Placentation and zygosity of twins in Northern Nigeria.

abstract：:Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to classify glycaemia and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Body mass index (BMI) is a predictor of HbA1c levels and T2D. We tested 43 established BMI and obesity loci for association with HbA1c in a nationally representative multiethnic sample of young adults from the National Longitudinal St...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lange LA,Graff M,Lange EM,Young KL,Richardson AS,Mohlke KL,North KE,Harris KM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research suggests pulse pressure (PP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease, and genes likely influence PP levels. Additionally, gender may be an effect modifier between PP and cardiovascular disease. This study addresses whether two renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) variants are associated with PP in a s...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lynch AI,Arnett DK,Davis BR,Boerwinkle E,Ford CE,Eckfeldt JH,Leiendecker-Foster C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medieval history of several populations often suffers from scarcity of contemporary records resulting in contradictory and sometimes biased interpretations by historians. This is the situation with the population of the island of Crete, which remained relatively undisturbed until the Middle Ages when multiple wars...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Drineas P,Tsetsos F,Plantinga A,Lazaridis I,Yannaki E,Razou A,Kanaki K,Michalodimitrakis M,Perez-Jimenez F,De Silvestro G,Renda MC,Stamatoyannopoulos JA,Kidd KK,Browning BL,Paschou P,Stamatoyannopoulos G

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is caused by several susceptibility genes. A registry including analyses of susceptibility genes, familial occurrence and genotype-phenotype correlation should provide classification insights. Registry data of 187 unrelated index patients included age at onset, gender, family ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Sullivan M,Erlic Z,Hoffmann MM,Arbeiter K,Patzer L,Budde K,Hoppe B,Zeier M,Lhotta K,Rybicki LA,Bock A,Berisha G,Neumann HP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with a cumulative prevalence of greater than one per thousand. To date three independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have investigated the genetic susceptibility to PD. These studies implicated several genes as PD risk loci with strong, but not ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Edwards TL,Scott WK,Almonte C,Burt A,Powell EH,Beecham GW,Wang L,Züchner S,Konidari I,Wang G,Singer C,Nahab F,Scott B,Stajich JM,Pericak-Vance M,Haines J,Vance JM,Martin ER

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Except for subgroup A2 and minor A, O and B alleles (Ax, O2 and B(A)), which occur at low frequencies in the population, the major ABO alleles are considered to be homogeneous entities. The present study is the first demonstration of an extensive variability linked to the more common alleles of the blood A and O genes...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Zago MA,Tavella MH,Simões BP,Franco RF,Guerreiro JF,Santos SB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exact probability and likelihood computation on complex pedigrees is often infeasible, since exact methods are too computationally intensive even with today's computing technology. A statistical tool, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), is increasingly being explored as a technique for estimating probabilities of genotyp...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Lin S,Thompson E,Wijsman E

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel method for analysis of marker genotype data from admixed populations, based on a hybrid of Bayesian and frequentist approaches in which the posterior distribution is generated by Markov chain simulation and score tests are obtained from the missing-data likelihood. We analysed data on unrelated ind...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： McKeigue PM,Carpenter JR,Parra EJ,Shriver MD

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium position is determined for the phenotypic distribution o f a continuous characteristic in a population which reproduces both randomly and assortatively, and wherein generations are overlapping. It is shown that the major assortative mating models so far proposed for continuous traits are not particular...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wilson SR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We set out to determine whether expansions in the C9ORF72 repeat found in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) families are associated with Parkinson disease (PD). We determined the repeat size in a total of 889 clinically ascertained patients (including PD and essential tremor plus Pa...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nuytemans K,Bademci G,Kohli MM,Beecham GW,Wang L,Young JI,Nahab F,Martin ER,Gilbert JR,Benatar M,Haines JL,Scott WK,Züchner S,Pericak-Vance MA,Vance JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Q-banded chromosome 1 bivalents from six human males were measured in order to determine the locations of the major band borders. Chiasma position was also recorded in these bivalents in order to determine whether chiasmata preferentially occurred in Q-bright regions, Q-dark regions or in the interfaces between. The r...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Laurie DA,Hultén MA,Palmer RW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is an autonomous control disease producing hypoventilation, high PaCO(2), and low PaO(2) during quiet sleep. The main gene variants detected in CCHS are mutations in the PHOX2b gene in up to 97% of isolated cases. However, CCHS is sometimes associated with autonomic d...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Serra A,Görgens H,Alhadad K,Fitze G,Schackert HK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic transmission rates from parents to cases are frequently stratified by an environmental risk factor E and compared, with heterogeneity interpreted as gene-environment interaction or GxE. Though generally invalid, such analyses continue to appear. We revisit why heterogeneity is not equivalent to GxE in a range ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shin JH,McNeney B,Graham J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysosomal storage disorder glycogenosis type II, caused by a deficiency of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, is very heterogeneous in its clinical presentation. It has been suggested that this heterogeneity may be due to differential expression of neutral alpha-glucosidases. We have therefore analysed the activity of t...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Van der Ploeg AT,Kroos MA,Swallow DM,Reuser AJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peutz-Jeghers' syndrome (PJS) is a disease with autosomal dominant inheritance, which is characterised by gastrointestinal hamartomata and characteristic melanin pigmentation. Three candidate sites for a PJS locus have recently been proposed, chromosomes 1p31-p32, 6q25 and 6p11-cen. At the first of these sites, a mult...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Tomlinson IP,Olschwang S,Abelovitch D,Nakamura Y,Bodmer WF,Thomas G,Markie D

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) represent an expanding group of conditions that result from defects in protein and lipid glycosylation. Different subgroups of CDG display considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity due to the highly complex nature of cellular glycosylation. This is further complicated ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Bastaki F,Bizzari S,Hamici S,Nair P,Mohamed M,Saif F,Malik EM,Al-Ali MT,Hamzeh AR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Two methods have been devised for the detection after electrophoresis of gamma-aminobutyric acid transaminase (GABAT) isozymes. 2. GABAT isozymes can be detected in liver, brain, kidney, pancreas, heart, testis. spinal cord and upper jejunum. The greatest activity occurs in liver. 3. Three different commonly occurr...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Jeremiah S,Povey S

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published data on the association between the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene A1298C (rs1801131) polymorphism and male infertility risk are inconclusive. To derive a more precise estimation of the relationship, a meta-analysis was performed. In this meta-analysis, a total of seven case-control studies...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Shen O,Liu R,Wu W,Yu L,Wang X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened ATM gene mutations in 104 Italian Ataxia-Telangiectasia patients from 91 unrelated families (detection rate 90%) and found 21 recurrent mutations in 63 families. The majority (67%) of patients were compound heterozygotes, while 33% were homozygotes. To determine the existence of common haplotypes and poten...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Chessa L,Piane M,Magliozzi M,Torrente I,Savio C,Lulli P,De Luca A,Dallapiccola B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made of 36 body and 11 craniofacial measurements in a selected sample of 251 Bulgarian families, comprising parents and their children over 15 years. The mid parent-offspring and correlation coefficients indicate that the extent of genetic determination varies considerably from one measurement to anot...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Nikolova M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum alpha1 antitrypsin levels and phenotypes were examined in 1000 healthy adults in Northern Ireland. The Pi phenotype M accounted for 87-8% Pi MS for 7-3% and Pi MZ for 3-5%. The percentages of the rarer phenotypes were Pi FM 0-3, Pi IM 0-6, Pi SZ 0-4 and Pi Z--0-1. The range of alpha1 antitrypsin levels in differ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Blundell G,Frazer A

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory is given for complex phenotypes represented by an ordered polychotomy separately for affected (as severity) and for normals (as diathesis), with consideration of history, ascertainment, sampling frames, and phenotype systems. Nonrandom selection of probands by severity is permitted. Both probit and logistic m...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Morton NE,Shields DC,Collins A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on family history and age of onset of breast cancer is examined in an attempt to distinguish between postulated early and late onset forms of breast cancer and to estimate the familial correlation between any subforms that may exist. Data are taken from the Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study, a multicentre, ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Claus EB,Risch NJ,Thompson WD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This palaeogenetic study focused on the analysis of a late prehispanic Argentinean group from the Humahuaca valley, with the main aim of reconstructing its (micro)evolutionary history. The Humahuaca valley, a natural passageway from the eastern plains to the highlands, was the living environment of Andean societies wh...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Mendisco F,Keyser C,Seldes V,Rivolta C,Mercolli P,Cruz P,Nielsen AE,Crubezy E,Ludes B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between genetic variants is hypothesized to be one of several putative explanations for the 'case of missing heritability.' Therefore, Genome-Wide Interaction Analysis (GWIA) has recently gained substantial interest. GWIA is computationally challenging and respective power type I error studies are particul...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Becker T,Herold C,Meesters C,Mattheisen M,Baur MP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly informative dinucleotide repeat polymorphism has been identified at the D11S614 locus on chromosome 11q23. Ten different alleles have been observed at this locus, and the heterozygosity frequency is approximately 85%. Physical localization of this marker in a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing chromosom...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Benham F,Sugiyama R,Hunt D,Gillett G,Smith M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human population is heterogeneous in genetic susceptibility, chromosomal instability and disease risk; all factors which depend on inherited genetic constitution and acquired nongenetic environmental and occupational factors. Recently, special attention has been directed to the identification of sources of potenti...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Hoyos-Giraldo LS,Escobar-Hoyos LF,Reyes-Carvajal I,García JJ,Córdoba L,Gómez AS,García-Vallejo F,Cajas-Salazar N,Carvajal S,Bedoya G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis is a common autosomal recessive disorder that primarily affects the epithelial cells in the intestine, respiratory system, pancreas, gall bladder and sweat glands. Over one thousand mutations have currently been identified in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene that are ...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Rowntree RK,Harris A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in SLC26A4 cause Pendred syndrome (PS) - hearing loss with goitre - or DFNB4 - non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) with inner ear abnormalities such as Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA) or Mondini Dysplasia (MD). We tested 303 unrelated Czech patients with early hearing loss (298 with NSHL and 5 with PS), all...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Pourová R,Janousek P,Jurovcík M,Dvoráková M,Malíková M,Rasková D,Bendová O,Leonardi E,Murgia A,Kabelka Z,Astl J,Seeman P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study based on 173 individuals drawn from three endogamous, co-resident communities in the province of Punjab, the Awan, Khattar and Rajpoot, an analysis of 10 autosomal single tandem repeats on chromosomes 13 and 15 revealed distinctive genetic profiles in each community. A total of 99 different alleles were det...

journal_title：Annals of human genetics

authors： Wang W,Sullivan SG,Ahmed S,Chandler D,Zhivotovsky LA,Bittles AH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00