In 2005, the genetic aetiology of autism was considered elusive. Occasionally individuals with overgrowth disorders and hamartomas including Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba and Proteus or Proteus-like and/or cancer such as Cowden syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder with a high risk of breast, thyroid and endometrial cancer, were noted to have neuro-behavioural features resembling autism ...

3 days ago · Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments.Articles cover the molecular basis of human disease including germline cancer genetics, clinical manifestations of genetic disorders, applications of molecular genetics to medical practice and the systematic ...

Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments. Articles cover the molecular basis of human disease including: germline cancer genetics; clinical manifestations of genetic disorders; applications of molecular …

We begin 2025 by looking back at the contribution of Charis Eng, a distinguished cancer geneticist and former North American editor of the Journal of Medical Genetics ( JMG ). In this issue, readers will find an obituary written by former coeditors and colleagues.1 In addition, the second invited commentary in our Six at Sixty series2 focuses on a paper coauthored by Charis Eng and published ...

Results The mean age of CRB1 cohort was 27.33±14.63 years. Results showed that yellowish geographic macular degeneration (66.67%), small white or yellow dots (65.6%), hyperopia (62.5%), abnormally laminated retina (61.61%), epiretinal membrane (60.6%) and nummular pigment deposits (50%) were the most common signatures in patients with CRB1 mutations. . These clinical signatures were notably ...

Journal of Medical Genetics is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering original research in human genetics, including reviews of and opinion on the latest developments.

Joubert syndrome (JS) is an inherited neurodevelopmental ciliopathy with wide clinical and genetic heterogeneity, whose paradigmatic sign is a peculiar cerebellar and brainstem malformation known as the ‘molar tooth sign’. Recessive pathogenic variants in the HYLS1 gene are associated with hydrolethalus syndrome (HLS), a severe disorder characterised by multiple developmental defects ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a commonly encountered genetic ailment marked by loss-of-function mutations in the Dystrophin gene, ultimately resulting in progressive debilitation of skeletal muscle. The investigation into the pathogenesis of DMD has increasingly converged on the role of histone modifications within the broader context of epigenetic regulation. These modifications ...

Prostate cancer (PrCa) is a largely heritable and polygenic disease. It is the most common cancer in people with prostates (PwPs) in Europe and the USA, including in PwPs of African descent. In the UK in 2020, 52% of all cancers were diagnosed at stage I or II. The National Health Service (NHS) long-term plan is to increase this to 75% by 2028, …

Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is an archetypical genetic syndrome that is characterised by intellectual disability, well-defined facial features, distal limb anomalies and atypical growth, among numerous other signs and symptoms. It is caused by variants in either of two genes ( CREBBP , EP300 ) which encode for the proteins CBP …