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 ...

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 Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 7 Interdisciplinary Pediatric Center for Children ...

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 ...

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, ...

2 College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China Background A high level of succinylacetone (SA) in blood is a sensitive, specific newborn screening ...

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 ...

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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 ...

10 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to Dr Beatriz Martinez-Delgado, Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre ...

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 ...

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 ...