Background Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an inherited disorder of vascular malformations. It is caused by inherited loss-of-function mutations in one of three genes, ENG, ACVRL1 or ...

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 ...

Background Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) is characterised by typical anterior segment anomalies, with or without systemic features. The discovery of causative genes identified ARS subtypes with ...

Background: Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a heterogeneous malformation syndrome characterised by intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation (IUGR, PGR) and dysmorphisms. The basic causes are ...

Background Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare extreme phenotype characterised by an inability to perceive pain present from birth due to lack of, or malfunction of, nociceptors. PRDM12 ...

Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside, California, USA Dr D Ethell, Biomedical Sciences, University of California, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521-0121, USA; doug ...

1 National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 49, Room 4B75, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4472, USA 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s National ...

Unité de Recherches sur les Handicaps Génétiques de l'Enfant, INSERM U-393, IFREM, Institut Necker, Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Paris, France. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is characterised by ...

9 Unidad de Reproducción Humana y Cirugía Endoscópica, Instituto para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción Humana (INEBIR), Sevilla, Spain Correspondence to Dr Mario D Cordero, IBiS Institute ...

Background Hearing is a complex trait, but until now only a few genes are known to contribute to variability of this process. In order to discover genes and pathways that underlie auditory function, a ...