Table of contents

Electronic letters

• Investigation of germline GFRA4 mutations and evaluation of the involvement of GFRA1, GFRA2, GFRA3, and GFRA4 sequence variants in Hirschsprung disease

  (1 March, 2003)

  S Borrego, R M Fernández, H Dziema, A Niess, M López-Alonso, G Antiñolo, C Eng
• No fumarate hydratase (FH) mutations in hereditary prostate cancer

  (1 March, 2003)

  R Lehtonen, M Kiuru, A Rökman, T Ikonen, J M Cunningham, D J Schaid, M Matikainen, N N Nupponen, A Karhu, O-P Kallioniemi, S N Thibodeau, J Schleutker, L A Aaltonen
• Y chromosome haplotypes and testicular cancer in the English population (1 March, 2003)

  L Quintana-Murci, M E Weale, M G Thomas, E Erdei, N Bradman, J H Shanks, C Krausz, K McElreavey
• RNASEL mutations in hereditary prostate cancer

  (1 March, 2003)

  H Chen, A R Griffin, Y-Q Wu, L P Tomsho, K A Zuhlke, E M Lange, S B Gruber, K A Cooney
• The RNASEL 471delAAAG allele and prostate cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish men

  (1 March, 2003)

  K Kotar, N Hamel, I Thiffault, W D Foulkes
• The BRCA2 variant 8204G>A is a splicing mutation and results in an in frame deletion of the gene

  (1 March, 2003)

  W Hofmann, D Horn, C Hüttner, E Classen, S Scherneck
• Neuronal migration defect in a BRCA1 gene carrier: possible focal nullisomy?

  (1 March, 2003)

  D M Eccles, S Barker, D T Pilz, C Kennedy
• Little value from including cousins in individual risk assessment of hereditary breast cancer: a simulation study (1 March, 2003)

  M A Jonker, G H de Bock, W E Hoogendoorn, C J van Asperen, J C van Houwelingen
• Comprehensive microsatellite marker analysis contradicts previous report of segmental maternal heterodisomy of chromosome 14 (1 March, 2003)

  K J Coveler, V R Sutton, C Knox-DuBois, L G Shaffer
• Analphoid de novo marker chromosome inv dup(3)(q28qter) with neocentromere in a dysmorphic and developmentally retarded girl (1 March, 2003)

  G Barbi, C Spaich, S Adolph, H Kehrer-Sawatzki
• Partial hexasomy 15pter→15q13 including SNRPN and D15S10: first molecular cytogenetically proven case report

  (1 March, 2003)

  A Nietzel, B Albrecht, H Starke, A Heller, G Gillessen-Kaesbach, U Claussen, T Liehr