Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a high-risk hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome affecting 1 in 5000 individuals. Current ...

1 Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Background Nanophthalmos is a rare ocular condition characterised by a significantly short axial ...

Pain perception is a vital protective mechanism.1 However, chronic pain, maladaptive and persistent, constitutes a major disease burden.2 Reliance on opioid analgesics is fraught with risks of ...

Variations in new splicing regulatory elements are difficult to identify exclusively by sequence inspection and may result in deleterious effects on precursor (pre) mRNA splicing. These mutations can ...

Hirschsprung disease (HSCR, aganglionic megacolon) is the main genetic cause of functional intestinal obstruction with an incidence of 1/5000 live births. This developmental disorder is a ...

Correspondence to Dr Dorothy Halliday, Oxford Centre for Genomic Medicine, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Windmill Rd, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK; dorothy.halliday{at ...

1 Program in Developmental Biology, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada 2 Western Sydney Genetics Program, the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, and Discipline of Paediatrics ...

Among the clusters of imprinted genes in humans, one of the most relevant regions involved in human growth is localised in 11p15. Opposite epigenetic and genomic disturbances in this chromosomal ...

Purpose Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common adult muscular dystrophy. Over 95% of FSHD cases are associated with contraction of the D4Z4 tandem repeat (~3.3 kb per unit) at 4q35 ...

Accurate classification of variants in cancer susceptibility genes (CSGs) is key for correct estimation of cancer risk and management of patients. Consistency in the weighting assigned to individual ...

2 Institute of Biochemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany 3 Institute of Human Genetics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany Background Despite abundant evidence ...

Dr Mégarbané, Unité de Génétique Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université Saint-Joseph, 42 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France. This kindred (fig 1) resides in southern Lebanon and belongs to the ...