• Mutations In Ripk4 Cause The Autosomal-Recessive Form Of Popliteal Pterygium Syndrome 

      Kalay, Ersan; Sezgin, Orhan; Chellappa, Vasant; Mutlu, Mehmet; Morsy, Heba; Kayserili, Hulya; Kreiger, Elmar; Cansu, Aysegul; Toraman, Bayram; Abdalla, Ebtesam Mohammed; Aslan, Yakup; Pillai, Shiv; Akarsu, Nurten A. (Cell Press, 2012)
      The autosomal-recessive form of popliteal pterygium syndrome, also known as Bartsocas-Papas syndrome, is a rare, but frequently lethal disorder characterized by marked popliteal pterygium associated with multiple congenital ...
    • Mutations In Signal Recognition Particle Srp54 Cause Syndromic Neutropenia With Shwachman-Diamond-Like Features 

      Carapito, Raphael; Konantz, Martina; Paillard, Catherine; Miao, Zhichao; Pichot, Angelique; Leduc, Magalie S.; Yang, Yaping; Bergstrom, Katie L.; Mahoney, Donald H.; Shardy, Deborah L.; Alsaleh, Ghada; Naegely, Lydie; Kolmer, Aline; Paul, Nicodeme; Hanauer, Antoine; Rolli, Veronique; Mueller, Joelle S.; Alghisi, Elisa; Sauteur, Loic; Macquin, Cecile; Morlon, Aurore; Sancho, Consuelo Sebastia; Amati-Bonneau, Patrizia; Procaccio, Vincent; Mosca-Boidron, Anne-Laure; Marle, Nathalie; Osmani, Nael; Lefebvre, Olivier; Goetz, Jacky G.; Unal, Sule; Akarsu, Nurten A.; Radosavljevic, Mirjana; Chenard, Marie-Pierre; Rialland, Fanny; Grain, Audrey; Bene, Marie-Christine; Eveillard, Marion; Vincent, Marie; Guy, Julien; Faivre, Laurence; Thauvin-Robinet, Christel; Thevenon, Julien; Myers, Kasiani; Fleming, Mark D.; Shimamura, Akiko; Bottollier-Lemallaz, Elodie; Westhof, Eric; Lengerke, Claudia; Isidor, Bertrand; Bahram, Seiamak (Amer Soc Clinical Investigation Inc, 2017)
      Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) (OMIM # 260400) is a rare inherited bone marrow failure syndrome (IBMFS) that is primarily characterized by neutropenia and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Seventy-five to ninety percent ...
    • Mutations In Slc34A2 Cause Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis And Are Possibly Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis 

      Corut, Ayse; Senyigit, Abdurrahman; Ugur, Sibel Aylin; Altin, Sedat; Ozcelik, Ugur; Calisir, Haluk; Yildirim, Zeki; Gocmen, Ayhan; Tolun, Aslihan (Cell Press, 2006)
      Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare disease characterized by the deposition of calcium phosphate microliths throughout the lungs. We first identified a PAM locus by homozygosity mapping to 4p15, then identified, ...
    • Mutations In Stat3 And Diagnostic Guidelines For Hyper-Ige Syndrome 

      Woellner, Cristina; Gertz, E. Michael; Schaeffer, Alejandro A.; Lagos, Macarena; Perro, Mario; Glocker, Erik-Oliver; Pietrogrande, Maria C.; Cossu, Fausto; Franco, Josee L.; Matamoros, Nuria; Pietrucha, Barbara; Heropolitanska-Pliszka, Edyta; Yeganeh, Mehdi; Moin, Mostafa; Espanol, Teresa; Ehl, Stephan; Gennery, Andrew R.; Abinun, Mario; Breborowicz, Anna; Niehues, Tim; Kilic, Sara Sebnem; Junker, Anne; Turvey, Stuart E.; Plebani, Alessandro; Sanchez, Berta; Garty, Ben-Zion; Pignata, Claudio; Cancrini, Caterina; Litzman, Jiri; Sanal, Oezden; Baumann, Ulrich; Bacchetta, Rosa; Hsu, Amy P.; Davis, Joie N.; Hammarstroem, Lennart; Davies, E. Graham; Eren, Efrem; Arkwright, Peter D.; Moilanen, Jukka S.; Viemann, Dorothee; Khan, Sujoy; Laszlo Marodi; Cant, Andrew J.; Freeman, Alexandra F.; Puck, Jennifer M.; Holland, Steven M.; Grimbacher, Bodo (Mosby-Elsevier, 2010)
      Background: The hyper-IgE syndrome (HIES) is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by infections of the lung and skin, elevated serum IgE, and involvement of the soft and bony tissues. Recently, HIES has been associated ...
    • Mutations In Stat3 And Il12Rb1 Impair The Development Of Human Il-17–Producing T Cells 

      de Beaucoudrey, Ludovic; Puel, Anne; Filipe-Santos, Orchidée; Cobat, Aurélie; Ghandil, Pegah; Chrabieh, Maya; Feinberg, Jacqueline; von Bernuth, Horst; Samarina, Arina; Jannière, Lucile; Fieschi, Claire; Stéphan, Jean-Louis; Boileau, Catherine; Lyonnet, Stanislas; Jondeau, Guillaume; Cormier-Daire, Valérie; Le Merrer, Martine; Hoarau, Cyrille; Lebranchu, Yvon; Lortholary, Olivier; Chandesris, Marie-Olivia; Tron, François; Gambineri, Eleonora; Bianchi, Lucia; Rodriguez-Gallego, Carlos; Zitnik, Simona E.; Vasconcelos, Julia; Guedes, Margarida; Vitor, Artur Bonito; Marodi, Laszlo; Chapel, Helen; Reid, Brenda; Roifman, Chaim; Nadal, David; Reichenbach, Janine; Caragol, Isabel; Garty, Ben-Zion; Dogu, Figen; Camcioglu, Yildiz; Gülle, Sanyie; Sanal, Ozden; Fischer, Alain; Abel, Laurent; Stockinger, Birgitta; Picard, Capucine; Casanova, Jean-Laurent (2008)
      The cytokines controlling the development of human interleukin (IL) 17–producing T helper cells in vitro have been difficult to identify. We addressed the question of the development of human IL-17–producing T helper cells ...
    • Mutations In The Chloride-Bicarbonate Exchanger Gene Ae1 Cause Autosomal Dominant But Not Autosomal Recessive Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis 

      Karet, FE; Gainza, FJ; Gyory, AZ; Unwin, RJ; Wrong, O; Tanner, MJA; Nayir, A; Alpay, H; Santos, F; Hulton, SA; Bakkaloglu, A; Ozen, Seza; Cunningham, MJ; di Pietro, A; Walker, WG; Lifton, RP (Natl Acad Sciences, 1998)
      Primary distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is characterized by reduced ability to acidify urine, variable hyperchloremic hypokalemic metabolic acidosis, nephrocalcinosis, and nephrolithiasis. Kindreds showing either ...
    • Mutations In The Gene Encoding Capillary Morphogenesis Protein 2 Cause Juvenile Hyaline Fibromatosis And Infantile Systemic Hyalinosis 

      Hanks, S; Adams, S; Douglas, J; Arbour, L; Atherton, DJ; Balci, S; Bode, H; Campbell, ME; Feingold, M; Keser, G; Kleijer, W; Mancini, G; McGrath, JA; Muntoni, F; Nanda, A; Teare, MD; Warman, M; Pope, FM; Superti-Furga, A; Futreal, PA; Rahman, N (Univ Chicago Press, 2003)
      Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis (JHF) and infantile systemic hyalinosis (ISH) are autosomal recessive conditions characterized by multiple subcutaneous skin nodules, gingival hypertrophy, joint contractures, and hyaline ...
    • Mutations In The Gene Encoding Gap Junction Protein Alpha 12 (Connexin 46.6) Cause Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-Like Disease 

      Uhlenberg, B; Schuelke, M; Ruschendorf, F; Ruf, N; Kaindl, AM; Henneke, M; Thiele, H; Stoltenburg-Didinger, G; Aksu, F; Topaloglu, H; Nurnberg, P; Hubner, C; Weschke, B; Gartner, J (Cell Press, 2004)
      The hypomyelinating leukodystrophies X-linked Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher like disease (PMLD) are characterized by nystagmus, progressive spasticity, and ataxia. In a consanguineous family ...
    • Mutations In The Gene Encoding The Rer Protein Fkbp65 Cause Autosomal-Recessive Osteogenesis Imperfecta 

      Alanay, Yasemin; Avaygan, Hrispima; Camacho, Natalia; Utine, G. Eda; Boduroglu, Koray; Aktas, Dilek; Alikasifoglu, Mehmet; Tuncbilek, Ergul; Orhan, Diclehan; Bakar, Filiz Tiker; Zabel, Bernard; Superti-Furga, Andrea; Bruckner-Tuderman, Leena; Curry, Cindy J. R.; Pyott, Shawna; Byers, Peter H.; Eyre, David R.; Baldridge, Dustin; Lee, Brendan; Merrill, Amy E.; Davis, Elaine C.; Cohn, Daniel H.; Akarsu, Nurten; Krakow, Deborah (Cell Press, 2010)
      Osteogenesis imperfecta is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous brittle bone disorder that results from defects in the synthesis, structure, or posttranslational modification of type I procollagen. Dominant forms of ...
    • Mutations In The Tgf Beta Binding-Protein-Like Domain 5 Of Fbn1 Are Responsible For Acromicric And Geleophysic Dysplasias 

      Le Goff, Carine; Mahaut, Clementine; Wang, Lauren W.; Allali, Slimane; Abhyankar, Avinash; Jensen, Sacha; Zylberberg, Louise; Collod-Beroud, Gwenaelle; Bonnet, Damien; Alanay, Yasemin; Brady, Angela. F.; Cordier, Marie-Pierre; Devriendt, Koen; Genevieve, David; Kiper, Pelin Ozlem Simsek; Kitoh, Hiroshi; Krakow, Deborah; Lynch, Sally Ann; Le Merrer, Martine; Megarbane, Andre; Mortier, Geert; Odent, Sylvie; Polak, Michel; Rohrbach, Marianne; Sillence, David; Stolte-Dijkstra, Irene; Superti-Furga, Andrea; Rimoin, David L.; Topouchian, Vicken; Unger, Sheila; Zabel, Bernhard; Bole-Feysot, Christine; Nitschke, Patrick; Handford, Penny; Casanova, Jean-Laurent; Boileau, Catherine; Apte, Suneel S.; Munnich, Arnold; Cormier-Dairel, Valerie (Cell Press, 2011)
      Geleophysic (GD) and acromicric dysplasia (AD) belong to the acromelic dysplasia group and are both characterized by severe short stature, short extremities, and stiff joints. Although All has an unknown molecular basis, ...
    • Mutations In The Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor Vldlr Cause Cerebellar Hypoplasia And Quadrupedal Locomotion In Humans 

      Ozcelik, Tayfun; Akarsu, Nurten; Uz, Elif; Caglayan, Safak; Gulsuner, Suleyman; Onat, Onur Emre; Tan, Meliha; Tan, Uner (Natl Acad Sciences, 2008)
      Quadrupedal gait in humans, also known as Unertan syndrome, is a rare phenotype associated with dysarthric speech, mental retardation, and varying degrees of cerebrocerebellar hypoplasia. Four large consanguineous kindreds ...
    • Mutations In The Wilms' Tumor 1 Gene Cause Isolated Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome And Occur In Exons 8 And 9 

      Mucha, B; Ozaltin, F; Hinkes, BG; Hasselbacher, K; Ruf, RG; Schultheiss, M; Hangan, D; Hoskins, BE; Everding, AS; Bogdanovic, R; Seeman, T; Hoppe, B; Hildebrandt, F (Nature Publishing Group, 2006)
      Primary steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) is characterized by childhood onset of proteinuria and progression to end-stage renal disease. Approximately 10-25% of familial and sporadic cases are caused by mutations ...
    • Mutations In Vipar Cause An Arthrogryposis, Renal Dysfunction And Cholestasis Syndrome Phenotype With Defects In Epithelial Polarization 

      Cullinane, Andrew R.; Straatman-Iwanowska, Anna; Zaucker, Andreas; Wakabayashi, Yoshiyuki; Bruce, Christopher K.; Luo, Guanmei; Rahman, Fatimah; Gurakan, Figen; Utine, Eda; Ozkan, Tanju B.; Denecke, Jonas; Vukovic, Jurica; Di Rocco, Maja; Mandel, Hanna; Cangul, Hakan; Matthews, Randolph P.; Thomas, Steve G.; Rappoport, Joshua Z.; Arias, Irwin M.; Wolburg, Hartwig; Knisely, A. S.; Kelly, Deirdre A.; Mueller, Ferenc; Maher, Eamonn R.; Gissen, Paul (Nature Publishing Group, 2010)
      Arthrogryposis, renal dysfunction and cholestasis syndrome (ARC) is a multisystem disorder associated with abnormalities in polarized liver and kidney cells. Mutations in VPS33B account for most cases of ARC. We identified ...
    • Mutations In Wdr62, Encoding A Centrosome-Associated Protein, Cause Microcephaly With Simplified Gyri And Abnormal Cortical Architecture 

      Yu, Timothy W.; Mochida, Ganeshwaran H.; Tischfield, David J.; Sgaier, Sema K.; Flores-Sarnat, Laura; Sergi, Consolato M.; Topçu, Meral; McDonald, Marie T.; Barry, Brenda J.; Felie, Jillian; Sunu, Christine; Dobyns, William B.; Folkerth, Rebecca D.; Barkovich, A. James; Walsh, Christopher A. (2010)
      Genes associated with human microcephaly, a condition characterized by a small brain, include critical regulators of proliferation, cell fate, and DNA repair. We describe a syndrome of congenital microcephaly and diverse ...
    • Mycobacterial Disease And Impaired Ifn-Gamma Immunity In Humans With Inherited Isg15 Deficiency 

      Bogunovic, Dusan; Byun, Minji; Durfee, Larissa A.; Abhyankar, Avinash; Sanal, Ozden; Mansouri, Davood; Salem, Sandra; Radovanovic, Irena; Grant, Audrey V.; Adimi, Parisa; Mansouri, Nahal; Okada, Satoshi; Bryant, Vanessa L.; Kong, Xiao-Fei; Kreins, Alexandra; Velez, Marcela Moncada; Boisson, Bertrand; Khalilzadeh, Soheila; Ozcelik, Ugur; Darazam, Ilad Alavi; Schoggins, John W.; Rice, Charles M.; Al-Muhsen, Saleh; Behr, Marcel; Vogt, Guillaume; Puel, Anne; Bustamante, Jacinta; Gros, Philippe; Huibregtse, Jon M.; Abel, Laurent; Boisson-Dupuis, Stephanie; Casanova, Jean-Laurent (Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2012)
      ISG15 is an interferon (IFN)-alpha/beta-inducible, ubiquitin-like intracellular protein. Its conjugation to various proteins (ISGylation) contributes to antiviral immunity in mice. Here, we describe human patients with ...
    • Myeloprotective Effect Of Short-Course High-Dose Methylprednisolone Treatment Before Consolidation Therapy In Children With Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia 

      Aytac-Elmas, S; Cetin, M; Tuncer, M; Hicsonmez, G (Wiley, 2005)
      In our previous studies, short-course high-dose methylprednisolone (HDMP) has been shown to shorten the chemotherapy-induced neutropenic period by stimulating the CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cells in children with ...
    • Myo1E Mutations And Childhood Familial Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis 

      Mele, Caterina; Iatropoulos, Paraskevas; Donadelli, Roberta; Calabria, Andrea; Maranta, Ramona; Cassis, Paola; Buelli, Simona; Tomasoni, Susanna; Piras, Rossella; Krendel, Mira; Bettoni, Serena; Morigi, Marina; Delledonne, Massimo; Pecoraro, Carmine; Abbate, Isabella; Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria; Hildebrandt, Friedhelm; Otto, Edgar; Schaefer, Franz; Macciardi, Fabio; Ozaltin, Fatih; Emre, Sevinc; Ibsirlioglu, Tulin; Benigni, Ariela; Remuzzi, Giuseppe; Noris, Marina (Massachusetts Medical Soc, 2011)
      BACKGROUND Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is a kidney disease that is manifested as the nephrotic syndrome. It is often resistant to glucocorticoid therapy and progresses to end-stage renal disease in 50 to 70% of ...
    • Myocardial Infarction And Deep Venous Thrombosis In A Young Patient With Behcet Disease 

      Calguneri, M; Aydemir, K; Ozturk, MA; Haznedaroglu, IC; Kiraz, S; Ertenli, I (Sage Publications Inc, 2006)
      Behcet disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing systemic vasculitic disorder affecting the arteries, veins, and vessels of any size. Vascular lesions in BD usually represent an occlusive nature suggesting a hypercoagulable/ ...
    • Myocarditis Associated With Influenza Infection In Five Children 

      Aykac, Kubra; Ozsurekci, Yasemin; Kahyaoglu, Pinar; Basaranoglu, Sevgen T.; Ertugrul, Ilker; Alp, Alpaslan; Cengiz, Ali B.; Kara, Ates; Ceyhan, Mehmet (Elsevier Science London, 2018)
      Background: Myocarditis is an inflammatory condition located mainly in the myocardium. It is caused by a variety of bacterial and viral infections. Influenza is one of the most common relevant viruses that cause myocarditis. ...
    • Myophosphorylase (Pygm) Mutations Determined By Next Generation Sequencing In A Cohort From Turkey With Mcardle Disease 

      Inal-Gultekin, Guldal; Toptas-Hekimoglu, Bahar; Gormez, Zeliha; Gelisin, Ozlem; Durmus, Hacer; Erguner, Bekir; Demirci, Huseyin; Sagiroglu, Mahmut S.; Parman, Yesim; Deymeer, Feza; Yilmaz-Aydogan, Hulya; Pence, Sadrettin; Bekircan-Kurt, Can Ebru; Tan, Ersin; Erdem-Ozdamar, Sevim; Ustek, Duran; Giger, Urs; Ozturk, Oguz; Serdaroglu-Oflazer, Piraye (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017)
      This study aimed to identify PYGM mutations in patients with McArdle disease from Turkey by next generation sequencing (NGS). Genomic DNA was extracted from the blood of the McArdle patients (n = 67) and unrelated healthy ...