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Family history of breast cancer as a determinant of the risk of developing endometrial cancer: a nationwide cohort study
1 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Room 7022, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA 2 Department ...
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Congenital urinary tract anomalies are a variable finding associated with nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
Introduction Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder classically associated with multiple basal cell carcinomas, odontogenic keratocysts and skeletal ...
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Cystic fibrosis carrier screening in Australia: comparing sequencing and targeted panels across diverse ancestries
Background Targeted cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier screening panels may lack sensitivity in non-European ancestry groups. This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity of various panels in Australian CF ...
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Original research: National survey on the prevalence of single-gene aetiologies for genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in Italy (28 November, 2024) ...
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Detection of cryptic balanced chromosomal rearrangements using high-resolution optical genome mapping
3 NHC Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing Population and Family Planning, Science and Technology ...
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Digenic inheritance in medical genetics
Digenic inheritance (DI) is the simplest form of inheritance for genetically complex diseases. By contrast with the thousands of reports that mutations in single genes cause human diseases, there are ...
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Fetal akinesia: review of the genetics of the neuromuscular causes
3 Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia ...
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Clinical exome sequencing as the first-tier test for diagnosing developmental disorders covering both CNV and SNV: a Chinese cohort
1 Center for Molecular Medicine of Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Yulan Lu, Children's Hospital & ...
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Mutations in the mitochondrial complex I assembly factor NDUFAF1 cause fatal infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently fatal in infancy. Mitochondrial disease causing infantile HCM is characterised by extreme biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, but ...
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Hypomethylation of a centromeric block of ICR1 is sufficient to cause Silver-Russell syndrome
Correspondence to Dr Hidenobu Soejima, Division of Molecular Genetics & Epigenetics, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga 849-8501, Japan; soejimah{at}cc.saga ...
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Infantile cardiomyopathy caused by a mutation in the overlapping region of mitochondrial ATPase 6 and 8 genes
Background: Infantile cardiomyopathy is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with significant morbidity and mortality. Methods: This study aimed to identify the mutation present in four unrelated ...
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Improving the clinical interpretation of missense variants in X linked genes using structural analysis
Background Improving the clinical interpretation of missense variants can increase the diagnostic yield of genomic testing and lead to personalised management strategies. Currently, due to the ...