TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 2003)
Review
Risk communication strategies: state of the art and effectiveness in the context of cancer genetic services FREE
Claire Julian-Reynier, Myriam Welkenhuysen, Lea Hagoel, Marleen Decruyenaere and Penelope Hopwood on behalf of the CRISCOM Working Group
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 725-736; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201037
Articles
Anticipation in familial intracranial aneurysms in consecutive generations FREE
P M Struycken, G Pals, M Limburg, J C Pronk, C Wijmenga, P L Pearson, J A F M Luijten, J S P van den Berg, M Vermeulen, G J E Rinkel and A Westerveld
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 737-743; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201039
Mutations in the COCH gene are a frequent cause of autosomal dominant progressive cochleo-vestibular dysfunction, but not of Meniere's disease FREE
Shin-ichi Usami, Kentaro Takahashi, Isamu Yuge, Akihiro Ohtsuka, Atsushi Namba, Satoko Abe, Erik Fransen, Laszlo Patthy, Gottfried Otting and Guy Van Camp
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 744-748; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201043
Class II neocentromeres: a putative common neocentromere site in band 4q21.2 FREE
Pamela C Warburton, Julian Barwell, Miranda Splitt, Darryl Maxwell, Susan Bint and Caroline Mackie Ogilvie
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 749-753; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201047
Linear increase of structural and numerical chromosome 9 abnormalities in human sperm regarding age FREE
Mercè Bosch, Osvaldo Rajmil, Josep Egozcue and Cristina Templado
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 754-759; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201049
Global survey of haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium at the RET locus FREE
Pratima Chattopadhyay, Andrew J Pakstis, Namita Mukherjee, Sudha Iyengar, Adekunle Odunsi, Friday Okonofua, Batsheva Bonne-Tamir, William Speed, Judith R Kidd and Kenneth K Kidd
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 760-769; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201036
Homozygosity mapping of Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome to 5q31 FREE
C Lagier-Tourenne, L Tranebjærg, D Chaigne, M Gribaa, H Dollfus, G Silvestri, C Bétard, J M Warter and M Koenig
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 770-778; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201068
Parametric and nonparametric genome scan analyses for human handedness FREE
Tom Van Agtmael, Susan M Forrest, Jurgen Del-Favero, Christine Van Broeckhoven and Robert Williamson
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 779-783; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201048
Cell death triggered by a novel mutation in the alphaA-crystallin gene underlies autosomal dominant cataract linked to chromosome 21q FREE
Donna S Mackay, Usha P Andley and Alan Shiels
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 784-793; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201046
Analysis of the French National Registry of unrelated bone marrow donors, using surnames as a tool for improving geographical localisation of HLA haplotypes FREE
Anna Degioanni, Pierre Darlu and Colette Raffoux
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 794-801; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201038
From surnames to the history of Y chromosomes: the Sardinian population as a paradigm FREE
Gianna Zei, Antonella Lisa, Ornella Fiorani, Chiara Magri, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Ornella Semino and A Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 802-807; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201040
Short Reports
Portuguese families with dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) share a common haplotype of Asian origin FREE
Sandra Martins, Teresa Matamá, Laura Guimarães, José Vale, João Guimarães, Lina Ramos, Paula Coutinho, Jorge Sequeiros and Isabel Silveira
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 808-811; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201054
DFNB39, a recessive form of sensorineural hearing impairment, maps to chromosome 7q11.22–q21.12 FREE
Muhammad Wajid, Amir Ali Abbasi, Muhammad Ansar, Thanh L Pham, Kai Yan, Sayedul Haque, Wasim Ahmad and Suzanne M Leal
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 812-815; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201041
DFNB40, a recessive form of sensorineural hearing loss, maps to chromosome 22q11.21–12.1 FREE
Sedigheh Delmaghani, Asadollah Aghaie, Sylvie Compain-Nouaille, Afsaneh Ataie, Arnaud Lemainque, Sirous Zeinali, Mark Lathrop, Dominique Weil and Christine Petit
Eur J Hum Genet 11: 816-818; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201045
