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Research Article

• Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: epidemiology and genetics. (1 November, 1996)

  T Y Flanders, W D Foulkes
• Linkage and association of the HLA gene complex with IDDM in 81 Danish families: strong linkage between DR beta 1Lys71+ and IDDM. (1 November, 1996)

  M Zamani, F Pociot, M Spaepen, P Raeymaekers, J Nerup, J J Cassiman
• Xp pseudoautosomal gene haploinsufficiency and linear growth deficiency in three girls with chromosome Xp22;Yq11 translocation. (1 November, 1996)

  M Joseph, E S Cantú, G S Pai, S M Willi, P R Papenhausen, L Weiss
• Huntington's disease predictive testing: the case for an assessment approach to requests from adolescents. (1 November, 1996)

  J Binedell, J R Soldan, J Scourfield, P S Harper
• Improved genetic mapping of X linked retinoschisis. (1 November, 1996)

  N D George, S J Payne, R M Bill, D E Barton, A T Moore, J R Yates
• Three histopathological types of retinoblastoma and their relation to heredity and age of enucleation. (1 November, 1996)

  A C Moll, J W Koten, D A Lindenmayer, L A Everse, K E Tan, A Hamburg, J A Faber, W Den Otter
• Rothmund-Thomson syndrome: two case reports show heterogeneous cutaneous abnormalities, an association with genetically programmed ageing changes, and increased chromosomal radiosensitivity. (1 November, 1996)

  B Kerr, G S Ashcroft, D Scott, M A Horan, M W Ferguson, D Donnai
• Splicing mutations in DMD/BMD detected by RT-PCR/PTT: detection of a 19AA insertion in the cysteine rich domain of dystrophin compatible with BMD. (1 November, 1996)

  P A Roest, M Bout, A C van der Tuijn, I B Ginjaar, E Bakker, F B Hogervorst, G J van Ommen, J T den Dunnen
• An exon skipping mutation of a type V collagen gene (COL5A1) in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. (1 November, 1996)

  A C Nicholls, J E Oliver, S McCarron, J B Harrison, D S Greenspan, F M Pope
• Exclusion of candidate loci and cholesterol biosynthetic abnormalities in familial Pallister-Hall syndrome. (1 November, 1996)

  L G Biesecker, S Kang, A A Schäffer, M Abbott, R I Kelley, J C Allen, C Clericuzio, T Grebe, A Olney, J M Graham
• Der(22)t(11;22) resulting from a paternal de novo translocation, adjacent 1 segregation, and maternal heterodisomy of chromosome 22. (1 November, 1996)

  A J Dawson, A J Mears, A E Chudley, T Bech-Hansen, H McDermid
• Achondrogenesis type 1B. (1 November, 1996)

  A Superti-Furga
• Loss of heterozygosity in tuberous sclerosis hamartomas. (1 November, 1996)

  T Sepp, J R Yates, A J Green
• The phenotypic features of osteogenesis imperfecta resulting from a mutation of the carboxyl-terminal pro alpha 1 (I) propeptide that impairs the assembly of type I procollagen and formation of the extracellular matrix. (1 November, 1996)

  W G Cole, C W Chow, J F Bateman, D O Sillence
• Disrupted growth plates and progressive deformities in osteogenesis imperfecta as a result of the substitution of glycine 585 by valine in the alpha 2 (I) chain of type I collagen. (1 November, 1996)

  W G Cole, D Chan, C W Chow, J G Rogers, J F Bateman
• An autosomal dominant syndrome of acromegaloid facial appearance and generalised hypertrichosis terminalis. (1 November, 1996)

  A D Irvine, O M Dolan, D R Hadden, F J Stewart, E A Bingham, N C Nevin