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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Norbert Weiss, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 166 10, Czech Republic; weiss{at}uochb.cas.cz; Dr Gerald W Zamponi, Department of ...

2 Rehabilitation Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Correspondence to Dr Xubao Liu, Department of Pancreatic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, ...

Correspondence to Dr Katharina Wimmer, Medical University of Innsbruck, Division of Human Genetics, Peter-Mayr-Strasse 1, Innsbruck 6020, Austria; katharina.wimmer{at}i-med.ac.at Due to the ...

Background The genomic contribution to adverse health sequelae in babies born very preterm (<32 weeks’ gestation) is unknown. We conducted an investigation of rare CNVs in infants born very preterm as ...

2 Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Correspondence to Chee Seng Ku, Cancer ...