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    High diagnostic potential of short and long read genome sequencing with transcriptome analysis in exome-negative developmental disorders

    Exome sequencing (ES) has become the method of choice for diagnosing rare diseases, while the availability of short-read genome sequencing (SR-GS) in a medical setting is increasing. In addition, new sequencin...

    François Lecoquierre, Olivier Quenez, Steeve Fourneaux, Sophie Coutant in Human Genetics (2023)

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    Expanding the clinical spectrum of hereditary fibrosing poikiloderma with tendon contractures, myopathy and pulmonary fibrosis due to FAM111B mutations

    Hereditary Fibrosing Poikiloderma (HFP) with tendon contractures, myopathy and pulmonary fibrosis (POIKTMP [MIM 615704]) is a very recently described entity of syndromic inherited poikiloderma. Previously by u...

    Sandra Mercier, Sébastien Küry in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2015)

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    Natural history of Barth syndrome: a national cohort study of 22 patients

    This study describes the natural history of Barth syndrome (BTHS).

    Charlotte Rigaud, Anne-Sophie Lebre, Renaud Touraine in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2013)

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    Screening for primary creatine deficiencies in French patients with unexplained neurological symptoms

    A population of patients with unexplained neurological symptoms from six major French university hospitals was screened over a 28-month period for primary creatine disorder (PCD). Urine guanidinoacetate (GAA) ...

    David Cheillan, Marie Joncquel-Chevalier Curt in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2012)

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    Mutations in NMNAT1 cause Leber congenital amaurosis with early-onset severe macular and optic atrophy

    Josseline Kaplan, Jean-Michel Rozet and colleagues show that biallelic mutations in NMNAT1 cause an autosomal recessive form of Leber congenital amaurosis characterized by early-onset severe macular atrophy and o...

    Isabelle Perrault, Sylvain Hanein, Xavier Zanlonghi, Valérie Serre in Nature Genetics (2012)

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    Germline deletion of the miR-17∼92 cluster causes skeletal and growth defects in humans

    Andrea Ventura and colleagues report germline hemizygous deletions in the miR-17~92 cluster in individuals with features overlap** Feingold syndrome. Mice with targeted deletions in miR17~92 also display gro...

    Loïc de Pontual, Evelyn Yao, Patrick Callier, Laurence Faivre in Nature Genetics (2011)

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    Genoty** microsatellite DNA markers at putative disease loci in inbred/multiplex families with respiratory chain complex I deficiency allows rapid identification of a novel nonsense mutation (IVS1nt −1) in the NDUFS4 gene in Leigh syndrome

    Complex I deficiency, the most common cause of mitochondrial disorders, accounts for a variety of clinical symptoms and its genetic heterogeneity makes identification of the disease genes particularly tedious....

    Paule Bénit, Julie Steffann, Sophie Lebon, Dominique Chretien in Human Genetics (2003)