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BMC Medical Genetics

Ausgabe 1/2006

Inhalt (86 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Mutation analysis of SDHB and SDHC: novel germline mutations in sporadic head and neck paraganglioma and familial paraganglioma and/or pheochromocytoma

Jean-Pierre Bayley, Ivonne van Minderhout, Marjan M Weiss, Jeroen C Jansen, Peter HN Oomen, Fred H Menko, Barbara Pasini, Barbara Ferrando, Nora Wong, Lesley C Alpert, Rosie Williams, Edward Blair, Peter Devilee, Peter EM Taschner

Open Access Case report

Factor VII deficiency and developmental abnormalities in a patient with partial monosomy of 13q and trisomy of 16p: case report and review of the literature

Brian P Brooks, Jeanne M Meck, Bassem R Haddad, Claude Bendavid, Delphine Blain, Jeffrey A Toretsky

Open Access Research article

Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor-γ deficiency in a Canadian kindred with familial partial lipodystrophy type 3 (FPLD3)

Gordon A Francis, Gang Li, Robin Casey, Jian Wang, Henian Cao, Todd Leff, Robert A Hegele

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Influence of advanced age of maternal grandmothers on Down syndrome

Suttur S Malini, Nallur B Ramachandra

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Microsatellite instability analysis in hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer using the Bethesda consensus panel of microsatellite markers in the absence of proband normal tissue

Sergio G Chialina, Claudia Fornes, Carolina Landi, Carlos D de La Vega Elena, Maria V Nicolorich, Ricardo J Dourisboure, Angela Solano, Edita A Solis

Open Access Research article

PKD1 and PKD2 mutations in Slovenian families with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Katja Vouk, Lana Strmecki, Jitka Stekrova, Jana Reiterova, Matjaz Bidovec, Petra Hudler, Anton Kenig, Simona Jereb, Irena Zupanic-Pajnic, Joze Balazic, Guido Haarpaintner, Bostjan Leskovar, Anton Adamlje, Antun Skoflic, Reina Dovc, Radovan Hojs, Radovan Komel

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The GCC repeat length in the 5'UTR of MRP1 gene is polymorphic: a functional characterization of its relevance for cystic fibrosis

Elena Nicolis, Matteo Pasetto, Cristina Cigana, Ugo Pradal, Baroukh M Assael, Paola Melotti

Open Access Case report

Coarctation of the aorta and mild to moderate developmental delay in a child with a de novo deletion of chromosome 15(q21.1q22.2)

Seema R Lalani, Trilochan Sahoo, Merideth E Sanders, Sarika U Peters, Bassem A Bejjani

Open Access Research article

Genomic screen for loci associated with tobacco usage in Mission Indians

Cindy L Ehlers, Kirk C Wilhelmsen

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The quantification of COMT mRNA in post mortem cerebellum tissue: diagnosis, genotype, methylation and expression

Emma L Dempster, Jonathan Mill, Ian W Craig, David A Collier

Open Access Research article

Gene expression profiles in Finnish twins with multiple sclerosis

Silja Särkijärvi, Hanna Kuusisto, Raija Paalavuo, Mari Levula, Nina Airla, Terho Lehtimäki, Jaakko Kaprio, Markku Koskenvuo, Irina Elovaara

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No role for estrogen receptor 1 gene intron 1 Pvu II and exon 4 C325G polymorphisms in migraine susceptibility

Natalie J Colson, Rod A Lea, Sharon Quinlan, Lyn R Griffiths

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A detailed Hapmap of the Sitosterolemia locus spanning 69 kb; differences between Caucasians and African-Americans

Bhaswati Pandit, Gwang-Sook Ahn, Starr E Hazard, Derek Gordon, Shailendra B Patel

Open Access Research article

Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families – a public health perspective

Juan Merlo, Kristina Bengtsson-Boström, Ulf Lindblad, Lennart Råstam, Olle Melander

Open Access Research article

The frequent BRCA1 mutation 1135insA has multiple origins: a haplotype study in different populations

Teresa M Rudkin, Nancy Hamel, Maria Galvez, Frans Hogervorst, Johan JP Gille, Pål Møller, Jaran Apold, William D Foulkes

Open Access Research article

A study of 82 extended HLA haplotypes in HFE-C282Y homozygous hemochromatosis subjects: relationship to the genetic control of CD8+ T-lymphocyte numbers and severity of iron overload

Eugénia Cruz, Jorge Vieira, Susana Almeida, Rosa Lacerda, Andrea Gartner, Carla S Cardoso, Helena Alves, Graça Porto

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Evidence for a gene influencing heart rate on chromosome 5p13-14 in a meta-analysis of genome-wide scans from the NHLBI Family Blood Pressure Program

Jason M Laramie, Jemma B Wilk, Steven C Hunt, R Curtis Ellison, Aravinda Chakravarti, Eric Boerwinkle, Richard H Myers

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Breakpoint Associated with a novel 2.3 Mb deletion in the VCFS region of 22q11 and the role of Alu (SINE) in recurring microdeletions

Raihan K Uddin, Yang Zhang, Victoria Mok Siu, Yao-Shan Fan, Richard L O'Reilly, Jay Rao, Shiva M Singh

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Combinatorial Mismatch Scan (CMS) for loci associated with dementia in the Amish

Jacob L McCauley, Daniel W Hahs, Lan Jiang, William K Scott, Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer, Charles E Jackson, Jeffery M Vance, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Jonathan L Haines

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Analysis of polymorphisms in 16 genes in type 1 diabetes that have been associated with other immune-mediated diseases

Deborah J Smyth, Joanna MM Howson, Felicity Payne, Lisa M Maier, Rebecca Bailey, Kieran Holland, Christopher E Lowe, Jason D Cooper, John S Hulme, Adrian Vella, Ingrid Dahlman, Alex C Lam, Sarah Nutland, Neil M Walker, Rebecca CJ Twells, John A Todd

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On the Wegener granulomatosis associated region on chromosome 6p21.3

Paweł Szyld, Peter Jagiello, Elena Csernok, Wolfgang L Gross, Joerg T Epplen

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Haplotype analysis suggest common founders in carriers of the recurrent BRCA2mutation, 3398delAAAAG, in French Canadian hereditary breast and/ovarian cancer families

Kathleen K Oros, Guy Leblanc, Suzanna L Arcand, Zhen Shen, Chantal Perret, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, William D Foulkes, Parviz Ghadirian, Diane Provencher, Patricia N Tonin

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Cell type-specific over-expression of chromosome 21 genes in fibroblasts and fetal hearts with trisomy 21

Chi-Ming Li, Meirong Guo, Martha Salas, Nicole Schupf, Wayne Silverman, Warren B Zigman, Sameera Husain, Dorothy Warburton, Harshwardhan Thaker, Benjamin Tycko

Open Access Research article

A functional PTPN22polymorphism associated with several autoimmune diseases is not associated with IgA deficiency in the Spanish population

Concepción Núñez, Raquel López-Mejías, Alfonso Martínez, M Cruz García-Rodríguez, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, Emilio G de la Concha, Elena Urcelay

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A study of the relationships between KLF2polymorphisms and body weight control in a French population

Aline Meirhaeghe, Dominique Cottel, Philippe Amouyel

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Identification of polymorphisms and balancing selection in the male infertility candidate gene, ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 3

Greg L Christensen, Ivaylo P Ivanov, Stephen P Wooding, John F Atkins, Anna Mielnik, Peter N Schlegel, Douglas T Carrell

Open Access Research article

Paraoxonase gene polymorphisms and haplotype analysis in a stroke population

Alireza Pasdar, Helen Ross-Adams, Alastair Cumming, John Cheung, Lawrence Whalley, David St Clair, Mary-Joan MacLeod

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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 6 (ARVC6): support for the locus assignment, narrowing of the critical region and mutation screening of three candidate genes

Luzuko O Matolweni, Soraya Bardien, George Rebello, Ekow Oppon, Miroslav Munclinger, Rajkumar Ramesar, Hugh Watkins, Bongani M Mayosi

Open Access Research article

N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) gene polymorphisms in Parkinson's disease

Juergen Borlak, Stella Marie Reamon-Buettner

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The Glu27 genotypes of the Beta2-adrenergic receptor are predictors for severe coronary artery disease

Khaled K Abu-Amero, Olayan M Al-Boudari, Gamal H Mohamed, Nduna Dzimiri

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Interleukin-10 haplotypes in Celiac Disease in the Spanish population

Concepción Núñez, Diana Alecsandru, Jezabel Varadé, Isabel Polanco, Carlos Maluenda, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, Emilio G de la Concha, Elena Urcelay, Alfonso Martínez

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Production and characterization of murine models of classic and intermediate maple syrup urine disease

Gregg E Homanics, Kristen Skvorak, Carolyn Ferguson, Simon Watkins, Harbhajan S Paul

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Three novel and the common Arg677Ter RP1 protein truncating mutations causing autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa in a Spanish population

María José Gamundi, Imma Hernan, María Martínez-Gimeno, Miquel Maseras, Blanca García-Sandoval, Carmen Ayuso, Guillermo Antiñolo, Montserrat Baiget, Miguel Carballo

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Abnormal glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in polycystic ovary syndrome amongst the Taiwanese population- not correlated with insulin receptor substrate-1 Gly972Arg/Ala513Pro polymorphism

Ta-Chin Lin, Jui-Mei Yen, Kum-Bing Gong, Tsung-Cheng Kuo, Dong-Chi Ku, Shu-Fen Liang, Ming-Jiuan Wu

Open Access Research article

Deletions in the Y-derived amelogenin gene fragment in the Indian population

VK Kashyap, Sanghamitra Sahoo, T Sitalaximi, R Trivedi

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T null and M nullgenotypes of the glutathione S-transferase gene are risk factor for CAD independent of smoking

Khaled K Abu-Amero, Olayan M Al-Boudari, Gamal H Mohamed, Nduna Dzimiri

Open Access Research article

A role for CETP TaqIB polymorphism in determining susceptibility to atrial fibrillation: a nested case control study

Folkert W Asselbergs, Jason H Moore, Maarten P van den Berg, Eric B Rimm, Rudolf A de Boer, Robin P Dullaart, Gerjan Navis, Wiek H van Gilst

Open Access Research article

A coding polymorphism in matrix metalloproteinase 9 reduces risk of scarring sequelae of ocular Chlamydia trachomatisinfection

Angels Natividad, Graham Cooke, Martin J Holland, Matthew J Burton, Hassan M Joof, Kirk Rockett, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, David CW Mabey, Robin L Bailey

Open Access Research article

Eight previously unidentified mutations found in the OA1ocular albinism gene

Hélène Mayeur, Olivier Roche, Christelle Vêtu, Carolina Jaliffa, Dominique Marchant, Hélène Dollfus, Dominique Bonneau, Francis L Munier, Daniel F Schorderet, Alex V Levin, Elise Héon, Joanne Sutherland, Didier Lacombe, Edith Said, Eedy Mezer, Josseline Kaplan, Jean-Louis Dufier, Cécile Marsac, Maurice Menasche, Marc Abitbol

Open Access Research article

Chronic renal insufficiency among Asian Indians with type 2 diabetes: I. Role of RAAS gene polymorphisms

Pushplata Prasad, Arun K Tiwari, KM Prasanna Kumar, AC Ammini, Arvind Gupta, Rajeev Gupta, AK Sharma, AR Rao, R Nagendra, T Satish Chandra, SC Tiwari, Priyanka Rastogi, B Lal Gupta, BK Thelma

Open Access Research article

Frequency of common HFEvariants in the Saudi population: a high throughput molecular beacon-based study

Osama A Alsmadi, Fadi Al-Kayal, Mohamed Al-Hamed, Brian F Meyer

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Analysis of common PTPN1gene variants in type 2 diabetes, obesity and associated phenotypes in the French population

Claire Cheyssac, Cécile Lecoeur, Aurélie Dechaume, Amina Bibi, Guillaume Charpentier, Beverley Balkau, Michel Marre, Philippe Froguel, Fernando Gibson, Martine Vaxillaire

Open Access Research article

Satisfaction survey with DNA cards method to collect genetic samples for pharmacogenetics studies

Jose M Vidal-Taboada, Mercedes Cucala, Sergio Mas Herrero, Amalia Lafuente, Albert Cobos

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BAC-FISH refutes report of an 8p22–8p23.1 inversion or duplication in 8 patients with Kabuki syndrome

Kendra W Kimberley, Colleen A Morris, Holly H Hobart

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Gene by environment QTL mapping through multiple trait analyses in blood pressure salt-sensitivity: identification of a novel QTL in rat chromosome 5

Júlia M Pavan Soler, Alexandre C Pereira, César H Tôrres, José E Krieger

Open Access Research article

Association study of genetic variants of pro-inflammatory chemokine and cytokine genes in systemic lupus erythematosus

Elena Sánchez, José M Sabio, José L Callejas, Enrique de Ramón, Rosa Garcia-Portales, Francisco J García-Hernández, Juan Jiménez-Alonso, Ma Francisca González-Escribano, Javier Martín, Bobby P Koeleman

Open Access Research article

Identification of novel functional sequence variants in the gene for peptidase inhibitor 3

Mahboob A Chowdhury, Helena Kuivaniemi, Roberto Romero, Samuel Edwin, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Gerard Tromp

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Meta-analysis on the effect of the N363S polymorphism of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (GRL) on human obesity

Amelia Marti, M Carmen Ochoa, Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, J Alfredo Martínez, Miguel Angel Martínez-González, Johannes Hebebrand, Anke Hinney, Helmut Vedder

Open Access Research article

The functional "KL-VS" variant of KLOTHO is not associated with type 2 diabetes in 5028 UK Caucasians

Rachel M Freathy, Michael N Weedon, David Melzer, Beverley Shields, Graham A Hitman, Mark Walker, Mark I McCarthy, Andrew T Hattersley, Timothy M Frayling

Open Access Research article

E-selectin S128R polymorphism and severe coronary artery disease in Arabs

Khaled K Abu-Amero, Olayan M Al-Boudari, Gamal H Mohamed, Nduna Dzimiri

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2A: novel mutations in the mitofusin 2 gene (MFN2)

Kathrin Engelfried, Matthias Vorgerd, Michaela Hagedorn, Gerhard Haas, Jürgen Gilles, Jörg T Epplen, Moritz Meins

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Evidence for the association of the SLC22A4 and SLC22A5 genes with Type 1 Diabetes: a case control study

Jose Luis Santiago, Alfonso Martínez, Hermenegildo de la Calle, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, M Ángeles Figueredo, Emilio G de la Concha, Elena Urcelay

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Genomic characterization of five deletions in the LDL receptor gene in Danish Familial Hypercholesterolemic subjects

Peter H Nissen, Dorte Damgaard, Anette Stenderup, Gitte G Nielsen, Mogens L Larsen, Ole Færgeman

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Interleukin-10 polymorphisms in Spanish IgA deficiency patients: a case-control and family study

Javier Ortiz, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, Elena Urcelay, Raquel López-Mejías, Antonio Ferreira, Gumersindo Fontán, Emilio G de la Concha, Alfonso Martínez

Open Access Research article

β3-adrenergic receptor gene, body mass index, bone mineral density and fracture risk in elderly men and women: the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study (DOES)

Claire Y Wang, Nguyen D Nguyen, Nigel A Morrison, John A Eisman, Jacqueline R Center, Tuan V Nguyen

Open Access Research article

N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) gene polymorphisms in colon and lung cancer patients

Juergen Borlak, Stella Marie Reamon-Buettner

Open Access Research article

Analysis of RNA splicing defects in PITX2 mutants supports a gene dosage model of Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome

Nicole L Maciolek, Wallace LM Alward, Jeffrey C Murray, Elena V Semina, Mark T McNally

Open Access Case report

Familial deletion 18p syndrome: case report

Bruno Maranda, Nicole Lemieux, Emmanuelle Lemyre

Open Access Research article

Expression profiling of clonal lymphocyte cell cultures from Rett syndrome patients

Ivan J Delgado, Dong Sun Kim, Karen N Thatcher, Janine M LaSalle, Ignatia B Van den Veyver

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Analysis of coding variants in the betacellulin gene in type 2 diabetes and insulin secretion in African American subjects

Steven C Elbein, Xiaoqin Wang, Mohammad A Karim, Winston S Chu, Kristi D Silver

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Three allele combinations associated with Multiple Sclerosis

Olga O Favorova, Alexander V Favorov, Alexey N Boiko, Timofey V Andreewski, Marina A Sudomoina, Alexey D Alekseenkov, Olga G Kulakova, Eugenyi I Gusev, Giovanni Parmigiani, Michael F Ochs

Open Access Research article

An investigation of polymorphisms in the 17q11.2-12 CC chemokine gene cluster for association with multiple sclerosis in Australians

Matthew J Bugeja, David Booth, Bruce Bennetts, Robert Heard, Justin Rubio, Graeme Stewart

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Lack of MEF2A Δ7aa mutation in Irish families with early onset ischaemic heart disease, a family based study

Paul G Horan, Adrian R Allen, Anne E Hughes, Chris C Patterson, Mark Spence, Paul G McGlinchey, Christine Belton, Tracy CL Jardine, Pascal P McKeown

Open Access Research article

Evidence for association between the HLA-DQA locus and abdominal aortic aneurysms in the Belgian population: a case control study

Toru Ogata, Lucie Gregoire, Katrina AB Goddard, Magdalena Skunca, Gerard Tromp, Wayne D Lancaster, Antonio R Parrado, Qing Lu, Hidenori Shibamura, Natzi Sakalihasan, Raymond Limet, Gerald L MacKean, Claudette Arthur, Taijiro Sueda, Helena Kuivaniemi

Open Access Research article

Association of surfactant protein A polymorphisms with otitis media in infants at risk for asthma

Melinda M Pettigrew, Janneane F Gent, Yong Zhu, Elizabeth W Triche, Kathleen D Belanger, Theodore R Holford, Michael B Bracken, Brian P Leaderer

Open Access Technical advance

Polymorphisms in the glucocerebrosidase gene and pseudogene urge caution in clinical analysis of Gaucher disease allele c.1448T>C (L444P)

Justin T Brown, Cora Lahey, Walairat Laosinchai-Wolf, Andrew G Hadd

Open Access Research article

Potassium channel gene mutations rarely cause atrial fibrillation

Patrick T Ellinor, Vadim I Petrov-Kondratov, Elena Zakharova, Edwin G Nam, Calum A MacRae

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Genome-wide significance for a modifier of age at neurological onset in Huntington's Disease at 6q23-24: the HD MAPS study

Jian-Liang Li, Michael R Hayden, Simon C Warby, Alexandra Durr, Patrick J Morrison, Martha Nance, Christopher A Ross, Russell L Margolis, Adam Rosenblatt, Ferdinando Squitieri, Luigi Frati, Estrella Gómez-Tortosa, Carmen Ayuso García, Oksana Suchowersky, Mary Lou Klimek, Ronald JA Trent, Elizabeth McCusker, Andrea Novelletto, Marina Frontali, Jane S Paulsen, Randi Jones, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Alice Lazzarini, Vanessa C Wheeler, Ranjana Prakash, Gang Xu, Luc Djoussé, Jayalakshmi Srinidhi Mysore, Tammy Gillis, Michael Hakky, L Adrienne Cupples, Marie H Saint-Hilaire, Jang-Ho J Cha, Steven M Hersch, John B Penney, Madaline B Harrison, Susan L Perlman, Andrea Zanko, Ruth K Abramson, Anthony J Lechich, Ayana Duckett, Karen Marder, P Michael Conneally, James F Gusella, Marcy E MacDonald, Richard H Myers

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Molecular and clinical analyses of 84 patients with tuberous sclerosis complex

Chia-Cheng Hung, Yi-Ning Su, Shu-Chin Chien, Horng-Huei Liou, Chih-Chuan Chen, Pau-Chung Chen, Chia-Jung Hsieh, Chih-Ping Chen, Wang-Tso Lee, Win-Li Lin, Chien-Nan Lee

Open Access Research article

A novel mutation in STK11gene is associated with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome in Indian patients

Nikita Thakur, D Nageshwar Reddy, G Venkat Rao, P Mohankrishna, Lalji Singh, Giriraj R Chandak

Open Access Study protocol

Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability

Blair H Smith, Harry Campbell, Douglas Blackwood, John Connell, Mike Connor, Ian J Deary, Anna F Dominiczak, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Ian Ford, Cathy Jackson, Gillian Haddow, Shona Kerr, Robert Lindsay, Mark McGilchrist, Robin Morton, Graeme Murray, Colin NA Palmer, Jill P Pell, Stuart H Ralston, David St Clair, Frank Sullivan, Graham Watt, Roland Wolf, Alan Wright, David Porteous, Andrew D Morris

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Contribution of germline BRCA1 and BRCA2sequence alterations to breast cancer in Northern India

Sunita Saxena, Anurupa Chakraborty, Mishi Kaushal, Sanjeev Kotwal, Dinesh Bhatanager, Ravindar S Mohil, Chintamani Chintamani, Anil K Aggarwal, Veena K Sharma, Prakash C Sharma, Gilbert Lenoir, David E Goldgar, Csilla I Szabo

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Triglyceride associated polymorphisms of the APOA5gene have very different allele frequencies in Pune, India compared to Europeans

Giriraj R Chandak, Kirsten J Ward, Chittaranjan S Yajnik, Anand N Pandit, Ashish Bavdekar, Charu V Joglekar, Caroline HD Fall, P Mohankrishna, Terence J Wilkin, Bradley S Metcalf, Michael N Weedon, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew T Hattersley

Open Access Research article

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome: spectrum of CREBBP mutations in Italian patients

Angela Bentivegna, Donatella Milani, Cristina Gervasini, Paola Castronovo, Federica Mottadelli, Stefano Manzini, Patrizia Colapietro, Lucio Giordano, Francesca Atzeri, Maria T Divizia, Maria L Giovannucci Uzielli, Giovanni Neri, Maria F Bedeschi, Francesca Faravelli, Angelo Selicorni, Lidia Larizza

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Analysis of the XRCC1 gene as a modifier of the cerebral response in ischemic stroke

Ana VC Dutra, Hsiu-Fen Lin, Suh-Hang H Juo, Harvey Mohrenweiser, Souvik Sen, Raji P Grewal

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No association between polymorphisms in the BDNF gene and age at onset in Huntington disease

Maren Mai, Amer D Akkad, Stefan Wieczorek, Carsten Saft, Jürgen Andrich, Peter H Kraus, Jörg T Epplen, Larissa Arning

Open Access Research article

EDAR mutation in autosomal dominant hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia in two Swedish families

Lisbet K Lind, Christina Stecksén-Blicks, Kristina Lejon, Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf

Open Access Case report

Identification of the first intragenic deletion of the PITX2 gene causing an Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome: case report

Guillaume de la Houssaye, Ivan Bieche, Olivier Roche, Véronique Vieira, Ingrid Laurendeau, Laurence Arbogast, Hatem Zeghidi, Philippe Rapp, Philippe Halimi, Michel Vidaud, Jean-Louis Dufier, Maurice Menasche, Marc Abitbol

Open Access Research article

INSIG-2 promoter polymorphism and obesity related phenotypes: association study in 1428 members of 248 families

Darroch H Hall, Thahira Rahman, Peter J Avery, Bernard Keavney

Open Access Case report

A novel mutation in the SH3BP2 gene causes cherubism: case report

Cui-Ying Li, Shi-Feng Yu

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β2-adrenergic receptor and UCP3 variants modulate the relationship between age and type 2 diabetes mellitus

Michele Pinelli, Manuela Giacchetti, Fabio Acquaviva, Sergio Cocozza, Giovanna Donnarumma, Emanuela Lapice, Gabriele Riccardi, Geremia Romano, Olga Vaccaro, Antonella Monticelli

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Mutations underlying 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl CoA Lyase deficiency in the Saudi population

Moeenaldeen Al-Sayed, Faiqa Imtiaz, Osama A Alsmadi, Mohammed S Rashed, Brian F Meyer