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Letters to the editor

• The mutation spectrum in Holt-Oram syndrome (1 October, 2000)

  STEPHEN J CROSS, YUNG-HAO CHING, QUAN YI LI, LINDSAY ARMSTRONG-BUISSERET, STEPHANIE SPRANGER, STANISLAW LYONNET, DAMIEN BONNET, MAILA PENTTINEN, PHILIPPE JONVEAUX, BRUNO LEHEUP, GEERT MORTIER, CONNY VAN RAVENSWAAIJ, CAROL-ANNE GARDINER, J DAVID BROOK, RUTH NEWBURY-ECOB
• Hemiplegic cerebral palsy and the factor V Leiden mutation (1 October, 2000)

  J L HALLIDAY, D REDDIHOUGH, K BYRON, H EKERT, M DITCHFIELD
• Analysis of the human tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) gene promoter polymorphisms in children with bone cancer (1 October, 2000)

  ANA PATIÑO-GARCÍA, ELENA SOTILLO-PIÑEIRO, CONSUELO MODESTO, LUIS SIERRASESÚMAGA
• Low prevalence of germlineBRCA1 mutations in early onset breast cancer without a family history

  (1 October, 2000)

  DAVID ELLIS, JILL GREENMAN, SHIRLEY HODGSON, SAM McCALL, FIONA LALLOO, JUNE CAMERON, LOUISE IZATT, GILLIAN SCOTT, CHRIS JACOBS, SALLY WATTS, WENDY CHORLEY, CHRIS PERRETT, KAY MACDERMOT, SHEHLA MOHAMMED, GARETH EVANS, CHRISTOPHER G MATHEW
• Delineation of a new syndrome: clustering of pyloric stenosis, endometriosis, and breast cancer in two families (1 October, 2000)

  ALEXANDER LIEDE, TUYA PAL, MARGOT MITCHELL, STEVEN A NAROD
• Punctate calcification of the epiphyses, visceral malformations, and craniofacial dysmorphism in a female baby (1 October, 2000)

  ANNE SLAVOTINEK, HELEN KINGSTON
• Unexpected high frequency of de novo unbalanced translocations in patients with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) (1 October, 2000)

  DAGMAR WIECZOREK, MARIO KRAUSE, FRANK MAJEWSKI, BEATE ALBRECHT, PETER MEINECKE, OLAF RIESS, GABRIELE GILLESSEN-KAESBACH
• Mosaicism for a dup(12)(q22q13) in a patient with hypomelanosis of Ito and asymmetry (1 October, 2000)

  HEINRICH SCHMIDT, SABINE UHRIG, GABY LEDERER, JAN MURKEN, MICHAEL R SPEICHER, SIMONE SCHUFFENHAUER
• An analphoid supernumerary marker chromosome derived from chromosome 3 ascertained in a fetus with multiple malformations (1 October, 2000)

  ANNETTE E COCKWELL, BARBARA GIBBONS, ISABELLA E MOORE, JOHN A CROLLA
• Why patients do not attend for their appointments at a genetics clinic (1 October, 2000)

  L HUMPHREYS, A G W HUNTER, A ZIMAK, A O'BRIEN, Y KORNELUK, M CAPPELLI