Despite the identification of many genes involved in developmental eye phenotypes, a large percentage of families lack genetic diagnoses, suggesting novel mechanisms remain to be discovered. Large ...
Background Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has recently been introduced as a diagnostic test for patients with particular rare diseases in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Little is known ...
*Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Wales, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, PO Box 905, Cardiff CF1 3XF, UK †Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales, ...
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes; also known as “squint”) comprises a common heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by a constant or intermittent ocular deviation often associated with ...
Correspondence to G Beunders, Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Reception D, De Boellelaan 1117, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands; g.beunders{at}vumc.nl ...
Angelman syndrome ( AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by severe learning difficulties, ataxia, a seizure disorder with a characteristic EEG, subtle dysmorphic facial features, and a ...
Correspondence to Dr Rando Allikmets, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute Research Annex, 635 West 165th Street, Box # 28, New York, NY 10032, USA; rla22 ...
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive illness) is a complex genetic disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood (affect) ranging from extreme elation, or mania, ...
1 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, St Michael’s Hospital Toronto, Canada 2 Cancer Research Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Immunology and Heart & Stroke ...
Background Fabry disease is a progressive, X-linked lysosomal disorder caused by reduced or absent α-galactosidase A activity due to GLA variants. Females with Fabry disease often experience ...
Background: Chromosomal imbalances are a major cause of developmental defects as well as cancer and often constitute the key in identification of novel disease related genes. Classical cytogenetic ...
1 Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Metabolic Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University of Utrecht, ...