3 Department of Dermatology, KK Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 4 Genetics Service, KK Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore Background Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a ...

1 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) UMR_S933, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris 6; and Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital ...

Background The mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) 3243A>G variant is the most common pathogenic variant of the mDNA. To interpret results of clinical trials in mitochondrial disease, it is important to have a ...

The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) is one of the archetypical multiple congenital malformation syndromes. The recent discovery of the biochemical cause of SLOS and ...

1 Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, University of ...

Correspondence to Professor Zhiguang Zhou, Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Changsha 410011, China; zhouzhiguang{at}csu.edu.cn; Professor Zhiguo Xie, Department of ...

Using a test based on parent of origin specific DNA methylation at the D15S63 (PW71) locus, we studied 385 patients (aged 1 to 36 years) for diagnostic confirmation of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and ...

Correspondence to Dr Pei-Lan Zhang, Department of Neurology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Jinnanqu, Tianjin 300350, P.R. China; peilanzhng{at}sina.com and Dr Pedro Fernandez-Funez, Department of ...

New techniques of DNA analysis have been applied to the prenatal diagnosis of the common haemoglobin disorders. Currently, it is possible to provide a comprehensive programme for the prevention of ...

Background: A recent genetic study in mice and humans revealed the modulatory effect of MC1R (melanocortin-1 receptor) gene variants on κ-opioid receptor mediated analgesia. It is unclear whether this ...

Correspondence to Dr Xiao-Jie Lu, Department of General Surgery, Liver Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; 189{at}whu.edu.cn ...

1 The Congenital Anomalies Research Centre (CIAC), Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain 2 The CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)(Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases), ...