TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 13, Issue 2 (February 2005)
News and Commentaries
Population genetics: Female migration rate might not be greater than male rate FREE
Mark D Shriver
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 131-135; advance online publication, November 3, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201329
Evolutionary Genetics: Evolutionary path to the heart FREE
Shu Ye
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 132-133; advance online publication, November 10, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201330
Genomics: Polymorphic landscape of the human genome FREE
Vivian G Cheung
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 133-135; advance online publication, November 10, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201331
Letter
Novel length variant of the polypyrimidine tract within the splice acceptor site in intron 8 of the CFTR gene: consequences for genetic testing using standard assays FREE
Marion Viel, Chrystel Leroy, Marie Des Georges, Mireille Claustres and Thierry Bienvenu
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 136-138; advance online publication, November 24, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201261
Articles
Delineation of mechanisms and regions of dosage imbalance in complex rearrangements of 1p36 leads to a putative gene for regulation of cranial suture closure FREE
Marzena Gajecka, Wei Yu, Blake C Ballif, Caron D Glotzbach, Kristen A Bailey, Chad A Shaw, Catherine D Kashork, Heidi A Heilstedt, David A Ansel, Aaron Theisen, Ritva Rice, David P C Rice and Lisa G Shaffer
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 139-149; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201302
Evaluation of NSD2 and NSD3 in overgrowth syndromes FREE
Jenny Douglas, Kim Coleman, Katrina Tatton-Brown, Helen E Hughes, I Karen Temple, Trevor R P Cole and Nazneen Rahman The Childhood Overgrowth Collaboration
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 150-153; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201298
Supernumerary marker chromosomes in man: parental origin, mosaicism and maternal age revisited FREE
John A Crolla, Sheila A Youings, Sarah Ennis and Patricia A Jacobs
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 154-160; advance online publication, October 27, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201311
One third of Danish hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients have mutations in MYH7 rod region FREE
Lotte Hougs, Ole Havndrup, Henning Bundgaard, Lars Køber, Jens Vuust, Lars Allan Larsen, Michael Christiansen and Paal Skytt Andersen
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 161-165; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201310
A combination of three common inherited mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms promotes longevity in Finnish and Japanese subjects FREE
Anna-Kaisa Niemi, Jukka S Moilanen, Masashi Tanaka, Antti Hervonen, Mikko Hurme, Terho Lehtimäki, Yasumichi Arai, Nobuyoshi Hirose and Kari Majamaa
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 166-170; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201308
Computer-assisted prenatal aneuploidy screening for chromosome 13, 18, 21, X and Y based on multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) FREE
Tommy Gerdes, Maria Kirchhoff, Anne-Marie Lind, Gitte Vestergaard Larsen, Marianne Schwartz and Claes Lundsteen
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 171-175; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201307
Mutation in the 5' alternatively spliced region of the XNP/ATR-X gene causes Chudley–Lowry syndrome FREE
Fatima E Abidi, Carlos Cardoso, Anne-Marie Lossi, Robert Brian Lowry, Danielle Depetris, Marie-Geneviève Mattéi, Herbert A Lubs, Roger E Stevenson, Michel Fontes, Albert E Chudley and Charles E Schwartz
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 176-183; advance online publication, October 27, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201303
A large-scale study of the random variability of a coding sequence: a study on the CFTR gene FREE
Guido Modiano, Cristina Bombieri, Bianca Maria Ciminelli, Francesca Belpinati, Silvia Giorgi, Marie des Georges, Virginie Scotet, Fiorenza Pompei, Cinzia Ciccacci, Caroline Guittard, Marie Pierre Audrézet, Angela Begnini, Michael Toepfer, Milan Macek Jr, Claude Ferec, Mireille Claustres and Pier Franco Pignatti
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 184-192; advance online publication, November 10, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201306
PARK11 is not linked with Parkinson's disease in European families FREE
Jürgen Prestel, Manu Sharma, Petra Leitner, Alexander Zimprich, Jenny R Vaughan, Alexandra Dürr, Vincenzo Bonifati, Giuseppe De Michele, Hasmet A Hanagasi, Matthew Farrer, Anne Hofer, Friedrich Asmus, Giampiero Volpe, Giuseppe Meco, Alexis Brice, Nicholas W Wood, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Thomas Gasser and and The European Consortium on Genetic Susceptibility in Parkinson's Disease (GSPD)
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 193-197; advance online publication, November 3, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201317
Mutation screening and association analysis of six candidate genes for autism on chromosome 7q FREE
Elena Bonora, Janine A Lamb, Gabrielle Barnby, Nuala Sykes, Thomas Moberly, Kim S Beyer, Sabine M Klauck, Firtz Poustka, Elena Bacchelli, Francesca Blasi, Elena Maestrini, Agatino Battaglia, Demetrios Haracopos, Lennart Pedersen, Torben Isager, Gunna Eriksen, Birgitte Viskum, Ester-Ulsted Sorensen, Karen Brondum-Nielsen, Rodney Cotterill, Herman von Engeland, Maretha de Jonge, Chantal Kemner, Karlijn Steggehuis, Margret Scherpenisse, Michael Rutter, Patrick F Bolton, Jeremy R Parr, Annemarie Poustka, Anthony J Bailey, Anthony P Monaco and and the International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium (IMGSAC)
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 198-207; advance online publication, November 3, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201315
Loss of lysosomal association of cystatin B proteins representing progressive myoclonus epilepsy, EPM1, mutations FREE
Kirsi Alakurtti, Ekkehard Weber, Riitta Rinne, Gerit Theil, Gerrit-Jan de Haan, Dick Lindhout, Paula Salmikangas, Pekka Saukko, Ulla Lahtinen and Anna-Elina Lehesjoki
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 208-215; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201300
Pedigree linkage disequilibrium mapping of quantitative trait loci FREE
Ruzong Fan, Christie Spinka, Lei Jin and Jee Sun Jung
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 216-231; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201301
Linkage and mutational analysis of familial thyroid dysgenesis demonstrate genetic heterogeneity implicating novel genes FREE
Mireille Castanet, Sylvia Sura-Trueba, Anne Chauty, Aurore Carré, Nicolas de Roux, Simon Heath, Juliane Léger, Stanislas Lyonnet, Paul Czernichow and Michel Polak
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 232-239; advance online publication, November 17, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201321
Association of haplotypes in the 
-chemokine locus with multiple sclerosis FREE
Tamara Vyshkina, Yin Yao Shugart, Gary Birnbaum, Thomas P Leist and Bernadette Kalman
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 240-247; advance online publication, October 20, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201295
Complex segregation analysis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Guangdong, China: evidence for a multifactorial mode of inheritance (complex segregation analysis of NPC in China) FREE
Wei-Hua Jia, Andrew Collins, Yi-Xin Zeng, Bing-Jian Feng, Xing-Juan Yu, Li-Xi Huang, Qi-Sheng Feng, Ping Huang, Ming-Hong Yao and Yin Yao Shugart
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 248-252; advance online publication, October 13, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201305
Short Reports
No association between three xeroderma pigmentosum group C and one group G gene polymorphisms and risk of cutaneous melanoma FREE
Sandra Blankenburg, Inke R König, Rotraut Moessner, Petra Laspe, Kai-Martin Thoms, Ullrich Krueger, Sikandar G Khan, Goetz Westphal, Matthias Volkenandt, Christine Neumann, Andreas Ziegler, Kenneth H Kraemer, Kristian Reich and Steffen Emmert
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 253-255; advance online publication, October 20, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201296
Phenylbutyrate increases SMN gene expression in spinal muscular atrophy patients FREE
Christina Brahe, Tiziana Vitali, Francesco D Tiziano, Carla Angelozzi, Anna Maria Pinto, Federica Borgo, Umberto Moscato, Enrico Bertini, Eugenio Mercuri and Giovanni Neri
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 256-259; advance online publication, November 3, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201320
Genome-wide screening using array-CGH does not reveal microdeletions/microduplications in children with Kabuki syndrome FREE
Jacqueline Schoumans, Ann Nordgren, Claudia Ruivenkamp, Karen Brøndum-Nielsen, Bin Tean Teh, Göran Annéren, Eva Holmberg, Magnus Nordenskjöld and Britt-Marie Anderlid
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 260-263; advance online publication, October 20, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201309
Corrigenda
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 13: 264; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201364
Loss of lysosomal association of cystatin B proteins representing progressive myoclonus epilepsy, EPM1, mutations FREE
Kirsi Alakurtti, Ekkehard Weber, Riitta Rinne, Gerit Theil, Gerrit-Jan de Haan, Dick Lindhout, Paula Salmikangas, Pekka Saukko, Ulla Lahtinen and Anna-Elina Lehesjoki
Eur J Hum Genet 13: 264; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201365
