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Letters to JMG

• Heterozygote excess is repeatedly observed in females at the BRCA2 locus N372H (2 July, 2004)

  M D Teare, A Cox, J Shorto, C Anderson, D T Bishop, C Cannings
• Constitutional rearrangements of chromosome 22 as a cause of neurofibromatosis 2 (2 July, 2004)

  T Tsilchorozidou, F H Menko, F Lalloo, A Kidd, R De Silva, H Thomas, P Smith, A Malcolmson, J Dore, K Madan, A Brown, J G Yovos, M Tsaligopoulos, N Vogiatzis, ME Baser, A J Wallace, D G R Evans
• Variation in dinucleotide (GT) repeat sequence in the first exon of the STAT6 gene is associated with atopic asthma and differentially regulates the promoter activity in vitro

  (2 July, 2004)

  P S Gao, N M Heller, W Walker, C H Chen, M Moller, B Plunkett, M H Roberts, R P Schleimer, J M Hopkin, S K Huang
• Functional and genetic studies demonstrate that mutation in the COX15 gene can cause Leigh syndrome (2 July, 2004)

  C E Oquendo, H Antonicka, E A Shoubridge, W Reardon, G K Brown
• Mutation in kallikrein 4 causes autosomal recessive hypomaturation amelogenesis imperfecta (2 July, 2004)

  P S Hart, T C Hart, M D Michalec, O H Ryu, D Simmons, S Hong, J T Wright
• Clinical and molecular features of three patients with congenital disorders of glycosylation type Ih (CDG-Ih) (ALG8 deficiency) (2 July, 2004)

  E Schollen, C G Frank, L Keldermans, R Reyntjens, C E Grubenmann, P T Clayton, B G Winchester, J Smeitink, R A Wevers, M Aebi, T Hennet, G Matthijs
• Genetic susceptibility in familial melanoma from northeastern Italy (2 July, 2004)

  M T Landi, A M Goldstein, S Tsang, D Munroe, W Modi, M Ter-Minassian, R Steighner, M Dean, N Metheny, B Staats, R Agatep, D Hogg, D Calista
• A genotype-phenotype correlation in HNPCC: strong predominance of msh2 mutations in 41 patients with Muir-Torre syndrome

  (2 July, 2004)

  E Mangold, C Pagenstecher, M Leister, M Mathiak, A Rütten, W Friedl, P Propping, T Ruzicka, R Kruse
• Further evidence for heterozygote advantage of GJB2 deafness mutations: a link with cell survival

  (2 July, 2004)

  J E A Common, W-L Di, D Davies, D P Kelsell