Mutations and impaired function of LKB1 in familial and non-familial Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and a sporadic testicular cancer.

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：: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：:By GenBank database searches and PCR, we have identified a novel human Bcl2-like gene, Bcl2-L-10, which contains conserved BH4, BH1 and BH2 domains but lacks BH3 domain. The Bcl2-L-10 gene has been assigned to chromosome 15q21.2. Transfection experiments demonstrated that Bcl2-L-10 can block apoptosis induced by inter...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang H,Holzgreve W,De Geyter C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several high-resolution recombination maps exist for European-descent populations, the recombination landscape of African populations remains relatively understudied. Given that there is high genetic divergence among groups in Africa, it is possible that recombination hotspots also diverge significantly. Both li...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Eeden G,Uren C,Möller M,Henn BM

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental genetic relatedness may lead to adverse health and fitness outcomes in the offspring. However, the degree to which it affects human delivery timing is unknown. We use genotype data from ≃25 000 parent-offspring trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study to optimize runs of homozygosity (RO...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sole-Navais P,Bacelis J,Helgeland Ø,Modzelewska D,Vaudel M,Flatley C,Andreassen O,Njølstad PR,Muglia LJ,Johansson S,Zhang G,Jacobsson B

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian oocytes are arrested at the prophase of meiosis I during fetal or postnatal development, and the meiosis is resumed by the preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone. The in vivo functional roles of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) during the resumption of meiosis in mammalian oocytes are largely unknown. Prev...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Adhikari D,Zheng W,Shen Y,Gorre N,Ning Y,Halet G,Kaldis P,Liu K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with cardiomyopathy, is caused by severely reduced frataxin, a mitochondrial protein involved in Fe-S cluster assembly. We have recently generated mouse models that reproduce important progressive pathological and biochemical features of the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seznec H,Simon D,Monassier L,Criqui-Filipe P,Gansmuller A,Rustin P,Koenig M,Puccio H

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a screen for neuromuscular mouse mutants, we identified ostes, a novel N-ethyl N-nitrosourea-induced mouse mutant with muscle atrophy. Genetic and biochemical evidence shows that upregulation of the novel, uncharacterized transient receptor potential polycystic (TRPP) channel PKD1L2 (polycystic kidney diseas...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mackenzie FE,Romero R,Williams D,Gillingwater T,Hilton H,Dick J,Riddoch-Contreras J,Wong F,Ireson L,Powles-Glover N,Riley G,Underhill P,Hough T,Arkell R,Greensmith L,Ribchester RR,Blanco G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a genome-wide scan for susceptibility loci in bipolar disorder in a study sample colleted from the isolated Finnish population, consisting of 41 families with at least two affected siblings. We identified one distinct locus on 16p12 providing significant evidence for linkage in two-point analysis (Z(max)=...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ekholm JM,Kieseppä T,Hiekkalinna T,Partonen T,Paunio T,Perola M,Ekelund J,Lönnqvist J,Pekkarinen-Ijäs P,Peltonen L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albinism is a group of genetic disorders characterized by deficient synthesis of melanin pigment. In oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) the pigment deficiency involves the skin, hair, and eyes, whereas in ocular albinism (OA) the defect involves principally the visual system. Type I (tyrosinase-deficient) OCA results from ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Spritz RA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superovulation or ovarian stimulation is currently an indispensable assisted reproductive technology (ART) for human subfertility/infertility treatment. Recently, increased frequencies of imprinting disorders have been correlated with ARTs. Significantly, for Angelman and Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndromes, patients have be...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Market-Velker BA,Zhang L,Magri LS,Bonvissuto AC,Mann MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) identified over 500 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing cancer risk. It is logical to expect the cancer-associated genes to cluster in pathways directly involved in carcinogenesis, e.g. cell cycle. Nevertheless, analyses of the GWAS-detected cancer risk genes usua...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gorlova OY,Demidenko EI,Amos CI,Gorlov IP

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms are thought to play an important role in determining susceptibility to neural tube defects (NTDs), for example between different ethnic groups, but the embryonic manifestation of these polymorphic genetic influences is unclear. We have used a mouse model to test experimentally whether polymorphic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Fleming A,Copp AJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-base substitution in the coding region of the androgen receptor (AR) gene caused complete androgen insensitivity in a patient with 46,XY karyotype. The mutation was a T-to-G transition in exon 6 and changed the codon 807 from ATG (methionine) to AGG (arginine) in the hormone-binding domain of the protein. The...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Adeyemo O,Kallio PJ,Palvimo JJ,Kontula K,Jänne OA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the direct cDNA screening protocol to identify sequences transcribed in cerebral cortex from a reference library of human Xq28. To derive coding sequences from these genomic clones, we first identified fragments containing transcribed sequences and subjected these to exon trapping or to partial sequencing...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lawrence BJ,Schwabe W,Kioschis P,Coy JF,Poustka A,Brennan MB,Hochgeschwender U

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sex chromosomes are thought to be descended from a homologous pair of autosomes: a testis-determining allele which defined the Y chromosome arose, recombination between the nascent X and Y chromosomes became restricted and the Y chromosome gradually lost its non-essential genetic functions. This model was or...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mitchell MJ,Wilcox SA,Watson JM,Lerner JL,Woods DR,Scheffler J,Hearn JP,Bishop CE,Graves JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the post-transcriptional mechanisms that modulate the genetic effects in the molecular pathways underlying Alzheimer disease (AD), and even less is known about how these changes might differ across diverse populations. RNA editing, the process that alters individual bases of RNA, may contribute t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gardner OK,Wang L,Van Booven D,Whitehead PL,Hamilton-Nelson KL,Adams LD,Starks TD,Hofmann NK,Vance JM,Cuccaro ML,Martin ER,Byrd GS,Haines JL,Bush WS,Beecham GW,Pericak-Vance MA,Griswold AJ

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a serious and common neurological disorder. Expression quantitative loci (eQTL) analysis is a vital aid for the identification and interpretation of disease-risk loci. Many eQTLs operate in a tissue- and condition-specific manner. We have performed the first genome-wide cis-eQTL analysis of human hippocamp...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mirza N,Appleton R,Burn S,du Plessis D,Duncan R,Farah JO,Feenstra B,Hviid A,Josan V,Mohanraj R,Shukralla A,Sills GJ,Marson AG,Pirmohamed M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryo development occurs through a process that encompasses reprogramming, sequential cleavage divisions and mitotic chromosome segregation and embryonic genome activation. Chromosomal abnormalities may arise during germ cell and/or pre-implantation embryo development, and are a major cause of spontaneous misca...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ambartsumyan G,Clark AT

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the biological functions of tau variants can illuminate differential etiologies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and primary tauopathies. Though the end-stage neuropathological attributes of AD and primary tauopathies are similar, the etiology and behavioral outcomes of these diseases follow unique and diverg...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Koller EJ,Gonzalez De La Cruz E,Machula T,Ibanez KR,Lin WL,Williams T,Riffe CJ,Ryu D,Strang KH,Liu X,Janus C,Golde TE,Dickson D,Giasson BI,Chakrabarty P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Closure of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in pancreatic islet beta-cells initiates a cascade of events that leads to insulin secretion. beta-Cell ATP-sensitive potassium currents can be reconstituted by coexpression of the inward rectifier Kir6.2 and the sulfonylurea receptor (SUR), a member of the ATP-binding casse...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Thomas P,Ye Y,Lightner E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several common loci contributing to non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). However, a substantial fraction of NOA heritability remains undefined, especially those low-frequency [defined here as having a minor allele frequency (MAF) between 0.5 and 5%] and rare (MAF be...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ni B,Lin Y,Sun L,Zhu M,Li Z,Wang H,Yu J,Guo X,Zuo X,Dong J,Xia Y,Wen Y,Wu H,Li H,Zhu Y,Ping P,Chen X,Dai J,Jiang Y,Xu P,Du Q,Yao B,Weng N,Lu H,Wang Z,Zhu X,Yang X,Xiong C,Ma H,Jin G,Xu J,Wang

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated peroxisome biogenesis mutants ZP128 and ZP150 from rat PEX2 -transformed Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, by the 9-(1'-pyrene)nonanol/ultraviolet method. The mutants lacked morphologically recognizable peroxisomes and showed a typical peroxisome assembly-defective phenotype such as a high sensitivity to ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Toyama R,Mukai S,Itagaki A,Tamura S,Shimozawa N,Suzuki Y,Kondo N,Wanders RJ,Fujiki Y

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, also known as Kennedy's disease) is one of nine neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by expansion of polyglutamine-encoding CAG repeats. Intracellular accumulation of abnormal proteins in these diseases, a pathological hallmark, is associated with defects in protein hom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bott LC,Badders NM,Chen KL,Harmison GG,Bautista E,Shih CC,Katsuno M,Sobue G,Taylor JP,Dantuma NP,Fischbeck KH,Rinaldi C

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a frequent neurocristopathy characterized by the absence of submucosal and myenteric plexuses in a variable length of the gastrointestinal tract. Pedigrees and segregation analyses suggested the involvement of one or several dominant genes with low penetrance in HSCR. Considering that RE...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Doray B,Salomon R,Amiel J,Pelet A,Touraine R,Billaud M,Attié T,Bachy B,Munnich A,Lyonnet S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential allelic expression has been shown to be common in mice, humans and maize, and variability in the expression of polymorphic alleles has been associated with human disease. Here, we describe the differential expression pattern of Paraoxonase-1, a gene involved in lipid metabolism and implicated in the forma...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Parker-Katiraee L,Bousiaki E,Monk D,Moore GE,Nakabayashi K,Scherer SW

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in Fused in sarcoma (FUS) gene cause a subset of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal motor neuron degenerative disease. Wild-type FUS is largely localized in the nucleus, but mutant FUS accumulates in the cytoplasm and forms inclusions. It is unclear whether FUS depletion from the nucleus o...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Yang L,Zhang J,Kamelgarn M,Niu C,Gal J,Gong W,Zhu H

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene silencing through aberrant CpG island methylation is a frequent epigenetic defect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, nothing is known as yet whether aberrant hypermethylation occurs already in non-neoplastic liver cells from patients with hereditary haemochromatosis who have a clearly elevated risk for d...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lehmann U,Wingen LU,Brakensiek K,Wedemeyer H,Becker T,Heim A,Metzig K,Hasemeier B,Kreipe H,Flemming P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common genetic disorder affecting 1 in 3500 individuals. Patients with NF1 are predisposed to debilitating skeletal manifestations, including osteopenia/osteoporosis and long bone pseudarthrosis (nonunion fracture). Hyperactivation of the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sharma R,Wu X,Rhodes SD,Chen S,He Y,Yuan J,Li J,Yang X,Li X,Jiang L,Kim ET,Stevenson DA,Viskochil D,Xu M,Yang FC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow-channel syndrome (SCS) is a congenital myasthenic disorder caused by point mutations in subunits of skeletal muscle acetylcholine receptor leading to Ca(2+) overload and degeneration of the postsynaptic membrane, nuclei and mitochondria of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). In both SCS muscle biopsies and transgen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhu H,Pytel P,Gomez CM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00