Purpose von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome-related renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most prevalent hereditary RCC and exhibits clinical heterogeneity, complicating patient management. While VHL gene ...
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to: Dr Anne Lampe Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, International ...
Background The multifactorial Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm (BOADICEA) breast cancer risk prediction model has been recently extended to consider ...
Background Genetic factors influencing lung function may predispose to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The fibroblast growth factor 10 (FGF10) signalling pathway is critical for lung ...
Background Large-scale mitochondrial DNA deletions (LMD) are a common genetic cause of mitochondrial disease and give rise to a wide range of clinical features. Lack of longitudinal data means the ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe X-linked myopathy characterised by progressive skeletal and cardiac muscle degeneration, loss of ambulation, respiratory failure and premature mortality.
Background Lowe syndrome (LS) is an X linked disease caused by pathogenic variants in the OCRL gene that impacts approximately 1 in 500 000 children. Classic features include congenital cataract, ...
Correspondence to Dr Yun Yuan, Department of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; yuanyun2002{at}126.com; Dr Sushan Luo, Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital Fudan ...
Correspondence to Dr Chantal Babb de Villiers, PHG Foundation, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; chantal.babbdevilliers{at}phgfoundation.org The use of genomic information to better ...
Background Pathogenicity predictors are integral to genomic variant interpretation but, despite their widespread usage, an independent validation of performance using a clinically relevant dataset has ...
Correspondence to Professor Jean-Michel Vallat, Department of Neurology, Centre de référence “Neuropathies périphériques rares”, University hospital, 2 Avenue Martin Luther King, Limoges 87042, France ...
4 Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5 Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 6 ...