Medizinische GenetikPub Date : 2024-06-06eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/medgen-2024-2016
Ulla T Schultheiss
{"title":"Freiburg: Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Ulla T. Schultheiss hat sich mit Arbeiten zu den genetischen Grundlagen von Nierenerkrankungen im Fach Experimentelle Medizin habilitiert.","authors":"Ulla T Schultheiss","doi":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2016","DOIUrl":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51130,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Genetik","volume":"36 2","pages":"137-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11154179/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medizinische GenetikPub Date : 2024-06-06eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/medgen-2024-2024
Nuria C Bramswig, Dagmar Wieczorek
{"title":"Syndromology at the interface of evolving phenotypes, epimutations, and model systems.","authors":"Nuria C Bramswig, Dagmar Wieczorek","doi":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2024-2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51130,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Genetik","volume":"36 2","pages":"93-94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11154180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medizinische GenetikPub Date : 2024-06-06eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/medgen-2024-2018
Helga Rehder
{"title":"Verleihung des österreichischen Ehrenkreuzes für Wissenschaft und Kunst erster Klasse für ihre wissenschaftlichen Verdienste um die Tumorzytogenetik und Tumorgenetik an Frau Prof. Dr. Christa Fonatsch.","authors":"Helga Rehder","doi":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2018","DOIUrl":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51130,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Genetik","volume":"36 2","pages":"139-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11154176/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medizinische GenetikPub Date : 2024-06-06eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/medgen-2024-2015
{"title":"Zürich: Prof. Dr. med. Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu zur ausserordentlichen Professorin für Entwicklungsgenetik ernannt.","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2015","DOIUrl":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51130,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Genetik","volume":"36 2","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11154177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medizinische GenetikPub Date : 2024-06-06eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1515/medgen-2024-2014
Bernhard Horsthemke
{"title":"The role of epigenetics in rare diseases.","authors":"Bernhard Horsthemke","doi":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2014","DOIUrl":"10.1515/medgen-2024-2014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epigenetic control systems are based on chromatin modifications (DNA methylation, histone modifications and nucleosome positioning), which affect the local kinetics of gene expression. They play an important role in maintaining cell fate decisions, X inactivation and genomic imprinting. Aberrant chromatin states that are associated with a deleterious change in gene expression are called epimutations. An epimutation can be a primary epimutation that has occurred in the absence of any genetic change or a secondary epimutation that results from a mutation of a <i>cis</i>-acting regulatory element or <i>trans</i>-acting factor. Epimutations may play a causative role in disease, for example in imprinting disorders, or may be part of the pathogenetic mechanism as in the fragile X syndrome and in syndromes caused by a mutation affecting a chromatin modifier. For several diseases, DNA methylation testing is an important tool in the diagnostic work-up of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":51130,"journal":{"name":"Medizinische Genetik","volume":"36 2","pages":"111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11154187/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}