Background: Deletions of chromosome 19 have rarely been reported, with the exception of some patients with deletion 19q13.2 and Blackfan–Diamond syndrome due to haploinsufficiency of the RPS19 gene.

The veracity of the estimates in our study was corroborated by a whole population epidemiological study of NF1 in Finland (population 5.5M).5 A total of 58 MPNST were observed from 1987 to 2012, ...

Background: Microdeletions at 17q21.31 have recently been shown to cause a novel syndrome. Here we identify the reciprocal 17q21.31 duplication syndrome in 4 patients. Method: Patients with the ...

4 The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus Correspondence to Dr Peristera Paschou, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; ...

Introduction TMEM16A is a calcium-activated chloride channel expressed in various secretory epithelia. Two siblings presented in early infancy with reduced intestinal peristalsis and recurrent ...

1 Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, ...

7 INSERM U621, IFR 14, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France 8 Laboratoire de génétique et insuffisance cardiaque, Association Claude Bernard, IFR 14, Groupe Hospitalier ...

1 Molecular Medicine Unit, University of Leeds, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Clinical Genetics, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK Aicardi-Goutiéres syndrome (AGS) ...

1 Centre for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Rd, Woolloongabba, Qld 4102, Australia 2 The Queensland Institute of ...

Correspondence to Dr William D Foulkes, Department of Medical Genetics, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada; william.foulkes{at}mcgill.ca Non-epithelial ovarian tumours ...

Correspondence to: Professor Kate Bushby Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK; ...

Canadian College of Medical Geneticists: clinical practice advisory document – responsibility to recontact for reinterpretation of clinical genetic testing ...