Background Improving the precision and accuracy of variant classification in clinical genetic testing requires further specification and stratification of the American College of Medical ...
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 ...
1 Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ, UK 2 Department of Dermatology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle ...
2 North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Harrow, UK This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the ...
Correspondence to Dr Robert J Desnick, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Fifth Avenue and 100th Street, Box 1498, New York, NY 10029, USA; ...
1 Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the ...
Background Autosomal dominant (AD) inheritance often arises through haploinsufficiency, dominant-negative or gain of function (GoF) effects, while autosomal recessive (AR) inheritance generally ...
DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) comprises thymic hypoplasia, hypocalcaemia, outflow tract defects of the heart, and dysmorphic facies. It results in almost all cases from a deletion within chromosome 22q11.
The ectodermal dysplasias (EDs) are a large and complex nosological group of diseases, first described by Thurnam in 1848. In the last 10 years more than 170 different pathological clinical conditions ...
1 Merseyside and Cheshire Clinical Genetics Service, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Alder Hey, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK 2 Merseyside and Cheshire Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ...