INTRODUCTION: A large number of genes involved in autosomal recessive forms of intellectual disability (ID) were identified over the past few years through whole-exome sequencing (WES) or whole-genome...
Eur. J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 1 - volume: 26 - pages: 143-148.

Rett Syndrome is a severe neurological disorder mainly due to de novo mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene ( MECP2). Mecp2 is known to play a role in chromatin organization and...
F1000Res - issue: - volume: 7 - pages: 398.

Objective: Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental condition with breathing disorders, affecting around one in 10,000 female births. Desipramine, a noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor, reduced...
Ann Clin Transl Neurol - issue: 2 - volume: 5 - pages: 118-127.

Giant congenital melanocytic nevi may be symptomatically isolated or syndromic. Associations with capillary malformations are exceptional, and development of epidermal cysts has not been described. A...
Pigment Cell Melanoma Res - issue: 3 - volume: 31 - pages: 437-441.

Members of the large family of Hox transcription factors are encoded by genes whose tightly regulated expression in development and in space within different embryonic tissues confer positional...
Genesis - issue: 6-7 - volume: 56 - pages: e23221.

Am. J. Surg. Pathol. - issue: 5 - volume: 42 - pages: 701-704.

BACKGROUND: MC1R, a G-protein coupled receptor with high affinity for alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (αMSH), modulates pigment production in melanocytes from many species and is associated with...
Birth Defects Res - issue: 5 - volume: 110 - pages: 443-455.

Aims: Assess the impact of radiation doses to neural stem cell (NSC) niches in patients with IDH-wild-type glioblastoma. Materials and Methods: Fifty patients were included in the study. NSC niches...
Front Oncol - issue: - volume: 8 - pages: 426.

The first French clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells for regenerative purposes was launched in 2014, using the I6 stem cell line that was imported from Israel. From Israel to France,...
New Genet Soc - issue: 4 - volume: 37 - pages: 338-361.

BACKGROUND: According to the Catalogue of Transmission Genetics in Arabs, less than half of diseases reported in Lebanese patients are mapped. In the recent years, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)...
Mol Genet Genomic Med - issue: 6 - volume: 6 - pages: 1041-1052.

Dysferlinopathies are rare genetic diseases affecting muscles due to mutations in DYSF. Exon 32 of DYSF has been shown to be dispensable for dysferlin functions. Here we present a method to visualize...
Methods Mol. Biol. - issue: - volume: 1828 - pages: 489-496.

Members of the large family of Hox transcription factors are encoded by genes whose tightly regulated expression in development and in space within different embryonic tissues confer positional...
Genesis - issue: 6-7 - volume: 56 - pages: e23221.

Diffusible signals are known to orchestrate patterning during embryogenesis, yet diffusion is sensitive to noise. The fact that embryogenesis is remarkably robust suggests that additional layers of...
Development - issue: 18 - volume: 145 - pages: .

OBJECTIVE: Glucocorticoid excess is one of the most important causes of bone disorders. Bone marrow fat (BMF) has been identified as a l new mediator of bone metabolism. Cushing syndrome (CS), is a...
Eur. J. Endocrinol. - issue: 5 - volume: 179 - pages: 307-317.

INTRODUCTION: Hypercortisolism leads to severe clinical consequences persisting after the onset of remission. These physical sequelae of cortisol exposure are known to profoundly impact the patient's...
Endocrine - issue: 3 - volume: 61 - pages: 518-525.

The arterial and venous poles of the mammalian heart are hotspots of congenital heart defects (CHD) such as those observed in 22q11.2 deletion (or DiGeorge) and Holt-Oram syndromes. These regions of...
Hum Mol Genet - issue: 21 - volume: 27 - pages: 3747-3760.

The nuclear lamina (NL) is a filamentous protein meshwork, composed essentially of lamins, situated between the inner nuclear membrane and the chromatin. The NL is a component of the nuclear envelope,...
Basic Clin Androl - issue: - volume: 28 - pages: 7.

Activation of cyclin-dependent kinase activity is frequently observed in many human cancers; therefore, cyclin-dependent kinases that promote cell cycle transition and cell proliferation may be...
Endocr. Relat. Cancer - issue: 10 - volume: 25 - pages: 853-864.

The syndromic diarrhea/trichohepatoenteric syndrome (SD/THE) is a rare and multi-system genetic disorder caused by mutation in SKIV2L or in TTC37, two genes encoding subunits of the putative human SKI...
Front Immunol - issue: - volume: 9 - pages: 1036.

Although the authors of the present review have contributed to genetic discoveries in the field of pheochromocytoma research, we can legitimately ask whether these advances have led to improvements in...
Endocr. Relat. Cancer - issue: 8 - volume: 25 - pages: T201-T219.