Association analysis of CA repeat polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene with essential hypertension in Japanese.

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 logistic regression model is a popular model for data analysis in epidemiological research. In this paper, we use this model to analyze genetic data collected from gene-longevity association studies. This new approach models the probability of observing one genotype as a function of the age of investigated individ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tan Q,Yashin AI,De Benedictis G,Cintolesi F,Rose G,Bonafe M,Franceschi C,Vach W,Vaupel JW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SATB2-associated syndrome (SAS) is a recently identified disorder characterized by neurodevelopmental deficits and craniofacial anomalies. Assessments of speech, language, and feeding-related issues were conducted among 61 individuals with SAS (median age = 86 months, range = 26 months to 29 years of age). Individuals...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Thomason A,Pankey E,Nutt B,Caffrey AR,Zarate YA

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezetimibe reduces plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by blocking sterol absorption in enterocytes. The NPC1L1 gene product was recently identified as the molecular target for ezetimibe, although functional details are incomplete. We used the non-response phenotype of plasma LDL cholesterol to ezetimibe t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wang J,Williams CM,Hegele RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large variety of mutations within the genes encoding hepcidin (HAMP) and hemojuvelin (HJV) have been identified in patients with the severe iron overload disorder juvenile hemochromatosis (JH). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the molecular background of JH in patients from central parts of Europe. Seque...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Gehrke SG,Pietrangelo A,Kascák M,Braner A,Eisold M,Kulaksiz H,Herrmann T,Hebling U,Bents K,Gugler R,Stremmel W

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether an association exists between genetic variants of the human obesity (OB or leptin) gene and body mass index (BMI) or weight in subjects with Prader Willi syndrome (PWS) and in age- and gender-matched lean and obese subjects without PWS. The study included 51 subjects with PWS (mean age = 17.7 +...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Butler MG,Hedges L,Hovis CL,Feurer ID

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis of G-banded cells from 92 individuals consecutively referred to the Cytogenetics Laboratory show that the paracentromeric band in the short arm (6p11), which stains negatively with G-banding and darkly with C-banding, shows a marked increase in size in about 9% of chromosome no. 6. The results of t...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Madan K,Bruinsma AH

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:Most publications on the ethical aspects of genetic research into Alzheimer's Disease (AD) concentrate on the differences between the opinions of professionals and non-professionals. Differences in rating of morally relevant issues between groups of professionals have not yet been described. A modified Delphi study in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： van der Vorm A,van der Laan AL,Borm G,Vernooij-Dassen M,Olde Rikkert M,van Leeuwen E,Dekkers W

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3R1 mutations cause syndromic insulin resistance with lipoatrophy. Thauvin-Robinet et al. (2013) The American Journal of Human Genetics 93: 141-149 SHORT syndrome with partial lipodystrophy due to impaired phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase signalling. Chudasama et al. (2013) The American Journal of Human Genetics 93: 1...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chung BK,Gibson WT

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized a sample of 299 adult females aged between 19 and 86 years, carrying fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) alleles with small CCG expansions ranging from 50 to 141 repeats to analyse the relationships between psychological symptoms as assessed by the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) and the size of th...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Loesch DZ,Bui MQ,Hammersley E,Schneider A,Storey E,Stimpson P,Burgess T,Francis D,Slater H,Tassone F,Hagerman RJ,Hessl D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful fertilization is fundamental for sexual reproduction. After undergoing a series of molecular and morphological changes, the haploid sperm fuses with the haploid oocyte to create a diploid zygote. Defects in this process might lead to human fertilization failure. We have previously found homozygous mutations...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Zhang Z,Mu J,Zhao J,Zhou Z,Chen B,Wu L,Yan Z,Wang W,Zhao L,Dong J,Sun X,Kuang Y,Li B,Wang L,Sang Q

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a multisystemic disease caused by the expansion of a CTG repeat, located in the 3'-untranslated region of the DMPK gene. The number of CTG repeats broadly correlates with the overall severity of the disease. However, correlations between CTG repeat number and presence/absence or severity of ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Marchini C,Lonigro R,Verriello L,Pellizzari L,Bergonzi P,Damante G

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Five sibs with related parents are presented. All the sibs have short atrioventricular conduction time (P-R interval). The short P-R interval is probably an inherited feature in the family. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Möller P

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the clinical, genetic, and molecular characteristics of a large Chinese family exhibiting non-syndromic, late-onset autosomal dominant sensorineural hearing loss. Clinical evaluation revealed variable phenotypes of hearing loss in terms of severity and age-at-onset of disease in these subjects. Genome-w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Cheng J,Han DY,Dai P,Sun HJ,Tao R,Sun Q,Yan D,Qin W,Wang HY,Ouyang XM,Yang SZ,Cao JY,Feng GY,Du LL,Zhang YZ,Zhai SQ,Yang WY,Liu XZ,He L,Yuan HJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a paucity of research into the psychosocial impact of juvenile Huntington's disease (JHD) on the child and the family. The study reported here is part of larger project that aimed to address this and investigate the social and health care needs of those affected by JHD. Ten semistructured interviews wit...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Smith JA,Brewer HM,Eatough V,Stanley CA,Glendinning NW,Quarrell OW

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Niemann-Pick diseases are hereditary neurovisceral lysosomal lipid storage disorders, of which the rare type C2 almost uniformly presents with respiratory distress in early infancy. In the patient presented here, the NPC2 exon 4 frameshift mutation c.408_409delAA caused reduced NPC2 protein levels in serum and lung la...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Griese M,Brasch F,Aldana VR,Cabrera MM,Goelnitz U,Ikonen E,Karam BJ,Liebisch G,Linder MD,Lohse P,Meyer W,Schmitz G,Pamir A,Ripper J,Rolfs A,Schams A,Lezana FJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) may be the result of Lynch syndrome (LS) caused by mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes, a syndrome of unknown etiology called familial colorectal cancer type-X (FCCTX), or familial serrated neoplasia associated with the colorectal cancer (CRC) somatic BRAF mutati...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Warden G,Harnett D,Green J,Wish T,Woods MO,Green R,Dicks E,Rahman P,Zhai G,Parfrey P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is an important genetic trait associated with cardiovascular disease. While Lp(a) levels have been demonstrated to be approximately twice as high in black adults and children compared with whites, this relationship has not been assessed in the elderly. During the 1987 recall of the Charleston He...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Knapp RG,Schreiner PJ,Sutherland SE,Keil JE,Gilbert GE,Klein RL,Hames C,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is rarely inherited in an X-linked recessive mode in pure and complicated forms. Recently, molecular linkage studies have suggested that these variant X-linked HSP conditions result from locus heterogeneity. In this paper we report on the clinical and linkage analysis of a kindred w...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Goldblatt J,Ballo R,Sachs B,Moosa A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptomatic treatment of dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) emphasizes the importance of molecular analyses of the GCH-1, TH and parkin genes. However, these analyses have not been extensively studied in Chinese DRD patients. Ten DRD families from the Han ethnic group including 14 patients and 28 clinically unaffected...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Wu ZY,Lin Y,Chen WJ,Zhao GX,Xie H,Murong SX,Wang N

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 509 specimens of spontaneous abortion were studied. Of 364 complete specimens, 15 (4.1%) had central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities. The defects which were seen were anencephaly, spina bifida, iniencephaly, encephalocele and anencephaly combined with complete rachischisis. A high proportion (five out of...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Bell JE,Gosden CM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallmann syndrome is defined by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia. A previously unreported association of Kallmann syndrome and choanal atresia in a family is reported. The mechanism of the embryopathic association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, anosmia, and choanal atresia is though to b...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Klein VR,Friedman JM,Brookshire GS,Brown OE,Edman CD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa (CL) syndromes comprise a rare group of multisystem disorders that share loose redundant skin folds as hallmark clinical feature. CL results from impaired elastic fiber assembly and homeostasis, and the known underlying gene defects affect different extracellular matrix proteins, intracellular trafficking, ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Beyens A,Boel A,Symoens S,Callewaert B

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new modification of currently utilized methods of processing cell cultures of whole peripheral blood for obtaining chromosome preparations necessary for differential staining (Q, G and C) is proposed. After the usual hypotonic treatment of cultures, a 3%-5% aquaeous solution of glacial acetic acid is added to the ce...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ibraimov AI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliable evaluation of chromosomal mosaics is still considered to be difficult in clinical diagnosis if aberrant metaphases are only present at low frequencies. Classical cytogenetic findings cannot significantly exclude low mosaic levels, obviously, because of the relatively low number of analyzed metaphases. To ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Schliephacke M,Maier CI,Majlinger G,Tomiuk J,Leipoldt M,Kaiser P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacarpophalangeal pattern profile (MCPP) analysis was applied to patients with Pfeiffer and Chotzen syndromes, dominantly inherited types of acrocephalosyndactyly (ACS). A characteristic MCPP was obtained for the group. However, it did not discriminate between patients with Chotzen syndrome and those with Pfeiffer s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Escobar V,Bixler D

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by corneal opacities and caused by mutations in a carbohydrate sulfotransferase gene, known as CHST6. MCD type I patients show missense mutations in the CHST6-coding region, and MCD type II patients show a large deletion and replacement in...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Abbruzzese C,Kuhn U,Molina F,Rama P,De Luca M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00