6 天之前 · Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments.Articles cover the molecular basis of human disease including germline cancer genetics, clinical manifestations of genetic disorders, applications of molecular genetics to medical practice and the systematic ...

We begin 2025 by looking back at the contribution of Charis Eng, a distinguished cancer geneticist and former North American editor of the Journal of Medical Genetics ( JMG ). In this issue, readers will find an obituary written by former coeditors and colleagues.1 In addition, the second invited commentary in our Six at Sixty series2 focuses on a paper coauthored by Charis Eng and published ...

In 2005, the genetic aetiology of autism was considered elusive. Occasionally individuals with overgrowth disorders and hamartomas including Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba and Proteus or Proteus-like and/or cancer such as Cowden syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder with a high risk of breast, thyroid and endometrial cancer, were noted to have neuro-behavioural features resembling autism ...

AKT1 -related Proteus syndrome is an ultra-rare mosaic overgrowth disorder with tumour predisposition. We conducted a systematic review to determine the range and characteristics of these tumours. A systematic review was conducted to identify clinical reports and clinical series of Proteus syndrome published between 1983 and 2023. Affected individuals were selected based on existing Proteus ...

Joubert syndrome (JS) is an inherited neurodevelopmental ciliopathy with wide clinical and genetic heterogeneity, whose paradigmatic sign is a peculiar cerebellar and brainstem malformation known as the ‘molar tooth sign’. Recessive pathogenic variants in the HYLS1 gene are associated with hydrolethalus syndrome (HLS), a severe disorder characterised by multiple developmental defects ...

Background Pathogenic variants in TGFB3 may lead to a syndromic genetic aortopathy. Heritable thoracic aortic disease (HTAD) and arterial events may occur in TGFB3 -related disease but there are limited outcomes data on vascular events in this condition. Methods Clinical data, phenotypical features and aortic outcomes in individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) TGFB3 variants ...

Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments. Articles cover the molecular basis of human disease including: germline cancer genetics; clinical manifestations of genetic disorders; applications of molecular …

Inbreeding has been shown in almost all species to be associated with impairment of function because of homozygosity of recessive alleles. This occurs across a wide range of traits and suggests a large number of deleterious alleles in the human genome. This has been predicted from the reduced early survival of offspring in first cousin marriages and from similar results in other organisms.1 ...

Lacombe D, etfial. Med Genet 2024;61:503–519. doi:10.1136/jmg-2023-109438 503 Original research Diagnosis and management in Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome: first ...

Background Pathogenic variants in the DMD gene are associated with dystrophinopathy including Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD). Targeted DMD gene, gene panels, exomes and genome sequencing have advanced genetic diagnostics, yet some cases remain elusive. Methods We performed total RNA sequencing (RNAseq) on muscle biopsy from 13 male patients with a clinical diagnosis of DMD/BMD.