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Letters to the editor

• Use of MRI and audiological tests in presymptomatic diagnosis of type 2 neurofibromatosis (NF2) (1 December, 2000)

  D G R EVANS, V NEWTON, W NEARY, M E BASER, A WALLACE, R MACLEOD, J P R JENKINS, J GILLESPIE, R T RAMSDEN
• Suggestive evidence for a site specific prostate cancer gene on chromosome 1p36 (1 December, 2000)

  MICHAEL BADZIOCH, ROS EELES, GILLES LEBLANC, WILLIAM D FOULKES, GRAHAM GILES, STEVE EDWARDS, DAVID GOLDGAR, JOHN L HOPPER, D T BISHOP, PAL MØLLER, KETIL HEIMDAL, DOUGLAS EASTON, THE CRC/BPG UK FAMILIAL PROSTATE CANCER STUDY COORDINATORS AND COLLABORATORS¶¶ , THE EU BIOMED COLLABORATORS, JACQUES SIMARD
• Comorbidity of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase gene polymorphisms and risk for neural tube defects (1 December, 2000)

  GARY L JOHANNING, T TAMURA, KELLEY E JOHNSTON, KATHARINE D WENSTROM
• Expression of HCM causing mutations: lessons learnt from genotype-phenotype studies of the South African founder MYH7A797T mutation

  (1 December, 2000)

  JOHANNA MOOLMAN-SMOOK, WILLEM DE LANGE, VALERIE CORFIELD, PAUL BRINK
• Germline and somatic mosaicism in achondroplasia (1 December, 2000)

  SHIRLEY HENDERSON, DAVID SILLENCE, JOHN LOUGHLIN, BRUCE BENNETTS, BRYAN SYKES
• Achondroplasia with the FGFR3 1138g→a (G380R) mutation in two sibs sharing a 4p haplotype derived from their unaffected father

  (1 December, 2000)

  DIANA SOBETZKO, SUZANNE BRAGA, ANNA RÜDEBERG, ANDREA SUPERTI-FURGA
• Homozygous deletion of SHOX in a mentally retarded male with Langer mesomelic dysplasia

  (1 December, 2000)

  STEPHEN P ROBERTSON, DEBORAH J SHEARS, PAUL OEI, ROBIN M WINTER, PETER J SCAMBLER, SALIM AFTIMOS, RAVI SAVARIRAYAN
• Tandem triplication of chromosome 13q14 with inverted interstitial segment in a 4 year old girl (1 December, 2000)

  LUKRECIJA BRECEVIC, SEHER BASARAN, FABRIZIO DUTLY, BENNO RÖTHLISBERGER, ALBERT SCHINZEL
• The first three mosaic cri du chat syndrome patients with two rearranged cell lines (1 December, 2000)

  C PERFUMO, P CERRUTI MAINARDI, A CALÌ, G COUCOURDE, F ZARA, S CAVANI, J OVERHAUSER, F DAGNA BRICARELLI, M PIERLUIGI
• Abnormal sex differentiation and multiple congenital abnormalities in a subject harbouring an apparently balanced (6;8) translocation (1 December, 2000)

  A ION, H COPIN, M BARNOUX, C AJZENBERG, A LESOURD, O CUSSENOT, J LUBETZKI, L TELVI
• Distal trisomy 2p and arachnodactyly (1 December, 2000)

  D J STALKER, S VIGNESWAREN, P M SHARPLES, P W LUNT