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Letters to the editor

• Mutation analysis of the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 gene (MECP2) in patients with Rett syndrome

  (1 August, 2000)

  K OBATA, T MATSUISHI, Y YAMASHITA, T FUKUDA, K KUWAJIMA, I HORIUCHI, S NAGAMITSU, R IWANAGA, A KIMURA, I OMORI, S ENDO, K MORI, I KONDO
• Mutations in the MECP2 gene in a cohort of girls with Rett syndrome

  (1 August, 2000)

  KIM HAMPSON, C GEOFFREY WOODS, FARIDA LATIF, TESSA WEBB
• Monosomy and trisomy 1q44-qter in two sisters originating from a half cryptic 1q;15p translocation (1 August, 2000)

  NICOLETTA VILLA, ELENA SALA, DANIELA COLOMBO, MARIAGRAZIA DELL'ORTO, DANIELE GRIONI, LEDA DALPRÀ
• A constitutional homozygous mutation in theRB1 gene in a patient with unilateral retinoblastoma

  (1 August, 2000)

  FRANCISCO SÁNCHEZ, EMILIA MATEU, MAGDALENA BENEYTO, CARMEN NÁJERA, FÉLIX PRIETO
• The gene for branchio-oculo-facial syndrome does not colocalise to theEYA1-4 genes

  (1 August, 2000)

  LINA SUSANA CORREA-CERRO, INGO KENNERKNECHT, WALTER JUST, WALTHER VOGEL, DIETMAR MÜLLER
• Importance of clinical evaluation and molecular testing in the branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome and overlapping phenotypes (1 August, 2000)

  SARAH RICKARD, MAUREEN BOXER, RICHARD TROMPETER, MARIA BITNER-GLINDZICZ
• Equal expression of type X collagen mRNA from mutant and wild typeCOL10A1 alleles in growth plate cartilage from a patient with metaphyseal chondrodysplasia type Schmid

  (1 August, 2000)

  CARL A GREGORY, BERNHARD ZABEL, MICHAEL E GRANT, RAYMOND P BOOT-HANDFORD, GILLIAN A WALLIS
• The relationship between neonatal immunoreactive trypsinogen, ΔF508, and IVS8-5T (1 August, 2000)

  JOHN MASSIE, DESIREE DU SART, KARINA FORSHAW, JOHN CARLIN, S M FORREST
• Epidemiology of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) in northern Finland (1 August, 2000)

  M POYHONEN, S KYTÖLÄ, J LEISTI
• Genetic registers in clinical practice: a survey of UK clinical geneticists (1 August, 2000)

  JOHN C S DEAN, DAVID R FITZPATRICK, PETER A FARNDON, HELEN KINGSTON, DOUGLAS CUSINE