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Clin Genet ; 92(3): 338-341, 2017 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28155235

ABSTRACT

The Danish Huntington's Disease Registry (DHR) is a nationwide family registry comprising 14 245 individuals from 445 Huntington's disease (HD) families of which the largest family includes 845 individuals in 8 generations. 1136 DNA and/or blood samples and 18 fibroblast cultures are stored in a local biobank. The birthplace of the oldest HD carrier in each of the 261 families of Danish origin was unevenly distributed across Denmark with a high number of families in the middle part of the peninsula Jutland and in Copenhagen, the capital. The prevalence of HD in Denmark was calculated to be 5-8:100 000. 1451 individuals in the DHR had the size of the HTT CAG repeat determined of which 975 had 36 CAG repeats or more (mean ± SD: 43,5 ± 4,8). Two unrelated individuals were compound heterozygous for alleles ≥36 CAGs, and 60 individuals from 34 independent families carried an intermediate allele.


Subject(s)
Huntington Disease/epidemiology , Age Factors , Alleles , Biological Specimen Banks , Denmark/epidemiology , Family , Female , Geography, Medical , Humans , Huntingtin Protein/genetics , Huntington Disease/diagnosis , Huntington Disease/genetics , Male , Registries , Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion , Trinucleotide Repeats
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J Med Genet ; 45(11): 738-44, 2008 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18728071

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Haploinsufficiency of the gene encoding for transcription factor 4 (TCF4) was recently identified as the underlying cause of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PTHS), an underdiagnosed mental-retardation syndrome characterised by a distinct facial gestalt, breathing anomalies and severe mental retardation. METHODS: TCF4 mutational analysis was performed in 117 patients with PTHS-like features. RESULTS: In total, 16 novel mutations were identified. All of these proven patients were severely mentally retarded and showed a distinct facial gestalt. In addition, 56% had breathing anomalies, 56% had microcephaly, 38% had seizures and 44% had MRI anomalies. CONCLUSION: This study provides further evidence of the mutational and clinical spectrum of PTHS and confirms its important role in the differential diagnosis of severe mental retardation.


Subject(s)
Apnea , DNA Mutational Analysis , DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , Face/abnormalities , Hyperventilation , Intellectual Disability/genetics , Transcription Factors/genetics , Adolescent , Apnea/diagnosis , Apnea/genetics , Apnea/pathology , Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors , Child , Child, Preschool , Face/pathology , Female , Genotype , Humans , Hyperventilation/diagnosis , Hyperventilation/genetics , Hyperventilation/pathology , Infant , Intellectual Disability/diagnosis , Intellectual Disability/pathology , Male , Microcephaly , Phenotype , Syndrome , Transcription Factor 4 , Young Adult
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Hum Genet ; 120(2): 262-9, 2006 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16816970

ABSTRACT

The expression of imprinted genes is mediated by allele-specific epigenetic modification of genomic DNA and chromatin, including parent of origin-specific DNA methylation. Dysregulation of these genes causes a range of disorders affecting pre- and post-natal growth and neurological function. We investigated a cohort of 12 patients with transient neonatal diabetes whose disease was caused by loss of maternal methylation at the TNDM locus. We found that six of these patients showed a spectrum of methylation loss, mosaic with respect to the extent of the methylation loss, the tissues affected and the genetic loci involved. Five maternally methylated loci were affected, while one maternally methylated and two paternally methylated loci were spared. These patients had higher birth weight and were more phenotypically diverse than other TNDM patients with different aetiologies, presumably reflecting the influence of dysregulation of multiple imprinted genes. We propose the existence of a maternal hypomethylation syndrome, and therefore suggest that any patient with methylation loss at one maternally-methylated locus may also manifest methylation loss at other loci, potentially complicating or even confounding the clinical presentation.


Subject(s)
DNA Methylation , Diabetes Mellitus/genetics , Genomic Imprinting , Birth Weight , Case-Control Studies , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6 , Cohort Studies , Fathers , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Mothers
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Hum Genet ; 119(1-2): 179-84, 2006 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16402210

ABSTRACT

Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus (TNDM) is characterised by intra-uterine growth retardation, while Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a clinically heterogeneous overgrowth syndrome. Both TNDM and BWS may be caused by aberrant loss of methylation (LOM) at imprinted loci on chromosomes 6q24 and 11p15.5 respectively. Here we describe two patients with a clinical diagnosis of TNDM caused by LOM at the maternally methylated imprinted domain on 6q24; in addition, these patients had LOM at the centromeric differentially methylated region of 11p15.5. This shows that imprinting anomalies can affect more than one imprinted locus and may alter the clinical presentation of imprinted disease.


Subject(s)
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome/genetics , Centromere/genetics , Diabetes Mellitus/genetics , Epigenesis, Genetic , Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome/pathology , Birth Weight/genetics , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6 , DNA Methylation , Diabetes Mellitus/pathology , Genomic Imprinting , Genotype , Humans , Infant, Newborn
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Am J Med Genet A ; 132A(3): 324-8, 2005 Jan 30.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15690381

ABSTRACT

Basal cell nevus syndrome (Gorlin syndrome) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the presence of multiple basal cell carcinomas (BCC), odontogenic keratocysts, palmoplantar pits, and calcification in the falx cerebri caused by mutational inactivation of the PTCH gene. In few cases, the syndrome is due to a microdeletion at 9q22. Using high-resolution chromosome analysis we have identified a patient with the karyotype, 46,XY,del(9)(q21.3q31) de novo. He had typical clinical features consistent with basal cell nevus syndrome, but also additional features likely to be caused by loss of additional chromosomal material in this region. The deletion breakpoints were characterized with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis using BAC clones. The 15 Mb long deletion includes 87 RefSeq genes including PTCH. Hemizygosity of one or more genes might contribute to the additional symptoms observed in this patient.


Subject(s)
Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome/genetics , Chromosome Deletion , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/genetics , Adult , Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome/pathology , Humans , In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence , Karyotyping , Male
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