Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to: Dr Anne Lampe Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, International ...

Angelman syndrome ( AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by severe learning difficulties, ataxia, a seizure disorder with a characteristic EEG, subtle dysmorphic facial features, and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Genomic technologies have transformed clinical genetic testing, underlining the importance of accurate molecular genetic diagnoses. Variant classification, ranging from benign to pathogenic, is ...

A family is described in which the proband is homozygous and several relatives are heterozygous for Hb K Woolwich (beta 130 [H10] Lys leads to Gln). These people are clinically and haematologically ...

Kufor-Rakeb syndrome is an autosomal recessive nigro-striatal-pallidal-pyramidal neurodegeneration. The onset is in the teenage years with clinical features of Parkinson's disease plus spasticity, ...

1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr S M Park Department of Clinical ...

2 National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ...

2 Genetic Institute, Emek Medical Center, Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Background Infantile-onset encephalopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by mitochondrial ...

Initial reports of patients with laminin α2 chain (merosin) deficiency had a relatively homogeneous phenotype, with classical congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) characterised by severe muscle ...

Background Approximately 10% of gastric cancers (GCs) are associated with strong familial clustering and can be attributed to genetic predisposition. Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) leads to ...