abstract：:The LMNA gene gives rise to at least three isoforms (lamin A, C, lamin AΔ10) as a result of normal alternative splicing, regulated by cis- and trans-acting regulatory factors, as well as the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of the gene. The two main isoforms, lamin A and C, are constitutive components of the fibrous nuc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Luo YB,Mastaglia FL,Wilton SD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Azoospermia is the absence of a measurable level of spermatozoa in the semen. It affects approximately 1% of all men, and the genetic basis of the majority of idiopathic cases is unknown. We investigated two unrelated consanguineous families with idiopathic azoospermia. In family 1, there were three azoosper...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ayhan Ö,Balkan M,Guven A,Hazan R,Atar M,Tok A,Tolun A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical phenotypes of females with fragile X full mutations vary drastically. Comparisons of discordant monozygotic twins provide opportunities to ascertain crucial factors that influence disease phenotype penetrance. OBJECTIVE:To identify crucial factors influencing the phenotypic expression of fragil...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Huang W,Luo S,Ou J,Zhu F,Xia Y,Xue J,Pan Q,Wu L,Duan R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in TSC1 or TSC2 cause the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a disorder characterised by the development of hamartomas or benign tumours in various organs as well as the variable presence of epilepsy, intellectual disability (ID) and autism. TSC1, TSC2 and the recently described protein TBC1D7 form ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Capo-Chichi JM,Tcherkezian J,Hamdan FF,Décarie JC,Dobrzeniecka S,Patry L,Nadon MA,Mucha BE,Major P,Shevell M,Bencheikh BO,Joober R,Samuels ME,Rouleau GA,Roux PP,Michaud JL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were previously reported to be associated with thyroid cancer in European populations in two genome-wide association studies (GWAS): rs965513 (9q22.33), rs944289 (14q13.3), rs116909374 (14q13.3), rs966423 (2q35) and rs2439302 (8p12). Only the first two SNPs have be...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Wang YL,Feng SH,Guo SC,Wei WJ,Li DS,Wang Y,Wang X,Wang ZY,Ma YY,Jin L,Ji QH,Wang JC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consensus clinical diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) include café-au-lait macules and skinfold freckling. The former are frequently the earliest manifestation of NF1, and as such are of particular significance when assessing young children at risk of the condition. A phenotype of predomi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Burkitt Wright EM,Sach E,Sharif S,Quarrell O,Carroll T,Whitehouse RW,Upadhyaya M,Huson SM,Evans DG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graves' disease is a female preponderant autoimmune illness and the contribution of the X chromosome to its risk has long been appreciated. However, no X-linked susceptibility loci have been indentified from recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS). METHODS:We re-examined the X chromosome data from our...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Chu X,Shen M,Xie F,Miao XJ,Shou WH,Liu L,Yang PP,Bai YN,Zhang KY,Yang L,Hua Q,Liu WD,Dong Y,Wang HF,Shi JX,Wang Y,Song HD,Chen SJ,Chen Z,Huang W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID) is one of the most common forms of disability worldwide, displaying a wide range of aetiologies and affecting nearly 2% of the global population. OBJECTIVE:To describe a novel autosomal recessive form of ID with strabismus and its underlying aetiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Aut...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Alazami AM,Hijazi H,Al-Dosari MS,Shaheen R,Hashem A,Aldahmesh MA,Mohamed JY,Kentab A,Salih MA,Awaji A,Masoodi TA,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few empirical data to inform the debate surrounding the use and regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genome-wide disease risk tests. This study aimed to determine the long term psychological, behavioural, and clinical impacts of genomic risk testing for common disease. METHODS:The Scripps Genomi...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Bloss CS,Wineinger NE,Darst BF,Schork NJ,Topol EJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk prediction models are widely used in clinical genetic counselling. Despite their frequent use, the genetic risk models BOADICEA, BRCAPRO, IBIS and extended Claus model (eCLAUS), used to estimate BRCA1/2 mutation carrier probabilities, have never been comparatively evaluated in a large sample from centra...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fischer C,Kuchenbäcker K,Engel C,Zachariae S,Rhiem K,Meindl A,Rahner N,Dikow N,Plendl H,Debatin I,Grimm T,Gadzicki D,Flöttmann R,Horvath J,Schröck E,Stock F,Schäfer D,Schwaab I,Kartsonaki C,Mavaddat N,Schlegelberg

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agenesis of corpus callosum has been associated with several defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and the citric acid cycle. We now report the results of the biochemical and molecular studies of a patient with severe neurodevelopmental disease manifesting by agenesis of corpus callosum and optic ne...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edvardson S,Porcelli V,Jalas C,Soiferman D,Kellner Y,Shaag A,Korman SH,Pierri CL,Scarcia P,Fraenkel ND,Segel R,Schechter A,Frumkin A,Pines O,Saada A,Palmieri L,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic complexity of infantile cardiomyopathies is remarkable, and the importance of mitochondrial translation defects as a causative factor is only starting to be recognised. We investigated the genetic basis for infantile onset recessive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in two siblings. METHODS AND RESULT...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carroll CJ,Isohanni P,Pöyhönen R,Euro L,Richter U,Brilhante V,Götz A,Lahtinen T,Paetau A,Pihko H,Battersby BJ,Tyynismaa H,Suomalainen A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early infantile epileptic encephalopathies usually manifest as severely impaired cognitive and motor development and often result in a devastating permanent global developmental delay and intellectual disability. A large set of genes has been implicated in the aetiology of this heterogeneous group of disorde...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Edvardson S,Oz S,Abulhijaa FA,Taher FB,Shaag A,Zenvirt S,Dascal N,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegias (AR-HSP) constitute a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases involving pyramidal tracts dysfunction. The genes responsible for many types of AR-HSPs remain unknown. We attempted to identify the gene responsible for AR-HSP with optic atrophy and ne...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Shimazaki H,Takiyama Y,Ishiura H,Sakai C,Matsushima Y,Hatakeyama H,Honda J,Sakoe K,Naoi T,Namekawa M,Fukuda Y,Takahashi Y,Goto J,Tsuji S,Goto Y,Nakano I,Japan Spastic Paraplegia Research Consortium (JASPAC).

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acrocallosal syndrome (ACLS) is a rare recessive disorder characterised by corpus callosum agenesis or hypoplasia, craniofacial dysmorphism, duplication of the hallux, postaxial polydactyly, and severe mental retardation. Recently, we identified mutations in KIF7, a key component of the Sonic hedgehog pathwa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Putoux A,Nampoothiri S,Laurent N,Cormier-Daire V,Beales PL,Schinzel A,Bartholdi D,Alby C,Thomas S,Elkhartoufi N,Ichkou A,Litzler J,Munnich A,Encha-Razavi F,Kannan R,Faivre L,Boddaert N,Rauch A,Vekemans M,Attié-Bitac

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic imprinting is a process causing genes to be expressed according to parental origin. Imprinting acts to coordinate fetal and prenatal growth, as well as control postnatal adaptations. Studies on human imprinting are confounded by tissue availability, sampling variability and limitations posed by tissu...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Lim AL,Ng S,Leow SC,Choo R,Ito M,Chan YH,Goh SK,Tng E,Kwek K,Chong YS,Gluckman PD,Ferguson-Smith AC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene-targeting studies in mice have revealed a key role for EVI1 protein in the maintenance of haematopoiesis, and argue in favour of a gene dosage requirement for EVI1 in the regulation of haematopoietic stem cells. Furthermore, a fusion transcript of MDS1 and EVI1 has been shown to play a critical role in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nielsen M,Vermont CL,Aten E,Ruivenkamp CA,van Herrewegen F,Santen GW,Breuning MH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Members of two seemingly unrelated kindreds of Arab Moslem origin presented with pronounced early onset spastic paraparesis of upper and lower limbs, mild intellectual disability, kyphosis, pectus carinatum and hypertrichosis. METHODS:The authors performed neurological and developmental examinations on the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Zivony-Elboum Y,Westbroek W,Kfir N,Savitzki D,Shoval Y,Bloom A,Rod R,Khayat M,Gross B,Samri W,Cohen H,Sonkin V,Freidman T,Geiger D,Fattal-Valevski A,Anikster Y,Waters AM,Kleta R,Falik-Zaccai TC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Holoprosencephaly (HPE), the most common malformation of the human forebrain, may result from mutations in over 12 genes. Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) was the first such gene discovered; mutations in SHH remain the most common cause of non-chromosomal HPE. The severity spectrum is wide, ranging from incompatibility ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Solomon BD,Bear KA,Wyllie A,Keaton AA,Dubourg C,David V,Mercier S,Odent S,Hehr U,Paulussen A,Clegg NJ,Delgado MR,Bale SJ,Lacbawan F,Ardinger HH,Aylsworth AS,Bhengu NL,Braddock S,Brookhyser K,Burton B,Gaspar H,Gr

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Current technologies for delivering gene testing are labour-intensive and expensive. Over the last 3 years, new high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques (next generation sequencing; NGS), with the capability to analyse multiple genes or entire genomes, have been rapidly adopted into research. This study exa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： O'Sullivan J,Mullaney BG,Bhaskar SS,Dickerson JE,Hall G,O'Grady A,Webster A,Ramsden SC,Black GC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lethal short rib polydactyly syndromes (SRP type I-IV) are characterised by notably short ribs, short limbs, polydactyly, multiple anomalies of major organs, and autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Among them, SRP type II (Majewski; MIM 263520) is characterised by short ovoid tibiae or tibial agenes...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： El Hokayem J,Huber C,Couvé A,Aziza J,Baujat G,Bouvier R,Cavalcanti DP,Collins FA,Cordier MP,Delezoide AL,Gonzales M,Johnson D,Le Merrer M,Levy-Mozziconacci A,Loget P,Martin-Coignard D,Martinovic J,Mortier GR,Perez MJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with thyroid cancer (TC) risk have been reported: rs2910164 (5q24); rs6983267 (8q24); rs965513 and rs1867277 (9q22); and rs944289 (14q13). Most of these associations have not been replicated in independent populations and the combined effects of the SNPs on risk h...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Jones AM,Howarth KM,Martin L,Gorman M,Mihai R,Moss L,Auton A,Lemon C,Mehanna H,Mohan H,Clarke SE,Wadsley J,Macias E,Coatesworth A,Beasley M,Roques T,Martin C,Ryan P,Gerrard G,Power D,Bremmer C,TCUKIN Consortium.

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DYNC1H1 encodes the heavy chain protein of the cytoplasmic dynein 1 motor protein complex that plays a key role in retrograde axonal transport in neurons. Furthermore, it interacts with the LIS1 gene of which haploinsufficiency causes a severe neuronal migration disorder in humans, known as classical lissenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Willemsen MH,Vissers LE,Willemsen MA,van Bon BW,Kroes T,de Ligt J,de Vries BB,Schoots J,Lugtenberg D,Hamel BC,van Bokhoven H,Brunner HG,Veltman JA,Kleefstra T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital deletions affecting 3q11q23 have rarely been reported and only five cases have been molecularly characterised. Genotype-phenotype correlation has been hampered by the variable sizes and breakpoints of the deletions. In this study, 14 novel patients with deletions in 3q11q23 were investigated and c...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Molin AM,Andrieux J,Koolen DA,Malan V,Carella M,Colleaux L,Cormier-Daire V,David A,de Leeuw N,Delobel B,Duban-Bedu B,Fischetto R,Flinter F,Kjaergaard S,Kok F,Krepischi AC,Le Caignec C,Ogilvie CM,Maia S,Mathieu-Drama

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 15-50% of the population experiences pain at any given time, at great personal and societal cost. Pain is the most common reason patients seek medical attention, and there is a high degree of individual variability in reporting the incidence and severity of symptoms. Research suggests that pain sensitivit...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Young EE,Lariviere WR,Belfer I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal akinesia refers to a broad spectrum of disorders in which the unifying feature is a reduction or lack of fetal movement. Fetal akinesias may be caused by defects at any point along the motor system pathway including the central and peripheral nervous system, the neuromuscular junction and the muscle, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Ravenscroft G,Sollis E,Charles AK,North KN,Baynam G,Laing NG

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently fatal in infancy. Mitochondrial disease causing infantile HCM is characterised by extreme biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, but deficiency of respiratory chain complex I is observed relatively frequently. Identification of the precise genetic basis has pro...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fassone E,Taanman JW,Hargreaves IP,Sebire NJ,Cleary MA,Burch M,Rahman S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous read-through of a premature termination codon (PTC) has so far not been observed in patients carrying nonsense mutations. This report describes a patient with junctional epidermolysis bullosa who was expected to die because of compound heterozygous nonsense mutations in the gene LAMA3 (R943X/R115...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Pacho F,Zambruno G,Calabresi V,Kiritsi D,Schneider H

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB), a group of hereditary skin fragility disorders, is associated with a wide variety of phenotypes, although all forms are characterised by trauma induced skin blistering and tissue separation at the dermal-epidermal junction zone. A subgroup, coined JEB-other, is associa...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Kiritsi D,Kern JS,Schumann H,Kohlhase J,Has C,Bruckner-Tuderman L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lysosomal protein profiling is being developed as a high throughput method to screen populations for lysosomal storage disorders (LSD). DESIGN:1415 blood spots from patients referred to a metabolic clinic for LSD were screened using a single multiplex assay for 14 proteins in a dried blood spot. RESULTS:Al...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Fuller M,Tucker JN,Lang DL,Dean CJ,Fietz MJ,Meikle PJ,Hopwood JJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensenbrenner syndrome is a heterogeneous ciliopathy that is characterised by skeletal and ectodermal anomalies, accompanied by chronic renal failure, heart defects, liver fibrosis and other features. OBJECTIVE:To identify an additional causative gene in Sensenbrenner syndrome. METHODS:Single nucleotide po...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Arts HH,Bongers EM,Mans DA,van Beersum SE,Oud MM,Bolat E,Spruijt L,Cornelissen EA,Schuurs-Hoeijmakers JH,de Leeuw N,Cormier-Daire V,Brunner HG,Knoers NV,Roepman R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disruption of granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) signalling causes pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). Rarely, genetic defects in neonatal or infant-onset PAP have been identified in CSF2RA. However, no report has clearly identified any function-associated genetic defect in CSF2RB. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Tanaka T,Motoi N,Tsuchihashi Y,Tazawa R,Kaneko C,Nei T,Yamamoto T,Hayashi T,Tagawa T,Nagayasu T,Kuribayashi F,Ariyoshi K,Nakata K,Morimoto K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital malformations involving the Müllerian ducts are observed in around 5% of infertile women. Complete aplasia of the uterus, cervix, and upper vagina, also termed Müllerian aplasia or Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, occurs with an incidence of around 1 in 4500 female births, and occur...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Nik-Zainal S,Strick R,Storer M,Huang N,Rad R,Willatt L,Fitzgerald T,Martin V,Sandford R,Carter NP,Janecke AR,Renner SP,Oppelt PG,Oppelt P,Schulze C,Brucker S,Hurles M,Beckmann MW,Strissel PL,Shaw-Smith C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cohen syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with a complex phenotype including psychomotor retardation, microcephaly, obesity with slender extremities, joint laxity, progressive chorioretinal dystrophy/myopia, intermittent isolated neutropenia, a cheerful disposition, and characteristic facial feat...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Rivera-Brugués N,Albrecht B,Wieczorek D,Schmidt H,Keller T,Göhring I,Ekici AB,Tzschach A,Garshasbi M,Franke K,Klopp N,Wichmann HE,Meitinger T,Strom TM,Hempel M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nerve growth factor β (NGFβ) and tyrosine kinase receptor type A (TRKA) are a well studied neurotrophin/receptor duo involved in neuronal survival and differentiation. The only previously reported hereditary sensory neuropathy caused by an NGF mutation, c.661C>T (HSAN5), and the pathology caused by biallelic...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Carvalho OP,Thornton GK,Hertecant J,Houlden H,Nicholas AK,Cox JJ,Rielly M,Al-Gazali L,Woods CG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dyslipidaemia, a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), is strongly influenced by genetic factors. OBJECTIVE:To identify genetic factors affecting blood lipid concentrations and CVD risk factors in the Korean population by a candidate gene association analysis. METHODS:21 single nucleotide polym...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Park MH,Kim N,Lee JY,Park HY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-syndromic isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NCL/P) is a common congenital anomaly in humans, the aetiology of which is complex and associated with both genetic and environmental factors. It has been reported that maternal nutritional factors are likely to play a major role in development o...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Mostowska A,Hozyasz KK,Wojcicki P,Dziegelewska M,Jagodzinski PP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the earliest and most severe inherited retinal degeneration. Isolated forms of LCA frequently result from mutation of the CEP290 gene which is expressed in various ciliated tissues. METHODS:Seven LCA patients with CEP290 mutations were investigated to study otorhinolaryng...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Papon JF,Perrault I,Coste A,Louis B,Gérard X,Hanein S,Fares-Taie L,Gerber S,Defoort-Dhellemmes S,Vojtek AM,Kaplan J,Rozet JM,Escudier E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report a 34-year-old Japanese female with a Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS)-like phenotype and a mosaic Turner syndrome karyotype (45,X/46,XX). METHODS/RESULTS:Molecular studies including methylation analysis of 17 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) on the autosomes and the XIST-DMR on the X chromo...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Yamazawa K,Nakabayashi K,Kagami M,Sato T,Saitoh S,Horikawa R,Hizuka N,Ogata T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of breast cancer for unaffected men who test positive for a BRCA2 mutation is based on very few retrospective studies. We have used both retrospective and prospective analysis in 321 families with pathogenic BRCA2 mutations. Three breast cancers occurred in male first-degree relatives after family ascertainme...

journal_title：Journal of medical genetics

authors： Evans DG,Susnerwala I,Dawson J,Woodward E,Maher ER,Lalloo F

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00