TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 14, Issue 7 (July 2006)
News and Commentary
Evolutionary Genetics: Is brain evolution still continuing in modern humans? FREE
Rowena Stern and Christopher Geoffrey Woods
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 799-800; advance online publication, March 29, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201624
Letters
Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens and recombination at CFTR FREE
David Haig
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 801; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201622
Reply to Professor Haig FREE
Pier Franco Pignatti
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 801; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201621
Articles
Scientific rationality, uncertainty and the governance of human genetics: an interview study with researchers at deCODE genetics FREE
Stefán Hjörleifsson and Edvin Schei
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 802-808; advance online publication, April 19, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201626
Localization of candidate regions for a novel gene for Kartagener syndrome FREE
Ilse Gutierrez-Roelens, Thierry Sluysmans, Mark Jorissen, Mustapha Amyere and Miikka Vikkula
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 809-815; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201631
Mosaicism for mitochondrial DNA polymorphic variants in placenta has implications for the feasibility of prenatal diagnosis in mtDNA diseases FREE
David R Marchington, Martin Scott-Brown, David H Barlow and Joanna Poulton
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 816-823; advance online publication, May 3, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201618
KCNJ11 activating mutations are associated with developmental delay, epilepsy and neonatal diabetes syndrome and other neurological features FREE
Anna L Gloyn, Catherine Diatloff-Zito, Emma L Edghill, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Sylvie Nivot, Régis Coutant, Sian Ellard, Andrew T Hattersley and Jean Jacques Robert
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 824-830; advance online publication, May 3, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201629
Parental and chromosomal origins of microdeletion and duplication syndromes involving 7q11.23, 15q11-q13 and 22q11 FREE
N Simon Thomas, Miranda Durkie, Gemma Potts, Richard Sandford, Berendine Van Zyl, Sheila Youings, Nicholas R Dennis and Patricia A Jacobs
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 831-837; advance online publication, April 12, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201617
Differences in methylation patterns in the methylation boundary region of IDS gene in hunter syndrome patients: implications for CpG hot spot mutations FREE
Shunji Tomatsu, Kazuko Sukegawa, Georgeta G Trandafirescu, Monica A Gutierrez, Tatsuo Nishioka, Seiji Yamaguchi, Tadao Orii, Roseline Froissart, Irene Maire, Amparo Chabas, Alan Cooper, Paola Di Natale, Andreas Gal, Akihiko Noguchi and William S Sly
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 838-845; advance online publication, April 12, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201615
Genistein-mediated inhibition of glycosaminoglycan synthesis as a basis for gene expression-targeted isoflavone therapy for mucopolysaccharidoses FREE
Ewa Piotrowska, Joanna Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka, Sylwia Bara
ska, Anna Tylki-Szyma
ska, Barbara Czartoryska, Alicja W
grzyn and Grzegorz W
grzyn
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 846-852; advance online publication, May 3, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201623
Assessing the pathogenicity of MLH1 missense mutations in patients with suspected hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: correlation with clinical, genetic and functional features FREE
Laura Belvederesi, Francesca Bianchi, Cristian Loretelli, Daniela Gagliardini, Eva Galizia, Raffaella Bracci, Saverio Rosati, Italo Bearzi, Alessandra Viel, Riccardo Cellerino and Emilio Porfiri
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 853-859; advance online publication, May 17, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201628
The influence of the alpha-adducin G460W polymorphism and angiotensinogen M235T polymorphism on antihypertensive medication and blood pressure FREE
Hedi Schelleman, Olaf H Klungel, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Albert Hofman, Cornelia M van Duijn, Anthonius de Boer and Bruno H C H Stricker
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 860-866; advance online publication, May 17, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201632
Linkage of autosomal-dominant common variable immunodeficiency to chromosome 4q FREE
Anemone Finck, Jos W M Van der Meer, Alejandro A Schäffer, Jessica Pfannstiel, Claire Fieschi, Alessandro Plebani, A David B Webster, Lennart Hammarström and Bodo Grimbacher
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 867-875; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201634
Short Reports
Sequence variations in the 5' upstream regions of the FBN1 gene associated with Marfan syndrome FREE
Krishna Kumar Singh, Praphulla Chandra Shukla, Kathrin Rommel, Jörg Schmidtke and Mine Arslan-Kirchner
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 876-879; advance online publication, April 12, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201620
Germline fumarate hydratase mutations in patients with ovarian mucinous cystadenoma FREE
Sanna K Ylisaukko-oja, Cezary Cybulski, Rainer Lehtonen, Maija Kiuru, Joanna Matyjasik, Anna Szymañska, Jolanta Szymañska-Pasternak, Lars Dyrskjot, Ralf Butzow, Torben F Orntoft, Virpi Launonen, Jan Lubiñski and Lauri A Aaltonen
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 880-883; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201630
Expanding the phenotype of craniofrontonasal syndrome: two unrelated boys with EFNB1 mutations and congenital diaphragmatic hernia FREE
Pradeep C Vasudevan, Stephen R F Twigg, John B Mulliken, Jackie A Cook, Oliver W J Quarrell and Andrew O M Wilkie
Eur J Hum Genet 14: 884-887; advance online publication, April 26, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201633

