Friedreich ataxia, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common of the inherited ataxias. The recent discovery of the gene that is mutated in this condition,FRDA, has led to ...

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 Dr Hidenobu Soejima, Division of Molecular Genetics & Epigenetics, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga 849-8501, Japan; soejimah{at}cc.saga ...

In 1997, the Journal of Medical Genetics published our paper on the spectrum of clinical features associated with interstitial chromosome 22q11 deletions. This copy number variation is associated with ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is one of the most common Mendelian disorders characterised by genetic heterogeneity, progressive distal muscle weakness and atrophy, foot deformities and distal ...

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 ...

Background: Golabi, Ito, and Hall reported a family with X linked mental retardation (XLMR), microcephaly, postnatal growth deficiency, and other anomalies, including atrial septal defect, in 1984.

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 ...

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 Center for Molecular Medicine of Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Yulan Lu, Children's Hospital & ...

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