Background Heterozygous PURA (Purine-rich element-binding protein A) variants cause PURA syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by hypotonia, seizures and intellectual disability.

2 Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...

A 13 year old female presented with ambiguous external genitalia, right inguinal ovotestis, left ovary, apparently normal Mullerian system, and absent Wolffian system. Cultured lymphocytes showed a 46 ...

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 ...

aDepartment of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK, bPrimary Care and Population Sciences, University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, ...

Department of Neurology, School of Neurosciences and Psychiatry, The Medical School, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to: Dr P F Chinnery, Department of Neurology, School of ...

1 Institut de Génétique et du Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS INSERM, Université Louis Pasteur, Illkirch, CU de Strasbourg, France 2 Department of Clinical Genetics, Leicester Royal Infirmary ...

Background Autosomal dominant (AD) inheritance often arises through haploinsufficiency, dominant-negative or gain of function (GoF) effects, while autosomal recessive (AR) inheritance generally ...

Professor R C Trembath, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College School of Medicine, 9th Floor Guy’s Tower, Guy’s Hospital, SE1 9RT London, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Wendy Chung, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; wkc15{at}cumc.columbia.edu Background SLC6A1 encodes GAT-1, a major ...

Correspondence to Dr Ricardo Rodriguez-Calvo and Professor Luis Masana, Vascular Medicine and Metabolism Unit, Research Unit on Lipids and Atherosclerosis, ‘Sant Joan’ University Hospital, Universitat ...

A search for patterns of malformation in the brachydactylies has resulted in new ways to identify the different types. Type A-1 can be characterised by a proportionate reduction of the middle ...