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BMC Medical Genetics

Ausgabe 1/2004

Inhalt (30 Artikel)

Open Access Case report

A case of familial isolated hemihyperplasia

Heidi A Heilstedt, Carlos A Bacino

Open Access Research article

Novel and de novo PKD1 mutations identified by multiple restriction fragment-single strand conformation polymorphism (MRF-SSCP)

Wanna Thongnoppakhun, Chanin Limwongse, Kriengsak Vareesangthip, Chintana Sirinavin, Duangkamon Bunditworapoom, Nanyawan Rungroj, Pa-thai Yenchitsomanus

Open Access Research article

A study of the average effect of the 3'APOB-VNTR polymorphism on lipidemic parameters could explain why the short alleles (<35 repeats) are rare in centenarians

Sabrina Garasto, Maurizio Berardelli, Francesco DeRango, Vincenzo Mari, Emidio Feraco, Giovanna De Benedictis

Open Access Research article

Amyloidosis in familial Mediterranean fever patients: correlation with MEFV genotype and SAA1 and MICA polymorphisms effects

Myrna Medlej-Hashim, Valérie Delague, Eliane Chouery, Nabiha Salem, Mohammed Rawashdeh, Gérard Lefranc, Jacques Loiselet, André Mégarbané

Open Access Research article

Molecular epidemiology of DFNB1 deafness in France

Anne-Françoise Roux, Nathalie Pallares-Ruiz, Anne Vielle, Valérie Faugère, Carine Templin, Dorothée Leprevost, Françoise Artières, Geneviève Lina, Nicolas Molinari, Patricia Blanchet, Michel Mondain, Mireille Claustres

Open Access Research article

NAT gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease: identification of a novel NAT1 allelic variant

Nichola Johnson, Peter Bell, Vesna Jonovska, Marc Budge, Edith Sim

Open Access Research article

Glutathione S-Transferase Ω 1 variation does not influence age at onset of Huntington's disease

Larissa Arning, Peter Jagiello, Stefan Wieczorek, Carsten Saft, Jürgen Andrich, Jörg T Epplen

Open Access Technical advance

Molecular analysis using DHPLC of cystic fibrosis: increase of the mutation detection rate among the affected population in Central Italy

Maria Rosaria D'Apice, Stefano Gambardella, Mario Bengala, Silvia Russo, Anna Maria Nardone, Vincenzina Lucidi, Federica Sangiuolo, Giuseppe Novelli

Open Access Research article

PAX6 gene variations associated with aniridia in south India

Guruswamy Neethirajan, Subbaiah Ramasamy Krishnadas, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, Shetty Shashikant, Periasamy Sundaresan

Open Access Case report

A case of autism with an interstitial deletion on 4q leading to hemizygosity for genes encoding for glutamine and glycine neurotransmitter receptor sub-units (AMPA 2, GLRA3, GLRB) and neuropeptide receptors NPY1R, NPY5R

Subhadra Ramanathan, Abigail Woodroffe, Pamela L Flodman, Lee Z Mays, Mona Hanouni, Charlotte B Modahl, Robin Steinberg-Epstein, Maureen E Bocian, M Anne Spence, Moyra Smith

Open Access Research article

Examination of NRCAM, LRRN3, KIAA0716, and LAMB1as autism candidate genes

Holli B Hutcheson, Lana M Olson, Yuki Bradford, Susan E Folstein, Susan L Santangelo, James S Sutcliffe, Jonathan L Haines

Open Access Research article

Elevated white cell count in acute coronary syndromes: relationship to variants in inflammatory and thrombotic genes

Connie E Byrne, Anthony Fitzgerald, Christopher P Cannon, Desmond J Fitzgerald, Denis C Shields

Open Access Research article

TP73allelic expression in human brain and allele frequencies in Alzheimer's disease

Quanyi Li, Eleni S Athan, Michelle Wei, Eric Yuan, Samuel L Rice, Jean-Paul Vonsattel, Richard P Mayeux, Benjamin Tycko

Open Access Research article

Analysis of polymorphic TGFB1codons 10, 25, and 263 in a German patient group with non-syndromic cleft lip, alveolus, and palate compared with healthy adults

Christian Stoll, Senait Mengsteab, Doris Stoll, Dieter Riediger, Axel M Gressner, Ralf Weiskirchen

Open Access Research article

HNPCC: Six new pathogenic mutations

Erdmute Kunstmann, Judith Vieland, Frank E Brasch, Stephan A Hahn, Joerg T Epplen, Karsten Schulmann, Wolff Schmiegel

Open Access Research article

Phenotypic and molecular assessment of seven patients with 6p25 deletion syndrome: Relevance to ocular dysgenesis and hearing impairment

Douglas B Gould, Mohamad S Jaafar, Mark K Addison, Francis Munier, Robert Ritch, Ian M MacDonald, Michael A Walter

Open Access Research article

The impact of population heterogeneity on risk estimation in genetic counseling

Wenlei Liu, Nikolina Icitovic, Michele L Shaffer, Gary A Chase

Open Access Research article

Are p.I148T, p.R74W and p.D1270N cystic fibrosis causing mutations ?

Mireille Claustres, Jean-Pierre Altiéri, Caroline Guittard, Carine Templin, Françoise Chevalier-Porst, Marie Des Georges

Open Access Research article

Candidate high myopia loci on chromosomes 18p and 12q do not play a major role in susceptibility to common myopia

Grace Ibay, Betty Doan, Lauren Reider, Debra Dana, Melissa Schlifka, Heping Hu, Taura Holmes, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Owens, Elise Ciner, Joan E Bailey–Wilson, Dwight Stambolian

Open Access Research article

A 4q35.2 subtelomeric deletion identified in a screen of patients with co-morbid psychiatric illness and mental retardation

Ben S Pickard, Edward J Hollox, M Pat Malloy, David J Porteous, Douglas HR Blackwood, John AL Armour, Walter J Muir

Open Access Research article

TM4SF10 gene sequencing in XLMR patients identifies common polymorphisms but no disease-associated mutation

Christiane Christophe-Hobertus, Frank Kooy, Jozef Gecz, Marc J Abramowicz, Elke Holinski-Feder, Charles Schwartz, Daniel Christophe

Open Access Research article

Characterization of a new full length TMPRSS3 isoform and identification of mutant alleles responsible for nonsyndromic recessive deafness in Newfoundland and Pakistan

Zubair M Ahmed, Xiaoyan Cindy Li, Shontell D Powell, Saima Riazuddin, Terry-Lynn Young, Khushnooda Ramzan, Zahoor Ahmad, Sandra Luscombe, Kiran Dhillon, Linda MacLaren, Barbara Ploplis, Lawrence I Shotland, Elizabeth Ives, Sheikh Riazuddin, Thomas B Friedman, Robert J Morell, Edward R Wilcox

Open Access Research article

HLA haplotypes associated with hemochromatosis mutations in the Spanish population

Arantza Pacho, Esther Mancebo, Manuel J del Rey, Maria J Castro, Desamparados Oliver, Miguel García-Berciano, Luis González, Pablo Morales

Open Access Research article

CLC-2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as potential modifiers of cystic fibrosis disease severity

Carol J Blaisdell, Timothy D Howard, Augustus Stern, Penelope Bamford, Eugene R Bleecker, O Colin Stine

Open Access Research article

Neural network analysis in pharmacogenetics of mood disorders

Alessandro Serretti, Enrico Smeraldi

Open Access Research article

Allele frequencies of hemojuvelin gene (HJV) I222N and G320V missense mutations in white and African American subjects from the general Alabama population

James C Barton, Charles A Rivers, Sandrine Niyongere, Sean B Bohannon, Ronald T Acton

Open Access Research article

Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Val 108/158 Metpolymorphism does not modulate executive function in children with ADHD

Evan Taerk, Natalie Grizenko, Leila Ben Amor, Philippe Lageix, Valentin Mbekou, Rosherie Deguzman, Adam Torkaman-Zehi, Marina Ter Stepanian, Chantal Baron, Ridha Joober