Sheetal Gandotra,
Caroline Le Dour,
William Bottomley,
Pascale Cervera,
Philippe Giral,
Yves Reznik,
Guillaume Charpentier,
Martine Auclair,
Marc Delépine,
Inês Barroso,
Robert K Semple,
Mark Lathrop,
Olivier Lascols,
Jacqueline Capeau,
Stephen O'Rahilly,
Jocelyne Magré,
David B Savage and
Corinne Vigouroux
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We identified two heterozygous frameshift mutations in the perilipin gene (PLIN1) in three families with partial lipodystrophy, severe dyslipidemia, and insulin-resistant diabetes. Subcutaneous fat from the patients was characterized by smaller-than-normal adipocytes, macrophage infiltration, and fi...
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PMID: 21345103
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Meina Zhao,
Hirokazu Kanegane,
Chie Kobayashi,
Yozo Nakazawa,
Eizaburo Ishii,
Mikio Kasai,
Kiminori Terui,
Yoshihiro Gocho,
Kohsuke Imai,
Junichi Kiyasu,
Shigeaki Nonoyama and
Toshio Miyawaki
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We previously generated an antihuman SAP monoclonal antibody (KST-3) for a flow cytometric assay and described the activation of T cells to be necessary for the flow cytometric assessment of the SAP expression using an FITC-conjugated secondary antibody.
Between 2005 and 2008, we rec...
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PMID: 20632414
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We demonstrated that the +1 frameshifting was increased in the mutant strain. Further characterizations revealed involvement of the Imp3 protein in DNA repair and telomere length control, pointing to a functional relationship between both pathways and ribosome biogenesis....
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PMID: 21559332
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We employed a series of frameshift reporters to measure mutagenesis associated with BIR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We demonstrate that BIR DNA synthesis is intrinsically inaccurate over the entire path of the replication fork, as the rate of frameshift mutagenesis during BIR is up to 2,800-fold hi...
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PMID: 21347245
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Jerry R Mendell,
Katherine Campbell,
Louise Rodino-Klapac,
Zarife Sahenk,
Chris Shilling,
Sarah Lewis,
Dawn Bowles,
Steven Gray,
Chengwen Li,
Gloria Galloway,
Vinod Malik,
Brian Coley,
K Reed Clark,
Juan Li,
Xiao Xiao,
Jade Samulski,
Scott W McPhee,
R Jude Samulski and
Christopher M Walker
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We report on delivery of a functional dystrophin transgene to skeletal muscle in six patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin-specific T cells were detected after treatment, providing evidence of transgene expression even when the functional protein was not visualized in skeletal musc...
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PMID: 20925545
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We describe the clinical, hormonal and molecular characteristics of a young man from Ecuador who was diagnosed as having CHARGE syndrome at an adult age. The patient showed several phenotypic features of the syndrome, associated with a prepubertal state and cryptorchidism; hypogonadotrophic hypogona...
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PMID: 20860631
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We studied concordant and discordant monozygous twins with de novo mutations in the sodium channel α1 subunit gene (SCN1A) causing Dravet's syndrome, a severe epileptic encephalopathy. On the basis of our findings and the literature on mosaic cases, we conclude that de novo mutations in SCN1A may o...
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PMID: 20879882
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We describe a Korean family with severe FXII deficiency from F12 mutations. The proband was a 46-year-old woman and was shown to have a markedly prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time at 126.7 s (reference range, 29-42 s) on routine health checkup. She had no history of bleeding tendency. C...
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PMID: 20729721
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We found a novel hypofibrinogenemia designated as Matsumoto VII (M-VII), which is caused by a heterozygous nucleotide deletion at position g.7651 in FGG and a subsequent frameshift mutation in codon 387 of the gamma-chain. This frameshift results in 25 amino acid substitutions, late termination of tr...
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PMID: 20589319
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Pia Alhopuro,
Mikael Björklund,
Heli Sammalkorpi,
Mikko Turunen,
Sari Tuupanen,
Mia Biström,
Iina Niittymäki,
Heli J Lehtonen,
Teemu Kivioja,
Virpi Launonen,
Juha Saharinen,
Kari Nousiainen,
Sampsa Hautaniemi,
Kyösti Nuorva,
Jukka-Pekka Mecklin,
Heikki Järvinen,
Torben Orntoft,
Diego Arango,
Rainer Lehtonen,
Auli Karhu,
Jussi Taipale and
Lauri A Aaltonen
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We investigated CLOCK as a possible target of somatic mutations in microsatellite unstable colorectal cancers. Combining microarray gene expression data and public gene sequence information, we identified CLOCK as 1 of 790 putative novel microsatellite instability (MSI) target genes. A total of 101...
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PMID: 20551151
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We demonstrate that PQBP-1 binds to U5-15kD via a continuous 23-residue segment within its C-terminal domain. Intriguingly, this segment is lost in the frameshift mutants of PQBP-1 associated with X-linked mental retardation. These findings suggest that the frameshift mutations in the PQBP-1 gene le...
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PMID: 20307692
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We hypothesized that mutations in other members of the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) family may also cause autistic features in individuals. We evaluated 226 autistic individuals for alterations in the four genes most homologous to MECP2: MBD1, MBD2, MBD3, and MBD4. A total of 46 alterations were...
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PMID: 19921286
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We hypothesized that mutations in other members of the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) family may also cause autistic features in individuals. We evaluated 226 autistic individuals for alterations in the four genes most homologous to MECP2: MBD1, MBD2, MBD3, and MBD4. A total of 46 alterations were...
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PMID: 19921286
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We hypothesized that mutations in other members of the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) family may also cause autistic features in individuals. We evaluated 226 autistic individuals for alterations in the four genes most homologous to MECP2: MBD1, MBD2, MBD3, and MBD4. A total of 46 alterations were...
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PMID: 19921286
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We hypothesized that mutations in other members of the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) family may also cause autistic features in individuals. We evaluated 226 autistic individuals for alterations in the four genes most homologous to MECP2: MBD1, MBD2, MBD3, and MBD4. A total of 46 alterations were...
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PMID: 19921286
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We inserted in a plasmid coding for the dog micro-dystrophin sequences containing a MGN target. The number of base pairs in these inserted sequences changed the reading frame. One of these modified target micro-dystrophin plasmids and an appropriate MGN were then transfected in 293FT cells. The MGN...
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PMID: 20393509
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We describe the chimeric gene Quetzalcoatl (Qtzl; CG31864), which formed in the recent past and swept to fixation in D. melanogaster. Qtzl arose through a duplication on chromosome 2L that united a portion of the mitochondrially targeted peptide CG12264 with a segment of the polycomb gene escl. The...
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PMID: 20534482
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We introduced the BICP0-5 frameshift into the BoHV-1 genome cloned as a bacterial artificial chromosome (BoHV-1 BAC) using the Red recombination system with galK selection and counterselection. Transfection of MDBK cells with the resulting BAC produced recombinant virus that replicated like wild typ...
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PMID: 20211531
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We performed a mutation analysis of the POU4F3 gene in 42 unrelated Koreans with autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss, identifying a novel 14-bp deletion mutation in exon 2 (c.662del14) in one patient. Audiometric examination revealed severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in this pati...
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PMID: 20434433
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We were able to prove that the etiology of the hereditary multiple pituitary deficiencies (MPHD) causing the dwarfism is due to a PROP-1 gene mutation, a pituitary transcription factor. During visits in 1988, 1990 and 2007 data on the life span of these patients not treated by growth and sex hormone...
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PMID: 20679996
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Mutations in inhibitory GABAA receptor subunit genes (GABRA1, GABRB3, GABRG2 and GABRD) have been associated with genetic epilepsy syndromes including childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), pure febrile seizures (FS), generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEF...
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PMID: 20308251
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We used Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, arrested by starvation for the essential amino acid lysine, to study the occurrence of reactive oxygen species (ROS), abasic (AP) sites and double strand breaks (DSBs). Furthermore, we analyzed the mutation frequencies in resting wild type cells and in cells d...
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PMID: 20223252
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Brian B Parkin,
Peter P Ouillette,
Yin Y Wang,
Yan Y Liu,
Whitney W Wright,
Diane D Roulston,
Anjali A Purkayastha,
Amanda A Dressel,
Judith J Karp,
Paula P Bockenstedt,
Ammar A Al-Zoubi,
Moshe M Talpaz,
Lisa L Kujawski,
Yang Y Liu,
Kerby K Shedden,
Sajid S Shakhan,
Cheng C Li,
Harry H Erba and
Sami N SN Malek
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This study was conducted to identify novel genes with importance to the biology of adult acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
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PMID: 20505189
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A remarkable clinical finding in the affected family is early macular atrophy with concentric spared areas. The authors propose that the hallmark of PROM1 truncating mutations is early and severe progressive degeneration of both rods and cones and highlight this gene as a candidate of choice to prio...
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PMID: 20042663
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Patients' platelets showed severe pathological agglutination/aggregation. Flow cytometry analysis demonstrated absence of platelet delta-granule secretion. Three different mutations in the HPS1 gene were found in the two families. Two mutations, p.H119delC and p.Q397delC identified in the Russian si...
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PMID: 20514622
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Analyses of patient's platelets using flow cytometry and immunoblotting showed absence of GPIIb protein and reduced amount of GPIIIa. Using restriction fragment length polymorphism heterozygosity for the deletion could be identified in the parents and in two siblings. Expression studies in mammalian...
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PMID: 20514618
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We took map-based cloning and candidate gene approaches using integrated genetic and physical maps. A DNA marker tightly linked to flesh color colocalized on a contig of the physical map with a cDNA probe of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) chromoplast-specific lycopene beta-cyclase, CYC-b. Candida...
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PMID: 20181753
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There were gene micromutations in 9 families with a micromutation detection rate of 64.3% (9/14), including 6 frameshift mutations (66.7%), 1 nonsense mutation (11.1%) and 2 splicing mutations (22.2%). Large fragment deletions were detected by MLPA in 2 families. The total mutation detection rate of...
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PMID: 20333795
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We report the clinical and genetic findings in a 23-year-old woman with hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome (HPT-JT). The patient had a family history of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and uterine fibroma in her mother. The patient presented muscle weakness. The diagnosis of PHPT was confirme...
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PMID: 19942209
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Yun Y Li,
Esther E Pohl,
Redouane R Boulouiz,
Margit M Schraders,
Gudrun G Nürnberg,
Majida M Charif,
Ronald J C RJ Admiraal,
Simon S von Ameln,
Ingelore I Baessmann,
Mostafa M Kandil,
Joris A JA Veltman,
Peter P Nürnberg,
Christian C Kubisch,
Abdelhamid A Barakat,
Hannie H Kremer and
Bernd B Wollnik
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We identified a causative homozygous 11 bp deletion, c.42_52del, in the TPRN gene in all seven affected individuals. The deletion is located in exon 1 and results in a frameshift and premature protein truncation (p.Gly15AlafsX150). Interestingly, the deleted sequence is part of a repetitive and CG-r...
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PMID: 20170898
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We report the molecular investigation of four affected members with BPES syndrome in a Tunisian consanguineous family. To identify the causative mutation, we performed a direct sequencing of the FOXL2 gene. The sequence analysis of the coding exon revealed a novel frameshift mutation g.1113 dup C, c...
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PMID: 19929410
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
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Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
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Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
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Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
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Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
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Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
PDF is available here.
M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
PDF is available here.
M Griese,
F Brasch,
V R Aldana,
M M Cabrera,
U Goelnitz,
E Ikonen,
B J Karam,
G Liebisch,
M D Linder,
P Lohse,
W Meyer,
G Schmitz,
A Pamir,
J Ripper,
A Rolfs,
A Schams and
F J Lezana
Abstract
Our data indicate that respiratory distress in NPC2 disease is associated with a loss of normal NPC2 protein expression in alveolar macrophages and the accumulation of functionally inactive surfactant rich in cholesterol....
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PMID: 20002450
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A mutation (L539fs/47) and a SNP (L564L) were found in exon 7 of the KCNH2 gene of the proband. The mutation was from the father. CONCLUSION: A novel mutation of L539fs/47 in the KCNH2 gene was identified in the LQTS family, which might be the disease-causing mutation for the family....
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PMID: 20140874
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We analysed MSI-High colorectal cancer cell lines for examples of naturally expressed mutant proteins arising from frameshift mutations in coding microsatellites (cMS) by immunoprecipitation and Western Blot experiments. Detected mutant protein bands from NMD-resistant transcripts were further valid...
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PMID: 21209843
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Silke S Appenzeller,
Anja A Schirmacher,
Hartmut H Halfter,
Sebastian S Bäumer,
Manuela M Pendziwiat,
Vincent V Timmerman,
Peter P De Jonghe,
Klára K Fekete,
Florian F Stögbauer,
Peter P Lüdemann,
Margret M Hund,
Elgar Susanne ES Quabius,
E Bernd EB Ringelstein and
Gregor G Kuhlenbäumer
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We have mapped the causative genetic defect to a 3.25 megabase candidate region on chromosome 5q13.3-q14.1. A maximum LOD score of 4.1 (Theta = 0) was obtained at marker D5S1962. Here we show that ADSD is caused by a complex frameshift mutation (c.94G>C+c.95delT) in the phosphodiesterase 8B (PDE8B)...
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PMID: 20085714
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Two boys of 13.3 and 10.6 years, with pubertal stages 2 and 1, had mild short stature (-3.2 and -2.8 SDS, respectively) and a biochemical profile suggestive of growth hormone resistance. No defects were identified in the GHR. Patient 1 was homozygous for the IGFALS missense mutation P73L. Patient 2...
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PMID: 20389102
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We present a comprehensive report of two siblings with hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM). The clinical features and histological characteristics of the muscle biopsies showed the typical pattern of predominantly distal vacuolar myopathy with quadriceps sparing. This was confirmed by muscle M...
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PMID: 20175955
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We present here, the clinical and radiographic details along with, results of mutational analysis of the CA2 gene in an individual clinically diagnosed with renal tubular acidosis, osteopetrosis and mental retardation and his family members to establish genotype-phenotype correlation. A novel homozy...
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PMID: 20935402
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We showed that ectoines can be also accumulated upon transport from the external medium, and that they can be used as carbon sources at optimal, but not at low salinity. This was related to an insufficient ectoine(s) transport under these conditions.
A C. salexigens Tn1732-induced mutant (CHR95) sho...
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PMID: 20942908
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We present data on two cases of Smith-Magenis syndrome with mutation of RAI1. Both cases are phenotypically consistent with SMS and RAI1 mutation but also have other anomalies not previously reported in SMS, including spontaneous pneumothoraces. These cases also illustrate variability in the SMS phe...
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PMID: 20932317
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We performed G- and R-banding cytogenetic analysis of the patient and her family members including her father. We also performed molecular genetic analysis of SRY gene. Cytogenetic analysis in the patient (Turner Syndrome) revealed the mosaic karyotype as 45, X/46, XY (79%/21% respectively) while he...
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PMID: 20849656
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We provide conclusive data that the (-1) frame of U79260(FTO) encodes an HLA-A0201-restricted cytotoxic T cell epitope (FSP11; TLSPGWSAV). T cells specific for FSP11 efficiently recognized HLA-A0201((pos)) tumor cells harboring the mutated reading frame. Considering the exceptionally high mutation r...
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PMID: 20339516
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Viviana Dalamón,
Vanesa Lotersztein,
Agustina Béhèran,
Marcela Lipovsek,
Fernando Diamante,
Norma Pallares,
Liliana Francipane,
Gustavo Frechtel,
Bibiana Paoli,
Enrique Mansilla,
Vicente Diamante and
Ana Belén Elgoyhen
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We describe for the first time two new mutations in GJB2: the missense mutation c.29 T>C (p.Leu10Pro) in the N terminal domain and c.326 G>T (p.Gly109Val) in the intracytoplasmic domain of connexin 26. This work shows the high prevalence of GJB2 mutations in the Argentinean population, with frequenc...
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PMID: 19887791
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We identified an autosomal recessive condition in 11 individuals in the Old Order Amish of northeastern Ohio. The syndrome was characterized by distinctive craniofacial dysmorphism, skeletal anomalies, and mental retardation. The typical craniofacial dysmorphism included brachycephaly, highly arched...
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PMID: 20018682
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We encountered three siblings of an inbred family who have PAM. We examined the family of the proband who was admitted with dyspnea on exertion and cough, and eventually was diagnosed with PAM. Genetic analysis revealed that both parents (a consanguineous marriage) of the proband were carriers with...
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PMID: 20046000
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