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Original articles

• Comparison of predictive models, clinical criteria and molecular tumour screening for the identification of patients with Lynch syndrome in a population-based cohort of colorectal cancer patients (25 June, 2008)

  J Balmaña, F Balaguer, S Castellví-Bel, E W Steyerberg, M Andreu, X Llor, R Jover, A Castells, S Syngal, for the Gastrointestinal Oncology Group of the Spanish Gastroenterological Association
• Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome: three additional cases with CSB mutations, new diagnostic criteria and an approach to investigation

  (15 July, 2008)

  V Laugel, C Dalloz, E S Tobias, J L Tolmie, D Martin-Coignard, V Drouin-Garraud, V Valayannopoulos, A Sarasin, H Dollfus
• Prevalence and heritability of the metabolic syndrome and its individual components in a Dutch isolate: the Erasmus Rucphen Family study (11 June, 2008)

  P Henneman, Y S Aulchenko, R R Frants, K W van Dijk, B A Oostra, C M van Duijn
• Bitter taste receptor gene polymorphisms are an important factor in the development of nicotine dependence in African Americans (4 June, 2008)

  J E Mangold, T J Payne, J Z Ma, G Chen, M D Li
• Dynamic CpG methylation of the KCNQ1OT1 gene during maturation of human oocytes

  (1 September, 2008)

  R Khoureiry, S Ibala-Rhomdane, L Méry, T Blachère, J-F Guérin, J Lornage, A Lefèvre
• Triphalangeal thumb–polysyndactyly syndrome and syndactyly type IV are caused by genomic duplications involving the long range, limb-specific SHH enhancer

  (16 April, 2008)

  M Sun, F Ma, X Zeng, Q Liu, X-L Zhao, F-X Wu, G-P Wu, Z-F Zhang, B Gu, Y-F Zhao, S-H Tian, B Lin, X-Y Kong, X-L Zhang, W Yang, W H-Y Lo, X Zhang