abstract：:Genome-wide scans for linkage of chromosome regions to type 1 diabetes in affected sib pair families have revealed that the major susceptibility locus resides within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6p21 (lambda S = 2.4). It is recognized that the MHC contains multiple susceptibility loci (refe...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Todd JA,Farrall M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recurrent t(9;22) (q22;q12) chromosome translocation has been described in extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC). Fluorescent in situ hybridization experiments performed on one EMC tumour indicated that the chromosome 22 breakpoint occurred in the EWS gene. Northern blot analysis revealed an aberrant EWS transcr...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Labelle Y,Zucman J,Stenman G,Kindblom LG,Knight J,Turc-Carel C,Dockhorn-Dworniczak B,Mandahl N,Desmaze C,Peter M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a bromodeoxyuridine incorporation method to detect replicated DNA, we studied allele-specific replication of several sites within the human Prader-Willi/Angelman and IGF2/H19 imprinted regions. No obvious allele-specific differences in time of replication were detected at most loci previously reported to replica...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kawame H,Gartler SM,Hansen RS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKHR gene, which contains a forkhead DNA-binding motif, is fused to either PAX3 or PAX7 by the t(2;13) or t(1;13) translocation in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma,respectively. These tumors express chimeric transcripts encoding the N-terminal portion of either PAX protein fused to the C-terminal portion of FKHR. To unde...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Davis RJ,Bennicelli JL,Macina RA,Nycum LM,Biegel JA,Barr FG

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome region 17p13.3 is thought to encode a tumour suppressor gene involved in sporadic breast cancer and other malignancies. Physical ordering of markers has been carried out by a series of multicolour fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) experiments, using isolated yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stack M,Jones D,White G,Liscia DS,Venesio T,Casey G,Crichton D,Varley J,Mitchell E,Heighway J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a rare mutation (T-45C) in the low density lipoprotein (LDL)-receptor gene in a Welsh patient with a clinical diagnosis of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). The mutation is in the proximal Sp1 binding site in repeat 3 of the 42 bp region of the promoter required for sterol-dependent ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sun XM,Neuwirth C,Wade DP,Knight BL,Soutar AK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins K6 and K16 are expressed in suprabasal interfollicular epidermis in wound healing and other pathological conditions associated with hyperproliferation, such as psoriasis and are induced when keratinocytes are cultured in vitro. However, these keratins are also constitutively expressed in normal suprabasal muc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Shamsher MK,Navsaria HA,Stevens HP,Ratnavel RC,Purkis PE,Kelsell DP,McLean WH,Cook LJ,Griffiths WA,Gschmeissner S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the putative role of BRCA1, a gene involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, in sporadic ovarian tumors among Japanese women, we examined 76 unselected primary ovarian cancers for mutations in the coding region of BRCA1 using the single-strand conformation polymorphism technique. Although no som...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Matsushima M,Kobayashi K,Emi M,Saito H,Saito J,Suzumori K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trinucleotide repeats at five disease loci (DM, DRPLA, HD, SBMA and SCA1) were surveyed in phenotypically normal individuals from three continental populations. This is the first analysis to examine the population dynamics of these five disease-related trinucleotide repeats in the same individuals from worldwide popul...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Watkins WS,Bamshad M,Jorde LB

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome is a complex human disorder that generally associates a 45,X karyotype to a female phenotype presenting with gonadal dysgenesis, short stature and a number of characteristic somatic features. It has been hypothesized that this specific phenotype was the consequence of the haploinsufficiency of some X-l...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Barbaux S,Vilain E,Raoul O,Gilgenkrantz S,Jeandidier E,Chadenas D,Souleyreau N,Fellous M,McElreavey K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant minority of degenerative dementias lack distinctive inclusion bodies, plagues or tangles on pathological examination. Half of these cases have a positive family history of dementia. We have studied the largest published family with such a dementia and mapped the disease locus to a 12 cM region of chromos...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Brown J,Ashworth A,Gydesen S,Sorensen A,Rossor M,Hardy J,Collinge J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal X-linked recessive disorder with a high spontaneous mutation rate and no effective treatment, hence development of genetic based therapies is an important goal. We report that expression of a recombinant human minidystrophin cDNA, compatible with current viral vectors, can...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Wells DJ,Wells KE,Asante EA,Turner G,Sunada Y,Campbell KP,Walsh FS,Dickson G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome (MIM 557000) is a disorder involving the hematopoietic system and the exocrine pancreas in early infancy. We have previously shown that this disease results from a defect of oxidative phosphorylation associated with deletions of the mitochondrial DNA. We present here a series of 21...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rötig A,Bourgeron T,Chretien D,Rustin P,Munnich A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

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 size of the (CAG)n repeat array in the 3' end of the MJD1 gene and the haplotype at a series of microsatellite markers surrounding the MJD1 gene were examined in a large cohort of Japanese and Caucasian subjects affected with Machado-Joseph disease (MJD). Our data provide five novel observations. First, MJD is ass...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Takiyama Y,Igarashi S,Rogaeva EA,Endo K,Rogaev EI,Tanaka H,Sherrington R,Sanpei K,Liang Y,Saito M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the conversion of L-tyrosine to L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA), the rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of dopamine. Recently, we described a point mutation in hTH (Q381K) in a family of two siblings suffering from progressive L-DOPA-responsive dystonia (DRD), representing the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Knappskog PM,Flatmark T,Mallet J,Lüdecke B,Bartholomé K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common form of inherited neuromuscular disease in adults and is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and myotonia. The mutation responsible for DM has been identified as the amplification of a polymorphic (CTG)n repeat in the 3' untranslated region of a gene encoding a serine...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Whiting EJ,Waring JD,Tamai K,Somerville MJ,Hincke M,Staines WA,Ikeda JE,Korneluk RG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of DNA replication appears to be an important epigenetic regulator of gene expression during development. Replication of active genes in expressing tissues occurs earlier than does replication of their inactive counterparts in nonexpressing tissues. This pattern is also observed for active and inactive alle...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hansen RS,Canfield TK,Gartler SM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FMR1 protein expression was studied in different tissues. In human, monkey and murine tissues, high molecular mass FMR1 proteins (67-80 kDa) are found, as shown in lymphoblastoid cells lines. The identity of these proteins was confirmed by their absence in tissues from patients with the fragile X syndrome and a FMR1 k...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verheij C,de Graaff E,Bakker CE,Willemsen R,Willems PJ,Meijer N,Galjaard H,Reuser AJ,Oostra BA,Hoogeveen AT

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a detection principle for indirect fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) methods that with only one or two antibody layers dramatically improves FISH signal intensities. The method uses as a first layer an anti-hapten immunoglobulin [or (strept)avidin] conjugated to peroxidase. The quintessence of the ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Raap AK,van de Corput MP,Vervenne RA,van Gijlswijk RP,Tanke HJ,Wiegant J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described the identification of a second IDS locus (IDS-2) located within 90 kb telomeric of the IDS gene (Bondeson et al. submitted). Here, we show that this region is involved in a recombination event with the IDS gene in about 13% of patients with the Hunter syndrome. Analysis of the resulting rear...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bondeson ML,Dahl N,Malmgren H,Kleijer WJ,Tönnesen T,Carlberg BM,Pettersson U

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:Ocular albinism type 1 (OA1) is an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by a major impairment of visual acuity, nystagmus, strabismus, photophobia and retinal hypopigmentation. From the analysis of patients carrying deletions and translocations involving the distal short arm of the X chromosome (Xp22.3) we have i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schiaffino MV,Bassi MT,Rugarli EI,Renieri A,Galli L,Ballabio A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blepharophimosis syndrome (BPES, blepharophimosis eyelid syndrome) is a distinctive congenital eyelid malformation which can occur sporadically or be inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Previous reports have described associated cytogenetic abnormalities on chromosome 3q. We have ascertained and sampled two BP...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Small KW,Stalvey M,Fisher L,Mullen L,Dickel C,Beadles K,Reimer R,Lessner A,Lewis K,Pericak-Vance MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis for the detection of mutations in the porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) gene among Finnish patients with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) was studied. 13 novel mutations including one de novo event, and six previously characterized mutations w...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kauppinen R,Mustajoki S,Pihlaja H,Peltonen L,Mustajoki P

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetazolamide responsive hereditary paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (APCA) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by attacks of cerebellar ataxia and dysarthria with normal or near normal neurologic function between attacks. A genome-wide search using polymorphic di- and tri-nucleotide repeats was initiated ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： von Brederlow B,Hahn AF,Koopman WJ,Ebers GC,Bulman DE

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PAX genes encode nuclear transcription factors which are rapidly becoming regarded as major controllers of developmental processes in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Mutations in murine Pax genes underlie three natural mouse alleles and two corresponding human syndromes. Murine Pax genes have been shown to be prot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Stuart ET,Gruss P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular microfibril, 10-14 nm in diameter, performs a number of functions, including serving as the scaffolding for deposition of tropoelastin to form elastic fibers. A variety of proteins compose the structure of microfibrils, the most prominent of which are the two fibrillins. Fibrillin-1 is encoded by FBN...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dietz HC,Pyeritz RE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the dynamics of CTG repeat instability in somatic and germline tissue from myotonic dystrophy (DM) males we have used small pool polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a detailed quantitative analysis of repeat length variation. We demonstrate that the heterogeneous smear of CTG repeats observed i...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Monckton DG,Wong LJ,Ashizawa T,Caskey CT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) II deficiency is the most common inherited disorder of lipid metabolism affecting skeletal muscle. To facilitate the identification of disease-causing mutations in the CPT II gene (CPT1), we have established the genomic organization of this gene. CPT1 spans approximately 20 kb of 1...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verderio E,Cavadini P,Montermini L,Wang H,Lamantea E,Finocchiaro G,DiDonato S,Gellera C,Taroni F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usher syndrome (USH) refers to genetically and clinically heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorders with combined visual and hearing loss. Type I (USH1) is characterized by a congenital, severe to profound hearing loss and absent vestibular function; in type II (USH2) the hearing loss is congenital and moderate to s...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sankila EM,Pakarinen L,Kääriäinen H,Aittomäki K,Karjalainen S,Sistonen P,de la Chapelle A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xq28 has been of special interest in human genetics because a large number of diseases map to this region. As a step in the molecular analysis of the as yet uncloned disease genes, and as a test for the detailed analysis of larger regions of the genome, we have constructed YAC clone contigs covering the 7.5 Mb region ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rogner UC,Kioschis P,Wilke K,Gong W,Pick E,Dietrich A,Zechner U,Hameister H,Pragliola A,Herman GE

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Two brothers presented with a clinical picture characterized by sideroblastic anemia, mild pancreatic insufficiency and progressive muscle weakness. The presence of an associated permanent basal lactic acidemia raised the suspicion of a mitochondrial disease. A muscle biopsy performed in both siblings proved the prese...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Casademont J,Barrientos A,Cardellach F,Rötig A,Grau JM,Montoya J,Beltrán B,Cervantes F,Rozman C,Estivill X

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:Fabry disease, an X-linked inborn error of glycosphingolipid catabolism, results from mutations in the alpha-galactosidase A gene at Xq22.1. To determine the nature and frequency of the molecular lesions causing the classical and milder variant Fabry phenotypes, and for precise carrier detection in Fabry families, the...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Eng CM,Niehaus DJ,Enriquez AL,Burgert TS,Ludman MD,Desnick RJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is a dominantly inherited cancer syndrome which affects thyroid C cells, and with variable frequency, the adrenal medulla, parathyroid and enteric autonomic ganglia. The syndrome is due to germline mutation in the receptor tyrosine kinase gene, RET. We have recently shown an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gardner E,Mulligan LM,Eng C,Healey CS,Kwok JB,Ponder MA,Ponder BA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcobalamin II (TC II) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease leading to cobalamin (Cbl; Vitamin B12) deficiency characterized by failure to thrive, megaloblastic anemia, impaired immunodefence and neurological manifestations. By means of Southern blotting and sequence analysis of TC II cDNA amplified fro...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li N,Rosenblatt DS,Kamen BA,Seetharam S,Seetharam B

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The defective gene responsible for the recessively inherited immunodeficiency X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) has been shown to encode a cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinase of the Src family designated Btk (Bruton's tyrosine kinase). To facilitate the search for germline mutations of the Btk gene, we have characteri...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hagemann TL,Chen Y,Rosen FS,Kwan SP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine factors governing triplet repeat expansion at FMR1, we need to understand the basis of normal variation. We have sequenced the FMR1 repeat from 102 normal X chromosomes and show that most are interrupted with a regularly spaced AGG trinucleotide giving an ordered structure to the array. Five types of arra...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hirst MC,Grewal PK,Davies KE

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00