Little phenotypic variability in three CF sibs compound heterozygous for the 621 + 1G-->T and the 711 + 1G-->T mutations.

abstract：:In an epidemiological study, infants identified at birth as having sex chromosome anomalies are enrolled in a voluntary, long term evaluations program. Case histories are presented of the first four boys in the series to have a 47,XXY karyotype. They have been followed from birth for 6 to 9 years, with physical and ps...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Puck M,Tennes K,Frankenburg W,Bryant K,Robinson A

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fertile, non-mosaic patients with partial monosomy of an X-chromosome (two with Xp deletion with breakpoints at Xp1106 and Xp2101, respectively, and one with a del(Xq25)) were found among 12 females with Xp deletion and three with Xq deletion investigated in this laboratory after the advent of banding techniques...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Fryns JP,Kleczkowska A,Petit P,van den Berghe H

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:A 27-year-old male with hypomelanosis of Ito (HI) is reported. One of his two children had a postaxial ray defect of one leg but neither had cutaneous features of HI. Somatic mosaicism for a gene defect lethal to ectodermal derivatives offers the best explanation for HI in males, with consequent negligible recurrence ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Moss C,Burn J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reassessment of the cytogenetics of a patient previously karyotyped as del(16)(q22) demonstrates the presence of a balanced translocation, t(4;16)(q35;q22.1). This patient should not be included in any future comparison involving the clinical features of patients with deletions of the long arm of chromosome 16. ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Callen DF,Baker EG,Lane SA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mild type of autosomal recessive, non-syndromic mental retardation (NSMR) is linked to loci on chromosome 3p. This report delimits the MRT2A minimal critical region to 4.2 Mb between loci D3S3630 and D3S1304. This interval contains nine genes (IL5RA, TRNT1, LRRN1, SETMAR, SUMF1, ITPR1, BHLHB2, EDEM, and MRPS36P1). T...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Higgins JJ,Pucilowska J,Lombardi RQ,Rooney JP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 46,XY phenotypic female infant with absent uterus, probable agonadism, and bilateral upper amelia. The constellation of anomalies is similar to that of the patient described by Temoçin et al. (Acta Paediatr Jpn 1997: 39: 631-633), and may suggest a developmental link between genital region and ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ohro Y,Suzuki Y,Tsutsumi Y,Ogata T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female heterozygotes for the fragile X syndrome show variable levels of mental handicap from normal to severely retarded. The degree to which they are affected may depend upon whether the fragile or the normal X chromosome is preferentially inactivated, but one of the problems with the use of BUdR for the study of Lyo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tuckerman E,Webb T

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed a 49 bp tandem duplication adjacent to the triplet repeat of the FMR1 gene and have shown it to occur as a variant in Finland. It affects the primers commonly used in molecular analysis of fragile X syndrome by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods. One concern is that females with the full mutation...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Mononen T,von Koskull H,Airaksinen RL,Juvonen V

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole exome sequencing and chromosomal microarrays are two powerful technologies that have transformed the ability of researchers to search for potentially causal variants in human disease. This study combines these tools to search for causal variants in a patient found to have maternal uniparental isodisomy of chromo...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Carmichael H,Shen Y,Nguyen TT,Hirschhorn JN,Dauber A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four unrelated French cases of familial amyloid polyneuropathy are reported. Clinical onset ranged from the sixth to the ninth decade. Sensory signs were predominant initially in the lower limbs; motor changes, and in one case autonomic involvement, appeared later. Amyloid disease was clinically limited to the periphe...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Grateau G,Adams D,Malapert D,Viemont M,Delpech M,Said G

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second trimester amniotic fluid samples obtained transabdominally for genetic analysis not infrequently are contaminated with blood. There has been disagreement as to whether blood contamination interferes with the efficiency of culture of amniotic fluid cells for genetic diagnosis. A procedure using ammonium chloride...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Felix JS,Doherty RA

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：:In this study, we examined the insertion/deletion (Ins/Del) and XbaI polymorphisms of the apolipoprotein B (APOB) gene and the -36delG polymorphism in the sterol regulatory element binding protein-1a (SREBP-1a) gene in 298 patients with non-diabetic angiographically assessed coronary artery disease (CAD), and 188 heal...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Rios DL,Vargas AF,Torres MR,Zago AJ,Callegari-Jacques SM,Hutz MH

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial disorders (MDs) are caused by defects in 1 or multiple complexes of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) machinery. MDs are associated with a broad range of clinical signs and symptoms, and have considerable clinical overlap with other neuromuscular syndromes. This overlap might be due to involvement o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Panneman DM,Smeitink JA,Rodenburg RJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific mitochondrial enzymatic deficiencies in the catabolism of branched-chain amino acids cause methylmalonic aciduria (MMA), propionic acidemia (PA) and maple syrup urine disease (MSUD). Disease-causing mutations were identified in nine unrelated branched-chain organic acidurias (BCOA) patients. We detected eight...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Stojiljkovic M,Klaassen K,Djordjevic M,Sarajlija A,Brasil S,Kecman B,Grkovic S,Kostic J,Rodriguez-Pombo P,Desviat LR,Pavlovic S,Perez B

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic mechanisms driving normal brain development remain largely unknown. We performed genomic and immunohistochemical characterization of a novel, fatal human phenotype including extreme microcephaly with cerebral growth arrest at 14-18 weeks gestation in three full sisters born to healthy, non-consanguineous p...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ramos EI,Bien-Willner GA,Li J,Hughes AE,Giacalone J,Chasnoff S,Kulkarni S,Parmacek M,Cole FS,Druley TE

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report molecular and clinical analyses in 71 unrelated patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) from Andalusia (South of Spain). Direct mutation analysis of six mutations of the CFTR gene (delta F508, G542X, R1162X, N1303K, W1182X and 1949de184) was performed. The proportion of CF chromosomes with the above-mentioned mut...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Borrego S,Casals T,Dapena J,Fernández E,Giménez J,Cabeza JC,Sánchez J,Antiñolo G

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:A syndrome of spastic paresis, mental retardation and glaucoma has been described only once previously (Heijbel & Jagell 1981). We describe three brothers, products of a marriage between first cousins once-removed, who appear to have the same syndrome. The brothers are not dysmorphic but they have slowly progressive s...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Chenevix-Trench G,Leshner R,Mamunes P

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal aberration mostly occurs in chromosomes 21, 18 and 13, with an incidence approximately 1 out of 160 live births in humans, therefore making prenatal diagnosis necessary in clinics. Current methods have drawbacks such as time consuming, high cost, complicated operations and low sensitivity. In this paper, a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Tong H,Jin Y,Xu Y,Zou B,Ye H,Wu H,Kumar S,Pitman JL,Zhou G,Song Q

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：: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：:A standardized, controlled vocabulary allows phenotypic information to be described in an unambiguous fashion in medical publications and databases. The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is being developed in an effort to provide such a vocabulary. The use of an ontology to capture phenotypic information allows the use o...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Robinson PN,Mundlos S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple congenital malformations in a young girl with bilateral conductive hearing loss are described. Facial dysmorphic features include prominent supraorbital ridges, facial hypoplasia, facial asymmetry, downward-slanting palpebral fissures, high prominent nasal bridge with bifid nasal tip and a small lower jaw, an...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Kumar D,Masel JP

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage analysis has been performed on a large South African family of British origin in which 39 persons in 6 generations had early onset Type I autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP). Tight linkage was excluded between the disease and the D3S47 locus on chromosome 3. This finding is further evidence for gene...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Greenberg J,Babaya M,Ramesar R,Beighton P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female infant with multiple dysmorphic features and developmental delay was found to have partial duplication of the long arm of chromosome 2 and partial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 11 derived from a paternal balanced translocation, 46,XY,t(2;11)(q33:q25). Clinically, the infant had features of both 2q+ a...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Ardinger HH,Patil SR,Rhead WJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited knowledge exists on phenotypes associated with the D1152H cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation. METHODS:Subjects with a D1152H allele in trans with another CFTR mutation were identified using the French Cystic Fibrosis Registry. Phenotypic characteristics were compared...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Burgel PR,Fajac I,Hubert D,Grenet D,Stremler N,Roussey M,Siret D,Languepin J,Mely L,Fanton A,Labbé A,Domblides P,Vic P,Dagorne M,Reynaud-Gaubert M,Counil F,Varaigne F,Bienvenu T,Bellis G,Dusser D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are presented to estimate relative fitness of carriers as a function of fertility, survival, are generation time in pedigrees under incomplete ascertainment. A large sample of diverse chromosomal aberrations reveals significant effects on all three parameters, giving a relative fitness of .769 +/- .039. There ...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Morton NE,Jacobs PA,Frackiewicz A,Law P,Hilditch CJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is caused by mutations in the NF2 gene predisposing carriers to develop nervous system tumours. Different NF2 mutations result in either loss/reduced protein function or gain of protein function (abnormally behaving mutant allele i.e. truncated protein potentially causing dominant negative ef...

journal_title：Clinical genetics

authors： Selvanathan SK,Shenton A,Ferner R,Wallace AJ,Huson SM,Ramsden RT,Evans DG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00