Genetic mapping of the beta 1- and gamma-subunits of the human skeletal muscle L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel on chromosome 17q and exclusion as candidate genes for malignant hyperthermia susceptibility.

abstract：:Since 1998, five disorders involving enzyme defects in post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis have been identified-desmosterolosis, X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata, CHILD syndrome, lathosterolosis, and hydrops-ectopic calcification-moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia. They join the most common cholesterol biosyn...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Herman GE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine expansions in the huntingtin gene cause Huntington's disease (HD). Huntingtin is ubiquitously expressed, leading to pathological alterations also in peripheral organs. Variations in the length of the polyglutamine tract explain up to 70% of the age-at-onset variance, with the rest of the variance attribu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Corrochano S,Blanco G,Williams D,Wettstein J,Simon M,Kumar S,Moir L,Agnew T,Stewart M,Landman A,Kotiadis VN,Duchen MR,Wackerhage H,Rubinsztein DC,Brown SDM,Acevedo-Arozena A

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymorphic K variant of the butyrylcholinesterase ( BCHE-K ) gene recently has been demonstrated to have an elevated frequency in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients carrying the epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein (APO E) gene when compared with a control population. We therefore genotyped a large series of path...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Singleton AB,Smith G,Gibson AM,Woodward R,Perry RH,Ince PG,Edwardson JA,Morris CM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) is a transcriptional program aimed at restoring proteostasis in mitochondria. Upregulation of mitochondrial matrix proteases and heat shock proteins was initially described. Soon thereafter, a distinct UPRmt induced by misfolded proteins in the mitochondrial intermem...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Riar AK,Burstein SR,Palomo GM,Arreguin A,Manfredi G,Germain D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells are the myelinating glia of the peripheral nervous system and dysfunction of these cells causes motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy. The transcription factor SOX10 is critical for Schwann cell development and maintenance, and many SOX10 target genes encode proteins required for Schwann cell function....

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fogarty EA,Brewer MH,Rodriguez-Molina JF,Law WD,Ma KH,Steinberg NM,Svaren J,Antonellis A

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental influences are thought to interact in their contribution to the etiology of major neuropsychiatric disorders. One of the best replicated findings obtained in genome-wide association studies are genetic variants in the CACNA1C gene. Here, we used our constitutive heterozygous Cacna1c rat model...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Braun MD,Kisko TM,Witt SH,Rietschel M,Schwarting RKW,Wöhr M

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndrome (MDS), an autosomal recessive condition, is characterized by variable organ involvement with decreased mtDNA copy number and activities of respiratory chain enzymes in affected tissues. MtDNA depletion has been associated with mutations in nine autosomal genes, including th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Akman HO,Dorado B,López LC,García-Cazorla A,Vilà MR,Tanabe LM,Dauer WT,Bonilla E,Tanji K,Hirano M

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide, a metabolite of sequential cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is a critical step in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) is highly expressed in AD brains and its genetic variants are linked to AD r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kim BM,You MH,Chen CH,Suh J,Tanzi RE,Ho Lee T

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited peripheral neuropathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders that can affect patients of all ages. Children with inherited neuropathy often develop severe disability, but the genetic causes of recessive early-onset axonal neuropathies are not fully known. We have taken a whole-exome sequencing approach to ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ylikallio E,Pöyhönen R,Zimon M,De Vriendt E,Hilander T,Paetau A,Jordanova A,Lönnqvist T,Tyynismaa H

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamin B (FLNB) is a cytoplasmic protein that regulates the cytoskeletal network by cross-linking actin, linking cell membrane to the cytoskeleton and regulating intracellular signaling pathways responsible for skeletal development (Stossel, T.P., Condeelis, J., Cooley, L., Hartwig, J.H., Noegel, A., Schleicher, M. a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lu J,Lian G,Lenkinski R,De Grand A,Vaid RR,Bryce T,Stasenko M,Boskey A,Walsh C,Sheen V

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the N-terminal region of the huntingtin protein (N17). Here, we analysed the relative contribution of each phosphorylatable residue in the N17 region (T3, S13 and S16) towards huntingtin exon 1 (HTTex1) oligomerization, aggregati...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Branco-Santos J,Herrera F,Poças GM,Pires-Afonso Y,Giorgini F,Domingos PM,Outeiro TF

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitter taste perception is initiated by TAS2R receptors, which respond to agonists by triggering depolarization of taste bud cells. Mutations in TAS2Rs are known to affect taste phenotypes by altering receptor function. Evidence that TAS2Rs overlap in ligand specificity suggests that they may also contribute joint eff...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Roudnitzky N,Bufe B,Thalmann S,Kuhn C,Gunn HC,Xing C,Crider BP,Behrens M,Meyerhof W,Wooding SP

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency results in Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND), where affected individuals exhibit a characteristic neurobehavioral disorder that has been linked with dysfunction of dopaminergic pathways of the basal ganglia. Since the functions of HPRT, a housekeeping enzyme res...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ceballos-Picot I,Mockel L,Potier MC,Dauphinot L,Shirley TL,Torero-Ibad R,Fuchs J,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal common fragile sites (CFSs) are genetically unstable regions of the genome that are induced by conditions that impair DNA replication. In this report, we show that treatment with the DNA polymerase inhibitor, aphidicolin (APH), slows the replication rate throughout S phase. To investigate the unusual sensi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Palakodeti A,Lucas I,Jiang Y,Young DJ,Fernald AA,Karrison T,Le Beau MM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a YAC contig containing 54 clones and a minimum of 7 Mbp of human DNA, that maps to bands q34-35 on chromosome 5. The contig was nucleated using FISH mapped cosmid clones shown to flank the t(2;5)(p23;q35) translocation breakpoint in a CD30-positive large cell lymphoma cell line. Thirty of the 54 Y...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lu-Kuo JM,Le Paslier D,Weissenbach J,Chumakov I,Cohen D,Ward DC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to confer a predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer. We have first characterized 19 sequence variants in the BRCA1 gene during mutation screening by direct sequencing using DNA samples from breast/ovarian cancer patients or obligate carriers. The frequencies of these...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Durocher F,Shattuck-Eidens D,McClure M,Labrie F,Skolnick MH,Goldgar DE,Simard J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants in one-carbon folate metabolism have been identified as risk factors for disease because they may impair the production or use of one-carbon folates required for nucleotide synthesis and methylation. p.R653Q (1958G>A) is a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the 10-formyltetrahydrofolate (formylTH...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Christensen KE,Deng L,Leung KY,Arning E,Bottiglieri T,Malysheva OV,Caudill MA,Krupenko NI,Greene ND,Jerome-Majewska L,MacKenzie RE,Rozen R

更新日期：2013-09-15 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：:Several known or putative glycosyltransferases are required for the synthesis of laminin-binding glycans on alpha-dystroglycan (αDG), including POMT1, POMT2, POMGnT1, LARGE, Fukutin, FKRP, ISPD and GTDC2. Mutations in these glycosyltransferase genes result in defective αDG glycosylation and reduced ligand binding by α...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Buysse K,Riemersma M,Powell G,van Reeuwijk J,Chitayat D,Roscioli T,Kamsteeg EJ,van den Elzen C,van Beusekom E,Blaser S,Babul-Hirji R,Halliday W,Wright GJ,Stemple DL,Lin YY,Lefeber DJ,van Bokhoven H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases encompass a diverse group of neurodegenerative conditions characterized by the accumulation of misfolded prion protein (PrP) isoforms. Other conformational variants of PrP have also been proposed to contribute to neurotoxicity in prion diseases, including misfolded intermediates as well as cytosolic and...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sanchez-Garcia J,Arbelaez D,Jensen K,Rincon-Limas DE,Fernandez-Funez P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP) are two neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the accumulation of TDP-43. TDP-43 is proteolitically cleaved to generate two major C-terminal fragments of 35 and 25 kDa. The latter, known as TDP-25, is a consistent feature of FT...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Caccamo A,Shaw DM,Guarino F,Messina A,Walker AW,Oddo S

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:OPA1 mutations are the major cause of dominant optic atrophy (DOA) and the syndromic form DOA plus, pathologies for which there is no established cure. We used a 'drug repurposing' approach to identify FDA-approved molecules able to rescue the mitochondrial dysfunctions induced by OPA1 mutations. We screened two diffe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aleo SJ,Del Dotto V,Fogazza M,Maresca A,Lodi T,Goffrini P,Ghelli A,Rugolo M,Carelli V,Baruffini E,Zanna C

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterised by the association of branchial, otic and renal anomalies with variable degrees of severity. We have recently identified EYA1 , a human homologue of the Drosophila eyes absent gene, as the gene underlying this syndrome. The products of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Abdelhak S,Kalatzis V,Heilig R,Compain S,Samson D,Vincent C,Levi-Acobas F,Cruaud C,Le Merrer M,Mathieu M,König R,Vigneron J,Weissenbach J,Petit C,Weil D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant minority of degenerative dementias lack distinctive inclusion bodies, plagues or tangles on pathological examination. Half of these cases have a positive family history of dementia. We have studied the largest published family with such a dementia and mapped the disease locus to a 12 cM region of chromos...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Brown J,Ashworth A,Gydesen S,Sorensen A,Rossor M,Hardy J,Collinge J

更新日期：1995-09-01 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

abstract：:While the presence of a lipoyl-containing protein (protein X) separate from lipoyl transacetylase in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) has been known for some time, until recently only the cDNA for the yeast enzyme has been cloned. We have cloned, sequenced and characterized the cDNA encoding the human protein ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ling M,McEachern G,Seyda A,MacKay N,Scherer SW,Bratinova S,Beatty B,Giovannucci-Uzielli ML,Robinson BH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia (FSP) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder displaying anticipation for which three loci have been mapped to the chromosomal positions 14q11.2-q24.3 (SPG3), 2p21-p24 (SPG4) and 15q11.1 (SPG6). The repeat expansion detection (RED) method has been used t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Benson KF,Horwitz M,Wolff J,Friend K,Thompson E,White S,Richards RI,Raskind WH,Bird TD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-linked retinitis pigmentosa protein RP2 is a GTPase activating protein (GAP) for the small GTPase Arl3 and both proteins are implicated in the traffic of proteins to the primary cilia. Here, we show that RP2 can facilitate the traffic of the Gβ subunit of transducin (Gβ1). Glutathione S-transferase (GST)-RP2 pul...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schwarz N,Novoselova TV,Wait R,Hardcastle AJ,Cheetham ME

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the dosage effect of germ-line mutations in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is sufficient to cause colorectal adenomas, or an additional somatic mutation of the normal allele is required as well, we have investigated somatic mutations of the APC gene in multiple adenomas developed...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ichii S,Horii A,Nakatsuru S,Furuyama J,Utsunomiya J,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that lead to muscle wasting and, in most cases, premature death. Cytokines and inflammatory factors are released during the disease process where they promote deleterious signaling events that directly participate in myofiber death. Here, we show that p38α, a kinase...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wissing ER,Boyer JG,Kwong JQ,Sargent MA,Karch J,McNally EM,Otsu K,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00