Report of the committee on clinical disorders and chromosomal deletion syndromes.
Report of the committee on clinical disorders and chromosomal deletion syndromes.
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临床疾病和染色体缺失综合征委员会的报告。
DOI:
10.1159/000132670
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发表时间:
1988
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通讯作者:
A. Schinzel
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作者:
P. Harper;J. Frézal;M. Ferguson;A. Schinzel
Interest in the clinical aspects of the human gene map has grown rapidly in recent years. Not only do new molecular techniques offer the possibility of isolating the gene for a genetic disorder from linked markers, but there are practical applications of linked DNA polymorphisms in prenatal diagnosis, carrier detection and other forms of genetic prediction. These developments also mean that gene mapping data, and in particular the HGM reports, are of importance to a larger number of clinical geneticists and others involved in human genetic disorders whose primary interest is not gene mapping itself. Until now information on disease status has not been included in the HGM reports on individual chromosomes except where the clinical phenotype has itself been the basis of the assignment. We recommend that this policy should change, so that information on associated diseases should appear for all loci where data are available and relevant. This will also provide a basis for systematic collection and validation of clinical data which can appear in an integrated form in future versions of this report. While major changes in format will not be feasible until HGM 10, the committee has introduced several developments in the tables which it is hoped will increase their value, in particular the addition of specific tables on chromosomal deletions (Table 2) and translocations (Table 3) in addition to the principal table of mapped disorders (Table 1). Due to the length of Table 1, it is not reproduced in here. This table will be available upon request from Dr. Peter Harper, Section of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XN, Wales. The full table will be present in the proceedings for HGM10. Table 1 is based principally on the GEN ATLAS data base and we are grateful to Marie-Sophie Baule for her work before and during the meeting; we have also relied heavily on information from Mendelian Inheritance in Man and from individual chromosome committees. It should be noted that since the database used is at present separate from that of these committees, some differences in nomenclature and assignment may be present, though an attempt has been made to remove or resolve most discrepancies.In using Table 1, the following points may be of help. The first column gives the disease name as most generally used, while column 2 (MIM) gives the Mendelian Inheritance in Man reference number. Column 3 is the accepted HGM gene symbol, while Column 4 gives the gene product when known, this again corresponding to the HGM locus nomenclature. Column 5 gives the