Structural characterization of the FKHR gene and its rearrangement in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

abstract：:The human POLG gene encodes the catalytic subunit of mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (pol gamma). Mutations in pol gamma are associated with a spectrum of disease phenotypes including autosomal dominant and recessive forms of progressive external ophthalmoplegia, spino-cerebellar ataxia and epilepsy, and Alpers-Hut...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Baruffini E,Lodi T,Dallabona C,Puglisi A,Zeviani M,Ferrero I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is an inherited disorder characterized by axonopathy and demyelination in the central nervous system and adrenal insufficiency. Main X-ALD phenotypes are: (i) an adult adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) with axonopathy in spinal cords, (ii) cerebral AMN with brain demyelination (cAMN) an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schlüter A,Espinosa L,Fourcade S,Galino J,López E,Ilieva E,Morató L,Asheuer M,Cook T,McLaren A,Reid J,Kelly F,Bates S,Aubourg P,Galea E,Pujol A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is prevalent in human embryos and is the leading cause of pregnancy loss. Many aneuploidies arise during oogenesis, increasing with maternal age. Superimposed on these meiotic aneuploidies are frequent errors occurring during early mitotic divisions, contributing to widespread chromosomal mosaicism. Here we...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： McCoy RC,Newnham LJ,Ottolini CS,Hoffmann ER,Chatzimeletiou K,Cornejo OE,Zhan Q,Zaninovic N,Rosenwaks Z,Petrov DA,Demko ZP,Sigurjonsson S,Handyside AH

更新日期：2018-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous inv mice lack a functional inversin protein and exhibit situs inversus plus severe cystic changes in the kidney and pancreas. Although the inversin sequence has provided few clues to its function, we and others have previously identified calmodulin as a binding partner. We now provide evidence that inversin...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Morgan D,Eley L,Sayer J,Strachan T,Yates LM,Craighead AS,Goodship JA

更新日期：2002-12-15 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：:Functional impairment of the human homeobox gene SHOX causes short stature and Madelung deformity in Leri-Weill syndrome (LWS) and has recently been implicated in additional skeletal malformations frequently observed in Turner syndrome. To enhance our understanding of the underlying mechanism of action, we have establ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rao E,Blaschke RJ,Marchini A,Niesler B,Burnett M,Rappold GA

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by mental retardation, obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly and hypogonadism. Individuals with this disorder also have an increased incidence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and renal and cardiac anomalies. We previously identified a locu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sheffield VC,Carmi R,Kwitek-Black A,Rokhlina T,Nishimura D,Duyk GM,Elbedour K,Sunden SL,Stone EM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human RPGR gene cause one of the most common and severe forms of inherited retinal dystrophy, but the function of its protein product remains unclear. We have identified two genes resembling human RPGR (ZFRPGR1, ZFRPGR2) in zebrafish (Danio rerio), both of which are expressed within the nascent and ad...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shu X,Zeng Z,Gautier P,Lennon A,Gakovic M,Patton EE,Wright AF

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in DJ-1 cause recessively transmitted early-onset Parkinson disease (PD), and oxidative damage to DJ-1 has been associated with the pathogenesis of late-onset sporadic PD. The precise biochemical function of DJ-1 remains elusive. Here, we report that DJ-1 is synthesized as a latent protease zymogen with low-...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chen J,Li L,Chin LS

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery containing the IFT-A and IFT-B complexes mediates ciliary protein trafficking. Mutations in the genes encoding the six subunits of the IFT-A complex (IFT43, IFT121, IFT122, IFT139, IFT140, and IFT144) are known to cause skeletal ciliopathies, including cranioectodermal dysp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Takahara M,Katoh Y,Nakamura K,Hirano T,Sugawa M,Tsurumi Y,Nakayama K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia is commonly caused by large expansions of a GAA triplet-repeat (GAA-TR) sequence in the first intron of the FRDA gene. We used small-pool PCR to analyze somatic variability among 7190 individual FRDA molecules from peripheral blood DNA of subjects carrying 12 different expanded alleles, ranging in si...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sharma R,Bhatti S,Gomez M,Clark RM,Murray C,Ashizawa T,Bidichandani SI

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular microfibril, 10-14 nm in diameter, performs a number of functions, including serving as the scaffolding for deposition of tropoelastin to form elastic fibers. A variety of proteins compose the structure of microfibrils, the most prominent of which are the two fibrillins. Fibrillin-1 is encoded by FBN...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dietz HC,Pyeritz RE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by the loss of expression of imprinted genes in chromosome 15q11-q13. Affected individuals exhibit neonatal hypotonia, developmental delay and childhood-onset obesity. Necdin, a protein implicated in the terminal differentiation of neurons, is the only PWS candidate gene to reduce...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee S,Kozlov S,Hernandez L,Chamberlain SJ,Brannan CI,Stewart CL,Wevrick R

更新日期：2000-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions within the neurexin 1 gene (NRXN1; 2p16.3) are associated with autism and have also been reported in two families with schizophrenia. We examined NRXN1, and the closely related NRXN2 and NRXN3 genes, for copy number variants (CNVs) in 2977 schizophrenia patients and 33 746 controls from seven European popula...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rujescu D,Ingason A,Cichon S,Pietiläinen OP,Barnes MR,Toulopoulou T,Picchioni M,Vassos E,Ettinger U,Bramon E,Murray R,Ruggeri M,Tosato S,Bonetto C,Steinberg S,Sigurdsson E,Sigmundsson T,Petursson H,Gylfason A,Olason

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodevelopmental disorders frequently share common clinical features and appear high rate of comorbidity, such as those present in patients with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). While characterizing behavioral phenotypes in the mouse model of cyclin-dependent kinas...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jhang CL,Huang TN,Hsueh YP,Liao W

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes encoding the epsilon, delta, beta and alpha subunits of the end plate acetylcholine (ACh) receptor (AChR) are described and functionally characterized in three slow-channel congenital myasthenic syndrome patients. All three had prolonged end plate currents and AChR channel opening episodes and an en...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Engel AG,Ohno K,Milone M,Wang HL,Nakano S,Bouzat C,Pruitt JN 2nd,Hutchinson DO,Brengman JM,Bren N,Sieb JP,Sine SM

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:The group of dominant non-dystrophic myotonias, comprising disorders characterized by clinically similar forms of myogenic muscle stiffness, is genetically inhomogeneous. Dominant myotonia congenita (Thomsen's disease) is linked to CLCN1, the gene encoding the major muscle chloride channel, localized on chromosome 7q3...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lehmann-Horn F,Mailänder V,Heine R,George AL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the absence of dystrophin along muscle fibers. An attractive therapeutic avenue for DMD consists in the upregulation of utrophin A, a protein with high sequence identity and functional redundancy with dystrophin. Recent work has shown that pharmacological interventions th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Al-Rewashdy H,Ljubicic V,Lin W,Renaud JM,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the conversion of L-tyrosine to L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA), the rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of dopamine. Recently, we described a point mutation in hTH (Q381K) in a family of two siblings suffering from progressive L-DOPA-responsive dystonia (DRD), representing the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knappskog PM,Flatmark T,Mallet J,Lüdecke B,Bartholomé K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine expansion in certain proteins causes neurodegeneration in inherited disorders such as Huntington disease and X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy. Polyglutamine tracts promote protein aggregation in vitro and in vivo with a strict length-dependence that strongly implicates alternative protein folding an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Desai UA,Pallos J,Ma AA,Stockwell BR,Thompson LM,Marsh JL,Diamond MI

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour suppressor gene PTEN, localized to 10q23.3, is the susceptibility gene for Cowden syndrome (CS) and Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba (BRR) syndrome, two hamartoma syndromes with an increased risk of breast and thyroid tumours. Somatic mutations have been found in a variety of human tumours. Functional studies have ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gimm O,Attié-Bitach T,Lees JA,Vekemans M,Eng C

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene B lymphocyte kinase (BLK) is associated with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and several other autoimmune disorders. The disease risk haplotype is known to be associated with reduced expression of BLK mRNA transcript in human B cell lines; however, little is known about cis-regulation of BL...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Simpfendorfer KR,Olsson LM,Manjarrez Orduño N,Khalili H,Simeone AM,Katz MS,Lee AT,Diamond B,Gregersen PK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine is thought to act on brain monoamine systems that normally mediate diverse motivational behaviors. How monoamine-related genes contribute to behavioral traits (e.g. responses to novel stimuli) comorbid with the susceptibility to nicotine addiction is still poorly understood. We examined the impact of constitu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Agatsuma S,Lee M,Zhu H,Chen K,Shih JC,Seif I,Hiroi N

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PAX genes encode nuclear transcription factors which are rapidly becoming regarded as major controllers of developmental processes in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Mutations in murine Pax genes underlie three natural mouse alleles and two corresponding human syndromes. Murine Pax genes have been shown to be prot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stuart ET,Gruss P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With 46 subunits, human mitochondrial complex I is the largest enzyme of the oxidative phosphorylation system. We have studied the assembly of complex I in cultured human cells. This will provide essential information about the nature of complex I deficiencies and will enhance our understanding of mitochondrial diseas...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ugalde C,Vogel R,Huijbens R,Van Den Heuvel B,Smeitink J,Nijtmans L

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem with strong genetic determination; however, the genetic factors underlying obesity are largely unknown. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association scan for obesity by examining approximately 500 000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a sample of 1000 unrelated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu YJ,Liu XG,Wang L,Dina C,Yan H,Liu JF,Levy S,Papasian CJ,Drees BM,Hamilton JJ,Meyre D,Delplanque J,Pei YF,Zhang L,Recker RR,Froguel P,Deng HW

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human breast cancers result from an inherited predisposition to the disease. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene confer a high risk of breast cancer and are responsible for almost half of these cases. The recent cloning of the human BRCA2 gene has revealed that it encodes a large protein having little signific...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Connor F,Smith A,Wooster R,Stratton M,Dixon A,Campbell E,Tait TM,Freeman T,Ashworth A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type V collagen is a constituent of type I collagen-rich fibrils in many connective tissues and is a regulator of fibril diameter. In tissues, type V collagen is a heterotrimer with the molecular structure: alpha 1(V)2 alpha 2(V) or alpha 1(V) alpha 2(V) alpha 3(V). We report that genomic polymorphisms at the pro alph...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wenstrup RJ,Langland GT,Willing MC,D'Souza VN,Cole WG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00