8 Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Unit, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada Correspondence to: Dr F Tesson University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, Ontario ...

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 ...

1 Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 2 German Research Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), ...

1 Academic Unit of Medical Genetics, St Mary’s Hospital, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 Centre for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, ...

Background Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) arises from endometriosis and represents a difficult-to-treat gynaecological malignancy, in part, because its spatial intratumour heterogeneity and ...

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 ...

Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome/MRC Building, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK Huntington’s disease (HD) is thought to show ...

2 Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA 3 Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 8 ...

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 ...

We report on a father and daughter with a partial 9p duplication, dup(9)(p22p24). Their phenotype, albeit mild, is characteristic of partial trisomy 9p. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) was ...

6 Medical Genetics Section, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), University Hospital Consortium Corporation Polyclinics of Bari, Bari, Italy 7 Department of ...

The Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, 00029 HYKS, Finland Correspondence to: Dr M Lipsanen-Nyman The Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University ...