Haas E,Maringer Y,Hauser S,Casadei NLP,Chishti AH,Riess O,Hübener-Schmid J

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cone photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel is essential for central and color vision and visual acuity. Mutations in the channel subunits CNGA3 and CNGB3 are associated with achromatopsia and cone dystrophy. We investigated the gene expression profiles in mouse retina with CNG channel deficiency usin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ma H,Thapa A,Morris LM,Michalakis S,Biel M,Frank MB,Bebak M,Ding XQ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited defects in the X-chromosomal adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD; ABCD1) gene are the genetic cause of the severe neurodegenerative disorder X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). Biochemically the accumulation of very long-chain fatty acids, caused by impaired peroxisomal beta-oxidation, is the pathognomonic characte...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Unterrainer G,Molzer B,Forss-Petter S,Berger J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00