Three-year follow-up of a randomised clinical trial of intravenous versus oral iron for anaemia in pregnancy

AA Khalafallah, AE Dennis, K Ogden, I Robertson… - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background To date, there are no data available concerning the impact of iron therapy on
the long-term well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in pregnancy. Objective …

Visual impairment, severe visual impairment, and blindness in children in Britain (BCVIS2): a national observational study

LJ Teoh, AL Solebo, JS Rahi, J Abbott… - The Lancet Child & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The WHO VISION 2020 global initiative against blindness, launched
in 2000, prioritised childhood visual disability by aiming to end avoidable childhood …

PMS2 mutations in childhood cancer

M De Vos, BE Hayward, R Charlton… - Journal of the …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Until recently, the PMS2 DNA mismatch repair gene has only rarely been implicated as a
cancer susceptibility locus. New studies have shown, however, that earlier analyses of this …

[HTML][HTML] Half of germline pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants found on panel tests do not fulfil NHS testing criteria

T Andoni, J Wiggins, R Robinson, R Charlton… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic testing for cancer predisposition has been curtailed by the cost of sequencing, and
testing has been restricted by eligibility criteria. As the cost of sequencing decreases, the …

Extensive gene conversion at the PMS2 DNA mismatch repair locus

BE Hayward, M De Vos, EMA Valleley… - Human …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations of the PMS2 DNA repair gene predispose to a characteristic range of
malignancies, with either childhood onset (when both alleles are mutated) or a partially …

Robust diagnostic genetic testing using solution capture enrichment and a novel variant‐filtering interface

CM Watson, LA Crinnion, JE Morgan… - Human …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted hybridization enrichment prior to next‐generation sequencing is a widespread
method for characterizing sequence variation in a research setting, and is being adopted by …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced diagnostic yield in Meckel-Gruber and Joubert syndrome through exome sequencing supplemented with split-read mapping

CM Watson, LA Crinnion, IR Berry, SM Harrison… - BMC Medical …, 2016 - Springer
Background The widespread adoption of high-throughput sequencing technologies by
genetic diagnostic laboratories has enabled significant expansion of their testing portfolios …

[HTML][HTML] Mutation screening of retinal dystrophy patients by targeted capture from tagged pooled DNAs and next generation sequencing

CM Watson, M El-Asrag, DA Parry, JE Morgan… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Purpose Retinal dystrophies are genetically heterogeneous, resulting from mutations in over
200 genes. Prior to the development of massively parallel sequencing, comprehensive …

Novel DLX3 variants in amelogenesis imperfecta with attenuated tricho‐dento‐osseous syndrome

LLE Whitehouse, CEL Smith, JA Poulter… - Oral …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Variants in DLX3 cause tricho‐dento‐osseous syndrome (TDO, MIM# 190320), a
systemic condition with hair, nail and bony changes, taurodontism and amelogenesis …

Molecular analysis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency in Hong Kong Chinese patients

AOK Chan, WM But, KL Ng, LM Wong, YY Lam, SC Tiu… - Steroids, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) caused by 21-hydroxylase
deficiency (21OHD) is an autosomal recessive disorder due to mutation in the CYP21A2 …