Background Irish Travellers are an endogamous, nomadic, ethnic minority population mostly resident on the island of Ireland with smaller populations in Europe and the USA. High levels of consanguinity ...

A patient with a 46,XY chromosome constitution showed the following main characteristics: eunuchoidal body habitus, lack of secondary sexual development, normal female external genitalia with absence ...

In order to describe the neurological abnormalities and to identify the gene localisation, we re-evaluated a previously reported family with X linked mental retardation (XLMR). Reliable data were ...

Introduction The clinical phenotype of the chromosome 2q31 deletion syndrome consists of limb anomalies ranging from monodactylous ectrodactyly, brachydactyly and syndactyly to camptodactyly.

Background Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare inherited bone marrow failure disease caused by germline pathogenic variants in any of the 22 genes involved in the FA-DNA interstrand crosslink (ICL) repair ...

Objective: To investigate the frequency of neonatal and later childhood morbidity in children exposed to antiepileptic drugs in utero. Design: Retrospective population based study. Setting: Population ...

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 ...

Short stature, brachydactyly and joint contractures associated with novel FBN2 variants in two families ...

Background CCDC39 and CCDC40 genes have recently been implicated in primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) with inner dynein arm (IDA) defects and axonemal disorganisation; their contribution to the disease ...

The interleukin (IL)-1 gene cluster within chromosome 2 contains genes coding for both anti- and proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-1Ra, and several novel cytokines ...

Mutations in the gene for fibrillin-1 ( FBN1 ) have been shown to cause Marfan syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder of connective tissue characterised by pleiotropic manifestations involving ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common and serious neurological disorders, with up to 60 million people affected worldwide.1 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a common familial form that accounts for 5 ...