Rationale: Fibro-fatty infiltration of subepicardial layers of the atrial wall has been shown to contribute to the substrate of atrial fibrillation. Objective: Here, we examined if the epicardium...
Circ Res - issue: 10 - volume: 126 - pages: 1330-1342.

We have previously reported on a consanguineous family where 2 siblings, a girl and a boy, presented with tall stature, long and triangular faces, prominent forehead, telecanthus, ptosis, everted...
Eur J Med Genet - issue: 5 - volume: 63 - pages: 103869.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this work is to assess the clinical outcome of pediatric patients diagnosed with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) detected in France since 2000. METHODS: A...
J Endocr Soc - issue: 5 - volume: 4 - pages: bvaa039.

OBJECTIVE: Cushing's disease (CD) may recur despite corticotropic insufficiency (COI) following pituitary surgery. The predictive value of the desmopressin test (DT) for recurrence in this setting...
Eur J Endocrinol - issue: 5 - volume: 182 - pages: 489-498.

OBJECTIVE: Early onset epileptic encephalopathy with suppression-burst is one of the most severe epilepsy phenotypes in human patients. A significant proportion of cases have a genetic origin, and the...
Epilepsia - issue: 5 - volume: 61 - pages: 868-878.

AIMS: The most common autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophy is associated with the CAPN3 gene. The exclusively recessive inheritance of this disorder has been recently challenged by the...
Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. - issue: - volume: - pages: .

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is characterized by incomplete penetrance and intra-familial clinical variability. The disease has been associated with the genetic and epigenetic...
Int J Mol Sci - issue: 7 - volume: 21 - pages: 2635.

In order to properly interpret the results of a diagnostic gene panel sequencing test, gene coverage needs to be taken into consideration. If coverage is too low, an additional re-sequencing test is...
Sci Rep - issue: 1 - volume: 10 - pages: 6247.

Rationale: The transcription factor NFATC1 (nuclear factor of activated T-cell 1) has been implicated in cardiac valve formation in humans and mice, but we know little about the underlying mechanisms....
Circ Res - issue: 126 - volume: 8 - pages: 968-984.

AIMS: During embryogenesis, the onset of circulatory blood flow generates a variety of hemodynamic forces which reciprocally induce changes in cardiovascular development and performance. It has been...
J Mol Cell Cardio - issue: - volume: 143 - pages: 51-62.

Muscular dystrophies are a group of rare muscular disorders characterized by weakness and progressive degeneration of the muscle. They are diseases of genetic origin caused by the mutation of one or...
Med Sci (Paris) - issue: 4 - volume: 36 - pages: 358-366.

IgG4-related hypophysitis is a rare disease, due to a lymphoplasmocytic IgG4 positive infiltration of the pituitary. Literature data are scarce, even though the description of cases has drastically...
Presse Med - issue: 1 - volume: 49 - pages: 104016.

Overactivation of the cAMP signal transduction pathway plays a central role in the pathogenesis of endocrine tumors. Genetic aberrations leading to increased intracellular cAMP or directly affecting...
Oncogene - issue: 16 - volume: 39 - pages: 3367-3380.

PURPOSE: Surgical indications for pituitary tumors during pregnancy are rare, and are derived from a balance between expected benefits, particularly for maternal benefits, and anesthetic/surgical...
Pituitary - issue: 2 - volume: 23 - pages: 189-199.

Molecular diagnosis of rare inherited palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) is still challenging. We investigated at the clinical and genetic level a consanguineous Tunisian family presenting an autosomal...
J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 4 - volume: 65 - pages: 397-410.

Telomere shortening follows a developmentally regulated process that leads to replicative senescence of dividing cells. However, whether telomere changes are involved in postmitotic cell function and...
Aging Cell - issue: 3 - volume: 19 - pages: e13097.

Molecular defects in type 1 facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) are caused by a heterozygous contraction of the D4Z4 repeat array from 1 to 10 repeat units (RUs) on 4q35. This study compared...
int J Mol Sci - issue: 6 - volume: 21 - pages: 2221.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a hereditary sensory-motor neuropathy characterized by a strong clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Over the past few years, with the occurrence of whole-exome...
J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 3 - volume: 65 - pages: 313-323.

Cardiac diseases, characterized by cardiomyocyte loss, lead to dramatic impairment of cardiac function and ultimately to congestive heart failure. Despite significant advances, conventional treatments...
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res - issue: 3 - volume: 1867 - pages: 118461.

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) has been associated with the genetic and epigenetic molecular features of the CpG-rich D4Z4 repeat tandem array at 4q35. Reduced DNA methylation of D4Z4...
Genes - issue: 3 - volume: 11 - pages: 258.