Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D W Cox, 8-39 Medical Sciences Building, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, ...

Background Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder resulting from deficiency of the alpha-galactosidase A enzyme leading to accumulation of globotriaosylceramide in multiple organ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...