The DNA methylation epigenetic signature is a key determinant during development. Rules governing its establishment and maintenance remain elusive especially at repetitive sequences, which account for...
Nucleic Acids Res. - issue: 6 - volume: 47 - pages: 2822-2839.

Telomeres are unique nucleoprotein structures. Found at the edge of each chromosome, their main purpose is to mask DNA ends from the DNA-repair machinery by formation of protective loops. Through life...
Cells - issue: 1 - volume: 8 - pages: .

Alternative splicing is dysregulated in cancer cells, driving the production of isoforms that allow tumor cells to survive and continuously proliferate. Part of the reactivation of telomerase involves...
Oncogene - issue: 16 - volume: 38 - pages: 2937-2952.

During embryonic development, the heart arises from various sources of undifferentiated mesodermal progenitors, with an additional contribution from ectodermal neural crest cells. Mesodermal cardiac...
Cold Spring Harbor perspect Biol - issue: - volume: - pages: .

Among the aortic valve diseases, the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) occurs when the aortic valve has two leaflets (cusps), rather than three, and represents the most common form of congenital cardiac...
J Cardiovasc Dev Dis - issue: - volume: 6 (4) - pages: 39.

Background Prostate cancer is a major public health issue, mainly because patients relapse after androgen deprivation therapy. Proteomic strategies, aiming to reflect the functional activity of cells,...
PLoS ONE - issue: 11 - volume: 14 - pages: 25.

Neuromuscul. Disord. - issue: 10 - volume: 29 - pages: 811-817.

Many bioinformatics methods have been proposed for reducing the complexity of large gene or protein networks into relevant subnetworks or modules. Yet, how such methods compare to each other in terms...
Nature Methods - issue: 9 - volume: 16 - pages: 843-852.

BACKGROUND: Subtelomeres are variable regions between telomeres and chromosomal-specific regions. One of the most studied pathologies linked to subtelomeric imbalance is facioscapulohumeral dystrophy...
J. Med. Genet. - issue: 9 - volume: 56 - pages: 590-601.

Tungsten was chosen as a wall component to interact with the plasma generated by the International Thermonuclear Experimental fusion Reactor (ITER). Nevertheless, during plasma operation tritiated...
Nanomaterials (Basel) - issue: 9 - volume: 9 - pages: .

Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years in assembling the human genome, tandemly repeated DNA elements remain poorly characterized. These sequences account for the vast majority of...
Essays Biochem. - issue: - volume: - pages: .

PURPOSE: Acromegaly is characterized by a broad range of manifestations. Early diagnosis is key to treatment success, but is often delayed as symptomatology overlaps with common disorders. We...
Endocrine - issue: 1 - volume: 63 - pages: 120-129.

AIMS: To understand the opinions of children with type 1 diabetes about their everyday use of flash glucose monitoring. (FGM). METHODS: Children with type 1 diabetes using the FreeStyle Libre® FGM...
Prim Care Diabetes - issue: 1 - volume: 13 - pages: 63-70.

Rett spectrum disorder is a progressive neurological disease and the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability in females. MECP2 is the major causative gene. In addition, CDKL5 and FOXG1...
Int J Genomics - issue: - volume: 2019 - pages: 6956934.

PURPOSE: Variants in IQSEC2, escaping X inactivation, cause X-linked intellectual disability with frequent epilepsy in males and females. We aimed to investigate sex-specific differences. METHODS: We...
Genet. Med. - issue: 4 - volume: 21 - pages: 837-849.

PURPOSE: To investigate the genetic basis of congenital ataxias (CAs), a unique group of cerebellar ataxias with a nonprogressive course, in 20 patients from consanguineous families, and to identify...
Genet. Med. - issue: 3 - volume: 21 - pages: 553-563.

Facio-Scapulo Humeral dystrophy (FSHD) is the third most common myopathy, affecting 1 amongst 10,000 individuals (FSHD1, OMIM #158900). This autosomal dominant pathology is associated in 95% of cases...
Sci Rep - issue: 1 - volume: 9 - pages: 10327.

Distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMNs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases, resembling Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndromes, but characterized by an exclusive involvement of the motor part of the...
Hum. Mol. Genet. - issue: 14 - volume: 28 - pages: 2378-2394.

We delineate a KMT2E-related neurodevelopmental disorder on the basis of 38 individuals in 36 families. This study includes 31 distinct heterozygous variants in KMT2E (28 ascertained from Matchmaker...
Am. J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 6 - volume: 104 - pages: 1210-1222.

Neuroblastoma is the most common childhood solid tumor, yet the prognosis for high-risk disease remains poor. We demonstrate here that arginase 2 (ARG2) drives neuroblastoma cell proliferation via...
Cancer Res. - issue: 3 - volume: 79 - pages: 611-624.