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We analysed rare variants in the non-coding RNU4-2 gene as a potential cause of neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) and intellectual disability (ID) in a large cohort of individuals enriched for ...
Background Positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) is widely used to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Emerging evidence suggests genetic arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies (ACMs) may similarly present ...
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Background Despite well-established criteria for genetic testing to rule out hereditary cancer syndromes (HCSs), most pathogenic variant (PV) carriers are not being tested. Thus, mechanisms that allow ...
This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...
Background PALB2 is the most important contributor to familial breast cancer after BRCA1 and BRCA2 . Large genomic rearrangements (LGRs) in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are routinely assessed in clinical testing ...
Department of Pathology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA ...
Wilms tumour has been reported in association with over 50 different clinical conditions and several abnormal constitutional karyotypes. Conclusive evidence of an increased risk of Wilms tumour exists ...
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes; also known as “squint”) comprises a common heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by a constant or intermittent ocular deviation often associated with ...
Correspondence to Professor Eva Brand, Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center Münster (IFAZ), University Hospital Münster, ...
1 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Paediatrics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, ...
Correspondence to Dr Hywel J Williams, GOSgene, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK; hywel.williams{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Rare ...