Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Department of Public Health, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. * Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, , Selma, Alabama ...

Background Current standard-of-care (SOC) methods for genetic testing are capable of resolving deletions and sequence variants, but they mostly fail to provide information on the breakpoints of ...

Background This study explores the ethical and moral challenges faced by paediatric oncologists when they are informed of patient genomic results, particularly during molecular tumour boards (MTBs), ...

Background and aims Neurofibromatosis–Noonan syndrome (NFNS) is an extremely rare genetic entity combining the clinical phenotype of two conditions: neurofibromatosis type 1 syndrome (NF1) and Noonan ...

A tandem duplication of exon 42 of the DMD gene is a likely benign variant ...

On the basis of the hypothesis that in the regions where favism is present a high correlation exists between endemic malaria and the frequency of G-6-PD deficiency, Huheey and Martin (1975) in a ...

Background The genomic contribution to adverse health sequelae in babies born very preterm (<32 weeks’ gestation) is unknown. We conducted an investigation of rare CNVs in infants born very preterm as ...

Correspondence to Dr Katharina Wimmer, Medical University of Innsbruck, Division of Human Genetics, Peter-Mayr-Strasse 1, Innsbruck 6020, Austria; katharina.wimmer{at}i-med.ac.at Due to the ...

1 Department of Visual Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 ...

Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) (MIM 119600) is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterised by abnormal clavicles, patent sutures and fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, short stature, and a ...

Background In 2019, the Australian life insurance industry introduced a partial moratorium (ban) limiting the use of genetic test results in life insurance underwriting. The moratorium is industry ...

DiGeorge syndrome (DGS) comprises thymic hypoplasia, hypocalcaemia, outflow tract defects of the heart, and dysmorphic facies. It results in almost all cases from a deletion within chromosome 22q11.