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Letters to the editor

• Ulcerative colitis is not associated with differences inMUC2 mucin allele length

  (1 November, 1999)

  DALLAS M SWALLOW, LYNNE E VINALL, JAMES R GUM, YOUNG S KIM, HUIYING YANG, JEROME I ROTTER, MUDDASSAR MIRZA, JOHN C W LEE, JOHN E LENNARD-JONES
• Mutation analysis of the DKC1 gene in incontinentia pigmenti

  (1 November, 1999)

  NINA S HEISS, ANNEMARIE POUSTKA, STUART W KNIGHT, SWAROOP ARADHYA, DAVID L NELSON, RICHARD A LEWIS, TERESA ESPOSITO, ALFREDO CICCODICOLA, MICHELE D’URSO, ASMAE SMAHI, SOLANGE HEUERTZ, ARNOLD MUNNICH, PIERRE VABRES, HAYLEY WOFFENDIN, SUSAN KENWRICK
• A nonsense mutation in the retinal specific guanylate cyclase gene is the cause of Leber congenital amaurosis in a large inbred kindred from Jordan (1 November, 1999)

  HATEM EL-SHANTI, MAHMOUD AL-SALEM, MAHMOUD EL-NAJJAR, KAMEL AJLOUNI, JOHN BECK, VAL C SHEFFIELD, EDWIN M STONE
• Skewed X chromosome inactivation in a female with haemophilia B and in her non-carrier daughter: a genetic influence on X chromosome inactivation? (1 November, 1999)

  KAREN HELENE ØRSTAVIK, RAGNHILD ELISE ØRSTAVIK, MARIANNE SCHWARTZ
• 46,XX/46,XY at amniocentesis in a fetus with true hermaphroditism (1 November, 1999)

  DAVID AMOR, MARTIN B DELATYCKI, MARLENE SUSMAN, ELLEN CASEY, TANIA NASH, GARRY WARNE, JOHN HUTSON
• A dominant relationship between the ACE D allele and serum ACE levels in a Ghanaian population

  (1 November, 1999)

  S JEFFERY, A K SAGGAR MALIK, A CROSBY, M BLAND, J B EASTWOOD, J AMOAH-DANQUAH, J W ACHEAMPONG, J PLANGE-RHULE
• Coexistence of Gaucher disease type 1 and Joubert syndrome (1 November, 1999)

  EUGEN J BOLTSHAUSER, BERNARD L MARIA