An association between the occurrence of club foot and early amniocentesis has been reported. The largest of these randomised studies was the Canadian Early and Mid-Trimester Amniocentesis Trial. Data ...
Surveillance is increasingly considered an alternative to prophylactic total gastrectomy in asymptomatic carriers of CDH1 pathogenic variants. There are three main reasons for this paradigm shift: (1) ...
2 Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive illness) is a complex genetic disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood (affect) ranging from extreme elation, or mania, ...
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 ...
Li-Fraumeni syndrome and Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome are distinct cancer predisposition syndromes caused by germline pathogenic variants (GPVs) in TP53 and FLCN , respectively. Multilocus inherited ...
1 Familial Cancer Unit, South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Genetic Medicine, Children’s Youth and Women’s Health Service, North Adelaide, Australia 2 Department of Paediatrics, ...
3 Institute of Medical Genetics for Wales, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 4 Reproductive Biology and Genetics Group, University of Birmingham, The Medical School, ...
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, ...
a Laboratory of Paediatric Molecular Biology, Department of General Paediatrics, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, D-10098 Berlin, Germany, b Department of Pediatrics and Munroe Center ...
Background Irish Travellers are an endogamous, nomadic, ethnic minority population mostly resident on the island of Ireland with smaller populations in Europe and the USA. High levels of consanguinity ...
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), also called von Recklinghausen disease or peripheral neurofibromatosis, is a common autosomal dominant disorder characterised by multiple neurofibromas, café au lait ...