Correspondence to: Gudrun A Rappold PhD, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 366, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; gudrun.rappold{at}med.uni-heidelberg.de Methods: To ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe X-linked myopathy characterised by progressive skeletal and cardiac muscle degeneration, loss of ambulation, respiratory failure and premature mortality.
Division of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China If you wish to reuse any ...
Importance Genetic testing of hereditary cancer using comprehensive gene panels can identify patients with more than one pathogenic mutation in high and/or moderate-risk-associated cancer genes. This ...
An association between the occurrence of club foot and early amniocentesis has been reported. The largest of these randomised studies was the Canadian Early and Mid-Trimester Amniocentesis Trial. Data ...
6 Department of Clinical Genetics, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 7 Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht ...
Background Deregulation of the activity of the ubiquitin ligase E6AP (UBE3A) is well recognised to contribute to the development of Angelman syndrome (AS). The ubiquitin ligase HERC2, encoded by the ...
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) was the first of a group of diseases to be identified for which the genetic basis is the expansion of a triplet repeat. Myotonic dystrophy also exhibits anticipation, in which ...
1 Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth, Western Australia 2 School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of ...
Correspondence to Professor Jean-Michel Vallat, Department of Neurology, Centre de référence “Neuropathies périphériques rares”, University hospital, 2 Avenue Martin Luther King, Limoges 87042, France ...
Background The probability of a pregnancy, live birth, stillbirth and abortion has never been assessed in women with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) in a large population-based study. Methods We included ...
Despite the identification of many genes involved in developmental eye phenotypes, a large percentage of families lack genetic diagnoses, suggesting novel mechanisms remain to be discovered. Large ...