Background The human oocyte transmits one set of haploid genome into female pronucleus (FPN) while discards the remaining genome into the first polar body (PB1) and the second polar body (PB2). The ...

The brachydactylies are a group of conditions in which various subtypes have been defined based upon the specific pattern of digital bones involved. Type A1 brachydactyly is principally characterised ...

Background: Deletions of chromosome 19 have rarely been reported, with the exception of some patients with deletion 19q13.2 and Blackfan–Diamond syndrome due to haploinsufficiency of the RPS19 gene.

Background: Microdeletions at 17q21.31 have recently been shown to cause a novel syndrome. Here we identify the reciprocal 17q21.31 duplication syndrome in 4 patients. Method: Patients with the ...

Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neuroscience, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-IPN), Mexico ...

1 Centre for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Rd, Woolloongabba, Qld 4102, Australia 2 The Queensland Institute of ...

7 INSERM U621, IFR 14, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France 8 Laboratoire de génétique et insuffisance cardiaque, Association Claude Bernard, IFR 14, Groupe Hospitalier ...

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FHSD) is a genetically heterogeneous, autosomal dominant primary disease of muscle. The predominant form of FSHD, which has been designated FSHD1A, has been ...

1 Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, ...

1 Molecular Medicine Unit, University of Leeds, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Clinical Genetics, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK Aicardi-Goutiéres syndrome (AGS) ...

Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84132. The telecanthus-hypospadias (BBB) syndrome is characterised by widely spaced inner ocular canthi and hypospadias of variable degree.

Correspondence to: Professor Kate Bushby Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK; ...