Late diagnosis of Down syndrome due to incorrect cytogenetic diagnosis and extreme prematurity.

abstract：:We report studies on two patients (a mother and her daughter) presenting with a Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1) phenotype: low nerve conduction velocities of 13-15 m/s and an early onset at the age of walking. DNA analysis of the gene coding for the major peripheral myelin protein PO showed a new point mutation in e...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Blanquet-Grossard F,Pham-Dinh D,Dautigny A,Latour P,Bonnebouche C,Corbillon E,Chazot G,Vandenberghe A

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of psychotic and prepsychotic twins is presented, based on 9000 patients born during 1930--1946 and admitted to psychiatric departments in Scania, Sweden, during the 1960's. All twins of the same sex (76 pairs) were registered and their records examined. Twenty-three complete pairs, where one or both twins sh...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Eberhard G

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated cleft palate (CP) is considered to be a heterogeneous trait with an important genetic contribution to the etiology. Multifactorial-threshold models of non-syndromic CP inheritance assume a female predominance. The present study of 52 Danish birth cohorts, using several ascertainment sources, identified 2301 C...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Christensen K,Fogh-Andersen P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the insulin receptor gene have been reported in cases of type A insulin resistance. We report herein two cases of type A insulin resistance, which involve some novel mutations. Case 1 is a heterozygote of the C253Y missense mutation and case 2 is a heterozygote of the Y864X nonsense mutation. In the C253Y...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Osawa H,Nishimiya T,Ochi M,Niiya T,Onuma H,Kitamuro F,Kaino Y,Kida K,Makino H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of array-comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in patients with developmental delay (DD), mental retardation and/or dysmorphic features has allowed the recent recognition of numerous genomic imbalances, including the 15q13.3 microdeletion. Patients w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Masurel-Paulet A,Andrieux J,Callier P,Cuisset JM,Le Caignec C,Holder M,Thauvin-Robinet C,Doray B,Flori E,Alex-Cordier MP,Beri M,Boute O,Delobel B,Dieux A,Vallee L,Jaillard S,Odent S,Isidor B,Beneteau C,Vigneron J,

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to search for SLC40A1 mutations in iron overloaded patients, which tested negative for HFE mutations and other iron-related genes. After a careful differential diagnosis, we selected 56 patients with unexplained iron overload whose phenotype could suggest the ferroportin disease. Iron overloa...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Pelucchi S,Mariani R,Salvioni A,Bonfadini S,Riva A,Bertola F,Trombini P,Piperno A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lee S-C, Guo J-Y, Lim R, Soo R, Koay E, Salto-Tellez M, Leong A, Goh B-C. Clinical and molecular characteristics of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer families in Southeast Asia. Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), predominantly due to germline MLH1/MSH2 mutations, is the commonest form of here...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lee SC,Guo JY,Lim R,Soo R,Koay E,Salto-Tellez M,Leong A,Goh BC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family in which a woman with the mosaic karyotype 45,X/46,X,del(X)(p21.2) transmitted the deleted X chromosome to two daughters. The nature of the deletion was confirmed by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). All three family members showed somatic Ullrich-Turner syndrome features, but only one daugh...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zinn AR,Ouyang B,Ross JL,Varma S,Bourgeois M,Tonk V

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamus plays a critical role in the regulation of food intake and body weight, and recent work has defined a core circuitry in the hypothalamus that appears to mediate many of the effects of the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin on feeding and glucose homeostasis. However, until recently, little was known abo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bouret SG,Simerly RB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the role of three polymorphic genes of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) as independent risk factors for myocardial infarction (MI) and their correlation with three of the major coronary risk factors: serum cholesterol (CH), hypertension (HT) and smoking (SM). A population of 392 men was genotyped for...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fernández-Arcás N,Dieguez-Lucena JL,Muñoz-Morán E,Ruiz-Galdón M,Espinosa-Caliani S,Aranda-Lara P,Rius-Diaz F,Gaitán-Arroyo MJ,De Teresa-Galván E,Reyes-Engel A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome is caused by IFIH1 mutations Oda et al.(2014) The American Journal of Human Genetics 95(1): 121-125. Gain-of-function mutations in IFIH1 cause a spectrum of human disease phenotypes associated with upregulated type I interferon signaling Rice et al.(2014) Nature Genetics 46(5): 503-510. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Diamond J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which a mother and her two children carry a tandem duplication of the short arm of chromosome 8. Their phenotypes are similar and characterised by distinct facial dysmorphism, small stature and mild mental retardation. This is one of the first cases of direct familial transmission of a partial...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Dhooge C,Van Roy N,Craen M,Speleman F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to increase the efficiency of the Magiscan metaphase location and karyotyping system, its software and mode of operation have been changed. In the new multiple-cell karyotyping method, interactions by the operator are only required for relocation and counting of metaphases, but not for karyotyping. Metaphases...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Lundsteen C,Gerdes T,Maahr J

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, a considerable number of patients with autoimmune diseases (ADs) have suffered from a lack of drug response and drug-related toxicity. Despite the emergence of new therapeutic options such as biological agents, patients continue to struggle with these problems. Unfortunately, new challenges, including ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tavakolpour S,Darvishi M,Ghasemiadl M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, typical facial features and a spectrum of additional features including body and limb asymmetry and clinodactyly. Maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 7 (upd(7)mat) was shown to o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Behnecke A,Hinderhofer K,Jauch A,Janssen JW,Moog U

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During three years, 39,924 infants born consecutively in the area covered by our registry of congenital malformations were surveyed; 775 had major congenital malformations. Recurrence risks for the major malformation was estimated and classified as high (greater than 10%, 5.3% of the cases), low (1 to 10%, 85.3% of th...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Stoll C,Roth MP,Dott B,Bigel P

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl in whom a ring chromosome 13 was found, presented with microcephaly, mental retardation and multiple minor malformations. She was born after a full term pregnancy, small for date and with a small head circumference. She underwent craniotomy at the age of 18 months because of premature closure of the metopic sut...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fried K,Rosenblatt M,Mundel G,Krikler R

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred amniotic fluids were tested for the presence of ABH blood group substances. Gestation at amniocentesis ranged from 12 to 28 weeks, with a mean of 16.6 weeks. The secretor status of the fluid was correlated with the secretor status of the baby after birth as determined from a sample of saliva. Fluid and sal...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gibson SL,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal analyses of cultured lymphocytes from nine patients with familial multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) syndrome type I from six families and two patients - father and daughter - with familial MEA syndrome type II showed an increased frequency of chromosomal breakage. The frequency of sister chromatid exch...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gustavson KH,Jansson R,Oberg K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cilia are microtubule-rich hair-like extensions protruding from the surface of most post-mitotic cells. They act as sensory organelles that help interpret various environmental cues. Mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in ciliogenesis or protein transport to the primary cilia lead to a wide variety o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ramamurthy V,Cayouette M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 15 surface measurements taken directly from the craniofacial region were determined in 51 patients with Waardenburg syndrome type I (WSI). A roentgencephamometric analysis including 20 linear dimensions was also performed by the use of cephalograms of 28 patients. Pairs between patients and controls of the sa...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： da-Silva EO,Batista JE,Medeiros MA,Fonteles SM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequencing protocol for the acid beta-glucosidase (GCase) gene (GBA) was developed using a long-range PCR template. This protocol has an advantage of greater DNA yields over similar strategies. Seven Gaucher's disease patients had four novel and five other rare alleles. A non-pseudogene in-frame deletion (g.2600-260...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhao H,Keddache M,Bailey L,Arnold G,Grabowski G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked cleft palate (CPX) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the TBX22 transcription factor and is known to exhibit phenotypic variability, usually involving either a complete, partial or submucous cleft palate, with or without ankyloglossia. This study hypothesized a possible involvement of TBX22 in a fami...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Pauws E,Peskett E,Boissin C,Hoshino A,Mengrelis K,Carta E,Abruzzo MA,Lees M,Moore GE,Erickson RP,Stanier P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase activity was assayed in platelets from 32 apparently healthy subjects using phenethylamine as substrate and two concentrations of oxygen (0.06 and 0.12 mM). Apparent Km (microM) and Vmax (nmol/mg protein/5 min) values were estimated from double reciprocal plots. The means of the Km and Vmax values we...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Koide Y,Sääf J,Roos SB,Wahlund LO,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is the prototype of the cardiac ion channelopathies which cause syncope and sudden death. LQT1, due to mutations of KCNQ1 (KVLQT1), is the most common form. This study describes the genotype-phenotype characteristics in 10 families with mutations of KCNQ1, including 5 novel mutations. One hundr...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chen S,Zhang L,Bryant RM,Vincent GM,Flippin M,Lee JC,Brown E,Zimmerman F,Rozich R,Szafranski P,Oberti C,Sterba R,Marangi D,Tchou PJ,Chung MK,Wang Q

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gynecological cancers pose a significant threat to women's health worldwide, with cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer having high incidences. Current gynecological cancer treatment methods mainly include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and chemoradiotherapy. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing techno...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhang W,Liu Y,Zhou X,Zhao R,Wang H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA exosome is a highly conserved ribonuclease complex essential for RNA processing and degradation. Bi-allelic variants in exosome subunits EXOSC3, EXOSC8 and EXOSC9 have been reported to cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 1B, type 1C and type 1D, respectively, while those in EXOSC2 cause short stature, hearing lo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Somashekar PH,Kaur P,Stephen J,Guleria VS,Kadavigere R,Girisha KM,Bielas S,Upadhyai P,Shukla A

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus DXS255 was studied using the probe M27 beta in ten probands with Rett syndrome and in eight of their families. No evidence of uniparental disomy of the X chromosome was detected, as all informative probands had inherited an allele from each of their parents. Differential methylation of a CCGG site within the...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Webb T,Watkiss E,Woods CG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease. HCM is a highly complex and heterogeneous disease regarding not only the number of associated mutations but also the severity of phenotype, symptom burden, and the risk of complications, such as heart failure and sudden death. The p...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Sabater-Molina M,Pérez-Sánchez I,Hernández Del Rincón JP,Gimeno JR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome has been historically categorized into one of three classical types based on the patient phenotype. However, the vestibular phenotype does not infallibly predict which Usher genes are mutated. Conversely, the Usher syndrome genotype is not sufficient to reliably predict vestibular function. Here we pres...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wafa TT,Faridi R,King KA,Zalewski C,Yousaf R,Schultz JM,Morell RJ,Muskett J,Turriff A,Tsilou E,Griffith AJ,Friedman TB,Zein WM,Brewer CC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00