Correspondence to Dr Hui-Qi Qu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Brownsville campus, 80 Fort Brown, SPH Bldg, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA; ...

Background Advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) technology have made it possible to interrogate comprehensively genome-wide genetic variations. However, most existing tools for variation ...

We report a boy with truncus arteriosus, dysmorphic features, developmental delay, passing hypotonia, short segment Hirschsprung disease (HSCR), and paroxysmal hypoventilation. FISH analysis showed an ...

Friedreich ataxia, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common of the inherited ataxias. The recent discovery of the gene that is mutated in this condition,FRDA, has led to ...

Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...

A case of severe craniosynostosis-radial aplasia (Baller-Gerold) syndrome is described in a newborn male, following a pregnancy complicated by polyhydramnios and intrauterine growth retardation. Death ...

Background Variants in genes belonging to the tubulin superfamily account for a heterogeneous spectrum of brain malformations referred to as tubulinopathies. Variants in TUBB2A have been reported in ...

Correspondence to Lee-Jun C Wong, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, NAB 2015, Houston, TX 77030, USA; ljwong{at}bcm.edu Mitochondria are the ...

2 Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 3 Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Ireland 4 TrinSeq, Institute of Molecular ...

Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) (MIM 119600) is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterised by abnormal clavicles, patent sutures and fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, short stature, and a ...

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 ...