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 Dandy-Walker malformation features agenesis/hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle and enlargement of posterior fossa. Although Dandy-Walker ...

Department of Pathology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA ...

Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA Correspondence to: Dr V P Sybert, Box 356524, Division of Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine ...

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 ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Angelman syndrome ( AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by severe learning difficulties, ataxia, a seizure disorder with a characteristic EEG, subtle dysmorphic facial features, and a ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Guy’s, Kings and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, London, UK 2 Centre for Neuroscience Research, Guy’s, Kings and St. Thomas’ School of Biomedical Sciences, ...

Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal recessive condition characterised by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, central obesity, mental retardation, hypogonadism, and renal dysfunction.

Motor kinesins are a family of evolutionary conserved proteins involved in intracellular trafficking of various cargoes, first described in the context of axonal transport. They were discovered to ...

Background Despite well-established criteria for genetic testing to rule out hereditary cancer syndromes (HCSs), most pathogenic variant (PV) carriers are not being tested. Thus, mechanisms that allow ...