As of 1 January 2025, the Journal of Medical Genetics (JMG) has become the official journal of the British Society for Genetic Medicine (BSGM), an exciting new partnership will strengthen the exchange ...
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 ...
a Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Creighton University School of Medicine, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA, b Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University, ...
Reproductive carrier screening for genetic disorders: position statement of the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists ...
Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a high-risk hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome affecting 1 in 5000 individuals. Current ...
Background Molecular genetic diagnoses are critical to prevention and treatment of inherited polyposis and colorectal cancer.
1 Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Background Nanophthalmos is a rare ocular condition characterised by a significantly short axial ...
Purpose Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common adult muscular dystrophy. Over 95% of FSHD cases are associated with contraction of the D4Z4 tandem repeat (~3.3 kb per unit) at 4q35 ...
Variations in new splicing regulatory elements are difficult to identify exclusively by sequence inspection and may result in deleterious effects on precursor (pre) mRNA splicing. These mutations can ...
3 Institute of Medical Genetics for Wales, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 4 Reproductive Biology and Genetics Group, University of Birmingham, The Medical School, ...
Pain perception is a vital protective mechanism.1 However, chronic pain, maladaptive and persistent, constitutes a major disease burden.2 Reliance on opioid analgesics is fraught with risks of ...
Department of Pathology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA ...