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 ...
Correspondence to Prof. Pei-Rong Ding, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China; dingpr{at}sysucc.org.cn; Prof. Zhi-Zhong Pan, Department of Colorectal ...
Professor B Franco, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy; franco{at}tigem.it If you wish to reuse any ...
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is defined by a combination of abnormalities that are all individual risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease. The ...
1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome/MRC ...
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 ...
1 Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...
46,XX subjects carrying the testis determining SRY gene usually have a completely male phenotype. In this study, five very rare cases of SRY carrying subjects (two XX males and three XX true ...