TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 12, Issue 12 (December 2004)

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Letter

Three consecutive triploidy pregnancies in a woman: genetic predisposition? FREE

Bing Huang, Larry Prensky, Maya Thangavelu, Denise Main and Shengbiao Wang

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 985-986; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201274

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Articles

Phenotypic variability in Angelman syndrome: comparison among different deletion classes and between deletion and UPD subjects FREE

Monica Castro Varela, Fernando Kok, Paulo Alberto Otto and Celia Priszkulnik Koiffmann

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 987-992; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201264

An excess of chromosome 1 breakpoints in male infertility FREE

Iben Bache, Elvire Van Assche, Sultan Cingoz, Merete Bugge, Zeynep Tümer, Mads Hjorth, Claes Lundsteen, James Lespinasse, Kirsten Winther, Anita Niebuhr, Vera Kalscheuer, Inge Liebaers, Maryse Bonduelle, Herman Tournaye, Carmen Ayuso, Gotthold Barbi, Elisabeth Blennow, Georges Bourrouillou, Karen Brondum-Nielsen, Gert Bruun-Petersen, Marie-Francoise Croquette, Sophie Dahoun, Bruno Dallapiccola, Val Davison, Bruno Delobel, Hans-Christoph Duba, Laurence Duprez, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, David R FitzPatrick, Elizabeth Grace, Ingo Hansmann, Maj Hultén, Peter KA Jensen, Philippe Jonveaux, Ulf Kristoffersson, Isidora Lopez-Pajares, Jean McGowan-Jordan, Jan Murken, Maria Orera, Tony Parkin, Eberhard Passarge, Carmen Ramos, Kirsten Rasmussen, Werner Schempp, Regine Schubert, Eberhard Schwinger, Fiorella Shabtai, Kim Smith, Raymond Stallings, Margarita Stefanova, Lisbeth Tranebjerg, Catherine Turleau, Carl Birger van der Hagen, Michel Vekemans, Nadja Kokalj Vokac, Klaus Wagner, Jan Wahlstroem, Leopoldo Zelante and Niels Tommerup

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 993-1000; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201263

Detect and adjust for population stratification in population-based association study using genomic control markers: an application of Affymetrix Genechip® Human Mapping 10K array FREE

Ke Hao, Cheng Li, Carsten Rosenow and Wing H Wong

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1001-1006; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201273

New tools for preimplantation genetic diagnosis of Huntington's disease and their clinical applications FREE

Céline Moutou, Nathalie Gardes and Stéphane Viville

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1007-1014; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201291

New insights on the evolution of the SMN1 and SMN2 region: simulation and meta-analysis for allele and haplotype frequency calculations FREE

Shuji Ogino, Robert B Wilson and Bert Gold

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1015-1023; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201288

Microarray-based mutation analysis of the ABCA4 (ABCR) gene in autosomal recessive cone–rod dystrophy and retinitis pigmentosa FREE

B Jeroen Klevering, Suzanne Yzer, Klaus Rohrschneider, Marijke Zonneveld, Rando Allikmets, L Ingeborgh van den Born, Alessandra Maugeri, Carel B Hoyng and Frans PM Cremers

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1024-1032; advance online publication, October 20, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201258

A new form of autosomal dominant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD1G) with progressive fingers and toes flexion limitation maps to chromosome 4p21 FREE

Alessandra Starling, Fernando Kok, Maria Rita Passos-Bueno, Mariz Vainzof and Mayana Zatz

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1033-1040; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201289

TLR4/Asp299Gly, CD14/C-260T, plasma levels of the soluble receptor CD14 and the risk of coronary heart disease: The PRIME Study FREE

P E Morange, L Tiret, N Saut, G Luc, D Arveiler, J Ferrieres, P Amouyel, A Evans, P Ducimetiere, F Cambien and I Juhan-Vague on behalf of the PRIME Study group

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1041-1049; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201277

The common PPAR-bold italic gamma2 Pro12Ala variant is associated with greater insulin sensitivity FREE

Raffaella Buzzetti, Antonio Petrone, Maria Cristina Ribaudo, Irene Alemanno, Sara Zavarella, Charles A Mein, Francesca Maiani, Claudio Tiberti, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Elio Vecci, Marcello Arca, Frida Leonetti and Umberto Di Mario

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1050-1054; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201283

Model-fitting and linkage analysis of sodium–lithium countertransport FREE

Sandra J Hasstedt, Nicola J Camp, Paul N Hopkins, Hilary Coon, Jason T McKinney, Richard M Cawthon and Steven C Hunt

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1055-1061; advance online publication, September 22, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201262

CD40 ligand gene and Kawasaki disease FREE

Yoshihiro Onouchi, Sakura Onoue, Mayumi Tamari, Keiko Wakui, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Mayumi Yashiro, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Yanagawa, Fumio Kishi, Kazunobu Ouchi, Masaru Terai, Kunihiro Hamamoto, Fumiyo Kudo, Hiroyuki Aotsuka, Yoshitake Sato, Akiyoshi Nariai, Yoichi Kaburagi, Masaru Miura, Tsutomu Saji, Tomisaku Kawasaki, Yusuke Nakamura and Akira Hata

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1062-1068; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201266

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Short Reports

A novel PTPN11 gene mutation bridges Noonan syndrome, multiple lentigines/LEOPARD syndrome and Noonan-like/multiple giant cell lesion syndrome FREE

Anna Sarkozy, Maria Gabriela Obregon, Emanuela Conti, Giorgia Esposito, Rita Mingarelli, Antonio Pizzuti and Bruno Dallapiccola

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1069-1072; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201290

A second locus mapping to 2q35–36 for familial pseudohyperkalaemia FREE

Massimo Carella, Adamo Pio d'Adamo, Sabine Grootenboer-Mignot, Marie C Vantyghem, Laura Esposito, Angela D'Eustacchio, Romina Ficarella, Gordon W Stewart, Paolo Gasparini, Jean Delaunay and Achille Iolascon

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1073-1076; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201280

Molecular evidence for absence of Y-linkage of the Hairy Ears trait FREE

Andrew C Lee, Angamuthu Kamalam, Susan M Adams and Mark A Jobling

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1077-1079; advance online publication, September 15, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201271

Association of the mitochondrial DNA haplogroup J with longevity is population specific FREE

Serena Dato, Giuseppe Passarino, Giuseppina Rose, Katia Altomare, Dina Bellizzi, Vincenzo Mari, Emidio Feraco, Claudio Franceschi and Giovanna De Benedictis

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1080-1082; advance online publication, October 6, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201278

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Book Reviews

Corneal dystrophies and degenerations: a molecular genetics approach FREE

M Hergersberg

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1083; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201259

Huntington's disease, third edition: Oxford monographs on medical genetics FREE

Zully Gelman Kohan

Eur J Hum Genet 12: 1084; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201284

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