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Electronic letters

• Molecular changes in skin predict predisposition to breast cancer (1 February, 2002)

  V J James, B E Willis
• Spastic paraparesis and atypical dementia caused by PSEN1 mutation (P264L), responsible for Alzheimer's disease

  (1 February, 2002)

  M-L Jacquemont, D Campion, V Hahn, C Tallaksen, T Frebourg, A Brice, A Durr
• Identification and characterisation of mutations underlying Sanfilippo syndrome type B (mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB) (1 February, 2002)

  G-J Lee-Chen, S-P Lin, S-Z Lin, C-K Chuang, K-T Hsiao, C-F Huang, W-C Lien
• Severe phenotype in Angelman syndrome resulting from paternal isochromosome 15 (1 February, 2002)

  D Poyatos, M Guitart, E Gabau, C Brun, M Mila, J Vaquerizo, M D Coll
• Inositol and folate resistant neural tube defects (1 February, 2002)

  P Cavalli, A J Copp
• Constitutional de novo interstitial deletion of 8 Mb on chromosome 22q12.1-12.3 encompassing the neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) locus in a dysmorphic girl with severe malformations (1 February, 2002)

  G Barbi, E Rossier, S Vossbeck, H Hummler, D Lang, F Flock, R Terinde, J Wirth, W Vogel, H Kehrer-Sawatzki
• Refined mapping of the gene for otopalatodigital syndrome type I (1 February, 2002)

  T Kosho, T Uemura, M Tanimura, H Ohashi, K Muroya, T Ogata
• A case of Costello syndrome and glycogen storage disease type III (1 February, 2002)

  M Kaji, K Kurokawa, T Hasegawa, K Oguro, A Saito, T Fukuda, M Ito, H Sugie
• A patient with a supernumerary marker chromosome (15), Angelman syndrome, and uniparental disomy resulting from paternal meiosis II non-disjunction (1 February, 2002)

  S Roberts, F Maggouta, R Thompson, S Price, S Thomas
• Exclusion of PTEN, CTNNB1, and PTCH as candidate genes for Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome

  (1 February, 2002)

  J R Toro, Y O Shevchenko, J G Compton, S J Bale