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Electronic letters

• Refinement of the deletion in 7q21.3 associated with split hand/foot malformation type 1 and Mondini dysplasia (30 April, 2004)

  I Wieland, P Muschke, S Jakubiczka, M Volleth, B Freigang, P F Wieacker
• Genetic evidence for CFTR dysfunction in Japanese: background for chronic pancreatitis (30 April, 2004)

  K Fujiki, H Ishiguro, S BH Ko, N Mizuno, Y Suzuki, T Takemura, A Yamamoto, T Yoshikawa, M Kitagawa, T Hayakawa, Y Sakai, T Takayama, M Saito, T Kondo, S Naruse
• FBN2 mutation associated with manifestations of Marfan syndrome and congenital contractural arachnodactyly

  (30 April, 2004)

  P A Gupta, D D Wallis, T O Chin, H Northrup, V T Tran-Fadulu, J A Towbin, D M Milewicz
• A variant form of hMTH1, a human homologue of the E coli mutT gene, correlates with somatic mutation in the p53 tumour suppressor gene in gastric cancer patients

  (30 April, 2004)

  Y Kimura, S Oda, A Egashira, Y Kakeji, H Baba, Y Nakabeppu, Y Maehara
• Familial renal cell cancer appears to have a recessive component (30 April, 2004)

  K Hemminki, X Li
• Significant involvement of CCR2–64I and CXCL12–3a in the development of sporadic breast cancer (30 April, 2004)

  A Zafiropoulos, N Crikas, A M Passam, D A Spandidos
• MDR1, the blood–brain barrier transporter, is associated with Parkinson’s disease in ethnic Chinese

  (30 April, 2004)

  C G L Lee, K Tang, Y B Cheung, L P Wong, C Tan, H Shen, Y Zhao, R Pavanni, E J D Lee, M-C Wong, S S Chong, E K Tan
• Mutations in the FKRP gene can cause muscle-eye-brain disease and Walker–Warburg syndrome (30 April, 2004)

  D Beltran-Valero de Bernabé, T Voit, C Longman, A Steinbrecher, V Straub, Y Yuva, R Herrmann, J Sperner, C Korenke, C Diesen, W B Dobyns, H G Brunner, H van Bokhoven, M Brockington, F Muntoni
• Modifier controls severity of a novel dominant low-frequency MyosinVIIA (MYO7A) auditory mutation

  (30 April, 2004)

  V A Street, J C Kallman, K L Kiemele
• Evidence for association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in T complex protein 1 gene and schizophrenia in the Chinese Han population (30 April, 2004)

  M S Yang, L Yu, T W Guo, S M Zhu, H J Liu, Y Y Shi, N-F Gu, G Y Feng, L He