Genomewide search for genes influencing percent body fat in Pima Indians: suggestive linkage at chromosome 11q21-q22. Pima Diabetes Gene Group.

abstract：:Seventy-seven Ethiopians were investigated for mtDNA and Y chromosome-specific variations, in order to (1) define the different maternal and paternal components of the Ethiopian gene pool, (2) infer the origins of these maternal and paternal lineages and estimate their relative contributions, and (3) obtain informatio...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Passarino G,Semino O,Quintana-Murci L,Excoffier L,Hammer M,Santachiara-Benerecetti AS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism causes decreased activity of this enzyme and can be associated with mild-to-moderate hyperhomocysteinemia in homozygotes, particularly when there is folic acid deficiency, as well as with vascular dementia, arterial thrombosis, venous throm...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Rosenberg N,Murata M,Ikeda Y,Opare-Sem O,Zivelin A,Geffen E,Seligsohn U

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated complex I deficiency is a common biochemical phenotype observed in pediatric mitochondrial disease and often arises as a consequence of pathogenic variants affecting one of the ∼65 genes encoding the complex I structural subunits or assembly factors. Such genetic heterogeneity means that application of next-g...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Alston CL,Heidler J,Dibley MG,Kremer LS,Taylor LS,Fratter C,French CE,Glasgow RIC,Feichtinger RG,Delon I,Pagnamenta AT,Dolling H,Lemonde H,Aiton N,Bjørnstad A,Henneke L,Gärtner J,Thiele H,Tauchmannova K,Quaghebeur G

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome scan of the hoarding phenotype (a component of obsessive-compulsive disorder) was conducted on 77 sib pairs collected by the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics (TSAICG). All sib pairs were concordant for a diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). However, the analyse...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Zhang H,Leckman JF,Pauls DL,Tsai CP,Kidd KK,Campos MR,Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics.

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cases of small ring chromosomes which did not stain with distamycinA/DAPI and did not possess satellite regions associated with nucleolus-organizing regions are described. In situ hybridization with a battery of biotinylated pericentric repeat probes specific either for individual chromosomes or for groups of chro...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Callen DF,Eyre HJ,Ringenbergs ML,Freemantle CJ,Woodroffe P,Haan EA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of venous blood from 239 male and 476 female adults including 41 pairs of parents and 123 of their children belonging to a Surinam population called the Djuka or Bush Negroes of West African origin were screened for electrophoretic variants of red cell glutathione peroxidase (GPX1) in Cellogel. The results con...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Meera Khan P,Verma C,Wijnen LM,Wijnen JT,Prins HK,Nijenhuis LE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high incidence of 46,XX true hermaphroditism exists among southern African blacks. The gonadal distribution and clinical presentation of 38 patients are described. The aim of our study on 11 families with histologically proven XX true hermaphroditism was to determine whether a common genetic or environmental etiolog...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Ramsay M,Bernstein R,Zwane E,Page DC,Jenkins T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA class II loci are useful markers in human population genetics, because they are extremely variable and because new molecular techniques allow large-scale analysis of DNA allele frequencies. Direct DNA typing by hybridization with sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes (HLA oligotyping) after enzymatic in vitro P...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Tiercy JM,Sanchez-Mazas A,Excoffier L,Shi-Isaac X,Jeannet M,Mach B,Langaney A

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AIMilano apoprotein variant is associated with a marked reduction of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and with increased triglyceridemia. In spite of the low HDL-cholesterol (HDL-Ch), carriers do not generally show clinical signs of atherosclerosis. The biochemical disorder is linked to a molecula...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Gualandri V,Franceschini G,Sirtori CR,Gianfranceschi G,Orsini GB,Cerrone A,Menotti A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination rates vary both across the genome and between different species, but little information is available about the temporal and physical scales over which such rates change. To shed light on these questions, we performed a high-resolution analysis of a genomic region within the beta-globin gene cluster that ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Wall JD,Frisse LA,Hudson RR,Di Rienzo A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeric-mapping methods have been used to investigate the association between altered recombination and meiotic nondisjunction in humans. For trisomies, current methods are based on the genotypes from a trisomic offspring and both parents. Because it is sometimes difficult to obtain samples from both parents and b...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Feingold E,Brown AS,Sherman SL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using sequence-tagged sites we have performed deletion mapping of the Y chromosome in sex-reversed female patients with a Y chromosome and gonadoblastoma. The GBY gene (gonadoblastoma locus on the Y chromosome) was sublocalized to a small region near the centromere of the Y chromosome. We estimate the size of the GBY ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Tsuchiya K,Reijo R,Page DC,Disteche CM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-globin gene cluster haplotypes were determined in Southern African San and negroid populations. Significant differences (P less than .01) between the two groups were found at three of the nine loci in the cluster. The most striking difference, however, was the relatively low level of variation found in the San (...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Ramsay M,Jenkins T

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoporphyria is an autosomal dominant disease in man in which protoporphyrin accumulated because of a defect in heme synthase (ferrochelatase) activity. A disease has been described in cattle that has the same manifestations as does the human disease. We measured heme synthase activity in sonicates of cultured skin ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Bloomer JR,Morton KO,Reuter RJ,Ruth GR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practicality and moral value of community review of human genetic research has become a focus of debate. Examples from two Native American communities are used to address four aspects of that debate: (1) the value of community review in larger, geographically dispersed populations; (2) the identification of cultur...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Foster MW,Sharp RR,Freeman WL,Chino M,Bernsten D,Carter TH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal hereditary motor neuronopathy type VII (dHMN-VII) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by distal muscular atrophy and vocal cord paralysis. We performed a genomewide linkage search in a large Welsh pedigree with dHMN-VII and established linkage to chromosome 2q14. Analyses of a second family with dHM...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： McEntagart M,Norton N,Williams H,Teare MD,Dunstan M,Baker P,Houlden H,Reilly M,Wood N,Harper PS,Futreal PA,Williams N,Rahman N

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant congenital spinal muscular atrophy (DCSMA) is a disorder of developing anterior horn cells and shows lower-limb predominance and clinical overlap with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a lower-limb-predominant disorder of corticospinal motor neurons. We have identified four mutations in bicaudal D homolog ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Oates EC,Rossor AM,Hafezparast M,Gonzalez M,Speziani F,MacArthur DG,Lek M,Cottenie E,Scoto M,Foley AR,Hurles M,Houlden H,Greensmith L,Auer-Grumbach M,Pieber TR,Strom TM,Schule R,Herrmann DN,Sowden JE,Acsadi G,Mene

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation results in the random transcriptional silencing of one of the two X chromosomes early in female development. After random inactivation, certain deleterious X-linked mutations can create a selective disadvantage for cells in which the mutation is on the active X chromosome, leading to X inacti...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Plenge RM,Tranebjaerg L,Jensen PK,Schwartz C,Willard HF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Criteria and rules are derived for the most statistically efficient sampling of relatives of affected probands under a simple class of standard genetic models. Results show that the optimal relative type depends on the alternative hypotheses of particular interest. Thus, there is no uniformly optimal strategy, but the...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Thompson EA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two female identical twins who were clinically normal were obligatory heterozygotes for X-linked deuteranomaly associated with a green-red fusion gene derived from their deuteranomalous father. On anomaloscopy, one of the twins was phenotypically deuteranomalous while the other had normal color vision. The color visio...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Jørgensen AL,Philip J,Raskind WH,Matsushita M,Christensen B,Dreyer V,Motulsky AG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the mutation spectrum of the RP2 and RPGR genes in patients with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) and searched for correlations between categories of mutation and severity of disease. We screened 187 unrelated male patients for mutations, including 135 with a prior clinical diagnosis of XLRP, 11 with...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Sharon D,Sandberg MA,Rabe VW,Stillberger M,Dryja TP,Berson EL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is considerable evidence for a strong genetic component to idiopathic autism, several genomewide screens for susceptibility genes have been performed with limited concordance of linked loci, reflecting either numerous genes of weak effect and/or sample heterogeneity. Because decreasing sample heterogene...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Buxbaum JD,Silverman JM,Smith CJ,Kilifarski M,Reichert J,Hollander E,Lawlor BA,Fitzgerald M,Greenberg DA,Davis KL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New information has been obtained on 30 patients with isolated persistent hypermethioninemia, most of them previously unreported. Biopsies to confirm the presumptive diagnosis of partially deficient activity of ATP: L-methionine S-adenosyltransferase (MAT; E.C.2.5.1.6) in liver were not performed on most of these pati...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Mudd SH,Levy HL,Tangerman A,Boujet C,Buist N,Davidson-Mundt A,Hudgins L,Oyanagi K,Nagao M,Wilson WG

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk alleles overlap between different ethnic groups. Here, we utilize a multiethnic approach to show that we can effectively discover RA risk alleles. Thirteen putatively associated SNPs that had not yet exceeded genome-wide significance (p < 5 × 10(-8)) in our ...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kurreeman FA,Stahl EA,Okada Y,Liao K,Diogo D,Raychaudhuri S,Freudenberg J,Kochi Y,Patsopoulos NA,Gupta N,CLEAR investigators.,Sandor C,Bang SY,Lee HS,Padyukov L,Suzuki A,Siminovitch K,Worthington J,Gregersen PK,Hugh

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize the mutant enzyme in nine patients with gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina associated with ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) deficiency, to elucidate the mechanism of response to pyridoxine in four pyridoxine-responsive patients, and to determine the extent of genetic...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Kennaway NG,Stankova L,Wirtz MK,Weleber RG

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactosemia is an autosomal recessive disorder of human galactose metabolism caused by deficiency of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT). The molecular basis of this disorder is at present not well understood. We report here two missense mutations which result in low or undetectable enzymatic a...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Reichardt JK,Packman S,Woo SL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkaline phosphatases comprise a multigene enzyme family that hydolyze phosphate esters and are widely distributed in nature. Three main classes have been isolated from humans, the placental, intestinal, and liver/bone/kidney forms. We have mapped the placental and intestinal alkaline phosphatase genes to 2q34-q37...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Griffin CA,Smith M,Henthorn PS,Harris H,Weiss MJ,Raducha M,Emanuel BS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal hemoglobinopathy screening was chosen as a model system for the study of patient receptivity to unsolicited genetic information. Providers of prenatal care in Rochester, NY, were offered free testing of all their prenatal patients and genetic counseling of women found positive. The 18,907 prenatal samples tes...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Rowley PT,Loader S,Sutera CJ,Walden M,Kozyra A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease (GD) is one of the most prevalent lysosomal storage disorders and one of the rare genetic diseases now accessible to therapy. Outside the Ashkenazi Jewish community, a high molecular diversity is observed, leaving approximately 30% of alleles undetected. Nevertheless, very few exhaustive methods have b...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Germain DP,Puech JP,Caillaud C,Kahn A,Poenaru L

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genetics community needs robust protocols that enable secure sharing of genomic data from participants in genetic research. Beacons are web servers that answer allele-presence queries--such as "Do you have a genome that has a specific nucleotide (e.g., A) at a specific genomic position (e.g., position 11,272...

journal_title：American journal of human genetics

authors： Shringarpure SS,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00