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Original articles

• A de novo 1p34.2 microdeletion identifies the synaptic vesicle gene RIMS3 as a novel candidate for autism

  (21 June, 2009)

  Ravinesh A Kumar, Jyotsna Sudi, Timothy D Babatz, Camille W Brune, Donald Oswald, Mayon Yen, Norma J Nowak, Edwin H Cook, Susan L Christian, William B Dobyns
• Disruption of ST5 is associated with mental retardation and multiple congenital anomalies

  (19 October, 2009)

  Ina Göhring, Andreas Tagariello, Sabine Endele, Claus C Stolt, Michella Ghassibé, Malcolm Fisher, Christian T Thiel, Udo Trautmann, Miikka Vikkula, Andreas Winterpacht, David R FitzPatrick, Anita Rauch
• Survival in women with MMR mutations and ovarian cancer: a multicentre study in Lynch syndrome kindreds (26 July, 2009)

  Eli Marie Grindedal, Laura Renkonen-Sinisalo, Hans Vasen, Gareth Evans, Paola Sala, Ignacio Blanco, Jacek Gronwald, Jaran Apold, Diana M Eccles, Ángel Alonso Sánchez, Julian Sampson, Heikki J Järvinen, Lucio Bertario, Gillian C Crawford, Astrid Tenden Stormorken, Lovise Maehle, Pal Moller
• Distal limb deficiencies, micrognathia syndrome, and syndromic forms of split hand foot malformation (SHFM) are caused by chromosome 10q genomic rearrangements (6 July, 2009)

  B I Dimitrov, T de Ravel, J Van Driessche, C de Die-Smulders, A Toutain, J R Vermeesch, J P Fryns, K Devriendt, P Debeer
• De novo apparently balanced translocations in man are predominantly paternal in origin and associated with a significant increase in paternal age (27 July, 2009)

  N Simon Thomas, Joan K Morris, Julia Baptista, Bee Ling Ng, John A Crolla, Patricia A Jacobs