Pituitary homeobox 2, a novel member of the bicoid-related family of homeobox genes, is a potential regulator of anterior structure formation.

abstract：:In the field of muscular dystrophy, advances in understanding the molecular basis of the various disorders in this group have been rapidly translated into readily applicable diagnostic tests, allowing the provision of more accurate prognostic and genetic counselling. The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) have re...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bushby KM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maintain the female reproductive lifespan, the majority of ovarian primordial follicles are preserved in a quiescent state in order to provide ova for later reproductive life. However, the molecular mechanism that maintains the long quiescence of primordial follicles is poorly understood. Here we provide genetic ev...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Adhikari D,Zheng W,Shen Y,Gorre N,Hämäläinen T,Cooney AJ,Huhtaniemi I,Lan ZJ,Liu K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report identification of a novel genetic locus (GLC1P) for normal tension glaucoma (NTG) on chromosome 12q14 using linkage studies of an African-American pedigree (maximum non-parametric linkage score = 19.7, max LOD score = 2.7). Subsequent comparative genomic hybridization and quantitative polymerase chain reacti...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fingert JH,Robin AL,Stone JL,Roos BR,Davis LK,Scheetz TE,Bennett SR,Wassink TH,Kwon YH,Alward WL,Mullins RF,Sheffield VC,Stone EM

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in glucokinase (GCK) cause a spectrum of glycemic disorders. Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations cause mild fasting hyperglycemia irrespective of mutation severity due to compensation from the unaffected allele. Conversely, homozygous loss-of-function mutations cause permanent neonatal diabetes requiring...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Raimondo A,Chakera AJ,Thomsen SK,Colclough K,Barrett A,De Franco E,Chatelas A,Demirbilek H,Akcay T,Alawneh H,International NDM Consortium.,Flanagan SE,Van De Bunt M,Hattersley AT,Gloyn AL,Ellard S,International NDM Consor

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome (USH) is a genetically heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive deaf-blinding disorders. Pathophysiology leading to the blinding retinal degeneration in USH is uncertain. There is evidence for involvement of the photoreceptor cilium, photoreceptor synapse, the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jacobson SG,Cideciyan AV,Aleman TS,Sumaroka A,Roman AJ,Gardner LM,Prosser HM,Mishra M,Bech-Hansen NT,Herrera W,Schwartz SB,Liu XZ,Kimberling WJ,Steel KP,Williams DS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish has been the model of choice amongst developmental biologists for many years. This small freshwater species offers many advantages to the study of organ and tissue development that are not provided by other model systems. Against this background, modern molecular genetic approaches are being applied to e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dodd A,Curtis PM,Williams LC,Love DR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA1) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in APTX, which encodes the DNA strand-break repair protein aprataxin (APTX). CoQ10 deficiency has been identified in fibroblasts and muscle of AOA1 patients carrying the common W279X mutation, and aprataxin has been localized...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Garcia-Diaz B,Barca E,Balreira A,Lopez LC,Tadesse S,Krishna S,Naini A,Mariotti C,Castellotti B,Quinzii CM

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquinone (UQ), a.k.a. coenzyme Q, is a redox-active lipid that participates in several cellular processes, in particular mitochondrial electron transport. Primary UQ deficiency is a rare but severely debilitating condition. Mclk1 (a.k.a. Coq7) encodes a conserved mitochondrial enzyme that is necessary for UQ biosynt...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wang Y,Hekimi S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked agammaglobulinaemia (XLA) is an inherited immunodeficiency resulting from mutations in the gene for a cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinase (Btk). We have utilised reverse-transcription-based PCR in combination with the chemical cleavage and mismatch technique (CCM) to screen for Btk mutations in 42 unrelated p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jin H,Webster AD,Vihinen M,Sideras P,Vorechovsky I,Hammarstróm L,Bernatowska-Matuszkiewicz E,Smith CI,Bobrow M,Vetrie D

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the dosage effect of germ-line mutations in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is sufficient to cause colorectal adenomas, or an additional somatic mutation of the normal allele is required as well, we have investigated somatic mutations of the APC gene in multiple adenomas developed...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ichii S,Horii A,Nakatsuru S,Furuyama J,Utsunomiya J,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICF syndrome has been described as the association of variable immunodeficiency, facial anomalies and centromeric heterochromatin instability. Since the chromosome rearrangements seen in cells of ICF patients are reminiscent of the chromosomal changes induced by the undermethylating agent 5-azacytidine in the late S-p...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Jeanpierre M,Turleau C,Aurias A,Prieur M,Ledeist F,Fischer A,Viegas-Pequignot E

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction plays an important role in the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the progressive nature of neuronal loss in genetic models of mitochondrial dysfunction suggests the presence of compensatory mechanisms promoting neuronal survival under these conditions. Here, we identified the e...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Germain M,Nguyen AP,Khacho M,Patten DA,Screaton RA,Park DS,Slack RS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular defects responsible for three cases of severe (type III) osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) were investigated. The mutation sites were localized in pro alpha 1(I) and pro alpha 2(I) mRNA molecules, respectively, by chemical cleavage of mismatch in heteroduplex nucleic acids. Mutation identification was achieve...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Forlino A,Zolezzi F,Valli M,Pignatti PF,Cetta G,Brunelli PC,Mottes M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an extra Y chromosome in males is a relatively common occurrence, the 47,XYY karyotype being found in approximately 1 in 1000 male births. The error of disjunction must occur either during paternal meiosis II or as a post-zygotic mitotic error, both of which are rare events for other chromosomes. It is...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Robinson DO,Jacobs PA

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:Angelman syndrome, Prader-Will syndrome and Dup15q syndrome map to a cluster of imprinted genes located at 15q11-q13. Imprinting at this domain is regulated by an imprinting control region consisting of two distinct elements, the Angelman syndrome imprinting center (AS-IC) and the Prader-Willi syndrome imprinting cent...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lewis MW,Vargas-Franco D,Morse DA,Resnick JL

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a whole genome microsatellite marker scan in six multiplex families with bipolar (BP) mood disorder ascertained in Antioquia, a historically isolated population from North West Colombia. These families were characterized clinically using the approach employed in independent ongoing studies of BP in the cl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Herzberg I,Jasinska A,García J,Jawaheer D,Service S,Kremeyer B,Duque C,Parra MV,Vega J,Ortiz D,Carvajal L,Polanco G,Restrepo GJ,López C,Palacio C,Levinson M,Aldana I,Mathews C,Davanzo P,Molina J,Fournier E,Bejar

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, sperm-oocyte fusion initiates Ca(2+) oscillations leading to a series of events called oocyte activation, which is the first stage of embryo development. Ca(2+) signaling is elicited by the delivery of an oocyte-activating factor by the sperm. A sperm-specific phospholipase C (PLCZ1) has emerged as the lik...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Escoffier J,Lee HC,Yassine S,Zouari R,Martinez G,Karaouzène T,Coutton C,Kherraf ZE,Halouani L,Triki C,Nef S,Thierry-Mieg N,Savinov SN,Fissore R,Ray PF,Arnoult C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosome 15q11-13 is a complex locus containing imprinted genes as well as a cluster of three GABA(A) receptor subunit (GABR) genes-GABRB3, GABRA5 and GABRG3. Deletion or duplication of 15q11-13 GABR genes occurs in multiple human neurodevelopmental disorders including Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), Angelman syn...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hogart A,Nagarajan RP,Patzel KA,Yasui DH,Lasalle JM

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in FAM161A, a protein of unknown function localized at the cilium of retinal photoreceptor cells, cause retinitis pigmentosa, a form of hereditary blindness. By using different fragments of this protein as baits to screen cDNA libraries of human and bovine retinas, we defined a yeast two-hybrid-based FAM161A i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Di Gioia SA,Farinelli P,Letteboer SJ,Arsenijevic Y,Sharon D,Roepman R,Rivolta C

更新日期：2015-06-15 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：:Deficiency of thymidine kinase 2 (TK2) is a frequent cause of isolated myopathy or encephalomyopathy in children with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion. To determine the bases of disease onset, organ specificity and severity of TK2 deficiency, we have carefully characterized Tk2 H126N knockin mice (Tk2-/-). Although...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dorado B,Area E,Akman HO,Hirano M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency results in Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND), where affected individuals exhibit a characteristic neurobehavioral disorder that has been linked with dysfunction of dopaminergic pathways of the basal ganglia. Since the functions of HPRT, a housekeeping enzyme res...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ceballos-Picot I,Mockel L,Potier MC,Dauphinot L,Shirley TL,Torero-Ibad R,Fuchs J,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a genetically complex neuropathy that affects retinal ganglion cells and is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. WDR36, a gene of unknown function, was recently identified as causative for POAG at locus GLC1G. Subsequent studies found disease-associated variants in control popu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Skarie JM,Link BA

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:T-box transcription factor, TBX1, is the major candidate gene for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge/ Velo-cardio-facial syndrome) characterized by facial defects, thymus hypoplasia, cardiovascular anomalies and cleft palates. Here, we report that the loss of Tbx1 in mouse (Tbx1(-/-)) results in skeletal abnormalitie...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Funato N,Nakamura M,Richardson JA,Srivastava D,Yanagisawa H

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a major global risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Genome-wide association studies have identified several genetic variants at the NPR3 locus associated with BP, but the functional impact of these variants remains to be determined. Here we confirmed, by a genome-wide association stu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ren M,Ng FL,Warren HR,Witkowska K,Baron M,Jia Z,Cabrera C,Zhang R,Mifsud B,Munroe PB,Xiao Q,Townsend-Nicholson A,Hobbs AJ,Ye S,Caulfield MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome is often portrayed as consisting of three sequence types, each distinguished by their mode of evolution. Purifying selection is estimated to act on 2.5-5.0% of the genome, whereas virtually all remaining sequence is considered to have evolved neutrally and to be devoid of functionality. The third mode...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ponting CP,Lunter G

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A is due to loss-of-function mutations in the Calpain 3 (CAPN3) gene. Our previous data suggest that CAPN3 helps to maintain the integrity of the triad complex in skeletal muscle. In Capn3 knock-out mice (C3KO), Ca2+ release and Ca2+/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) signaling are attenuate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kramerova I,Ermolova N,Eskin A,Hevener A,Quehenberger O,Armando AM,Haller R,Romain N,Nelson SF,Spencer MJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain-specific miR-379/miR-410 gene cluster at the imprinted Dlk1-Dio3 domain is implicated in several aspects of brain development and function, particularly in fine-tuning the dendritic outgrowth and spine remodelling of hippocampal neurons. Whether it might influence behaviour and memory-related processes has n...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Marty V,Labialle S,Bortolin-Cavaillé ML,Ferreira De Medeiros G,Moisan MP,Florian C,Cavaillé J

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD/BMD) are caused by mutations in the human dystrophin gene. About two-thirds of DMD/BMD patients exhibit gross rearrangements in the gene whereas the mutations in the remaining one third are thought to be point mutations or minor structural lesions. By means of various prog...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lenk U,Hanke R,Thiele H,Speer A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00