17 Department of Digestive Surgery, Hospital Saint-Antoine, University Pierre et Marie, Paris, France 18 Department of Surgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Lynch syndrome ...
Purpose and scope The aim of this position statement is to provide recommendations for Canadian healthcare professionals regarding the use of genome-wide sequencing (GWS) in the context of diagnostic ...
Correspondence to Dr Jennifer M Kalish, Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1002 Abramson Research Center, 3615 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; kalishj ...
Correspondence to Dr Olivier Duverger, Craniofacial Anomalies and Regeneration Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; olivier.duverger{at}nih.gov; Dr ...
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 ...
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, ...
7 Department of Child Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA 8 Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mental retardation is more common in males than females in the population, assumed to be due to mutations on the X chromosome. The prevalence of the 24 genes identified to date is low and less common ...
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, ...
Background Short-read genome sequencing (sr-GS) affords efficient and accurate characterisation of apparently balanced chromosomal rearrangement (ABCR) breakpoints except in 9%–11% of cases that ...