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Pruvost R, Csanyi M, Lefebvre G, Biancalana V, Malfatti E, Cassim F, Oldfors C, Defebvre L, Oldfors A, Tard C. New mutations identified in a case of Glycogenin-1 deficiency. Mol Genet Metab Rep 2024; 38:101046. [PMID: 38234863 PMCID: PMC10792954 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2023.101046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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- R. Pruvost
- Department of Movement Disorder and NS-PARK/centre de référence des maladies neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Inserm 1172 University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Pathology, Lille Universitary Hospital Center, Lille, France
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- Musculoskeletal Imaging Department, Centre de Consultation et d'Imagerie de l'Appareil Locomoteur, CHU Lille, University of Lille Nord de France, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Laboratory of Diagnostic Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Strasbourg, France
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- Biology of the Neuromuscular System, University Paris-Est Créteil, INSERM, U955 IMRB, F-94010 Créteil, France
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- Department of Movement Disorder and NS-PARK/centre de référence des maladies neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Inserm 1172 University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Movement Disorder and NS-PARK/centre de référence des maladies neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Inserm 1172 University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Movement Disorder and NS-PARK/centre de référence des maladies neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Inserm 1172 University of Lille, Lille, France
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Labasse C, Brochier G, Rendu J, Bohm J, Monges S, Quijano-Roy S, Amthor H, Servais L, Madelaine A, Lacène E, Bui M, Coppens S, Biancalana V, Lubieniecki F, Laing N, Taratuto A, Buj-Bello A, Evangelista T, Laporte J, Romero N. CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES – NEMALINE MYOPATHIES. Neuromuscul Disord 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2021.07.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Lornage X, Schartner V, Balbueno I, Willis T, Echaniz-Laguna A, Malfatti E, Scheidecker S, Biancalana V, Sewry C, Romero N, Laporte J, Böhm J. P.114Clinical, histological, and genetic characterization of PYROXD1-related myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.06.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Schartner V, Romero N, Donkervoort S, Treves S, Munot P, Pierson T, Dabaj I, Malfatti E, Zaharieva I, Zorzato F, Eymard B, Taratuto A, Boland A, Deleuze J, Biancalana V, Quijano-Roy S, Muntoni F, Bönnemann C, Laporte J. Dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR, CACNA1S) congenital myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Malfatti E, Lornage X, Chéraud C, Schneider R, Biancalana V, Cuisset J, Garibaldi M, Eymard B, Fardeau M, Boland A, Deleuze J, Thompson J, Böhm J, Romero N, Laporte J. Recessive myopalladin mutations cause congenital cap myopathy with unusual rods. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Böhm J, Schneider R, Malfatti E, Schartner V, Lornage X, Nelson I, Bonne G, Eymard B, Nectoux J, Leturcq F, Bartoli M, Krahn M, Saker S, Richard I, Boland A, Deleuze J, Biancalana V, Thompson J, Romero N, Laporte J. Integrated analysis of the large-scale sequencing project “Myocapture” to identify novel genes for myopathies. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Echaniz-Laguna A, Lornage X, Lannes B, Schneider R, Bierry G, Dondaine N, Deleuze J, Böhm J, Thompson J, Laporte J, Biancalana V. A novel mutation in HSPB8 causes dominant adult-onset axial and distal myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Vandersmissen I, Vander Stichele G, Biancalana V, Thielemans L. Clinical orphan patient pool methodology estimates current patient pool in centronuclear myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ortez C, Natera D, Colomer J, Itzep D, Alarcón M, Frongia A, Jou C, Codina A, Jimenez-Mallebrera C, Martorell L, Biancalana V, González L, Gallano P, Nascimento A. X-Linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM): phenotypic variability. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Annoussamy M, Lilien C, Gidaro T, Gargaun E, Chê V, Schara U, D'Amico A, Daron A, Cuisset J, Mayer M, Hernandez A, Vuillerot C, Fontaine S, de Lattre C, Bellance R, Biancalana V, Buj-Bello A, Hogrel J, Landy H, Servais L. Longitudinal data of patients with myotubular myopathy enrolled in a European prospective and longitudinal natural history study. Neuromuscul Disord 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.06.280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Annoussamy M, Lilien C, Gidaro T, Gargaun E, Chê V, Schara U, Gangfuss A, Daron A, Cuisset J, Mayer M, Arnal J, Hernandez A, Vuillerot C, Fontaine S, Biancalana V, Buj-Bello A, Hogrel J, Landy H, Servais L. Baseline data from patients with myotubular myopathy enrolled in a European prospective and longitudinal natural history study. Neuromuscul Disord 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2016.06.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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R'guiba N, Annoussamy M, Cardas R, Lilien C, Ollivier G, Muntoni F, Bönnemann C, Biancalana V, Cuisset J, Mayer M, Landy H, Ramsdell D, Nelken M, Le Moing A, Gidaro T, Mingozzi F, Buj-Bello A, Hogrel J, Voit T, Servais L. Natural history and functional status of patients with myotubular myopathy enrolled in a prospective and longitudinal study. Neuromuscul Disord 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2015.06.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gorokhova S, Biancalana V, Lévy N, Laporte J, Bartoli M, Krahn M. Clinical massively parallel sequencing for the diagnosis of myopathies. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2015; 171:558-71. [PMID: 26022190 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2015.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Revised: 01/28/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Massively parallel sequencing, otherwise known as high-throughput or next-generation sequencing, is rapidly gaining wide use in clinical practice due to possibility of simultaneous exploration of multiple genomic regions. More than 300 genes have been implicated in neuromuscular disorders, meaning that many genes need to be considered in a differential diagnosis for a patient affected with myopathy. By providing sequencing information for numerous genes at the same time, massively parallel sequencing greatly accelerates the diagnostic processes of myopathies compared to the classical "gene-after-gene" approach by Sanger sequencing. In this review, we describe multiple advantages of this powerful sequencing method for applications in myopathy diagnosis. We also outline recent studies that used this approach to discover new myopathy-causing genes and to diagnose cohorts of patients with muscular disorders. Finally, we highlight the key aspects and limitations of massively parallel sequencing that a neurologist considering this test needs to know in order to interpret the results of the test and to deal with other issues concerning the test.
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- S Gorokhova
- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, GMGF, UMR_S 910, Faculté de Médecine, secteur Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Diagnostic Génétique, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, 1, place de l'Hôpital, BP 426, 67091 Strasbourg cedex, France; Department of Translational Medicine and Neurogenetics, I.G.B.M.C., INSERM U964, CNRS UMR7104, Strasbourg University, 1, rue Laurent-Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, GMGF, UMR_S 910, Faculté de Médecine, secteur Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex, France; AP-HM, Département de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Timone Enfants, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Neurogenetics, I.G.B.M.C., INSERM U964, CNRS UMR7104, Strasbourg University, 1, rue Laurent-Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, GMGF, UMR_S 910, Faculté de Médecine, secteur Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex, France; AP-HM, Département de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Timone Enfants, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, GMGF, UMR_S 910, Faculté de Médecine, secteur Timone, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex, France; AP-HM, Département de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Timone Enfants, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
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Magot A, Biancalana V, Mercier S, David A, Fayet G, Mussini J, Laporte J, Pereon Y. G.P.42. Neuromuscul Disord 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2014.06.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bohm J, Biancalana V, Malfatti E, Taratuto A, Olive M, Eymard B, Weis J, Romero N, Laporte J. G.P.38. Neuromuscul Disord 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2014.06.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Alderighi M, Bevilacqua G, Biancalana V, Khanbekyan A, Dancheva Y, Moi L. A room-temperature alternating current susceptometer--data analysis, calibration, and test. Rev Sci Instrum 2013; 84:125105. [PMID: 24387466 DOI: 10.1063/1.4842255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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An AC susceptometer operating in the range of 10 Hz to 100 kHz and at room temperature is designed, built, calibrated, and used to characterize the magnetic behaviour of coated magnetic nanoparticles. Other weakly magnetic materials (in amounts of some millilitres) can be analyzed as well. The setup makes use of a digital acquisition system in order to determine the amplitude and the phase of the sample magnetization as a function of the frequency of the driving magnetic field, which is powered by a digital waveform generator. A specific acquisition strategy makes the response directly proportional to the sample susceptibility, taking advantage of the differential nature of the coil assembly. A calibration method based on conductive samples is developed.
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- M Alderighi
- CNISM, CSC and DIISM, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- CNISM, CSC and DIISM, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- CNISM, CSC and DIISM, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- CNISM, CSC and DIISM, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- CNISM, CSC and DSFTA, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- CNISM, CSC and DSFTA, Università di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Echaniz-Laguna A, Biancalana V, Böhm J, Tranchant C, Mandel JL, Laporte J. Adult centronuclear myopathies: A hospital-based study. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2013; 169:625-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2012.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2012] [Revised: 11/18/2012] [Accepted: 12/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dancheva Y, Biancalana V, Pagano D, Scortecci F. Measurement of XeI and XeII velocity in the near exit plane of a low-power Hall effect thruster by light induced fluorescence spectroscopy. Rev Sci Instrum 2013; 84:065113. [PMID: 23822384 DOI: 10.1063/1.4811664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Near exit plane non-resonant light induced fluorescence spectroscopy is performed in a Hall effect low-power Xenon thruster at discharge voltage of 250 V and anode flow rate of 0.7 mg/s. Measurements of the axial and radial velocity components are performed, exciting the 6s(2)[3/2]2(o)→6p(2)[3/2]2 transition at 823.16 nm in XeI and the 5d[4]7/2→6p[3]5/2(o) transition at 834.724 nm in XeII. No significant deviation from the thermal velocity is observed for XeI. Two most probable ion velocities are registered at a given position with respect to the thruster axis, which are mainly attributed to different areas of creation of ions inside the acceleration channel. The spatial resolution of the set-up is limited by the laser beam size (radius of the order of 0.5 mm) and the fluorescence collection optics, which have a view spot diameter of 8 mm.
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- Y Dancheva
- CNISM, University of Siena, CSC and DSFTA, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Avila-Smirnow D, Quijano-Roy S, Allamand V, Bonne G, Biancalana V, Dubourg O, Essid N, Ferreiro A, Guicheney P, Lebreton C, Hamida M, Ioos C, Leturcq F, Monnier N, Rubinsztajn R, Romero N, Barois A, Safa D, Viollet L, Wehbi S, Richard P, Mompoint D, Estournet B, Carlier R. P5.62 Garches muscle Whole-Body MRI protocol: Pattern recognition in early onset neuromuscular disorders. Neuromuscul Disord 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2011.06.1091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Fidani L, Karagianni P, Tsakalidis C, Mitsiakos G, Hatziioannidis I, Biancalana V, Nikolaidis N. Identification of a mutation in the MTM1 gene, associated with X-linked myotubular myopathy, in a Greek family. Hippokratia 2011; 15:278-279. [PMID: 22435031 PMCID: PMC3306040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a rare congenital myopathy, usually characterized by severe hypotonia and respiratory insufficiency at birth, in affected, male infants. The disease is causally associated with mutations in the MTM1 gene, coding for phosphatase myotubularin. We report a severe case of XLMTM with a novel mutation, at a donor splicing site (c.1467+1G) previously associated with severe phenotype. The mutation was also identified in the patient's mother, providing an opportunity for sound genetic counseling.
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Belfi J, Bevilacqua G, Biancalana V, Cecchi R, Dancheva Y, Moi L. Stray magnetic field compensation with a scalar atomic magnetometer. Rev Sci Instrum 2010; 81:065103. [PMID: 20590265 DOI: 10.1063/1.3441980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We describe a system for the compensation of time-dependent stray magnetic fields using a dual channel scalar magnetometer based on nonlinear Faraday rotation in synchronously optically pumped Cs vapor. We detail the active control strategy, with an emphasis on the electronic circuitry, based on a simple phase-locked-loop integrated circuit. The performance and limits of the system developed are tested and discussed. The system was applied to significantly improve the detection of free induction decay signals from protons of remotely magnetized water precessing in an ultralow magnetic field.
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- J Belfi
- Department of Physics and CSC, CNISM UdR Siena, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Bevilacqua G, Biancalana V, Dancheva Y, Moi L. All-optical magnetometry for NMR detection in a micro-Tesla field and unshielded environment. J Magn Reson 2009; 201:222-229. [PMID: 19828344 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2009] [Revised: 09/16/2009] [Accepted: 09/18/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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An all-optical atomic magnetometer is used to detect a proton free-precession signal from a water sample polarized in a 0.7 T field and remotely analyzed in a 4 microT field. Nuclear spins are manipulated either by pi/2 pulses or by non-adiabatic rotation. The magnetometer operates at room temperature, in an unshielded environment and has a dual-channel sensor for differential measurements.
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- G Bevilacqua
- CNISM-Unità di Siena, Dip. di Fisica and CSC Università di Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Lubieniecki F, Biancalana V, Romero N, Monges S, Saccoliti M, Taratuto A. G.P.12.06 Progressive muscle biopsies morphological changes in MTM1-related centronuclear congenital myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2009.06.290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Toussaint A, Nicot A, Dondaine N, Kretz C, Poirson C, Zanoteli E, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Echaniz-Laguna A, Bomme Ousager L, Krause A, Jern C, Merlini L, Oliveira A, Biancalana V, Mandel J, Laporte J. C.P.4.10 Mutation spectrum of the large GTPase dynamin 2 in autosomal centronuclear myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2007.06.400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Bevilacqua G, Biancalana V, Breschi E, Dancheva Y, Moi L, Andreeva C, Cartaleva S, Karaulanov T. Coherent population trapping spectra in presence of ac magnetic fields. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 95:123601. [PMID: 16197073 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.123601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Experimental and theoretical investigations are reported on the effects induced by an alternating magnetic field on coherent population trapping resonances. We show that the ac magnetic field produces sidebands of these resonances in such a way that the spectrum observed is similar to those observed via the FM spectroscopic technique. Because of the very narrow linewidth of the resonances, sidebands are resolved even for ac field frequencies as low as a fraction of a kHz. The theoretical model developed, which takes into account a very simple atomic structure, fits the experimental data quite well.
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- G Bevilacqua
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Bertini E, Biancalana V, Bolino A, Buj Bello A, Clague M, Guicheney P, Jungbluth H, Kress W, Musaro' A, Nandurkar H, Pirola L, Romero N, Senderek J, Suter U, Sewry C, Tronchere H, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Wishart MJ, Laporte J. 118th ENMC International Workshop on Advances in Myotubular Myopathy. 26-28 September 2003, Naarden, The Netherlands. (5th Workshop of the International Consortium on Myotubular Myopathy). Neuromuscul Disord 2004; 14:387-96. [PMID: 15145343 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2004.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
MESH Headings
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Bacterial Proteins/metabolism
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease/genetics
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease/metabolism
- Chromosomes, Human, X
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/genetics
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/metabolism
- Mutation
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/congenital
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/diagnosis
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/genetics
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/therapy
- Netherlands
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/physiology
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-Receptor
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
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- E Bertini
- Department of Laboratories, Unit of Molecular Medicine, Bambino Gesu' Childrens Hospital, P.za S. Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy.
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The Fragile X (FRAXA) syndrome is the most common cause of familial (monogenic) mental retardation and is widespread in human populations. This syndrome is characterised by an unusual mode of transmission for an X-linked disease. In affected families, one frequently finds clinically normal transmitting males, whose daughters - also clinically normal - have a high risk of having affected children. The risk of developing the disease (penetrance) thus appears to increase in successive generations of the same family through maternal transmission. As shown by molecular cloning of the fragile X locus, Fragile X mutations are unstable expansions of a CGG trinucleotide repeat, located in the first exon (non-protein-coding) of the FMR1 gene (for Fragile X Mental Retardation). Two main types of mutation are observed in affected families. A full mutation is found in patients with mental retardation and corresponds to large expansions of the repeat. Premutations are moderate expansions and are found in normal transmitting males and in the majority of clinically normal carrier females. About 15% of patients show a mosaic pattern consisting of both full mutations and premutations. Although analysis of the CGG expansion has led to the establishment of reliable tests for diagnosis and genetic counseling of Fragile X syndrome, care must be exercised to use these tools to answer the concerns of the families and avoid doing harm. In our opinion, testing in children should be restricted to those who show a developmental delay, cognitive deficits and/or abnormal behavior evocative of the syndrome. A carrier diagnosis in a girl who is clinically normal should probably only be performed at an age where she can understand the consequences for family planning and the options of prenatal diagnosis. When testing children with borderline cognitive deficits, a positive diagnosis should be used to improve educational strategies for the children - and not to stigmatise them.
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- J L Mandel
- Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM/CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, Faculté de Médecine and Hôpitaux Universitaires Strasbourg, Illkirch-Cedex, Strasbourg 67404, France.
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Atutov SN, Baldini W, Biancalana V, Calabrese R, Guidi V, Mai B, Mariotti E, Mazzocca G, Moi L, Pod'yachev SP, Tomassetti L. Explosive vaporization of metallic sodium microparticles by CW resonant laser radiation. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:215002. [PMID: 11736344 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.215002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Explosive vaporization of metallic Na microparticles stimulated by resonant cw laser radiation has been observed in a glass cell. Vaporization occurs at low laser-power density. The effect consists in the generation of optically thick and sharply localized Na vapor clouds propagating in the cell against the laser beam. The effect is explained by laser excitation of Na atoms, which collide onto the surface of the microparticles and transfer their internal energy. This causes other atoms to be vaporized and to continue the avalanche process.
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- S N Atutov
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Vincent MC, Biancalana V, Ginisty D, Mandel JL, Calvas P. Mutational spectrum of the ED1 gene in X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia. Eur J Hum Genet 2001; 9:355-63. [PMID: 11378824 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2000] [Revised: 01/18/2001] [Accepted: 01/23/2001] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XLHED) is the most common form of the ectodermal dysplasias characterised by an abnormal development of eccrine sweat glands, hair and teeth. The ED1 gene responsible for the disorder undergoes extensive alternative splicing and to date few studies have concerned the full length transcript. We screened 52 unrelated families or sporadic cases for mutation in the full coding sequence of this gene. SSCA analysis or direct sequencing allowed identification of mutations in 34 families: one initiation defect, twenty-two missenses, two nonsense, eight insertions or deletions, and a large deletion encompassing all the ED1 gene. Fourteen of these mutations have not been previously described, including five missenses. One third of identified mutations were localised in codons 155 and 156, affecting CpG dinucleotides and nine of them correspond to the R156H missense. Hypothesis of a founder effect has been ruled out by haplotype analysis of flanking microsatellites. These recurrent mutations indicate the functional importance of the positively charged domain of the protein. Including our data, there are now 56 different mutations reported in 85 independent patients, that we have tabulated. Review of clinical features in the present series of affected males and female carriers showed no obvious correlation between the type of mutations, the phenotype and its severity. The X-chromosome pattern of inactivation in leucocytes showed little correlation with expressivity of the disease in female carriers. Finally this study is useful for functional studies of the protein and to define a diagnostic strategy for mutation screening of the ED1 gene.
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- M C Vincent
- Service de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Purpan CHU Toulouse, Pavillon Lefebvre, 1 place Baylac, 31059 Toulouse Cedex, France
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Giraudeau F, Taine L, Biancalana V, Delobel B, Journel H, Missirian C, Lacombe D, Bonneau D, Parent P, Aubert D, Hauck Y, Croquette MF, Toutain A, Mattei MG, Loiseau HA, David A, Vergnaud G. Use of a set of highly polymorphic minisatellite probes for the identification of cryptic 1p36.3 deletions in a large collection of patients with idiopathic mental retardation. J Med Genet 2001; 38:121-5. [PMID: 11288712 PMCID: PMC1734816 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.38.2.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Laporte J, Biancalana V, Tanner SM, Kress W, Schneider V, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Herger F, Buj-Bello A, Blondeau F, Liechti-Gallati S, Mandel JL. MTM1 mutations in X-linked myotubular myopathy. Hum Mutat 2000; 15:393-409. [PMID: 10790201 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(200005)15:5<393::aid-humu1>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM; MIM# 310400) is a severe congenital muscle disorder caused by mutations in the MTM1 gene. This gene encodes a dual-specificity phosphatase named myotubularin, defining a large gene family highly conserved through evolution (which includes the putative anti-phosphatase Sbf1/hMTMR5). We report 29 mutations in novel cases, including 16 mutations not described before. To date, 198 mutations have been identified in unrelated families, accounting for 133 different disease-associated mutations which are widespread throughout the gene. Most point mutations are truncating, but 26% (35/133) are missense mutations affecting residues conserved in the Drosophila ortholog and in the homologous MTMR1 gene. Three recurrent mutations affect 17% of the patients, and a total of 21 different mutations were found in several independent families. The frequency of female carriers appears higher than expected (only 17% are de novo mutations). While most truncating mutations cause the severe and early lethal phenotype, some missense mutations are associated with milder forms and prolonged survival (up to 54 years).
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- J Laporte
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France
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X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a congenital muscular disease characterized by severe hypotonia and generalized muscle weakness, leading in most cases to early postnatal death. The gene responsible for the disease, MTM1, encodes a dual specificity phosphatase, named myotubularin, which is highly conserved throughout evolution. To date, 139 MTM1 mutations in independent patients have been reported, corresponding to 93 different mutations. In this report we describe the identification of 21 mutations (14 novel) in XLMTM patients. Seventeen mutations are associated with a severe phenotype in males, with death occurring mainly before the first year of life. However, four mutations-three missense (R241C, I225T, and novel mutation P179S) and one single-amino acid deletion (G294del)-were found in patients with a much milder phenotype. These patients, while having a severe hypotonia at birth, are still alive at the age of 4, 7, 13, and 15 years, respectively, and display mild to moderate muscle weakness.
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- A Buj-Bello
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch Cedex, France
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Agulhon C, Blanchet P, Kobetz A, Marchant D, Faucon N, Sarda P, Moraine C, Sittler A, Biancalana V, Malafosse A, Abitbol M. Expression of FMR1, FXR1, and FXR2 genes in human prenatal tissues. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1999; 58:867-80. [PMID: 10446811 DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199908000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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We analyzed the distribution of FMR1, FXR1, FXR2 mRNA, and FMRP in whole normal human embryos and in the brains of normal and fragile X fetuses. The distributions of mRNA for the 3 genes in normal whole embryos and in the brains of normal male and female carrier fetuses were similar, with large amounts of mRNA in the nervous system and in several non-nervous system tissues. No FMR1 (mRNA and protein) was detected and no evident neuropathologic abnormalities found in the brains of male carrier fetuses, suggesting that the FMR1 product (FMRP) may have no crucial function in early stages of nervous system development. FXR1 and FXR2 mRNA had the same distribution and similar intensity in the brains of normal and pathologic fetuses (female and male carriers). The coexpression in the same tissues of FMR1, FXR1, and FXR2, associated with the normal expression of FXR1 and FXR2 and the absence of obvious neuropathological abnormalities in pathological brains, supports the notion that the FXR1 and FXR2 proteins partially compensate for FMRP function. However, the absence of significant overexpression of FXR1 and FXR2 in pathological brains suggests that these genes do not compensate for the lack of FMR1 expression. Alternatively, FMR1, FXR1, and FXR2 proteins may not have compensatory functions, but instead may regulate functions by hetero or homo oligomerization, as suggested by other studies. Thus, a dominant negative effect of abnormal multimeric protein complexes lacking FMRP (e.g. by modification of FXR1 and FXR2 protein functions) may result in the fragile X syndrome phenotype.
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- C Agulhon
- Département de Psychiatrie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genèva, Switzerland
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Franke P, Leboyer M, Gänsicke M, Weiffenbach O, Biancalana V, Cornillet-Lefebre P, Croquette MF, Froster U, Schwab SG, Poustka F, Hautzinger M, Maier W. Genotype-phenotype relationship in female carriers of the premutation and full mutation of FMR-1. Psychiatry Res 1998; 80:113-27. [PMID: 9754690 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1781(98)00055-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The present French-German cooperative study focuses on the genotype-phenotype relationship of mutations of the FMR-1 gene and psychiatric conditions in mothers with a full mutation in the FMR-1 gene of fra-X children (n=13), mothers with a premutation in the FMR-1 gene of fra-X children (n=61), as well as premutated siblings of these mothers without affected children (n=17) and two non-mutated control groups: (1) siblings of these mothers with normal CGG repeat (n=18); and (2) mothers of non-fra-X autistic children (n=42). Mothers with a full mutation in the FMR-1 gene and mothers with a premutation in the FMR-1 gene did not differ in the frequency of any axis I disorder; however, both groups were diagnosed with social phobia more often than the control group of mothers of autistic children. Moreover, mothers with a premutation in the FMR-1 gene of fra-X children and their siblings with the premutation (without affected offspring) revealed a similar frequency of social phobia. Furthermore avoidant personality disorder was more common in groups of carriers of the full premutation than in siblings without mutation or than the control group of mothers with autistic children. On the basis of our data, we therefore suggest that social avoidance (expressed as social phobia or avoidant personality disorder) has been underestimated in previous studies of carriers with the FMR-1 full mutation or premutation. Comorbidity of axis I and axis II psychiatric diagnoses was mainly restricted to the group of carriers of the full mutation and carriers of the premutation of FMR-1. Correlations between size of CGG repeat and IQ as well as CGG and age of onset of axis I diagnosis were non-significant. IQ of subjects had no impact on presence or absence of axis I and/or axis II diagnoses.
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- P Franke
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Klosowski S, Delobel B, Morisot C, Kongolo G, Biancalana V, Thelliez P, Djebara A, Croquette MF, Deroubaix P. [Unusual mechanism in Prader-Willi syndrome: incidence in genetic counseling]. Arch Pediatr 1998; 5:934-5. [PMID: 9759307 DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(98)80208-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Moutou C, Vincent MC, Biancalana V, Mandel JL. Transition from premutation to full mutation in fragile X syndrome is likely to be prezygotic. Hum Mol Genet 1997; 6:971-9. [PMID: 9215664 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.7.971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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In the fragile X syndrome, the transition from unmethylated moderate expansions of the CGG repeat (premutations) to methylated large expansions (full mutations) occurs only through maternal transmission. The risk of such transition is highly correlated with the size of the maternal premutation (PM), being very low for small PM alleles (approximately 60 repeats), to 100% for alleles above 100 repeats. The timing of this transition was the object of much speculation. A postzygotic transition was proposed as a preferred model, based on the observation that males with full mutation (FM) have PM in sperm. Analysis of tissues from affected fetuses, including additional data reported here, indicate that such a putative postzygotic transition would have to occur very early in embryogenesis and most likely before determination of germ cell lineage. At least 15% of carriers of a FM show a significant proportion of white blood cells carrying a PM (mutation mosaics). We performed a simulation study showing that, if transition to FM is postzygotic, one should observe a much higher proportion of such mosaics in offspring of mothers with small PMs. This was compared with the actual pattern observed in 212 mutated offspring of 112 PM carrier mothers. We found no effect of maternal PM size on incidence of mosaicism in leucocytes. We propose that this is strong, albeit indirect evidence against a postzygotic transition to FM. A transition at an early morula stage (before day 3) cannot, however, be formally excluded.
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- C Moutou
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moleculaire Humaine, Faculté de Médecine et CHRU, Strasbourg, France
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Cossée M, Moutou C, Biancalana V, Bouix JC, Plessis G, Delobel B, Croquette MF, Gilgenkrantz S, Lambert JC, Malpuech G, Stoll C, Lanoe JL, Pechevis M, Mandel JL. [Fragile X syndrome is still unrecognized: efficacy of molecular diagnosis in mentally retarded probands]. Arch Pediatr 1997; 4:227-36. [PMID: 9181015 DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(97)87235-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The fragile X mental retardation syndrome is the most common cause of inherited mental retardation. Identification of the unstable mutation responsible for the disease has allowed the design of a fully reliable molecular test for the diagnosis of the disease and for genetic counselling (identification of clinically normal carriers and prenatal diagnosis). We started in July 1991 to search for the mutation in mentally retarded probands, with no known cause for their phenotype. We present the results of a 42-month experience. POPULATION AND METHODS One thousand and one hundred fourty-nine probands were analysed. In case of a positive diagnosis, an extension of the molecular study to relatives was proposed. DNA samples were studied by Southern blot following EcoRI or EcoRI + EagI digestion. Clinical data were collected from referring clinicians. RESULTS Seventy-three carriers of a full mutation were identified, belonging to 52 families. The mean age of the fragile X probands was 16 +/- 14 years, which is very surprising for a disease that causes significant manifestations by the age of 2 to 3 years. This indicates an insufficient knowledge about this disease in France. Most of the demands for the test were from clinical geneticists. This diagnosis is of major importance for genetic counselling, as illustrated by the following study of 108 women at risk in these families. CONCLUSIONS The importance of an early diagnosis followed by an extended family study, for carrier screening and prevention of this severe disease, justifies molecular testing on any child with mental retardation or significant language delay of unknown cause, in the absence of clinical signs formally excluding a fragile X diagnosis.
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- M Cossée
- Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire humaine, faculté de médecine, Strasbourg, France
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Biancalana V, Taine L, Bouix JC, Finck S, Chauvin A, De Verneuil H, Knight SJ, Stoll C, Lacombe D, Mandel JL. Expansion and methylation status at FRAXE can be detected on EcoRI blots used for FRAXA diagnosis: analysis of four FRAXE families with mild mental retardation in males. Am J Hum Genet 1996; 59:847-54. [PMID: 8808600 PMCID: PMC1914785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The original test for the analysis of the CCG expansion at the FRAXE locus involves Southern blot analysis of HindIII digests. We show that, by using a different probe, the FRAXE mutation can be detected easily on the same EcoRI or EagI+EcoRI blots as are used for detection of FRAXA. Unexpectedly, we found that both the expansion and methylation status can be determined on a single EcoRI digest, because of the presence of a methylation-sensitive EcoRI site very close to the CCG repeat. We thus detected in a series of mentally retarded individuals previously tested for FRAXA expansion a FRAXE proband who led to the identification of a large sibship (7 of 10 children carrying a mutation). We also show that two fragile X families without FRAXA mutation that previously have been described by Oberlé et al. have the FRAXE expansion. In another family also ascertained initially by cytogenetic finding of a fragile X site, we performed the combined cytogenetic and molecular prenatal diagnosis of a mutated male fetus. All nine males (>3 years old) in whom we found a methylated mutation had mild mental retardation. Our results suggest that the threshold of repeat length for abnormal methylation and fragile-site expression may be smaller at FRAXE than at FRAXA.
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- V Biancalana
- Service de Diagnostic Génétique, Institut de Chimie Biologique, Strasbourg, France
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Rubinsztein DC, Leggo J, Coles R, Almqvist E, Biancalana V, Cassiman JJ, Chotai K, Connarty M, Crauford D, Curtis A, Curtis D, Davidson MJ, Differ AM, Dode C, Dodge A, Frontali M, Ranen NG, Stine OC, Sherr M, Abbott MH, Franz ML, Graham CA, Harper PS, Hedreen JC, Hayden MR. Phenotypic characterization of individuals with 30-40 CAG repeats in the Huntington disease (HD) gene reveals HD cases with 36 repeats and apparently normal elderly individuals with 36-39 repeats. Am J Hum Genet 1996; 59:16-22. [PMID: 8659522 PMCID: PMC1915122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Abnormal CAG expansions in the IT-15 gene are associated with Huntington disease (HD). In the diagnostic setting it is necessary to define the limits of the CAG size ranges on normal and HD-associated chromosomes. Most large analyses that defined the limits of the normal and pathological size ranges employed PCR assays, which included the CAG repeats and a CCG repeat tract that was thought to be invariant. Many of these experiments found an overlap between the normal and disease size ranges. Subsequent findings that the CCG repeats vary by 8 trinucleotide lengths suggested that the limits of the normal and disease size ranges should be reevaluated with assays that exclude the CCG polymorphism. Since patients with between 30 and 40 repeats are rare, a consortium was assembled to collect such individuals. All 178 samples were reanalyzed in Cambridge by using assays specific for the CAG repeats. We have optimized methods for reliable sizing of CAG repeats and show cases that demonstrate the dangers of using PCR assays that include both the CAG and CCG polymorphisms. Seven HD patients had 36 repeats, which confirms that this allele is associated with disease. Individuals without apparent symptoms or signs of HD were found at 36 repeats (aged 74, 78, 79, and 87 years), 37 repeats (aged 69 years), 38 repeats (aged 69 and 90 years), and 39 repeats (aged 67, 90, and 95 years). The detailed case histories of an exceptional case from this series will be presented: a 95-year-old man with 39 repeats who did not have classical features of HD. The apparently healthy survival into old age of some individuals with 36-39 repeats suggests that the HD mutation may not always be fully penetrant.
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- D C Rubinsztein
- East Anglian Medical Genetics Service Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, UK
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Malzac P, Biancalana V, Voelckel MA, Moncla A, Pellissier MC, Boccaccio I, Mattei JF. Unexpected inheritance of the (CGG)n trinucleotide expansion in a fragile X syndrome family. Eur J Hum Genet 1996; 4:8-12. [PMID: 8800930 DOI: 10.1159/000472163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of inherited mental retardation. CGG repeat alleles are usually classified as normal, premutation, or full mutation based on the length of this triplet in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene. The pattern of inheritance follows a two-stage intergenerational process in which the premutation evolves into the full mutation. Some reverse mutations have been described, but they appear to be very rare. We describe a family in which a mother of two affected males herself carried a full mutation. Surprisingly, her clinically normal daughter, initially considered to be a carrier by linkage analysis, carried a very short premutation. Findings from our family study corroborate the hypothesis that the expansion during female transmission could be a postzygotic event and raise the problem of mosaicism.
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- P Malzac
- CHU Timone et INSERM U-406, Marseille, France
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Mandel JL, Biancalana V, Cossée M, Devys D, Moutou C. [Mental retardation in fragile X syndrome]. Arch Pediatr 1996; 3 Suppl 1:349s-350s. [PMID: 8796076 DOI: 10.1016/0929-693x(96)86101-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Dahl N, Laporte J, Hu L, Biancalana V, Le Palier D, Cohen D, Piussan C, Mandel JL. Deletion mapping of X-linked mixed deafness (DFN3) identifies a 265-525-kb region centromeric of DXS26. Am J Hum Genet 1995; 56:999-1002. [PMID: 7717411 PMCID: PMC1801217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Piussan C, Hanauer A, Dahl N, Mathieu M, Kolski C, Biancalana V, Heyberger S, Strunski V. X-linked progressive mixed deafness: a new microdeletion that involves a more proximal region in Xq21. Am J Hum Genet 1995; 56:224-30. [PMID: 7825582 PMCID: PMC1801308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We report a large two-generation pedigree with seven affected males segregating for an X-linked mixed conductive sensorineural deafness. The patients present with atypical Mondini-like dysplasia, dilated petrous facial canal, dilatation of the internal auditory meatus fully connected with enlarged cochlear canals, and, in one patient, a wide bulbous posterior labyrinth. Obligatory carrier females are mildly affected. Molecular characterization of this family revealed a deletion of locus DXS169, in Xq21.1. Loci DXS72 and DXS26, which, respectively, flank DXS169 proximally and distally, were intact. Since a gene responsible for X-linked progressive mixed deafness with perilymphatic gusher (DFN3) has previously been assigned by deletion mapping to a slightly more distal interval between DXS26 and DXS121, this study indicates either two different deafness genes or the involvement of a very large region in Xq21.
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- C Piussan
- Unité de Génétique Clinique, CHU d'Amiens, France
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Gizzi LA, Giulietti D, Giulietti A, Afshar-Rad T, Biancalana V, Chessa P, Danson C, Schifano E, Viana SM, Willi O. Erratum: Characterization of laser plasmas for interaction studies. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1994; 50:4266. [PMID: 9962491 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.50.4266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Biancalana V, Trivier E, Weber C, Weissenbach J, Rowe PS, O'Riordan JL, Partington MW, Heyberger S, Oudet C, Hanauer A. Construction of a high-resolution linkage map for Xp22.1-p22.2 and refinement of the genetic localization of the Coffin-Lowry syndrome gene. Genomics 1994; 22:617-25. [PMID: 8001973 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1994.1435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The genes responsible for two X-linked diseases, the Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) and juvenile retinoschisis (RS), have been previously mapped, through linkage studies, to an 8-cM region, in Xp22.1-p22.2, flanked distally by two tightly linked markers, DXS207 and DXS43, and proximally by DXS274. In the present study, five Genethon markers have been assigned to the (DXS207, DXS43)-DXS274 interval using somatic cell hybrids and a meiotic breakpoint panel and ordered together with three markers previously mapped to this region. A genetic map, which includes 13 loci and spans a distance of approximately 13 cM, was derived from linkage analysis using the CEPH families. The most likely locus order and map distances (in centimorgans) are Xpter-DXS16-(3.4)-(DXS207, DXS43, DXS1053)-(2.0)-(DXS999, DXS257)-(1.7)-AFM291 wf5-(1.4) - DXS443 - (2.0) - (DXS1229, DXS365) - (2.1) - (DXS1052, DXS274, DXS41)-Xcen. Analysis of multiply informative crossovers established AFM291 wf5 and DXS1052 as new flanking markers for CLS, which significantly reduces the candidate region for this disease gene to a 4- to 5-cM interval. Three markers, DXS443, DXS1229, and DXS365, mapping within this interval showed complete cosegregation with the disease phenotype, giving a multipoint lod score of 14.2. The present map provides the framework for constructing a YAC contig for the CLS and RS region and should be useful for refining the localization of other disease genes mapping to this region. The panel of somatic cell hybrids characterized for the present study has also allowed us to refine the localization of five genes (CALB3, GRPR, PDHA1, GLRA2, and PHKA2) and two expressed sequence tags (DXS1118E and DXS1006E) previously assigned to the Xp22 region.
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- V Biancalana
- LGME/CNRS, U184/INSERM, Institut de Chimie Biologique, Strasbourg, France
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Gizzi LA, Giulietti D, Giulietti A, Afshar-Rad T, Biancalana V, Chessa P, Danson C, Schifano E, Viana SM, Willi O. Characterization of laser plasmas for interaction studies. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1994; 49:5628-5643. [PMID: 9961887 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.49.5628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Biancalana V, Chessa P. Handling of quasi-Gaussian beams by phase plates: far-field simulation. Appl Opt 1994; 33:3465-3477. [PMID: 20885729 DOI: 10.1364/ao.33.003465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Effects of phase plates on focused laser beams are studied numerically. Gaussian beams are simulated when they pass through several kinds of phase device (random phase plates, phase gratings, etc.). Partially coherent and aberrated beams are also considered. Their control by phase devices is analyzed. In particular this work is devoted either to reducing the intensity transverse modulations on the spot region, which are able to excite filamentation instability in plasmas, or to producing such modulations in a controllable way in order to investigate filamentation accurately.
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Chery M, Biancalana V, Philippe C, Malpuech G, Carla H, Gilgenkrantz S, Mandel JL, Hanauer A. Hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia in a female with balanced X;9 translocation: mapping of the Xp22 chromosome breakpoint. Hum Genet 1994; 93:587-91. [PMID: 8168840 DOI: 10.1007/bf00202829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Magnesium-dependent hypocalcaemia (HSH), a rare inherited disease, is caused by selective disorders of magnesium absorption. Both X-linked and autosomal recessive modes of inheritance have been reported for HSH; this suggests a genetically heterogeneous condition. A balanced de novo t(X;9)(p22;q12) translocation has been reported in a female manifesting hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia. In a lymphoblastoid cell line, derived from this patient, the normal X chromosome is preferentially inactivated, suggesting that the patient's phenotype is caused by disruption of an HSH gene in Xp22. In an attempt to define more precisely the position of the X breakpoint, we have constructed a hybrid cell line retaining the der(X)(Xqter-Xp22.2::9q12-9qter) in the absence of the der(9) and the normal X chromosome. Southern blot analysis of this hybrid and in situ hybridization on metaphase chromosomes have localized the breakpoint between DXS16 and the cluster (DXS207, DXS43), in Xp22.2. Thus, if a gene involved in HSH residues at or near the translocation breakpoint, our findings should greatly facilitate its isolation.
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- M Chery
- Laboratoire de Génétique des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM, Faculté de Médicine, Strasbourg, France
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Huntington's disease (HD) has recently been found to be caused by expansion of a trinucleotide (CAG) repeat within the putative coding region of a gene with an unknown function. We report here an analysis of HD mutation and the characteristics of its transmission in 36 HD families. CAG repeats on HD chromosomes were unstable when transmitted from parent to offspring. Instability appeared more frequent and stronger upon transmission from a male than from a female, with a clear tendency towards increased size. We have also found a significant inverse correlation (p = 0.0001) between the age of onset and the CAG repeat length. The observed scatter would, however, not allow an accurate individual prediction of age of onset. Three juvenile onset cases analysed had an HD mutation of paternal origin. In at least two of these cases a large expansion of the HD allele upon paternal transmission may explain the major anticipation observed. Our results suggest that several features of the expansion mutation in HD are similar to those previously observed for mutations of similar size in spinobulbar muscular atrophy and in myotonic dystrophy, and to those observed more recently in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and in dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy, four diseases also caused by expansion of CAG repeats.
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- Y Trottier
- LGME/CNRS, Faculté de Médecine, Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire, Strasbourg, France
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