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Arteriovenous malformation from a patient with JP-HHT harbours two second-hit somatic DNA alterations in SMAD4
Background Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an inherited disorder of vascular malformations. It is caused by inherited loss-of-function mutations in one of three genes, ENG, ACVRL1 or ...
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International guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
1 Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, University of ...
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Risk of colorectal and endometrial cancer for carriers of mutations of the hMLH1 and hMSH2 gene: correction for ascertainment
1 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands 2 The Netherlands Foundation for the Detection of Hereditary Tumours, Leiden University ...
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Deletions and de novo mutations of SOX11 are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder with features of Coffin–Siris syndrome
2 National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ...
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Applications and advances of CRISPR-Cas9 in cancer immunotherapy
Immunotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising therapeutic strategies in cancer. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) system ...
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Hydrometrocolpos and polydactyly: a common neonatal presentation of Bardet-Biedl and McKusick-Kaufman syndromes
McKusick-Kaufman syndrome (MKKS) is a rare, recessively inherited syndrome reported mainly in young children and is characterised by vaginal atresia with hydrometrocolpos, postaxial polydactyly, and ...
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Cleidocranial dysplasia: clinical and molecular genetics
Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) (MIM 119600) is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterised by abnormal clavicles, patent sutures and fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, short stature, and a ...
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The twisting tale of woolly hair: a trait with many causes
Department of Dermatology and the Center for Genetic Diseases of the Skin and Hair, Hadassah—Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to Professor Abraham Zlotogorski, ...
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Clinical and molecular genetics of Stickler syndrome
a Vitreoretinal Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Box 41, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK, b Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Box 134, Addenbrooke ...
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Lessons learnt from multifaceted diagnostic approaches to the first 150 families in Victoria’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program
Correspondence to Professor Tiong Yang Tan, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; tiong.tan{at}vcgs.org.au Background Clinical ...
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Single synonymous mutation in factor IX alters protein properties and underlies haemophilia B
Methods We analyse the molecular mechanisms underlying the FIX deficiency through in silico analysis and reproducing the c.459G>A (Val107Val) mutation in stable cell lines. Conformation and ...