Background Preconception genetic screening is a key preventive strategy for identifying at-risk couples (ARCs) of inherited disorders and supporting informed reproductive decision-making. However, ...
Evolving roles within the genomic medicine workforce: a revised framework for UK practice—position on behalf of the Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors and the Clinical Genetics Society ...
Oesophageal atresia and/or tracheo-oesophageal fistula are relatively common malformations occurring in approximately 1 in 3500 births. In around half of the cases (syndromic oesophageal atresia), ...
Background The 11p15 region contains two clusters of imprinted genes. Opposite genetic and epigenetic anomalies of this region result in two distinct growth disturbance syndromes: Beckwith-Wiedemann ...
4 Department of Clinical Genetics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK Correspondence to: Dr C M Hall, Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children ...
Correspondence to Professor Eva Brand, Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center Münster (IFAZ), University Hospital Münster, ...
4 Department of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Correspondence to Dr Si Houn Hahn, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle ...
Purpose Patients with Fanconi anaemia (FA), a rare DNA repair genetic disease, exhibit chromosome fragility, bone marrow failure, malformations and cancer susceptibility. FA molecular diagnosis is ...
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EPCAM)-associated Lynch syndrome arises from deletions at the 3′-end of EPCAM that disrupt transcriptional termination, generate read-through transcripts and cause ...
Mosaic neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) poses a significant diagnostic challenge due to low-level mosaicism and the confinement of pathogenic variants to neuroectodermal lineages, frequently resulting ...
Background Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells engineered with lentiviral and retroviral vectors have been successfully applied to treat patients with B cell malignancy. However, viral ...
Background Since 2020, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends screening for Lynch syndrome in all people newly diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Screening involves ...