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Original articles

• Phenotypic findings of Cowden syndrome and Bannayan-Zonana syndrome in a family associated with a single germline mutation in PTEN (1 May, 1999)

  Julide Tok Çelebi, Hui C Tsou, Fei Fei Chen, Hong Zhang, Xiao Li Ping, Mark G Lebwohl, Jeffrey Kezis, Monica Peacocke
• Germline mutations of the LKB1 (STK11) gene in Peutz-Jeghers patients (1 May, 1999)

  Z-J Wang, M Churchman, E Avizienyte, C McKeown, S Davies, D G R Evans, A Ferguson, I Ellis, Wen-Huai Xu, Zhong-Yu Yan, L A Aaltonen, I P M Tomlinson
• Risk factors for detecting germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish women with breast or ovarian cancer (1 May, 1999)

  Shirley V Hodgson, Elizabeth Heap, June Cameron, David Ellis, Christopher G Mathew, Rosalind A Eeles, Ellen Solomon, Cathryn M Lewis
• X linked mental retardation and infantile spasms in a family: new clinical data and linkage to Xp11.4-Xp22.11 (1 May, 1999)

  Petter Strømme, Kjetil Sundet, Cato Mørk, Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Jean-Pierre Fryns, Stephan Claes
• Linkage and association studies of atopy and the chromosome 11q13 region (1 May, 1999)

  Klaus A Deichmann, Barbara Starke, Simone Schlenther, Andrea Heinzmann, Susanne Hauschildt Sparholt, Johannes Forster, Joachim Kuehr
• Connexin26 deafness in several interconnected families (1 May, 1999)

  Stephen A Wilcox, Amelia H Osborn, Denise R Allen-Powell, Marion A Maw, Hans-Henrik M Dahl, R J McKinlay Gardner
• International variation in reported livebirth prevalence rates of Down syndrome, adjusted for maternal age (1 May, 1999)

  Andrew D Carothers, Christina A Hecht, Ernest B Hook
• The face of Smith-Magenis syndrome: a subjective and objective study (1 May, 1999)

  Judith E Allanson, Frank Greenberg, Ann C M Smith
• Overgrowth of oral mucosa and facial skin, a novel feature of aspartylglucosaminuria (1 May, 1999)

  Pekka Arvio, Maria Arvio, Matti Kero, Sinikka Pirinen, Pirjo-Liisa Lukinmaa
• Screening for submicroscopic chromosome rearrangements in children with idiopathic mental retardation using microsatellite markers for the chromosome telomeres (1 May, 1999)

  A Slavotinek, M Rosenberg, S Knight, L Gaunt, W Fergusson, C Killoran, J Clayton-Smith, H Kingston, R H A Campbell, J Flint, D Donnai, L Biesecker