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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Digenic inheritance (DI) is the simplest form of inheritance for genetically complex diseases. By contrast with the thousands of reports that mutations in single genes cause human diseases, there are ...

2 Section on Human Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA 3 Hearing Section, National Institute on Deafness and ...

Background Fabry disease results from deficient α-galactosidase A activity and globotriaosylceramide accumulation causing renal insufficiency, strokes, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and early demise. We ...

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 ...