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Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments.
Clinical and mutational signatures of CRB1-associated …
Results The mean age of CRB1 cohort was 27.33±14.63 years. Results showed that yellowish geographic macular degeneration (66.67%), small white or yellow dots (65.6%), hyperopia (62.5%), abnormally laminated retina (61.61%), epiretinal membrane (60.6%) and nummular pigment deposits (50%) were the most common signatures in patients with CRB1 mutations. . These clinical signatures were notably ...
Six at Sixty. Commentary on identification of the
In 2005, the genetic aetiology of autism was considered elusive. Occasionally individuals with overgrowth disorders and hamartomas including Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba and Proteus or Proteus-like and/or cancer such as Cowden syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder with a high risk of breast, thyroid and endometrial cancer, were noted to have neuro-behavioural features resembling autism ...
Haemochromatosis - Journal of Medical Genetics
Hereditary haemochromatosis is the most common genetic disorder in white people. Its prevalence exceeds the combined incidence of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophia, and phenylketonuria.1 The faulty haemochromatosis gene ( HFE ) (OMIM 235200) was discovered in 19962 and is localised on the short arm of chromosome 6. A single mutation, 845A (c845A; GenBank U60319 OMIM 235200.0001) in the HFE ...
Authors’ response to the commentary by Kivela et al on Hany et al …
The commentary by Kivelä et al 1 corrects an important point of accuracy in supplementary table S3.2 It is also very welcome that authors with expertise in eye health and disease are highlighting the need for collaborative thinking and working across traditional clinical …
Genetic complexity of diagnostically unresolved Ehlers-Danlos …
Background The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCT), reclassified in the 2017 nosology into 13 subtypes. The genetic basis for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) remains unknown. Methods Whole exome sequencing (WES) was undertaken on 174 EDS patients recruited from a national diagnostic service for complex EDS and a specialist clinic for hEDS.
Waardenburg syndrome. - Journal of Medical Genetics
Auditory-pigmentary syndromes are caused by physical absence of melanocytes from the skin, hair, eyes, or the stria vascularis of the cochlea. Dominantly inherited examples with patchy depigmentation are usually labelled Waardenburg syndrome (WS). Type I WS, characterised by dystopia canthorum, is caused by loss of function mutations in the PAX3 gene. Type III WS (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome ...
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy - Journal of Medical Genetics
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial genetic disease that preferentially causes blindness in young adult males, affecting about 1 in 25 000 of the British population. It is characterised by bilateral subacute loss of central vision owing to focal degeneration of the retinal ganglion cell layer and optic nerve. Over 95% of LHON cases are primarily the result of one of ...
Guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome …
Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer) is characterised by the development of colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer and various other cancers, and is caused by a mutation in one of the mismatch repair genes: MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2 . The discovery of these genes, 15 years ago, has led to the identification of large numbers of affected families. In April 2006, a workshop ...