Correspondence to: Dr S Mansour, South-West Thames Regional Genetic Service, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK; smansour{at}sghms.ac.uk Five patients ...
Correspondence to G Beunders, Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Reception D, De Boellelaan 1117, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands; g.beunders{at}vumc.nl ...
Background Current standard-of-care (SOC) methods for genetic testing are capable of resolving deletions and sequence variants, but they mostly fail to provide information on the breakpoints of ...
Background This study explores the ethical and moral challenges faced by paediatric oncologists when they are informed of patient genomic results, particularly during molecular tumour boards (MTBs), ...
Friedreich ataxia, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common of the inherited ataxias. The recent discovery of the gene that is mutated in this condition,FRDA, has led to ...
Background and aims Neurofibromatosis–Noonan syndrome (NFNS) is an extremely rare genetic entity combining the clinical phenotype of two conditions: neurofibromatosis type 1 syndrome (NF1) and Noonan ...
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 ...
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine, Guy’s Campus, London, UK Department of Gastroenterology, Guy’s and ...
Two sisters, the children of first cousin Pakistani Moslem parents, have unusual facies, tongue hamartomata, pre- and postaxial polydactyly, severe talipes, and mesomelic limb shortening associated ...
1 Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology and Universite catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 74+4, Brussels, Belgium 2 Centre for Human Genetics, ...
Background Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is an imprinting disorder characterised by prenatal and postnatal growth restriction, but its clinical features are non-specific and its differential diagnosis ...
Background: Psoriasis is a genetically complex, chronic inflammatory skin disease. The authors have previously identified a susceptibility locus on chromosome 19p13 (PSORS6). If you wish to reuse any ...