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September 2024 marks an exciting and important milestone for Journal of Medical Genetics as we celebrate 60 years of publishing!Over the past 6 decades, we have established ourselves as a trusted ...
Background: Double outlet right ventricle (DORV), a clinically significant congenital heart defect, occurs in 1–3% of individuals with congenital heart defects. In contrast to other major congenital ...
56 CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST); Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain 57 Unité de Neurophysiologie Clinique, Centre ...
UK clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with constitutional POT1 pathogenic variants ...
Background Multigene panel testing by next-generation sequencing (MGP-NGS) enables the detection of germline pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants (PVs/LPVs) in genes beyond those associated with a ...
The diagnosis of Marfan syndrome (MFS) relies on defined clinical criteria (Ghent nosology), outlined by international expert opinion to facilitate accurate recognition of this genetic aneurysm ...
5 Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan 6 Department of Biochemistry, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, ...
1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr S M Park Department of Clinical ...
2 The State Key Laboratory of Optometry, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Wenzhou, China Background Myopia is the leading cause of refractive errors. As its pathogenesis is poorly understood, we ...
Background The 100 000 Genomes Project (100K) recruited National Health Service patients with eligible rare diseases and cancer between 2016 and 2018. PanelApp virtual gene panels were applied to ...
Background SLC29A3-related syndromes (SLC29A3-RS) are characterised by severe and multiorgan involvement that has a severe impact on the quality of life of the affected persons and therefore merit ...
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes; also known as “squint”) comprises a common heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by a constant or intermittent ocular deviation often associated with ...