abstract：:PLEC, the gene encoding the cytolinker protein plectin, has eight tissue-specific isoforms in humans, arising by alternate splicing of the first exon. To date, all PLEC mutations that cause epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS) were found in exons common to all isoforms. Due to the ubiquitous presence of plectin in mamm...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gostyńska KB,Nijenhuis M,Lemmink H,Pas HH,Pasmooij AM,Lang KK,Castañón MJ,Wiche G,Jonkman MF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two known mRNA degradation pathways, 3' to 5' and 5' to 3'. We identified likely pathogenic variants in two genes involved in these two pathways in individuals with intellectual disability. In a large family with multiple branches, we identified biallelic variants in DCPS in three affected individuals; a spl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ahmed I,Buchert R,Zhou M,Jiao X,Mittal K,Sheikh TI,Scheller U,Vasli N,Rafiq MA,Brohi MQ,Mikhailov A,Ayaz M,Bhatti A,Sticht H,Nasr T,Carter MT,Uebe S,Reis A,Ayub M,John P,Kiledjian M,Vincent JB,Jamra RA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder mainly caused by mutations within FBN1 gene. The disease displays large variability in age of onset or severity and very poor phenotype/genotype correlations have been demonstrated. We investigated the hypothesis that phenotype severity could be related to the variable...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Aubart M,Gross MS,Hanna N,Zabot MT,Sznajder M,Detaint D,Gouya L,Jondeau G,Boileau C,Stheneur C

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in humans. We show that a point mutation in DCDC2 (DCDC2a), a member of doublecortin domain-containing protein superfamily, causes non-syndromic recessive deafness DFNB66 in a Tunisian family. Using immunofluorescence on rat inner ear neuroepithelia, DCDC2a was found to ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Grati M,Chakchouk I,Ma Q,Bensaid M,Desmidt A,Turki N,Yan D,Baanannou A,Mittal R,Driss N,Blanton S,Farooq A,Lu Z,Liu XZ,Masmoudi S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of variant pathogenicity represents a major challenge in the era of high-throughput sequencing. Erroneous categorization may result if variants affect genes that are in fact dispensable. We demonstrate that this also applies to rare, apparently unambiguous truncating mutations of an established disease g...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Elsayed SM,Phillips JB,Heller R,Thoenes M,Elsobky E,Nürnberg G,Nürnberg P,Seland S,Ebermann I,Altmüller J,Thiele H,Toliat M,Körber F,Hu XJ,Wu YD,Zaki MS,Abdel-Salam G,Gleeson J,Boltshauser E,Westerfield M,Bolz HJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the two common neurodegenerative diseases that have been associated with the GGGGCC·GGCCCC repeat RNA expansion in a noncoding region of C9orf72. It has been previously reported that unconventional repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation of ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tao Z,Wang H,Xia Q,Li K,Li K,Jiang X,Xu G,Wang G,Ying Z

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two siblings with infantile onset seizures, severe developmental delay and spastic paraplegia, in whom whole-genome sequencing revealed compound heterozygous mutations in the AP4S1 gene, encoding the σ subunit of the adaptor protein complex 4 (AP-4). The effect of the predicted loss-of-function variants (p.G...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hardies K,May P,Djémié T,Tarta-Arsene O,Deconinck T,Craiu D,AR working group of the EuroEPINOMICS RES Consortium.,Helbig I,Suls A,Balling R,Weckhuysen S,De Jonghe P,Hirst J

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Colobomatous macrophthalmia with microcornea syndrome (MACOM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 602499) is an autosomal dominantly inherited malformation of the eye, which is characterized by microcornea with increased axial length, coloboma of the iris and of the optic disc, and severe myopia. We performed w...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Beleggia F,Li Y,Fan J,Elcioğlu NH,Toker E,Wieland T,Maumenee IH,Akarsu NA,Meitinger T,Strom TM,Lang R,Wollnik B

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ATRX is a chromatin remodeling protein involved in deposition of the histone variant H3.3 at telomeres and pericentromeric heterochromatin. It also influences the expression level of specific genes; however, deposition of H3.3 at transcribed genes is currently thought to occur independently of ATRX. We focused on a se...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Levy MA,Kernohan KD,Jiang Y,Bérubé NG

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic accumulation of TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a major neuropathological feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). However, the mechanisms involved in TDP-43 accumulation remain largely unknown. Previously, we reported that inhibitors of cyclin-depen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Moujalled D,James JL,Yang S,Zhang K,Duncan C,Moujalled DM,Parker SJ,Caragounis A,Lidgerwood G,Turner BJ,Atkin JD,Grubman A,Liddell JR,Proepper C,Boeckers TM,Kanninen KM,Blair I,Crouch PJ,White AR

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, a common cause of intellectual disability and autism, is due to mutational silencing of the FMR1 gene leading to the absence of its gene product, fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FMRP is a selective RNA binding protein owing to two central K-homology domains and a C-terminal arginine-gl...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Myrick LK,Hashimoto H,Cheng X,Warren ST

更新日期：2015-03-15 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：:Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by autosomal recessive mutations in the GAN gene resulting in a loss of a ubiquitously expressed protein, gigaxonin. Gene replacement therapy is a promising strategy for treatment of the disease; however, the effectiveness and safety of gi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johnson-Kerner BL,Ahmad FS,Diaz AG,Greene JP,Gray SJ,Samulski RJ,Chung WK,Van Coster R,Maertens P,Noggle SA,Henderson CE,Wichterle H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. Although the etiology of PD remains incompletely understood, oxidative stress has been implicated as an important contributor in the development of PD. Oxidative stress can lead to oxidation and functional perturbation of prot...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johnson WM,Yao C,Siedlak SL,Wang W,Zhu X,Caldwell GA,Wilson-Delfosse AL,Mieyal JJ,Chen SG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element in human nutrition, but its role in certain health conditions, particularly among Se sufficient populations, is controversial. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of blood Se concentrations previously identified a locus at 5q14 near BHMT. We performed a GW meta-analysis o...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Cornelis MC,Fornage M,Foy M,Xun P,Gladyshev VN,Morris S,Chasman DI,Hu FB,Rimm EB,Kraft P,Jordan JM,Mozaffarian D,He K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-frame exon deletions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene produce internally truncated proteins that typically lead to Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), a milder allelic disorder of DMD. We hypothesized that differences in the structure of mutant dystrophin may be responsible for the clinical heterogeneity ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Nicolas A,Raguénès-Nicol C,Ben Yaou R,Ameziane-Le Hir S,Chéron A,Vié V,Claustres M,Leturcq F,Delalande O,Hubert JF,Tuffery-Giraud S,Giudice E,Le Rumeur E,French Network of Clinical Reference Centres for Neuromuscular Diseases (

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited genetic disease caused by mutant huntingtin (htt) protein with expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) tracts. A neuropathological hallmark of HD is the presence of neuronal inclusions of mutant htt. p62 is an important regulatory protein in selective autophagy, a process by ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kurosawa M,Matsumoto G,Kino Y,Okuno M,Kurosawa-Yamada M,Washizu C,Taniguchi H,Nakaso K,Yanagawa T,Warabi E,Shimogori T,Sakurai T,Hattori N,Nukina N

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and subsequent meta-analyses have identified over 25 SNPs at 18 loci, together accounting for >15% of the genetic susceptibility to testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT). To identify further common SNPs associated with TGCT, here we report a three-stage experiment, involving ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Litchfield K,Sultana R,Renwick A,Dudakia D,Seal S,Ramsay E,Powell S,Elliott A,Warren-Perry M,Eeles R,Peto J,Kote-Jarai Z,Muir K,Nsengimana J,UKTCC.,Stratton MR,Easton DF,Bishop DT,Huddart RA,Rahman N,Turnbull C,

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CUL4A and CUL4B are closely related cullin family members and can each assemble a Cullin-RING E3 ligase complex (CRL) and participate in a variety of biological processes. While the CRLs formed by the two cullin members may have common targets, the two appeared to have very different consequences when mutated or disru...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhao X,Jiang B,Hu H,Mao F,Mi J,Li Z,Liu Q,Shao C,Gong Y

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a complex congenital disorder, arising from abnormalities in enteric nervous system (ENS) development. There is a gender disparity among the patients, with the male to female ratio as high as 5 : 1. Loss-of-function mutations of HSCR genes and haploinsufficiency of their gene product...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Li Y,Kido T,Garcia-Barcelo MM,Tam PK,Tabatabai ZL,Lau YF

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:The deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates in the brain is a major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ is generated from the cleavage of C-terminal fragments of the amyloid precursor protein (APP-CTFs) by γ-secretase, an intramembrane-cleaving protease with multiple substrates, including the Notc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Mosser S,Alattia JR,Dimitrov M,Matz A,Pascual J,Schneider BL,Fraering PC

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Andersen's syndrome (AS) is a rare and dominantly inherited pathology, linked to the inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir2.1. AS patients exhibit a triad of symptoms that include periodic paralysis, cardiac dysrhythmia and bone malformations. Some progress has been made in understanding the contribution of the Ki...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sacco S,Giuliano S,Sacconi S,Desnuelle C,Barhanin J,Amri EZ,Bendahhou S

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an X-linked motoneuron disease due to a CAG triplet-repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (AR) gene, which is translated into an elongated polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in AR protein (ARpolyQ). ARpolyQ toxicity is activated by the AR ligand testosterone (or dihydrotestost...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Giorgetti E,Rusmini P,Crippa V,Cristofani R,Boncoraglio A,Cicardi ME,Galbiati M,Poletti A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncontrolled cell cycle entry, resulting from deregulated CDK-RB1-E2F pathway activity, is a crucial determinant of neuroblastoma cell malignancy. Here we identify neuroblastoma-suppressive functions of the p19-INK4d CDK inhibitor and uncover mechanisms of its repression in high-risk neuroblastomas. Reduced p19-INK4d ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dreidax D,Bannert S,Henrich KO,Schröder C,Bender S,Oakes CC,Lindner S,Schulte JH,Duffy D,Schwarzl T,Saadati M,Ehemann V,Benner A,Pfister S,Fischer M,Westermann F

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological modifications in the microtubule-associated protein Tau is a common characteristic observed in different neurological diseases, suggesting that analogous metabolic pathways might be similarly affected during neurodegeneration. To identify these molecules and mechanisms, we utilized Drosophila models of hu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Appocher C,Klima R,Feiguin F

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased rate of de novo copy number variants (CNVs) has been found in schizophrenia (SZ), autism and developmental delay. An increased rate has also been reported in bipolar affective disorder (BD). Here, in a larger BD sample, we aimed to replicate these findings and compare de novo CNVs between SZ and BD. We us...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Georgieva L,Rees E,Moran JL,Chambert KD,Milanova V,Craddock N,Purcell S,Sklar P,McCarroll S,Holmans P,O'Donovan MC,Owen MJ,Kirov G

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiogram has several advantages in detecting cardiac arrhythmia-it is readily available, noninvasive and cost-efficient. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms that are associated with electrocardiogram measures. We performed a genome-wide association study ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hong KW,Lim JE,Kim JW,Tabara Y,Ueshima H,Miki T,Matsuda F,Cho YS,Kim Y,Oh B

更新日期：2014-12-15 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：:Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta 1-42 (Aβ1-42) and phosphorylated Tau at position 181 (pTau181) are biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We performed an analysis and meta-analysis of genome-wide association study data on Aβ1-42 and pTau181 in AD dementia patients followed by independent replication. An association ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ramirez A,van der Flier WM,Herold C,Ramonet D,Heilmann S,Lewczuk P,Popp J,Lacour A,Drichel D,Louwersheimer E,Kummer MP,Cruchaga C,Hoffmann P,Teunissen C,Holstege H,Kornhuber J,Peters O,Naj AC,Chouraki V,Bellenguez C

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult body height is a quantitative trait for which genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci, primarily in European populations. These loci, comprising common variants, explain <10% of the phenotypic variance in height. We searched for novel associations between height and common (minor all...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Du M,Auer PL,Jiao S,Haessler J,Altshuler D,Boerwinkle E,Carlson CS,Carty CL,Chen YD,Curtis K,Franceschini N,Hsu L,Jackson R,Lange LA,Lettre G,Monda KL,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) GO Exome Sequencing

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During postnatal development, neuronal activity controls the remodeling of initially imprecise neuronal connections through the regulation of gene expression. MeCP2 binds to methylated DNA and modulates gene expression during neuronal development and MECP2 mutation causes the autistic disorder Rett syndrome. To invest...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lee W,Yun JM,Woods R,Dunaway K,Yasui DH,Lasalle JM,Gong Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin-like domain containing receptor 1 (ILDR1) is a poorly characterized gene that was first identified in lymphoma cells. Recently, ILDR1 has been found to be responsible for autosomal recessive hearing impairment DFNB42. Patients with ILDR1 mutations cause bilateral non-progressive moderate-to-profound sen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sang Q,Zhang J,Feng R,Wang X,Li Q,Zhao X,Xing Q,Chen W,Du J,Sun S,Chai R,Liu D,Jin L,He L,Li H,Wang L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease H2 plays an essential role for genome stability as it removes ribonucleotides misincorporated into genomic DNA by replicative polymerases and resolves RNA/DNA hybrids. Biallelic mutations in the genes encoding the three RNase H2 subunits cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS), an early-onset inflammatory ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kind B,Muster B,Staroske W,Herce HD,Sachse R,Rapp A,Schmidt F,Koss S,Cardoso MC,Lee-Kirsch MA

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal inherited neurological disease caused by a CAG-repeat expansion in the first exon of huntingtin gene encoding for the huntingtin protein (Htt). In HD, there is an accumulation of intracellular aggregates of mutant Htt that negatively influence cellular functions. The aggregate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hyrskyluoto A,Bruelle C,Lundh SH,Do HT,Kivinen J,Rappou E,Reijonen S,Waltimo T,Petersén Å,Lindholm D,Korhonen L

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the full complement of protein-coding genes is a key goal of genome annotation. The most powerful approach for confirming protein-coding potential is the detection of cellular protein expression through peptide mass spectrometry (MS) experiments. Here, we mapped peptides detected in seven large-scale prote...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ezkurdia I,Juan D,Rodriguez JM,Frankish A,Diekhans M,Harrow J,Vazquez J,Valencia A,Tress ML

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper localization and anchorage of nuclei within skeletal muscle is critical for cellular function. Alterations in nuclear anchoring proteins modify a number of cellular functions including mechanotransduction, nuclear localization, chromatin positioning/compaction and overall organ function. In skeletal muscle, nes...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Chapman MA,Zhang J,Banerjee I,Guo LT,Zhang Z,Shelton GD,Ouyang K,Lieber RL,Chen J

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) disease is a rare, neurodegenerative lysosomal cholesterol storage disorder, typified by progressive cognitive and motor function impairment. Affected individuals usually succumb to the disease in adolescence. 2-Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) has emerged as a promising intervention that ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Tortelli B,Fujiwara H,Bagel JH,Zhang J,Sidhu R,Jiang X,Yanjanin NM,Shankar RK,Carillo-Carasco N,Heiss J,Ottinger E,Porter FD,Schaffer JE,Vite CH,Ory DS

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetically heterogeneous group of retinopathies that occur in both non-syndromic and syndromic forms, is caused by mutations in ∼100 genes. Although recent advances in next-generation sequencing have aided in the discovery of novel RP genes, a number of the underlying contributing genes a...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Xie YA,Lee W,Cai C,Gambin T,Nõupuu K,Sujirakul T,Ayuso C,Jhangiani S,Muzny D,Boerwinkle E,Gibbs R,Greenstein VC,Lupski JR,Tsang SH,Allikmets R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy, an adaptive process that responds to increased wall stress, is characterized by the enlargement of cardiomyocytes and structural remodeling. It is stimulated by various growth signals, of which the mTORC1 pathway is a well-recognized source. Here, we show that loss of Flcn, a novel AMPK-mTOR inter...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Hasumi Y,Baba M,Hasumi H,Huang Y,Lang M,Reindorf R,Oh HB,Sciarretta S,Nagashima K,Haines DC,Schneider MD,Adelstein RS,Schmidt LS,Sadoshima J,Marston Linehan W

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00