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 ...

Angelman syndrome ( AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by severe learning difficulties, ataxia, a seizure disorder with a characteristic EEG, subtle dysmorphic facial features, and a ...

Genomic technologies have transformed clinical genetic testing, underlining the importance of accurate molecular genetic diagnoses. Variant classification, ranging from benign to pathogenic, is ...

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 ...

1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr S M Park Department of Clinical ...

3 Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia ...

2 National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ...

1 Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London, UK 2 Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London, UK Background Usher syndrome (USH) is an autosomal recessive disorder ...

2 Genetic Institute, Emek Medical Center, Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Background Infantile-onset encephalopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by mitochondrial ...

Initial reports of patients with laminin α2 chain (merosin) deficiency had a relatively homogeneous phenotype, with classical congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) characterised by severe muscle ...

Background Approximately 10% of gastric cancers (GCs) are associated with strong familial clustering and can be attributed to genetic predisposition. Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) leads to ...

Correspondence to Dr Katharina Wimmer, Medical University of Innsbruck, Division of Human Genetics, Peter-Mayr-Strasse 1, Innsbruck 6020, Austria; katharina.wimmer{at}i-med.ac.at Due to the ...