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OBJECTIVE To compare clinical pregnancy and implantation rates after transfer of frozen-thawed embryos prepared according to an assisted hatching protocol or a nonassisted hatching protocol. DESIGN A historical cohort study in which a cohort of patients who underwent an assisted hatching protocol was matched for clinical parameters to an external historical cohort treated before assisted hatching was available. SETTING In vitro fertilization-ET facility of a university-based practice. PATIENTS Seventy-nine matched pairs. INTERVENTIONS Nonassisted hatching patients: embryos were thawed, cultured in human tubal fluid + 0.5% bovine serum albumin until 48 hours and transferred. Assisted hatching patients: embryos thawed, cultured in human tubal fluid + 10% synthetic serum substitute until 72 hours, had assisted hatching and transferred. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Clinical pregnancy (gestational sac) and implantation rates. RESULTS Twelve (15.2%) clinical pregnancies per transfer in nonhatched group versus 24 (30.4%) in hatched group. Nonhatched group: 284 embryos transferred; 15 (5.3%) implanted. Three pregnancies (25.0%) had two sacs. Hatched embryos: 269 were transferred; 37 (13.7%) implanted. Eleven pregnancies (45.8%) were multiple gestations (9 twins, 2 triplets). CONCLUSION Clinical pregnancy and implantation rates were higher for group having assisted hatching protocol. It is not clear whether the improvement is due to the overall methodology change or to assisted hatching. Assisted hatching using the zona-drilling technique is not detrimental to frozen-thawed human embryos and may be beneficial.
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- J H Check
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital, USA
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Dimer formation and associated copy number depression is an important cause of multicopy plasmid instability. Natural multicopy plasmids employ site-specific recombination to convert dimers to monomers, thus maximizing the number of independently segregating molecules at cell division. Resolution of dimers of Escherichia coli plasmid ColE1 requires the plasmid cer site and at least four chromosome-encoded proteins: the XerC and XerD recombinases, and accessory factors ArgR and PepA. It has been suggested that ArgR has a role in the initial pairing of recombination sites and we describe here an attempt to detect this process in vivo. Our approach exploits a previous observation that a cer-like site known as the type II hybrid supports inter-molecular recombination and causes extensive multimerization of plasmids. We report that type-II-mediated multimerization can be repressed by a cer site in cis or in trans and propose that this is due to a physical interaction between the sites. If this hypothesis is correct, suppression of multimer formation provides an assay of site pairing. Our results demonstrate that the putative pairing interaction is independent of the topological relationship of the sites and that both PepA and ArgR are involved. Although most recombination-deficient mutant derivatives of ArgR are unable to pair recombination sites, we have found two (ArgR110 and ArgR115) which retain pairing activity. The validity of the pairing hypothesis is discussed in the light of alternative explanations for our data.
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- Department of Genetics,Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH,UK
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Summers D, Walton J. A 74-year-old woman with dizziness, lower extremity weakness, and slurred speech. J Emerg Nurs 1995; 21:177-8. [PMID: 7776615 DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1767(05)80035-2] [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: 01/27/2023]
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Wilkie AO, Yang SP, Summers D, Poole MD, Reardon W, Winter RM. Saethre-Chotzen syndrome associated with balanced translocations involving 7p21: three further families. J Med Genet 1995; 32:174-80. [PMID: 7783164 PMCID: PMC1050312 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.32.3.174] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We describe three families segregating different reciprocal chromosome translocations, t(7;18)(p21.2;q23), t(2;7)(q21.1;p21.2), and t(5;7)(p15.3;p21.2). A total of seven apparently balanced carriers have been identified and all manifest features of the Saethre-Chotzen syndrome, although only two have overt craniosynostosis. In one family the carriers are immediately recognisable by their unusual ears, and clefts of the hard or soft palate are present in all three families. These observations extend previous linkage and cytogenetic evidence that a locus for Saethre-Chotzen syndrome resides in band 7p21.2.
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- Acrocephalosyndactylia/genetics
- Adult
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7/genetics
- Cytogenetics
- Ear/abnormalities
- Family Health
- Female
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Pedigree
- Translocation, Genetic
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- A O Wilkie
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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OBJECTIVE To confirm successful implantation of IVF, cryopreserved human embryos after assisted hatching with acidic Tyrode's solution. DESIGN Case report. SETTING In vitro fertilization-ET facility of a university-based practice. PATIENT A 28-year-old female with nonoperable bilateral tubal occlusion and > 1 1/2 years of primary infertility. INTERVENTIONS The patient was stimulated for egg retrieval after an hMG-controlled ovarian hyperstimulation regime. Luteal phase leuprolide acetate (1 mg) was administered SC for 10 days. The dose was then reduced to 0.5 mg, and she was given hMG and FSH IM twice daily until two lead follicles reached 20 mm average diameter. The patient was administered 10,000 IU hCG 36 hours before retrieval. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Viable pregnancy documented by ultrasound (US). RESULTS After the transfer of five cryopreserved-thawed human embryos that were subjected to assisted hatching using acidic Tyrode's solution, the patient established a triplet gestation as documented by US. CONCLUSION This case report demonstrates that zona drilling can be successfully applied to frozen-thawed pronuclear stage embryos that were cultured to 72 hours without damaging them, as evidenced by continued cleavage and resulting implantation.
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- L Hoover
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center
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Bitner-Glindzicz M, de Kok Y, Summers D, Huber I, Cremers FP, Ropers HH, Reardon W, Pembrey ME, Malcolm S. Close linkage of a gene for X linked deafness to three microsatellite repeats at Xq21 in radiologically normal and abnormal families. J Med Genet 1994; 31:916-21. [PMID: 7891371 PMCID: PMC1016689 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.31.12.916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We have used three highly polymorphic microsatellite repeats from Xq21 to type families in whom a gene for X linked deafness with perilymphatic gusher (DFN 3) was segregating. All three markers were tightly linked to the disease in its radiologically normal and abnormal forms, with a maximum lod score of 10.37 with DXS995 and 8.44 with DXS986 at zero recombination, and 14.03 with DXS1002 at theta = 0.01. In an isolated case of deafness of this type, DXS995 indicated either the first recombination observed between the marker and the disease gene or a new mutation in the proband. Southern blotting using a cosmid fragment from the candidate region has confirmed a de novo mutation by showing a deletion in the proband which is not present in his mother as judged by dosage analysis. We also describe a family with a paracentric inversion associated with a microdeletion and discuss how deletion mapping using these and other markers in the region has helped to define a candidate region for the gene.
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- M Bitner-Glindzicz
- Unit of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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Rose CS, King AA, Summers D, Palmer R, Yang S, Wilkie AO, Reardon W, Malcolm S, Winter RM. Localization of the genetic locus for Saethre-Chotzen syndrome to a 6 cM region of chromosome 7 using four cases with apparently balanced translocations at 7p21.2. Hum Mol Genet 1994; 3:1405-8. [PMID: 7987323 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/3.8.1405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [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] Open
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Saethre-Chotzen syndrome is a common autosomal dominant form of craniosynostosis, which results in the premature fusion of cranial sutures. Craniosynostosis is commonly associated with abnormalities of 7p; Vortkamp et al. (Nature 352, 539-540) demonstrated that the GLI3 gene in 7p13 was disrupted in, patients with Greig syndrome and, more recently, the linkage of genetic markers from 7p with the Saethre-Chotzen syndrome locus has been reported (2,3). Here we report the analysis by fluorescence in situ hybridization of four patients with Saethre-Chotzen syndrome associated with apparently balanced translocations involving band 7p21.2 and different reciprocal chromosomes. We show that in all four patients the breakpoints in 7p are situated within a 6 cM region flanked by the genetic markers D7S488 and D7S493. These results provide further evidence that the genetic locus for Saethre-Chotzen syndrome is located in distal 7p.
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- C S Rose
- Unit of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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Summers D. Plasmids: A practical approach (2nd edn). Trends Biotechnol 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-7799(94)90051-5] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Twenty preterm infants (25-36 weeks' gestation) were studied during intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV) at rates of 10-34 inflations/min. Airway pressure and abdominal capsule signals were recorded at varying postnatal ages. Spontaneous interbreath interval (IBI), inspiratory (Ti) and expiratory (Te) duration were measured over 100-1000 ventilator cycles. Baseline Te was 0.48 s (+/- 0.129) and increased to 0.65 s (+/- 0.182) when associated with a mechanical inflation. Baseline Ti was 0.34 s (+/- 0.062) and increased to 0.38 s (+/- 0.081) with inflation. IBI increased from 0.82 s (+/- 0.161) to 1.03 s (+/- 0.201) with inflation. 1:1 entrainment (phase-locking) was observed at rates of ventilation below the spontaneous respiratory rate but spontaneous inspiration and mechanical inflation were always out of phase. A linear relationship was noted between the prolongation of IBI and the timing of inflation within the spontaneous respiratory cycle during IMV. This relationship could be used to estimate the range of rates of mechanical inflation capable of inducing 1:1 entrainment.
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- S Bignall
- Department of Paediatrics, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK
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In order to define the complex interactions between external stimuli and non-linear physiological systems, a technique (the frequency-tracking locus, FTL) was devised that describes the cycle-by-cycle changes in phase angle and amplitude between two signals. Qualitative assessment of the nature of interactions between the signals can be made by examining the FTL. Quantitation of the extent of entrainment of the spontaneous physiological rhythm is possible after deriving a numerical index (the path-length index, PLI) describing the departure of the system from a fully entrained state. The FTL was applied to the study of interactions between spontaneous respiratory effort and mechanical inflation in preterm newborn babies undergoing mechanical ventilation. Stable and unstable states of 1:1 interaction were noted while integer-ratio relationships were seen at low rates of mechanical ventilation. Stable states of entrainment corresponded to a PLI value near unity, and the value of PLI increased rapidly as interactions became unstable. The FTL may be used to describe complex interactions in physiological systems, and may be used as a guide to baby-ventilator matching during mechanical ventilation of the newborn.
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- S Bignall
- Department of Paediatrics, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
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Evidence for the location of the Saethre-Chotzen acrocephalosyndactyly mutation on 7p21-22 is based on genetic linkage studies in families segregating for this autosomal dominant disorder. Linkage studies were guided by several reports of chromosome deletions in this region giving rise to craniosynostosis and some other manifestations of Saethre-Chotzen syndrome. We report on a family where a father and daughter carry an apparently balanced t(7;10)(p21.2;q21.2) translocation (de novo in the father) and have the Saethre-Chotzen syndrome. These observations support the localization of the Saethre-Chotzen gene to 7p21.2.
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- W Reardon
- Mothercare Department of Clinical Genetics and Fetal Medicine, Institute of Child Health, London, England
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Check JH, Lurie D, Hoover L, Stumpo L, Summers D. Association of higher pregnancy rates with low serum progesterone levels (by radioimmunoassay) at the time of human chorionic gonadotropin not corroborated when using a nonisotopic immunoassay. J Assist Reprod Genet 1993; 10:384-7. [PMID: 8003885 DOI: 10.1007/bf01213437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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- J H Check
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
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Orime Y, Takatani S, Ohara Y, Tasai K, Naito K, Mizuguchi K, Damm G, Glueck J, Summers D, Noon GP. The Baylor-ABI electromechanical total artificial heart. Accelerated endurance testing. ASAIO J 1993; 39:M172-6. [PMID: 8268523] [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: 01/29/2023] Open
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To test the durability of each part or assembled component of the Baylor-ABI total artificial heart (TAH), the authors performed an endurance test under severe conditions. The TAH was immersed in a saline bath at 42 degrees C, which is 4-5 degrees C higher than normal body temperature. This is an accelerated endurance test because of the elevated temperatures. In this accelerated endurance test loop, the 42 degrees C heated saline was circulated not only in the pump but also outside the pump. During pumping, temperatures of the motor and outside surface of the centerpiece were continuously measured. This testing showed that during almost 4 months of pumping no electromechanical troubles were observed. Both inside (motor) and outside temperatures were stable and the differences in both temperatures were only 3-4 degrees C, demonstrating that heat generation is not a problem. The voltage and current required in this system remained constant, indicating stable and reliable performance. Based on these results, this pump is expected to run continuously over a long duration in a normal physiologic environment. This accelerated endurance test system is very suitable for estimating the influence of heat generation by the actuator of blood pumps. It is also quite useful in validating the durability of various cardiac prosthesis.
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- Y Orime
- Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
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We subject to periodic forcing the classical Volterra predator-prey ecosystem model, which in its unforced state has a globally stable focus as its equilibrium. The periodic forcing is effected by assuming a periodic variation in the intrinsic growth rate of the prey. In nondimensional form the forced system contains four control parameters, including the forcing amplitude and forcing frequency. Numerical experiments carried out over sections of the parameter space reveal an abundance of steady-state chaotic solutions. We graph Poincaré maps and calculate Lyapunov exponents and fractal dimensions for a representative selection of strange attractors. The transitions to chaos were found to be either via a Feigenbaum cascade of period-doubling bifurcations or via frequency locking.
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- G C Sabin
- Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
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Jia XY, Scheper G, Brown D, Updike W, Harmon S, Richards O, Summers D, Ehrenfeld E. Translation of hepatitis A virus RNA in vitro: aberrant internal initiations influenced by 5' noncoding region. Virology 1991; 182:712-22. [PMID: 1850924 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90612-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hepatitis A virus (HAV) RNAs were translated in vitro in rabbit reticulocyte lysates. The pattern of proteins synthesized from full-length HAV RNA was highly complex, consisting of a continuous spectrum of polypeptides ranging from less than 20,000 to greater than 200,000 Da. The pattern was not significantly altered by varying incubation times, ion, or other reaction parameters, or by the addition of HeLa or BS-C-1 cell extracts to the translation reactions. Plasmids engineered with mutations in the 3C coding region produced transcripts which directed the synthesis of the same overall pattern of polypeptide products as those transcribed from wild-type sequences, suggesting that protein processing by 3C did not generate the complex set of protein products. Translation of RNA containing only the P3 coding region of HAV, directly adjacent to the HAV 5' noncoding region, generated a set of protein products which precisely matched a subset of those synthesized from full-length HAV RNA. The translation products of P3 RNA, full-length RNA, and mutant 3C-containing RNAs were analyzed by immunoprecipitation with antisera specific for 3D, VP1, and 2C sequences; several products were subjected to N-terminal sequence analysis. All together, the results demonstrate that translation of HAV RNA in rabbit reticulocyte lysates initiates predominantly at a large number of internal AUG codons, especially those in the P3 coding region. A minor population of products is initiated from sites in the P1 and P2 regions. The latter proteins undergo some proteolytic processing, at unidentified sites, catalyzed by 3C protein sequences. Replacement of the HAV 5' noncoding region with encephalomyocarditis virus 5' end sequences increased initiation at the correct polyprotein start site and both reduced and altered the products generated by internal initiation.
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- X Y Jia
- Department of Cellular, Viral, and Molecular Biology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132
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A girl presented at 6 weeks of age with failure to thrive and arching of the back. She had various dysmorphic features, hepatosplenomegaly, and developmental delay. The electroencephalogram and cranial ultrasound were abnormal, and a computed tomogram showed lissencephaly and apparent agenesis of the corpus callosum. Because of frequent aspiration she became oxygen dependent. She later developed intractable convulsions and died at the age of 9 months.
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- N Sharief
- Department of Child Health, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London
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We analyze a disturbed form of the general Lotka-Volterra model of an ecosystem with m interacting species. The disturbances act on the intrinsic growth rates of the species and are assumed to be bounded but otherwise unknown. We employ a Lyapunov technique and the concept of "reachable set" from control theory to estimate the set of all possible population densities that are attainable as a result of the disturbances. To calculate estimates for this reachable set, a number of numerical methods that entail the solution to one or more global optimization problems are developed. Specific examples involving two, three, and four species are solved. We also derive an explicit analytical expression that represents an estimate for the reachable set in the m-dimensional case. The estimate is conservative but can be evaluated without carrying out any optimization procedure. We show that methods developed in this paper can be applied to certain other types of nonlinear ecosystem models.
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- D Summers
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
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- P Bolton
- MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Pembrey M, Fennell SJ, van den Berghe J, Fitchett M, Summers D, Butler L, Clarke C, Griffiths M, Thompson E, Super M. The association of Angelman's syndrome with deletions within 15q11-13. J Med Genet 1989; 26:73-7. [PMID: 2918545 PMCID: PMC1015553 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.26.2.73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 01/03/2023]
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The inheritance of Angelman's syndrome, a disorder characterised by mental retardation, epilepsy, ataxia, and a happy disposition, is debated because affected sibs occur less frequently than expected with autosomal recessive inheritance. After discovering two unrelated patients with a small deletion of the proximal long arm of chromosome 15, 10 further patients with Angelman's syndrome were reassessed. Five had apparently normal karyotypes, four had a deletion within 15q11-13, and one had a pericentric inversion, inv(15)(p11q13) involving the same chromosomal region. In the latter case, the healthy mother had the same pericentric inversion, indicating that the patient also had a submicroscopic mutation on his other chromosome 15. These data map the Angelman locus to 15q11-13 and suggest that de novo visible deletions (associated with a low recurrence risk) and autosomal recessively inherited cases combine to give an overall sib recurrence risk of less than 25%.
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Albajar C, Albrow MG, Allkofer OC, Astbury A, Aubert B, Axon T, Bacci C, Bacon T, Bains N, Batley JR, Bauer G, Beingessner S, Bellinger J, Bettini A, Bezaguet A, Bonino R, Bos K, Brion JP, Buckley E, Busetto G, Catz P, Cennini P, Centro S, Ceradini F, Charlton DG, Ciapetti G, Cittolin S, Clarke D, Cline D, Cochet C, Colas J, Colas P, Corden M, Coughlan JA, Cox G, Dau D, DeBeer M, DeGiorgi M, Negra MD, Demoulin M, Denby B, Denegri D, DiCiaccio A, Diez Hedo FJ, Dobrzynski L, Dorenbosch J, Dowell JD, Duchovni E, Edgecock R, Eggert K, Eisenhandler E, Ellis N, Erhard P, Faissner H, Fensome IF, Ferrando A, Fincke-Keeler M, Flynn P, Fontaine G, Garvey J, Gee D, Geer S, Geiser A, Ghesquiere C, Ghez P, Ghiglino C, Giraud-Heraud Y, Givernaud A, Gonidec A, Grassmann H, Grayer G, Haynes W, Haywood SJ, Holthuizen DJ, Honma A, Ikeda M, Jank W, Jimack M, Jorat G, Kalmus PIP, Karimaki V, Keeler R, Kenyon I, Kernan A, Khan A, Kienzle W, Kinnunen R, Krammer M, Kroll J, Kryn D, Lacava F, Landon M, Laugier JP, Lees JP, Leuchs R, Levegr�n S, Li S, Linglin D, Locci E, Long K, Markiewicz T, Markou C, Markytan M, Marquina MA, Maurin G, Mendiburu JP, Meneguzzo A, Merlo JP, Meyer T, Minard MN, Mohammadi M, Morgan K, Moricca M, Moser HG, Mours B, Muller T, Nandi A, Naumann L, Nedelec P, Nisati A, Norton A, Pauss F, Perault C, Petrolo E, Mortari GP, Pietarinen E, Pigot C, Pimi� M, Placci A, Porte JP, Preischl M, Radermacher E, Ransdell J, Redelberger T, Reithler H, Revol JP, Richman J, Robinson D, Rodrigo T, Rohlf J, Rossi P, Rubbia C, Ruhm W, Sajot G, Salvini G, Sass J, Samyn D, Savoy-Navarro A, Schinzel D, Schr�der M, Schwartz A, Scott W, Seez C, Shah TP, Sheer I, Siotis I, Smith D, Sobie R, Sphicas P, Strauss J, Streets J, Stubenrauch C, Summers D, Sumorok K, Szoncso F, Tao C, Taurok A, Have I, Tether S, Thompson G, Tscheslog E, Tuominiemi J, Dijk A, Eijk B, Vialle JP, Villasenor L, Virdee TS, Schmitt H, Schlippe W, Vrana J, Vuillemin V, Wacker K, Walzel G, Watkims P, Wildish A, Wingerter I, Wimpenny SJ, Wu X, Wulz CE, Wyatt T, Yvert M, Zaccardelli C, Zacharov I, Zaganidis N, Zanello L, Zotto P. Study of heavy flavour production in events with a muon accompanied by jet(s) at the CERN proton-antiproton collider. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01549709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Summers D. A review of clinical cytogenetic services in Great Britain. Med Lab Sci 1988; 45:315-7. [PMID: 3268717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Summers D, Clarke G. Recent developments in clinical cytogenetics. Med Lab Sci 1988; 45:318-23. [PMID: 3077423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Lin M, Imai M, Ikegami N, Bellamy AR, Summers D, Nuss DL, Deibel R, Furuichi Y. cDNA probes of individual genes of human rotavirus distinguish viral subgroups and serotypes. J Virol Methods 1987; 15:285-9. [PMID: 3034943 DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(87)90151-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The use of cDNA probes for detection of rotaviruses has been investigated using plasmids containing inserts specific for each of the eleven genes of human rotavirus strain Wa. In a dot-blot detection system in which radioactive DNA probes were hybridized to viral RNA extracted from cultivatable rotavirus strains, cDNAs of genes 7, 8, 10 and 11, were found to be the most reliable probes for detecting a range of rotavirus strains. Unexpectedly, rotaviruses could be distinguished with respect to subgroup and subtype specificities when cDNAs of genes 6 and 9, which encode the immunologically relevant proteins VP6 (group-specific antigen) and VP7 (type-specific antigen), were used as probe, even though the nucleic acid sequences of these genes are known to have a high degree of sequence homology.
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Summers D, Yaish S, Archer J, Sherratt D. Multimer resolution systems of ColE1 and ColK: localisation of the crossover site. Mol Gen Genet 1985; 201:334-8. [PMID: 3003536 DOI: 10.1007/bf00425680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have identified and characterised a stability function encoded by the high copy plasmid ColK. The function is analogous to ColE1 cer and maximises stability by maintaining plasmids in the monomeric state. In vivo recombination between cer and ckr (which share more than 90% homology at the DNA sequence level) produced a functional hybrid. Sequence analysis of hybrids indicates that recombination involving cer and ckr is site-specific and occurs within a 35 bp region of DNA which contains palindromic symmetry.
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Asamizu T, Summers D, Motika MB, Anzola JV, Nuss DL. Molecular cloning and characterization of the genome of wound tumor virus: a tumor-inducing plant reovirus. Virology 1985; 144:398-409. [PMID: 3840622 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(85)90281-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The double-stranded RNA genome of the tumor-inducing plant pathogen, wound tumor virus, was converted to double-stranded DNA and cloned into plasmid pBR322. Multiple apparent full-length copies of 9 of the 12 wound tumor virus genome segments were identified. The entire sequence of cloned genome segment S12, the smallest of the genome segments, was determined. This genome segment was found to be 851 nucleotides in length and to possess a single long open reading frame that extends 178 codons from the first AUG triplet (residues 35-37): information sufficient to encode a protein of the size estimated for the smallest of the previously identified wound tumor virus primary gene products, Pns 12. Sequence data obtained from analysis of cloned cDNA copies of several genome segments and from direct analysis of the 3' termini of the double-stranded genome RNAs revealed that each wound tumor virus genome segment possesses the common terminal sequences: (+) 5'GGUAUU ... UGAU 3' (-) 3'CCAUAA ... ACUA 5'.
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Changes in the biomechanical properties of fresh cadaveric spinal specimens due to long-term freeze storage and long test periods have been investigated. Fresh cadaveric specimens were divided into three groups: Group A specimens were tested fresh on the 1st day and 13 subsequent days; Group B specimens were tested on the 1st day, frozen in sealed bags at -18 degrees C for 21 days, and tested for 13 consecutive days after thawing; and Group C specimens were frozen for up to 232 days and tested for 14 consecutive days after thawing. We could not find any significant differences between the behavior of the three test groups. This implies that freezing and storage, even for long periods, do not significantly alter the physical properties of cadaveric spinal specimens. Concerning the differences observed on a daily basis, the mean value of the maximum displacement for the 1st day did not differ significantly from the corresponding mean value for the 13 consecutive days. This was true for all three groups, although there was some indication that the fresh group specimens showed greater variation than the two frozen groups.
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Nuss DL, Summers D. Variant dsRNAs associated with transmission-defective isolates of wound tumor virus represent terminally conserved remnants of genome segments. Virology 1984; 133:276-88. [PMID: 6710865 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90395-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Variant double-stranded RNAs are often associated with the genome of transmission-defective isolates of wound tumor virus. These RNAs are replicated and packaged into virus particles in systemically infected plants and are transcribed in vitro by the virion-associated transcriptase. Direct physical evidence that the variant RNAs are remnants of particular WTV genome segments was provided by molecular hybridization studies. Subsequently, ribonuclease T1 digestion products of 3'-end-labeled genome and remnant RNAs were analyzed by one- and two-dimensional electrophoretic techniques. One-dimensional partial and complete digestion patterns were indistinguishable, indicating that the guanosine positions relative to the 3' terminus of the corresponding strands of a particular genome segment and its remnant RNA are the same for at least 40 nucleotides from each end. Fingerprints of the 3' terminal ribonuclease T1-resistant fragments were identical, showing that the nucleotide composition of the 3' terminal ends of the corresponding strands of a particular genome segment and its remnant RNA are also identical. These results indicate that variant RNAs associated with transmission-defective WTV isolates are formed by deletion of an internal portion (as much as 85%) of genomic RNA segments yielding terminally conserved genomic remnants that are functional with respect to transcription, replication, and packaging.
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Summers D. Living with dying. Nurs Mirror 1984; 158:14-18. [PMID: 6559344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Sherratt D, Dyson P, Boocock M, Brown L, Summers D, Stewart G, Chan P. Site-specific recombination in transposition and plasmid stability. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1984; 49:227-33. [PMID: 6099237 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1984.049.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Biatrial myxomas are extremely rare, and by 1970 only three of eight attempts at removal had been successful. Another successful removal, the difficulty of establishing the biatrial nature of a myxoma by echocardiography, and a summary of the distribution patterns of biatrial myxomas are presented here. In more than 50% of patients, both pedicles grew into separate atrial chambers from a common location in the atrial septum. The surgical implications are discussed.
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Galanakis DK, Newman J, Summers D. Circulating thrombin time anticoagulant in a procainamide-induced syndrome. JAMA 1978; 239:1873-4. [PMID: 642115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Circulating anticoagulants are unusual in drug-induced syndromes. We evaluated the prolonged thrombin time of plasma from a patient with a procainamide-induced syndrome. This defect was shown to be due to a circulating anticoagulant that was not of fibrin or fibrinogen origin and that prolonged thrombin and reptilase clotting times of plasma. Subclinical doses of heparin sodium induced hemorrhagic manifestations in this patient. Following cessation of heparin therapy, the circulating anticoagulant persisted but the bleeding tendency abated. All clinical and laboratory manifestations of this syndrome abated gradually following cessation of procainamide therapy.
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Piccone VA, LeVeen HH, Sawyer P, Potter R, Manoli A, Thompson E, Oran E, Summers D, Luterstein J, Sass M. Incidence and mechanisms of myocardial infarction following coronary artery surgery. Angiology 1973; 24:590-602. [PMID: 4543399 DOI: 10.1177/000331977302401002] [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: 01/11/2023]
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Piccone VA, LeVeen H, Sawyer P, Potter R, Manoli A, Summers D, Oran E, Thompson E, Lauterstein J. The several mechanisms of anginal relief following direct cardiac revascularization. Angiology 1973; 24:520-7. [PMID: 4543281 DOI: 10.1177/000331977302400902] [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: 01/11/2023]
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DeWeese JA, Rob CG, Satran R, Marsh DO, Joynt RJ, Summers D, Nichols C. Results of carotid endarterectomies for transient ischemic attacks-five years later. Ann Surg 1973; 178:258-64. [PMID: 4729750 PMCID: PMC1355795 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-197309000-00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Röhl D, Summers D. [Treatment of cardiogenic shock following myocardial infarct]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1973; 98:1537-9. [PMID: 4542202 DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1107075] [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: 01/11/2023]
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Röhl D, Summers D, Nacht R, Saul B, Wechsler B, Sawyer PN, Rubin R, Keates J, O'Malley G, Stuckey J, Dennis C. [Proceedings: Intraaortic balloon pumping and attempted acute revascularisation in patients with cardiogenic shock following myocardial infarction (author's transl)]. Thoraxchir Vask Chir 1973; 21:332-6. [PMID: 4542980 DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1098687] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Scheidt S, Wilner G, Mueller H, Summers D, Lesch M, Wolff G, Krakauer J, Rubenfire M, Fleming P, Noon G, Oldham N, Killip T, Kantrowitz A. Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in cardiogenic shock. Report of a co-operative clinical trial. N Engl J Med 1973; 288:979-84. [PMID: 4696253 DOI: 10.1056/nejm197305102881901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 436] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Piccone VA, Sawyer PN, Potter RT, Le Veen HH, Manoli A, Summers D, Oran E, Thompson E, Nacht R, Lauterstein J. Metabolic, angiographic and hemodynamic effects of direct and indirect cardiac revascularization in the early and late post operative period. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 1972; 13:350-60. [PMID: 4537941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Summers D, Nacht R, Rohl D, Saul B, Wechsler B, Sawyer PN, Rubin R, Keates J, O'Malley G, Stuckey J, Dennis C. Combined pharmacologic, pump support and surgical attempts to salvage patients in cardiogenic shock. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 1972; 13:313-23. [PMID: 5046065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Sawyer PN, Kaplitt MJ, Rubin R, Costello M, Parmeggiani A, Dennis C, Summers D, Wechsler B, Nacht R, Norris J, Saul B. Salvage of patients in cardiogenic shock. Eur Surg Res 1971; 3:389-401. [PMID: 5158952 DOI: 10.1159/000127585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Chait A, Summers D, Krasnow N, Wechsler BM. Observations on the fate of large pulmonary emboli. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med 1967; 100:364-73. [PMID: 6025207 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.100.2.364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Horner ECA, Style DWG, Summers D. The oxidation of formaldehyde. Part 2.—General discussion and mechanism of the reaction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1954. [DOI: 10.1039/tf9545001201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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