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Research Article

• Medical genetics in the UK and the National Health Service. (1 June, 1998)

  P S Harper
• "Code of practice and guidance on human genetic testing services supplied direct to the public". Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing. (1 June, 1998)

  J C Barber
• A population study of mutations and LOH at breast cancer gene loci in tumours from sister pairs: two recurrent mutations seem to account for all BRCA1/BRCA2 linked breast cancer in Iceland. (1 June, 1998)

  A Arason, A Jonasdottir, R B Barkardottir, J T Bergthorsson, M D Teare, D F Easton, V Egilsson
• Genotype/phenotype correlations in type 2 neurofibromatosis (NF2): evidence for more severe disease associated with truncating mutations. (1 June, 1998)

  D G Evans, L Trueman, A Wallace, S Collins, T Strachan
• A silent mutation, C924T (G308G), in the L1CAM gene results in X linked hydrocephalus (HSAS). (1 June, 1998)

  Y Z Du, C Dickerson, A S Aylsworth, C E Schwartz
• A polymorphism of the CC16 gene is associated with an increased risk of asthma. (1 June, 1998)

  I A Laing, J Goldblatt, E Eber, C M Hayden, P J Rye, N A Gibson, L J Palmer, P R Burton, P N Le Souëf
• Constitutional and mosaic large NF1 gene deletions in neurofibromatosis type 1. (1 June, 1998)

  S A Rasmussen, S D Colman, V T Ho, C R Abernathy, P H Arn, L Weiss, C Schwartz, R A Saul, M R Wallace
• A rapid, PCR based test for differential molecular diagnosis of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. (1 June, 1998)

  K A Chotai, S J Payne
• A survey of phenotypic features in juvenile polyposis. (1 June, 1998)

  D C Desai, V Murday, R K Phillips, K F Neale, P Milla, S V Hodgson
• Maternal age specific risk rate estimates for Down syndrome among live births in whites and other races from Ohio and metropolitan Atlanta, 1970-1989. (1 June, 1998)

  C A Huether, J Ivanovich, B S Goodwin, E L Krivchenia, V S Hertzberg, L D Edmonds, D S May, J H Priest
• Duplication of 8p23.1: a cytogenetic anomaly with no established clinical significance. (1 June, 1998)

  J C Barber, C A Joyce, M N Collinson, J C Nicholson, L R Willatt, H M Dyson, M S Bateman, A J Green, J R Yates, N R Dennis
• Meckel syndrome. (1 June, 1998)

  R Salonen, P Paavola
• Linkage and association of an interleukin 4 gene polymorphism with atopic dermatitis in Japanese families. (1 June, 1998)

  T Kawashima, E Noguchi, T Arinami, K Yamakawa-Kobayashi, H Nakagawa, F Otsuka, H Hamaguchi
• A lethal skeletal dysplasia with features of chondrodysplasia punctata and osteogenesis imperfecta: an example of Astley-Kendall dysplasia. Further delineation of a rare genetic disorder. (1 June, 1998)

  N Elçioglu, C M Hall
• Oto-onycho-peroneal syndrome: confirmation of a syndrome. (1 June, 1998)

  K Devriendt, D Stoffelen, R Pfeiffer, A Leys, J P Fryns
• The diagnosis of Liddle syndrome by identification of a mutation in the beta subunit of the epithelial sodium channel. (1 June, 1998)

  S N Jackson, B Williams, P Houtman, R C Trembath
• New lethal disease involving type I and III collagen defect resembling geroderma osteodysplastica, De Barsy syndrome, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome IV. (1 June, 1998)

  A Jukkola, S Kauppila, L Risteli, K Vuopala, J Risteli, J Leisti, L Pajunen
• Three patients with a 45,X/46,X,psu dic(Xp) karyotype. (1 June, 1998)

  P Dalton, B Coppin, R James, D Skuse, P Jacobs
• Laws regarding insurance companies. (1 June, 1998)

  G Hauser, A Jenisch
• Microsatellite markers for the cone-rod retinal dystrophy gene, CRX, on 19q13.3. (1 June, 1998)

  J Bellingham, C Y Gregory-Evans, K Gregory-Evans