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 ...

Correspondence to Prof. Pei-Rong Ding, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China; dingpr{at}sysucc.org.cn; Prof. Zhi-Zhong Pan, Department of Colorectal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Malte Lenders, Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster D-48149, Germany; ...

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently fatal in infancy. Mitochondrial disease causing infantile HCM is characterised by extreme biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, but ...

Correspondence to R F Kooy, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium; Frank.Kooy{at}ua.ac.be Fragile X syndrome, the main cause of inherited ...

Correspondence to Professor Eva Brand, Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center Münster (IFAZ), University Hospital Münster, ...

The Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is characterised by severe intrauterine growth retardation, with a preserved head circumference, leading to a lean body habitus and short stature. Facial dysmorphism ...