As of 1 January 2025, the Journal of Medical Genetics (JMG) has become the official journal of the British Society for Genetic Medicine (BSGM), an exciting new partnership will strengthen the exchange ...
2 St John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 3 Department of Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK 4 The Robin Eady National ...
Neonatal haemochromatosis (NH) is a severe and newly recognised syndrome of uncertain aetiology, characterised by congenital cirrhosis or fulminant hepatitis and widespread tissue iron deposition. NH ...
Background Pathogenic gain-of-function or dominant-negative effect missense variations in ACTB are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by intellectual disability (ID), seizures ...
Correspondence to Professor Eva Brand, Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center Münster (IFAZ), University Hospital Münster, ...
A structural aberration (SA) with secondary implications (SASIs) involving a cancer susceptibility gene is identified on chromosome microarray in approximately 0.6% tests performed on index cases.
Background Routine genetic testing for germline pathogenic variants (GPVs) in cancer susceptibility genes (CSGs) in individuals with suspected hereditary cancer risk, and subsequent cascade testing in ...
Background Mitochondrial diseases are a group of rare, chronic disorders with a significant disease burden; however, there is limited knowledge about their effects on the health-related quality of ...
Hirschsprung disease (HSCR, aganglionic megacolon) is the main genetic cause of functional intestinal obstruction with an incidence of 1/5000 live births. This developmental disorder is a ...
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 ...
We report on the association of absent patellae, genital and renal anomalies, dysmorphic features, and mental retardation in seven children (six boys and one girl) belonging to five unrelated families ...
1 Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Background Nanophthalmos is a rare ocular condition characterised by a significantly short axial ...