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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: Myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like (MELAS) syndrome, a maternally inherited disorder that is among the most common mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases, is usually ...

* 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 ...

Mammalian experiments provide clear evidence of male line transgenerational effects on health and development from paternal or ancestral early-life exposures such as diet or stress. The few human ...

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 ...

Background Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a multisystem disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance, caused by the abnormal expansion of the CTG triplet in the DMPK gene. Biomarker discovery in ...

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, ...

Hirschsprung disease (HSCR, aganglionic megacolon) is the main genetic cause of functional intestinal obstruction with an incidence of 1/5000 live births. This developmental disorder is a ...

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 ...

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 ...