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Clinical features for diagnosis and management of patients with PRDM12 congenital insensitivity to pain
Background Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare extreme phenotype characterised by an inability to perceive pain present from birth due to lack of, or malfunction of, nociceptors. PRDM12 ...
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Fraser syndrome and cryptophthalmos: review of the diagnostic criteria and evidence for phenotypic modules in complex malformation syndromes
1 National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 49, Room 4B75, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4472, USA 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s National ...
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Pancreatic cancer risk in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome patients: a large cohort study and implications for surveillance
1 Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Pathology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The ...
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Mutation in cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA in a family with fibromyalgia is associated with NLRP3-inflammasome activation
9 Unidad de Reproducción Humana y Cirugía Endoscópica, Instituto para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción Humana (INEBIR), Sevilla, Spain Correspondence to Dr Mario D Cordero, IBiS Institute ...
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Bicuspid aortic valve and aortic coarctation are linked to deletion of the X chromosome short arm in Turner syndrome
1 Section on Epigenetics and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood ...
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Redefinition of familial intestinal gastric cancer: clinical and genetic perspectives
Background Familial intestinal gastric cancer (FIGC) remains genetically unexplained and without testing/clinical criteria. Herein, we characterised the age of onset and disease spectrum of 50 FIGC ...
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Genotype–phenotype correlations in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
5 Institute of Gastroenterology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, 52621, Israel 6 The Susanne Levy Gerner Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, 52621, Israel Correspondence to: C ...
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Large scale deletions of the 5q13 region are specific to Werdnig-Hoffmann disease.
Unité de Recherches sur les Handicaps Génétiques de l'Enfant, INSERM U-393, IFREM, Institut Necker, Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Paris, France. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is characterised by ...
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A homozygous deletion of a normal variation locus in a patient with hearing loss from non-consanguineous parents
Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Dr K Szuhai, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, zone S-1-P, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC ...
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Assisted reproductive technologies do not enhance the variability of DNA methylation imprints in human
Background Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are believed to destabilise genomic imprints. An increased ...
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Identification of candidate lung cancer susceptibility genes in mouse using oligonucleotide arrays
1 Division of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, 420 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA 2 School of Public Health, The Ohio State University ...