1 Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...

Background The effect of complex alleles in cystic fibrosis (CF) is poorly defined for the lack of functional studies. Methods We studied 70 homozygous, compound heterozygous or heterozygous for CFTR ...

Digenic inheritance (DI) is the simplest form of inheritance for genetically complex diseases. By contrast with the thousands of reports that mutations in single genes cause human diseases, there are ...

3 NHC Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing Population and Family Planning, Science and Technology ...

METHODS A large family is described in which mental retardation segregates as an X linked trait. Six affected males in three generations were studied by linkage and clinical examination. RESULTS ...

1 Institute of Genomic and Personalized Medicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2 Wuhan Women and Children Hospital, Wuhan, ...

We report on a father and son who have an interstitial deletion of 5p14. The father is clinically and mentally normal while the son has significant clinical involvement including microcephaly, ...

*Unit on Genetics and Endocrinology (UGEN), Developmental Endocrinology Branch, (DEB), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Building 10, Room 10N262, 10 Center Drive, ...

1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, School ...

4 Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK 5 Department of Audiology, Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to: M P Snead Vitreoretinal Service, Box 41, ...

Background Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) is characterised by typical anterior segment anomalies, with or without systemic features. The discovery of causative genes identified ARS subtypes with ...

3 Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia ...