TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 16, Issue 12 (December 2008)
Articles
Investigation of the fine structure of European populations with applications to disease association studies
Simon C Heath, Ivo G Gut, Paul Brennan, James D McKay, Vladimir Bencko, Eleonora Fabianova, Lenka Foretova, Michael Georges, Vladimir Janout, Michael Kabesch, Hans E Krokan, Maiken B Elvestad, Jolanta Lissowska, Dana Mates, Peter Rudnai, Frank Skorpen, Stefan Schreiber, José M Soria, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Pierre Meneton, Serge Herçberg, Pilar Galan, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, David Zaridze, Emmanuel Génin, Lon R Cardon and Mark Lathrop
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1413-1429; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.210
Mid-frequency DFNA8/12 hearing loss caused by a synonymous TECTA mutation that affects an exonic splice enhancer
Rob W J Collin, Anne-Martine R de Heer, Jaap Oostrik, Robert-Jan Pauw, Rutger F Plantinga, Patrick L Huygen, Ronald Admiraal, Arjan P M de Brouwer, Tim M Strom, Cor W R J Cremers and Hannie Kremer
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1430-1436; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.110
Familial aggregation of preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction in a genetically isolated population in The Netherlands
Anne L Berends, Eric A Steegers, Aaron Isaacs, Y S Aulchenko, Fan Liu, Christianne J de Groot, Ben A Oostra and Cornelia M van Duijn
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1437-1442; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.118
Detailed phenotype–genotype study in five patients with chromosome 6q16 deletion: narrowing the critical region for Prader–Willi-like phenotype
Maria Clara Bonaglia, Roberto Ciccone, Giorgio Gimelli, Stefania Gimelli, Susan Marelli, Joke Verheij, Roberto Giorda, Rita Grasso, Renato Borgatti, Filomena Pagone, Laura Rodrìguez, Maria-Luisa Martinez-Frias, Conny van Ravenswaaij and Orsetta Zuffardi
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1443-1449; advance online publication, July 23, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.119
Array-based comparative genomic hybridization of mapped BAC DNA clones to screen for chromosome 14 copy number abnormalities in meningiomas
Ana Belén Espinosa, Carlos Mackintosh, Angel Maíllo, Laura Gutierrez, Pablo Sousa, Marta Merino, Javier Ortiz, Enrique de Alava, Alberto Orfao and María Dolores Tabernero
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1450-1458; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.128
Characterization of a 7.6-Mb germline deletion encompassing the NF1 locus and about a hundred genes in an NF1 contiguous gene syndrome patient
Eric Pasmant, Aurélie de Saint-Trivier, Ingrid Laurendeau, Anne Dieux-Coeslier, Béatrice Parfait, Michel Vidaud, Dominique Vidaud and Ivan Bièche
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1459-1466; advance online publication, July 23, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.134
What process attributes of clinical genetics services could maximise patient benefits?
Marion McAllister, Katherine Payne, Rhona MacLeod, Stuart Nicholls, Dian Donnai and Linda Davies
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1467-1476; advance online publication, July 2, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.121
Deciphering the genetics of hereditary non-syndromic colorectal cancer
Eli Papaemmanuil, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Gabrielle S Sellick, Zoe Kemp, Emily Webb, Sarah Spain, Kate Sullivan, Ella Barclay, Steven Lubbe, Emma Jaeger, Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Peter Broderick, Maggie Gorman, Lynn Martin, Anneke Lucassen, D Timothy Bishop, D Gareth Evans, Eamonn R Maher, Verena Steinke, Nils Rahner, Hans K Schackert, Timm O Goecke, Elke Holinski-Feder, Peter Propping, Tom Van Wezel, Juul Wijnen, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Huw Thomas, Richard S Houlston and Ian Tomlinson The CORGI Consortium
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1477-1486; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.129
Epigenetic analysis reveals a euchromatic configuration in the FMR1 unmethylated full mutations
Elisabetta Tabolacci, Umberto Moscato, Francesca Zalfa, Claudia Bagni, Pietro Chiurazzi and Giovanni Neri
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1487-1498; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.130
Axonal neuropathy with unusual pattern of amyotrophy and alacrima associated with a novel AAAS mutation p.Leu430Phe
Katrin Koehler, Knut Brockmann, Manuela Krumbholz, Barbara Kind, Carsten Bönnemann, Jutta Gärtner and Angela Huebner
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1499-1506; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.132
Replication of the Wellcome Trust genome-wide association study of essential hypertension: the Family Blood Pressure Program
Georg B Ehret, Alanna C Morrison, Ashley A O'Connor, Megan L Grove, Lisa Baird, Karen Schwander, Alan Weder, Richard S Cooper, D C Rao, Steven C Hunt, Eric Boerwinkle and Aravinda Chakravarti
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1507-1511; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.102
Haplotypic analysis of tag SNPs of the interleukin-18 gene in relation to cardiovascular disease events: the MORGAM Project
Marie-Lise Grisoni, Carole Proust, Mervi Alanne, Maylis DeSuremain, Veikko Salomaa, Kari Kuulasmaa, François Cambien, Viviane Nicaud, Birgitta Stegmayr, Jarmo Virtamo, Denis Shields, Frank Kee, Laurence Tiret, Alun Evans and David-Alexandre Tregouet for The MORGAM Project
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1512-1520; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.127
Influence of MUC1 genetic variation on prostate cancer risk and survival
Rona J Strawbridge, Monica Nister, Kerstin Brismar, Chunde Li and Sara Lindström
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1521-1525; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.131
Genetic diversity patterns at the human clock gene period 2 are suggestive of population-specific positive selection
Fulvio Cruciani, Beniamino Trombetta, Damian Labuda, David Modiano, Antonio Torroni, Rodolfo Costa and Rosaria Scozzari
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1526-1534; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.105
Predicting the number and sizes of IBD regions among family members and evaluating the family size requirement for linkage studies
Wanling Yang, Zhanyong Wang, Lusheng Wang, Pak-Chung Sham, Peng Huang and Yu Lung Lau
Eur J Hum Genet 16: 1535-1543; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.116
