Late-onset familial amyloid polyneuropathy with the TTR Met 30 mutation in France.

abstract：:The Marden-Walker syndrome is characterized by psychomotor retardation, a mask-like face with blepharophimosis, micrognathia and a high-arched or cleft palate, low-set ears, kyphoscoliosis and joint contractures. We report on a male patient with the clinical features of the syndrome. In addition, he had a Dandy-Walker...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schrander-Stumpel C,de Die-Smulders C,de Krom M,Schyns-Fleuran S,Hamel B,Jaeken D,Fryns JP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of previously unreported simultaneous presence of A and B postaxial polydactyly in two brothers out of 12 affected members of a kindred are reported. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that in this family A and b types of postaxial polydactyly are caused by a single gene rather than by two diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ventruto V,Theo G,Celona A,Fioretti G,Pagano L,Stabile M,Cavaliere ML

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of hypoxanthine, resistance to 8-azaguanine and activation by lyophilisation have been studied in cultured human fibroblasts. Cells from one family where there was a boy with Lesch-Nyham syndrome, from two families with variant H-PRT mutations and three cell strains from patients with the Lesch-Nyham syn...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Willers I,Held KR,Singh S,Goedde HW

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristic clinical features of the dup(3q) syndrome include typical facial features, mental and growth retardation, and (often) congenital heart anomalies. However, pure duplication of 3qter is rare because most of the reported cases are patients who carry an unbalanced translocation and, in addition to the d...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Faas BH,De Vries BB,Van Es-Van Gaal J,Merkx G,Draaisma JM,Smeets DF

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical descriptions of individuals with partial deletion of the distal short arm of chromosome three have been reported rarely. A characteristic phenotype has been proposed. We present another patient with this cytogenetic abnormality whose physical and developmental features show similarities with, as well as diffe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Witt DR,Biedermann B,Hall JG

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a family in which three sibs are compound heterozygotes for two rather rare CFTR splice-site mutations, the 621 + 1G-->T and the 711 + 1G-->T mutations. Little phenotypic variation was observed between sibs, of whom two are deceased. Their disease is characterized by pancreatic insufficiency, a severe pulm...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： De Braekeleer M,Simard F,Aubin G

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy with Prader-Willi syndrome was found to have an inversion of chromosome 15,[46,XY,inv(15)(p13q13)]. His unaffected father has an apparently identical inversion of chromosome 15 but in addition has a number 14 chromosome with double satellites. This report supports previous indications of a relationship between a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Winsor EJ,Welch JP

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canonical wingless (Wnt) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling pathways involving CTNNB1 and TBX4, respectively, are crucial for the regulation of human development. Perturbations of these pathways and disruptions from biological homeostasis have been associated with abnormal morphogenesis of multiple organ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Karolak JA,Szafranski P,Kilner D,Patel C,Scurry B,Kinning E,Chandler K,Jhangiani SN,Coban Akdemir ZH,Lupski JR,Popek E,Stankiewicz P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 children with Down syndrome (DS), the parental origin of the supernumery chromosome 21 was investigated. In 76 out of the 100 cases the polymorphic regions were informative, i.e. the nondisjunction could be traced. Assessment of the alpha 1-antitrypsin/alpha 1-protease inhibitor (PI) types in these DS children ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Jongbloet PH,Frants RR,Hamers AJ

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic expression of the 47,XYY chromosome complement in man has been investigated mostly in terms of the central nervous system. Evidence is presented here to suggest that urinary tract malformation may be a component of the XYY syndrome; this should be taken into account when counselling parents of children wit...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Machin GA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D/I (deletion, D, insertion, I) polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene has been extensively studied for its association with a number of cardiovascular and other disease states. However, its potential association with differential clinical efficacy of ACE inhibitors (ACE-I) administered to pa...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zee RY,Solomon SD,Ajani UA,Pfeffer MA,Lindpaintner K,Heart investigators.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with three children with Waardenburg syndrome born to normal, unrelated parents is reported. This appears to be the first report suggesting germ-line mosaicism in Waardenburg syndrome. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kapur S,Karam S

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome (LS), the most common childhood mitochondrial disorder, has characteristic clinical and neuroradiologic features. Mutations in more than 75 genes have been identified in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genome, implicating a high degree of genetic heterogeneity in LS. To profile these genetic signatur...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee JS,Yoo T,Lee M,Lee Y,Jeon E,Kim SY,Lim BC,Kim KJ,Choi M,Chae JH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatoglyphic findings were compared in 38 Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) patients and 270 normal controls. Twenty-one of the PWS patients had an interstitial deletion of the proximal long arm of chromosome 15 and seventeen PWS cases had normal chromosomes. Findings in PWS are not diagnostic but do show some consistent ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Reed T,Butler MG

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant hereditary polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited kidney disease that causes end-stage renal disease and kidney failure. Preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic (PGT-M) can effectively prevent the transmission of genetic diseases from parents to the offspring before pre...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Shi H,Niu W,Liu Y,Jin H,Song W,Shi S,Yao G,Xu J,Sun Y

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:Complex chromosomal rearrangements (CCRs) are rare findings in clinical cytogenetics. As a result of the high risk of unbalanced segregation, familial cases are even rarer and maternal transmission occurs more frequently than paternal transmission. Analogous to Drosophila and mice, as well as to CCRs involving the Y c...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Grossmann V,Höckner M,Karmous-Benailly H,Liang D,Puttinger R,Quadrelli R,Röthlisberger B,Huber A,Wu L,Spreiz A,Fauth C,Erdel M,Zschocke J,Utermann G,Kotzot D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of whole-exome next-generation sequencing (WES) has been pivotal for the molecular characterization of Mendelian disease; however, the clinical applicability of WES has remained relatively unexplored. We describe our exploration of WES as a diagnostic tool in a 3½-year old female patient with a 2-year histo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hanchard NA,Murdock DR,Magoulas PL,Bainbridge M,Muzny D,Wu Y,Wang M,Lupski JR,Gibbs RA,Brown CW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sanfilippo syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type III) is the commonest mucoploysaccharidosis. It causes neurodegeneration with often profound sleep and behavioral disturbance. Management of the sleep disturbance is difficult and inconsistent. In this study, we surveyed clinicians with particular expertise in the manage...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fraser J,Wraith JE,Delatycki MB

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-galactose malabsorption (GGM) is an autosomal recessive disease with life-threatening newborn diarrhea caused by mutations in the Na(+) /glucose cotransporter gene SLC5A1. Because of its rarity, the clinical course of the disease has not been well studied. Here, we report 33 patients with GGM from a large Old ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Xin B,Wang H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 1p36 contiguous gene deletion syndromes are known so far: the terminal 1p36 deletion syndrome and a 1p36 deletion syndrome with a critical region located more proximal at 1p36.23-1p36.22. We present even more proximally located overlapping deletions from seven individuals, with the smallest region of overlap compr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Aagaard Nolting L,Brasch-Andersen C,Cox H,Kanani F,Parker M,Fry AE,Loddo S,Novelli A,Dentici ML,Joss S,Jørgensen JP,Fagerberg CR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the myelin protein zero (MPZ) gene are one of the frequent causes of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) hereditary neuropathies. Because the mutation rate of MPZ gene is rather high and some mutations are reported as polymorphisms, the proper clinical, electrophysiological examination and the segregation of the ne...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Brozková D,Mazanec R,Haberlová J,Sakmaryová I,Seeman P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a large cohort of hyperlipidemic patients, who attended the Lipid Research Clinic in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in Vancouver, Canada, 915 consecutive patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) of Dutch descent, were selected. This group of FH patients was screened for the presence of a cytosine to thymi...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Defesche JC,van de Ree MA,Kastelein JJ,van Diermen DE,Janssens NW,van Doormaal JJ,Hayden MR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a devastating disease that affects millions of elderly persons. Despite years of intense investigations, genetic risk factors that affect the majority of AD cases have yet to be determined. Recent studies suggest that cholesterol metabolism has integral part in AD pathogenesis, suggesting t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wellington CL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schematic presentation of NTRK1 protein structure. Variants identified in this study are shown in red and previously reported variants associated with CIPA are shown in black (LRM, leucine rich motif; Ig, immunoglobulin-like domain; TM, transmembrane domain; TK, tyrosine kinase domain). ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Amin S,Forrester N,Norman A,Lux A,Vijayakumar K

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Robinow Syndrome (RS), a rare skeletal dysplasia syndrome, is characterized by dysmorphic features resembling a fetal face, mesomelic limb shortening, hypoplastic external genitalia in males, and renal and vertebral anomalies. Both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive patterns of inheritance have been reported. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Roifman M,Marcelis CL,Paton T,Marshall C,Silver R,Lohr JL,Yntema HG,Venselaar H,Kayserili H,van Bon B,Seaward G,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Brunner HG,Chitayat D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peeling skin disease (PSD) is an autosomal recessive skin disorder caused by mutations in CDSN and is characterized by superficial peeling of the upper epidermis. Corneodesmosin (CDSN) is a major component of corneodesmosomes that plays an important role in maintaining epidermis integrity. Herein, we report a patient ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wada T,Matsuda Y,Muraoka M,Toma T,Takehara K,Fujimoto M,Yachie A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniocentesis for advanced maternal age resulted in the demonstration of a supernumerary microchromosome in the amniotic fluid cells. Cytogenetic analysis of peripheral blood from the female infant revealed a mosaic karyotype 46,XX/47,XX, + marker. The only anomaly noted in the infant was talipes equinovarus. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Muneer RS,Himes JR,Payne-Howell RM,Thompson LM,Rennert OM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome (OMIM #612001) is characterized by a wide range of phenotypic features, including intellectual disability, seizures, autism, and psychiatric conditions. This deletion is inherited in approximately 75% of cases and has been found in mildly affected and normal parents, consistent with ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Hoppman-Chaney N,Wain K,Seger PR,Superneau DW,Hodge JC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00