Human Genetics - 2008

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Air pollution and mutations in the germline: are humans at risk?
Alan G. Cock, Donald R. Forsdyke: Treasure your exceptions. The science and life of William Bateson
Huntington F. Willard and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg (eds): Genomic and personalized medicine
Breakpoint mapping and haplotype analysis of three reciprocal translocations identify a novel recurrent translocation in two unrelated families: t(4;11)(p16.2;p15.4)
Population admixture associated with disease prevalence in the Boston Puerto Rican health study
Alterations of ROBO1/DUTT1 and ROBO2 loci in early dysplastic lesions of head and neck: clinical and prognostic implications
Stewart Scherer: A short guide to the human genome
A comprehensive evaluation of SNP genotype imputation
Identification of genomic regions contributing to etoposide-induced cytotoxicity
Moyra Smith: Translational research in genetics and genomics
Polymorphisms near SOCS3 are associated with obesity and glucose homeostasis traits in Hispanic Americans from the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Family Study Hispanic Americans
David N. Cooper and Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki (Eds.): Handbook of human molecular evolution
Lactose digestion and the evolutionary genetics of lactase persistence
Associations of PLA2G7 gene polymorphisms with plasma lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity and coronary heart disease in a Chinese Han population: the Beijing atherosclerosis study
Pathways-based analyses of whole-genome association study data in bipolar disorder reveal genes mediating ion channel activity and synaptic neurotransmission
Identification of common genetic variants that account for transcript isoform variation between human populations
Digenic inheritance of non-syndromic deafness caused by mutations at the gap junction proteins Cx26 and Cx31
Maternal age and risk for trisomy 21 assessed by the origin of chromosome nondisjunction: a report from the Atlanta and National Down Syndrome Projects
Mutation update of spinal muscular atrophy in Spain: molecular characterization of 745 unrelated patients and identification of four novel mutations in the SMN1 gene
Sonic hedgehog mutations identified in holoprosencephaly patients can act in a dominant negative manner
The woman who walked into the sea: Huntington’s and the making of a genetic disease
The association of SNPs in ADIPOQ, ADIPOR1, and ADIPOR2 with insulin sensitivity in a cohort of adolescents and their parents
Genome-wide association scan for stature in Chinese: evidence for ethnic specific loci
A genetic association study in the Gambia using tagging polymorphisms in the major histocompatibility complex class III region implicates a HLA-B associated transcript 2 polymorphism in severe malaria
A novel locus DFNA59 for autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss maps at chromosome 11p14.2–q12.3
The joint association between F5 gene polymorphisms and maternal smoking during pregnancy on preterm delivery
Haploinsufficiency of the GPD2 gene in a patient with nonsyndromic mental retardation
Increased constraints on MC4R during primate and human evolution
Analysis of the coding regions of VEGFR3 and VEGFC in Milroy disease and other primary lymphoedemas
Genomewide association study for susceptibility genes contributing to familial Parkinson disease
A novel hypomorphic MECP2 point mutation is associated with a neuropsychiatric phenotype
A large novel deletion in the APC promoter region causes gene silencing and leads to classical familial adenomatous polyposis in a Manitoba Mennonite kindred Manitoba Mennonite kindred
Genetic variants in the renin-angiotensin system genes are associated with cardiovascular-renal-related risk factors in Mexican Americans Mexican Americans
A common haplotype of DRD3 affected by recent positive selection is associated with protection from schizophrenia
Advances in osteoclast biology resulting from the study of osteopetrotic mutations
Ataxia and pancytopenia caused by a mutation in TINF2
Linkage mapping of CVD risk traits in the isolated Norfolk Island population
Haplotypes of IL-10 promoter variants are associated with susceptibility to severe malarial anemia and functional changes in IL-10 production
Association of the GNAS locus with severe malaria
Identification of copy number variants associated with BPES-like phenotypes
Male–female differences in the genetic regulation of t-PA and PAI-1 levels in a Ghanaian population
MLXIPL variant in individuals with low and high triglyceridemia in white population in Central Europe white population in Central Europe
The MSX1 allele 4 homozygous child exposed to smoking at periconception is most sensitive in developing nonsyndromic orofacial clefts
Gradual reduction of BUBR1 protein levels results in premature sister-chromatid separation then in aneuploidy
MMP-1 polymorphisms and the risk of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Missing data imputation and haplotype phase inference for genome-wide association studies
The human pseudoxanthoma elasticum gene ABCC6 is transcriptionally regulated by PLAG family transcription factors
A novel genetic locus for familial febrile seizures and epilepsy on chromosome 3q26.2–q26.33
Re-creation of the genetic composition of a founder population
Association of SIRT1 gene variation with visceral obesity
Elof Axel Carlson: Neither gods nor beasts. How science is changing who we think we are
The clinical characteristics of Werner syndrome: molecular and biochemical diagnosis
Association between Apolipoprotein E genotype and cerebral palsy is not confirmed in a Caucasian population
Genetic regulation of amniotic fluid TNF-alpha and soluble TNF receptor concentrations affected by race and preterm birth
Partial AZFc deletions and duplications: clinical correlates in the Italian population
LRRK2 R1628P increases risk of Parkinson’s disease: replication evidence
Merlin G. Butler, Philip D. K. Lee, Barbara Y. Whitman: Management of Prader-Willi syndrome
Osteoporosis: an evolutionary perspective
Novel human pathological mutations
Human hereditary hearing impairment: mouse models can help to solve the puzzle
Identifying modifier genes of monogenic disease: strategies and difficulties
Partial 5p monosomy or trisomy in 11 patients from a family with a t(5;15)(p13.3;p12) translocation
Association of amyloid precursor protein-binding protein, family B, member 1 with nicotine dependence in African and European American smokers European American; African
Apparent autosomal dominant keratoconus in a large Australian pedigree accounted for by digenic inheritance of two novel loci
Germline BRCA1 mutations predispose to pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Association of PARL rs3732581 genetic variant with insulin levels, metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease
Jan A. Witkowski and John R. Inglis (eds): Davenport’s dream. Twenty-first century reflections on heredity and eugenics
Genome-wide distribution of ancestry in Mexican Americans
A germline mutation of the KIF1Bβ gene on 1p36 in a family with neural and nonneural tumors
Sequence variants in the PLEKHH2 region are associated with diabetic nephropathy in the GoKinD study population
Gender influences monoallelic expression of ATP10A in human brain
Association of Interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms with central obesity and metabolic syndrome in a coronary heart disease population
Constitutional mismatch repair-deficiency syndrome: have we so far seen only the tip of an iceberg?
Gene structure and mutant alleles of PCDH15: nonsyndromic deafness DFNB23 and type 1 Usher syndrome
Network-based model weighting to detect multiple loci influencing complex diseases
Exploration of the utility of ancestry informative markers for genetic association studies of African Americans with type 2 diabetes and end stage renal disease
Somatic mosaicism for a PDHA1 mutation in a female with pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
A replication study confirmed the EDAR gene to be a major contributor to population differentiation regarding head hair thickness in Asia
Comprehensive resequence analysis of a 136 kb region of human chromosome 8q24 associated with prostate and colon cancers
Polymorphisms of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptor 2 gene are associated with obesity phenotypes among 405 Caucasian nuclear families
Genetic studies of African populations: an overview on disease susceptibility and response to vaccines and therapeutics
A new susceptibility locus for hypospadias on chromosome 7q32.2-q36.1
Exploration of the utility of ancestry informative markers for genetic association studies of African Americans with type 2 diabetes and end stage renal disease
Evolutionary dynamics of the human ABO gene
Reduced folate carrier 80A→G polymorphism, plasma folate, and risk of placental abruption
Replication of association between ELAVL4 and Parkinson disease: the GenePD study
Hereditary breast cancer: new genetic developments, new therapeutic avenues
Calbindin 1, fibroblast growth factor 20, and α-synuclein in sporadic Parkinson’s disease
A genome-wide exploration suggests an oligogenic model of inheritance for the TAFI activity and its antigen levels
Chromosomal map of human brain malformations
Evaluation of a SNP map of 6q24–27 confirms diabetic nephropathy loci and identifies novel associations in type 2 diabetes patients with nephropathy from an African-American population
Genetic variation in angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 gene is associated with extent of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Exploiting the proteome to improve the genome-wide genetic analysis of epistasis in common human diseases
The ACADS gene variation spectrum in 114 patients with short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) deficiency is dominated by missense variations leading to protein misfolding at the cellular level
Genetic studies of African populations: an overview on disease susceptibility and response to vaccines and therapeutics
Novel microdeletion syndromes detected by chromosome microarrays
KATP channel polymorphism is associated with left ventricular size in hypertensive individuals: a large-scale community-based study
Sensitivity of RECQL4-deficient fibroblasts from Rothmund–Thomson syndrome patients to genotoxic agents
Type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in the Ashkenazi Jewish population
Protein C rs2069912 C allele is associated with increased mortality from severe sepsis in North Americans of East Asian ancestry North Americans of East Asian ancestry
Fine-mapping the genetic basis of CRP regulation in African Americans: a Bayesian approach
Genome-wide association analysis with selective genotyping identifies candidate loci for adult height at 8q21.13 and 15q22.33-q23 in Mongolians
MAX-rank: a simple and robust genome-wide scan for case-control association studies
R. Lorini, M. Maghnie, G. D’Annunzio, S. Loche, M. O. Savage (eds) Congenital endocrinopathies: new insights into endocrine diseases and diabetes
A novel locus for split-hand/foot malformation associated with tibial hemimelia (SHFLD syndrome) maps to chromosome region 17p13.1–17p13.3
Investigation of the origins of human autosomal inversions
A novel association of a polymorphism in the first intron of adiponectin gene with type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypoadiponectinemia in Asian Indians Asian Indians
Novel human pathological mutations
Obituary: Professor Helmut Baitsch (1921–2007)
Novel mutations in G protein-coupled receptor gene (P2RY5) in families with autosomal recessive hypotrichosis (LAH3)
Hereditary pancreatitis caused by a double gain-of-function trypsinogen mutation
Identification of a genetic locus for autosomal dominant disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis on chromosome 1p31.3–p31.1
Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Vincent Macaulay and Martin Richards (Eds.): Human mitochondrial DNA and the evolution of Homo sapiens
Substance dependence low-density whole genome association study in two distinct American populations
Evidence for significant heritability of apoptotic and cell cycle responses to ionising radiation
Helen V. Firth and Jane A. Hurst, with advisory editor Judith G. Hall: Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics
IFNG +874T/A, IL10 -1082G/A and TNF -308G/A polymorphisms in association with tuberculosis susceptibility: a meta-analysis study
Jeremy W Dale and Malcolm von Schantz: From genes to genomes
Genome-wide screen for asthma in Puerto Ricans: evidence for association with 5q23 region
Refined mapping of X-linked reticulate pigmentary disorder and sequencing of candidate genes
L.A. Cannizzaro and K.H. Ramesh: Cancer genomics
15-Lipoxygenase gene variants are associated with carotid plaque but not carotid intima-media thickness
Polymorphisms in 9q32 and TSCOT are linked to cervical cancer in affected sib-pairs with high mean age at diagnosis
Genetic variants in the 8q24 locus and risk of testicular germ cell tumors
Chromosomal regions 22q13 and 3p25 may harbor quantitative trait loci influencing both age at menarche and bone mineral density
IL1B gene promoter haplotype pairs predict clinical levels of interleukin-1β and C-reactive protein
Common polymorphisms of ALOX5 and ALOX5AP and risk of coronary artery disease
The human gamma-glutamyltransferase gene family
A haplotype at chromosome Xq27.2 confers susceptibility to prostate cancer
A new mechanism of dominance in hypophosphatasia: the mutated protein can disturb the cell localization of the wild-type protein
Maternal cigarette smoking, metabolic gene polymorphisms, and preterm delivery: new insights on G×E interactions and pathogenic pathways
Pax6 3′ deletion results in aniridia, autism and mental retardation
Comprehensive evaluation of the estrogen receptor α gene reveals further evidence for association with type 2 diabetes enriched for nephropathy in an African American population African American
Evolutionary analysis of genes of two pathways involved in placental malaria infection
Investigating the association between K198N coding polymorphism in EDN1 and hypertension, lipoprotein levels, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease
Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome-associated chromosome changes are not mediated by olfactory receptor gene clusters nor by inversion polymorphism on 4p16
A genome-wide association scan for asthma in a general Australian population
An insertion/deletion polymorphism of the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) gene is associated with serum and red blood cell folate concentrations in women
W.A. Schultz: Molecular biology of human cancers. An advanced student’s textbook
Leprosy as a genetic model for susceptibility to common infectious diseases
Protein C -1641A/-1654C haplotype is associated with organ dysfunction and the fatal outcome of severe sepsis in Chinese Han population Chinese Han population
William Reardon: The Bedside Dysmorphologist
A new locus for otosclerosis, OTSC8, maps to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 9
Haplotypic analysis of Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium data
Novel human pathological mutations
Linkage to chromosome 2q36.1 in autosomal dominant Dandy-Walker malformation with occipital cephalocele and evidence for genetic heterogeneity
Identifying susceptibility loci for nicotine dependence: 2008 update based on recent genome-wide linkage analyses
Michael H. Crawford (ed): Anthropological genetics
Genetic variation in IGFBP2 and IGFBP5 is associated with breast cancer in populations of African descent populations of African descent
Exploring gene-environment interactions in Parkinson’s disease
Mortality risks in patients with constitutional autosomal chromosome deletions in Britain: a cohort study
The Environmental Polymorphisms Registry: a DNA resource to study genetic susceptibility loci
Congenital, low penetrance lymphedema of lower limbs maps to chromosome 6q16.2–q22.1 in an inbred Pakistani family
The MTHFR gene polymorphism is associated with lean body mass but not fat body mass
PGC-1α Thr394Thr and Gly482Ser variants are significantly associated with T2DM in two North Indian populations: a replicate case-control study
Interaction between the UCP2–866G/A, mtDNA 10398G/A and PGC1α p.Thr394Thr and p.Gly482Ser polymorphisms in type 2 diabetes susceptibility in North Indian population
Blue eye color in humans may be caused by a perfectly associated founder mutation in a regulatory element located within the HERC2 gene inhibiting OCA2 expression
Association of rare chymotrypsinogen C (CTRC) gene variations in patients with idiopathic chronic pancreatitis
Nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay of survival motor neuron 1 causes spinal muscular atrophy
Genetic variation in CYP17 and endometrial cancer risk
The Opitz syndrome gene product MID1 assembles a microtubule-associated ribonucleoprotein complex