The hereditary periodic fever syndromes are a group of Mendelian disorders characterized by episodic fever and serosal or synovial inflammation. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and the hyperimmunoglobulinemia D and periodic fever syndrome are both recessively inherited, while three dominantly inherited syndromes have been described, the best-characterized of which is familial Hibernian fever...

Hodgkin- and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells microdissected from 41 classical Hodgkin lymphomas (cHL) of 40 patients comprising 8 lymphocyte-rich (cHL-LR), 16 nodular sclerosis (cHL-NS), 15 mixed-cellularity (cHL-MC), and 2 lymphocyte-depletion (cHL-LD) subtypes were analyzed by comparative genomic hybridization for recurrently imbalanced chromosomal subregions. Chromosomal gains most frequently inv...

Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma is defined as a high-grade, anaplastic sarcoma adjacent to a low-grade malignant cartilage-forming tumour. Controversy remains as to whether the anaplastic and cartilaginous components are derived from a common precursor cell, or whether they represent separate genotypic lineages (collision tumour). Both components of a case of dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma wer...

To identify recurrent chromosomal imbalances in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, 27 tumors were analyzed by using comparative genomic hybridization. In 23 cases chromosomal imbalances were found. Gains of chromosomal material were much more frequent than losses. The most common overrepresentations were observed on chromosomes 16p (eight cases), 20q (seven cases), 22q (six cases), and 17q (five cases)...

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by dramatic episodes of fever and serosal inflammation. This report describes the cloning of the gene likely to cause FMF from a 115-kb candidate interval on chromosome 16p. Three different missense mutations were identified in affected individuals, but not in normals. Haplotype and mutational analyses disclose...

Subtelomeric rearrangements have recently gained considerable interest through publications indicating that they may be a major cause for unexplained mental retardation and/or multiple congenital anomalies. 2 As the subtelomeric regions have the highest gene density in the genome, subtelomeric aneusomies are in general thought to have a significant effect on the phenotype. Prenatal onset of gro...

● Mutations in the polycystic kidney disease (PKD)1 gene account for approximately 85% of affected families.3 ● The PKD1 gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 16 (16p.3.3). PKD1 codes for a 4,304-amino-acid protein (polycystin 1)2 with as yet undefined function but interacts with polycystin 2 and is involved in cell cycle regulation and intracellular calcium transport. Polycystin 1 loc...

We have sequenced and compared DNA from the ends of three human chromosomes: 4p, 16p and 22q. In all cases the pro-terminal regions are subdivided by degenerate (TTAGGG)n repeats into distal and proximal sub-domains with entirely different patterns of homology to other chromosome ends. The distal regions contain numerous, short (<2 kb) segments of interrupted homology to many other human telome...