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PURA protein mislocalisation in the nucleus: mechanistic basis for transcriptional dysregulation and DNA unwinding deficits in a model of the p.L148Wfs*77 PURA variant

Background Heterozygous PURA (Purine-rich element-binding protein A) variants cause PURA syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by hypotonia, seizures and intellectual disability.
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Deletions in 16q24.2 are associated with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability and congenital renal malformation

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, ...
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Unilateral true hermaphrodite with 46,XX/46,XY dispermic chimerism.

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 ...
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Anderson-Fabry disease: clinical manifestations and impact of disease in a cohort of 60 obligate carrier females

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, ...
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Coffin-Lowry syndrome: clinical and molecular features

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 ...
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Exploring the unique characteristics of genes with dual autosomal dominant and recessive inheritance: mechanisms, phenotypes and candidate identification

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

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 ...
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Psoriasis is associated with pleiotropic susceptibility loci identified in type II diabetes and Crohn disease

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; ...
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Neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with pathogenic variants in SLC6A1

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 ...
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Review of the scientific evolution of gene therapy for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: past, present and future perspectives

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 ...
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The phenotype of survivors of campomelic dysplasia

Correspondence to: Dr S Mansour, South-West Thames Regional Genetic Service, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK; smansour{at}sghms.ac.uk Five patients ...
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Classification and identification of inherited brachydactylies

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 ...