Molecular genetics the Finnish disease heritage

L Peltonen, A Jalanko, T Varilo - Human molecular genetics, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Finland, located at the edge of the inhabitable world, is one of the best-studied genetic
isolates. The characteristic features of population isolates—founder effect, genetic drift and …

Discovering the anticancer potential of non-oncology drugs by systematic viability profiling

SM Corsello, RT Nagari, RD Spangler, J Rossen… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Anticancer uses of non-oncology drugs have occasionally been found, but such discoveries
have been serendipitous. We sought to create a public resource containing the growth …

The Finnish disease heritage III: the individual diseases

R Norio - Human genetics, 2003 - Springer
This article is the third and last in a series entitled The Finnish Disease Heritage I–III. All the
36 rare hereditary diseases belonging to this entity are described for clinical and molecular …

The missing link between genetic association and regulatory function

NJ Connally, S Nazeen, D Lee, H Shi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The genetic basis of most traits is highly polygenic and dominated by non-coding alleles. It is
widely assumed that such alleles exert small regulatory effects on the expression of cis …

Prestin, a cochlear motor protein, is defective in non-syndromic hearing loss

XZ Liu, XM Ouyang, XJ **a, J Zheng… - Human molecular …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Prestin, a membrane protein that is highly and almost exclusively expressed in the outer hair
cells (OHCs) of the cochlea, is a motor protein which senses membrane potential and drives …

Mutations in the diastrophic dysplasia sulfate transporter (DTDST) gene (SLC26A2): 22 novel mutations, mutation review, associated skeletal phenotypes, and …

A Rossi, A Superti‐Furga - Human mutation, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in the DTDST gene can result in a family of skeletal dysplasia conditions which
comprise two lethal disorders, achondrogenesis type 1B (ACG1B) and atelosteogenesis …

[BOOK][B] Cracking the genome: Inside the race to unlock human DNA

K Davies - 2002 - books.google.com
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled the double helix structure of DNA. The
discovery was a profound moment in the history of science, but solving the structure of the …

Pseudoachondroplasia and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia: A 7‐year comprehensive analysis of the known disease genes identify novel and recurrent mutations and …

GC Jackson, L Mittaz‐Crettol, JA Taylor… - Human …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudoachondroplasia (PSACH) and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) are relatively
common skeletal dysplasias resulting in short‐limbed dwarfism, joint pain, and stiffness …

STAS domain structure and function

AK Sharma, AC Rigby, SL Alper - Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2011 - karger.com
Pendrin shares with nearly all SLC26/SulP anion transporters a carboxy-terminal
cytoplasmic segment organized around a Sulfate Transporter and Anti-Sigma factor …

Non-oncology drugs are a source of previously unappreciated anti-cancer activity

SM Corsello, RT Nagari, RD Spangler, J Rossen… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Anti-cancer uses of non-oncology drugs have been found on occasion, but such discoveries
have been serendipitous and rare. We sought to create a public resource containing the …