Drug Research and Medical Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Nikolai-Fuchs-Strasse 1, D-30625 Hanover, Germany Correspondence to: J Borlak Drug Research and ...
Genomic technologies have transformed clinical genetic testing, underlining the importance of accurate molecular genetic diagnoses. Variant classification, ranging from benign to pathogenic, is ...
aGenetics and Teratology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, bDepartments of Pathology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA ...
Splice site variants in the canonical donor site of MED13L exon 7 lead to intron retention in patients with MED13L syndrome ...
Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. The WT1 gene, one of the genes responsible for Wilms tumour, is thought to play a crucial role in the development of the ...
Background Genome-wide association studies have identified >30 common SNPs associated with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We evaluated the combined effects of EOC susceptibility SNPs on predicting ...
Background PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome (PHTS) encompasses distinct syndromes, including Cowden syndrome resulting from PTEN pathogenic variants. Missense variants account for 30% of PHTS cases, but ...
8 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background Silver-Russell syndrome is an imprinting disorder that restricts growth, resulting in short adult stature that ...
*Epidemiology Unit, The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia †Child Development and Rehabilitation, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a commonly encountered genetic ailment marked by loss-of-function mutations in the Dystrophin gene, ultimately resulting in progressive debilitation of skeletal ...
von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) is an autosomal-dominant hereditary tumour susceptibility disease associated with pathogenic germline variants in the VHL tumour suppressor gene. VHL patients are at increased ...
The use of genome wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays for high resolution molecular cytogenetic analysis using a combination of quantitative and genotype analysis is well established.