Homozygosity mapping: one more tool in the clinical geneticist's toolbox

FS Alkuraya - Genetics in medicine, 2010 - nature.com
Consanguinity increases the coefficient of inbreeding, which increases the likelihood of
presence of pathogenic mutations in a homoallelic state. Although this is known to have an …

Statistics and bioinformatics in nutritional sciences: analysis of complex data in the era of systems biology

WJ Fu, AJ Stromberg, K Viele, RJ Carroll… - The Journal of nutritional …, 2010 - Elsevier
Over the past 2 decades, there have been revolutionary developments in life science
technologies characterized by high throughput, high efficiency, and rapid computation …

IKZF1 deletions predict relapse in uniformly treated pediatric precursor B-ALL

RP Kuiper, E Waanders, VHJ Van Der Velden… - Leukemia, 2010 - nature.com
Relapse is the most common cause of treatment failure in pediatric acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (ALL) and is often difficult to predict. To explore the prognostic impact of recurrent …

High-risk neuroblastoma tumors with 11q-deletion display a poor prognostic, chromosome instability phenotype with later onset

H Carén, H Kryh, M Nethander… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Analysis of chromosomal aberrations is used to determine the prognosis of neuroblastomas
(NBs) and to aid treatment decisions. MYCN amplification (MNA) alone is an incomplete …

Novel CENPJ mutation causes Seckel syndrome

MS Al-Dosari, R Shaheen, D Colak… - Journal of medical …, 2010 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Primordial dwarfism (PD) is an extremely rare, clinicallyheterogeneous
condition characterised by profound prenatal and postnatal growth restriction among other …

Disruption of ALX1 causes extreme microphthalmia and severe facial clefting: expanding the spectrum of autosomal-recessive ALX-related frontonasal dysplasia

E Uz, Y Alanay, D Aktas, I Vargel, S Gucer… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
We present an autosomal-recessive frontonasal dysplasia (FND) characterized by bilateral
extreme microphthalmia, bilateral oblique facial cleft, complete cleft palate, hypertelorism …

A novel nonsense mutation in CEP290 induces exon skipping and leads to a relatively mild retinal phenotype

KW Littink, JWR Pott, RWJ Collin… - … & visual science, 2010 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: To identify the genetic defect in a family with variable retinal phenotypes. The
proband had a diagnosis of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), whereas her two cousins …

A statistical approach for detecting genomic aberrations in heterogeneous tumor samples from single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping data

C Yau, D Mouradov, RN Jorissen, S Colella, G Mirza… - Genome biology, 2010 - Springer
We describe a statistical method for the characterization of genomic aberrations in single
nucleotide polymorphism microarray data acquired from cancer genomes. Our approach …

Identification of acquired copy number alterations and uniparental disomies in cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia using high-resolution single-nucleotide …

L Bullinger, J Krönke, C Schön, I Radtke, K Urlbauer… - Leukemia, 2010 - nature.com
Recent advances in genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses have
revealed previously unrecognized microdeletions and uniparental disomy (UPD) in a broad …

Prevalence and prognostic impact of allelic imbalances associated with leukemic transformation of Philadelphia chromosome–negative myeloproliferative neoplasms

NH Thoennissen, UO Krug, DHT Lee… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
Philadelphia chromosome–negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) including
polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and primary myelofibrosis show an inherent …