The majority of deletions of the short arm of chromosome 5 are associated with cri du chat syndrome (CdCS) and patients show phenotypic and cytogenetic variability. To perform a genotype-phenotype ...

Background Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells engineered with lentiviral and retroviral vectors have been successfully applied to treat patients with B cell malignancy. However, viral ...

Background Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1 (FSHD1) is an autosomal dominant muscular disorder mainly caused by the contraction and hypomethylation of the D4Z4 repeat array in chromosome 4q35.

Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is a rare autosomal disorder, primarily characterised in adults by cutaneous features, pulmonary cysts that predispose to spontaneous pneumothorax and renal tumours. The ...

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 ...

Six at Sixty. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours in NF1: 20-year review of a highly cited paper (4 November, 2024) Free ...

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Correspondence to Dr Louis C S Tan, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore ; louis_tan{at}nni.com.sg and Dr Eng-King Tan, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience ...

Correspondence to Dr Volker M Lauschke, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE-171, Sweden; volker.lauschke{at}ki.se Background ...

Correspondence to M Alriyami, Department of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, 1001 boul Decarie, Site Glen Pavilion E/ Block E, Mail Drop Point #EM0.3211 ...

We report the molecular characterisation of two families with Angelman syndrome referred for prenatal diagnosis, in which atypical molecular findings resulted in counselling dilemmas. The first is a ...

1 Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 3 Department of ...