Search Results - "Richard J. L. F. Lemmers"
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Optical Genome Mapping for the Molecular Diagnosis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy: Advancement and Challenges
Published in Biomolecules (Basel, Switzerland) (24-10-2023)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is the second most common muscular dystrophy in adults, and it is associated with local D4Z4 chromatin…”
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Unifying Genetic Model for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (24-09-2010)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common form of muscular dystrophy in adults that is foremost characterized by progressive wasting of muscles…”
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SMCHD1 regulates a limited set of gene clusters on autosomal chromosomes
Published in Skeletal muscle (06-06-2017)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is in most cases caused by a contraction of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat on chromosome 4 (FSHD1) or by…”
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Specific Sequence Variations within the 4q35 Region Are Associated with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-11-2007)“…Autosomal dominant facio scapulo humeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is mainly characterized by progressive wasting and weakness of the facial, shoulder, and…”
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Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy: incomplete suppression of a retrotransposed gene
Published in PLoS genetics (28-10-2010)“…Each unit of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat contains a retrotransposed gene encoding the DUX4 double-homeobox transcription factor. Facioscapulohumeral…”
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The first genetically confirmed cohort of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy from Northern India
Published in European journal of human genetics : EJHG (01-09-2024)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is the third most common form of hereditary myopathy. Sixty per cent of the world's population lives in Asia, so…”
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Chromosome 10q-linked FSHD identifies DUX4 as principal disease gene
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-02-2022)“…Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is an inherited muscular dystrophy clinically characterised by muscle weakness starting with the facial and upper…”
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Intronic SMCHD1 variants in FSHD: testing the potential for CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-12-2019)“…Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is associated with partial chromatin relaxation of the retrogene containing D4Z4 macrosatellite repeats on chromosome 4,…”
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Genome-wide binding and mechanistic analyses of Smchd1-mediated epigenetic regulation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-07-2015)“…Structural maintenance of chromosomes flexible hinge domain containing 1 (Smchd1) is an epigenetic repressor with described roles in X inactivation and genomic…”
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High-resolution breakpoint junction mapping of proximally extended D4Z4 deletions in FSHD1 reveals evidence for a founder effect
Published in Human molecular genetics (03-03-2022)“…Abstract Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an inherited myopathy clinically characterized by weakness in the facial, shoulder girdle and upper a…”
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Best practice guidelines on genetic diagnostics of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: Update of the 2012 guidelines
Published in Clinical genetics (01-07-2024)“…The gold standard for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) genetic diagnostic procedures was published in 2012. With the increasing complexity of the…”
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SMCHD1 mutation spectrum for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2 (FSHD2) and Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome (BAMS) reveals disease-specific localisation of variants in the ATPase domain
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-10-2019)“…Variants in the Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes flexible Hinge Domain-containing protein 1 ( ) can cause facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2…”
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RNA transcripts, miRNA-sized fragments and proteins produced from D4Z4 units: new candidates for the pathophysiology of facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-07-2009)“…Deletion of a subset of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeats in the subtelomeric region of chromosome 4q causes facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) when…”
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Increased DUX4 expression during muscle differentiation correlates with decreased SMCHD1 protein levels at D4Z4
Published in Epigenetics (02-12-2015)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is caused by incomplete epigenetic repression of the transcription factor DUX4 in skeletal muscle. A copy of DUX4 is…”
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Worldwide Population Analysis of the 4q and 10q Subtelomeres Identifies Only Four Discrete Interchromosomal Sequence Transfers in Human Evolution
Published in American journal of human genetics (12-03-2010)“…Subtelomeres are dynamic structures composed of blocks of homologous DNA sequences. These so-called duplicons are dispersed over many chromosome ends. We…”
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Identification of a potential physiological precursor of aberrant cells in refractory coeliac disease type II
Published in Gut (01-04-2013)“…Refractory coeliac disease type II (RCDII) is a severe complication of coeliac disease (CD) characterised by aberrant intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) of…”
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Hybridization analysis of D4Z4 repeat arrays linked to FSHD
Published in Chromosoma (01-04-2007)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant disease involving shortening of D4Z4, an array of tandem 3.3-kb repeat units on…”
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Hypomethylation of D4Z4 in 4q-linked and non-4q-linked facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Published in Nature genetics (01-12-2003)“…The autosomal dominant myopathy facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD1, OMIM 158900) is caused by contraction of the D4Z4 repeat array on 4qter. We show…”
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Diagnostic capabilities of nanopore long‐read sequencing in muscular dystrophy
Published in Annals of clinical and translational neurology (01-08-2022)“…Many individuals with muscular dystrophies remain genetically undiagnosed despite clinical diagnostic testing, including exome sequencing. Some may harbor…”
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Contractions of D4Z4 on 4qB Subtelomeres Do Not Cause Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-12-2004)“…Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is associated with contractions of the D4Z4 repeat in the subtelomere of chromosome 4q. Two allelic variants of…”
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