Search Results - "Dick, Katherine J."
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DNA methylation and body-mass index: a genome-wide analysis
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (07-06-2014)“…Summary Background Obesity is a major health problem that is determined by interactions between lifestyle and environmental and genetic factors. Although…”
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Defective Presynaptic Choline Transport Underlies Hereditary Motor Neuropathy
Published in American journal of human genetics (07-12-2012)“…The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a specialized synapse with a complex molecular architecture that provides for reliable transmission between the nerve…”
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Alterations in the ankyrin domain of TRPV4 cause congenital distal SMA, scapuloperoneal SMA and HMSN2C
Published in Nature genetics (01-02-2010)“…Spinal muscular atrophies (SMA, also known as hereditary motor neuropathies) and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (HMSN) are clinically and…”
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Mutation of FA2H underlies a complicated form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG35)
Published in Human mutation (01-04-2010)“…Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) describes a heterogeneous group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders in which the cardinal pathological feature is…”
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Cigarette smoking reduces DNA methylation levels at multiple genomic loci but the effect is partially reversible upon cessation
Published in Epigenetics (01-10-2014)“…Smoking is a major risk factor in many diseases. Genome wide association studies have linked genes for nicotine dependence and smoking behavior to increased…”
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Refinement of the locus for distal hereditary motor neuronopathy VII (dHMN-VII) and exclusion of candidate genes
Published in Genome (01-11-2008)“…Distal hereditary motor neuronopathy type seven (dHMN-VII) is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by distal muscular atrophy associated with…”
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