TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 52, Issue 2 (February 2007)
Editorial
Letter from the new Editor-in-Chief
Katsushi Tokunaga
J Hum Genet 52: 103; advance online publication, January 12, 2007; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0107-0
Mini Review
Developmental dyslexia: an update
Barkur S Shastry
J Hum Genet 52: 104-109; advance online publication, November 17, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0088-z
Original Articles
Human CHIT1 gene distribution: new data from Mediterranean and European populations
Ignazio Piras, Alessandra Melis, Maria Elena Ghiani, Alessandra Falchi, Donata Luiselli, Pedro Moral, Laurent Varesi, Carla Maria Calò and Giuseppe Vona
J Hum Genet 52: 110-116; advance online publication, November 15, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0086-1
Human organic cation transporter (OCT1 and OCT2) gene polymorphisms and therapeutic effects of metformin
Eriko Shikata, Rei Yamamoto, Hiroshi Takane, Chiaki Shigemasa, Tadasu Ikeda, Kenji Otsubo and Ichiro Ieiri
J Hum Genet 52: 117-122; advance online publication, November 17, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0087-0
Patients with primary cataract as a genetic pool of DMPK protomutation
Igor Medica, Natasa Teran, Marija Volk, Vladimir Pfeifer, Edi Ladavac and Borut Peterlin
J Hum Genet 52: 123-128; advance online publication, December 5, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0091-4
Polymorphic Alu insertions among Mayan populations
R J Herrera, D P Rojas and M C Terreros
J Hum Genet 52: 129-142; advance online publication, December 7, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0089-y
Combinational effect of genes for the renin–angiotensin system in conferring susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy
Norihisa Osawa, Daisuke Koya, Shin-ichi Araki, Takashi Uzu, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Yusuke Nakamura and Shiro Maeda
J Hum Genet 52: 143-151; advance online publication, December 2, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0090-5
Interleukin-18 and its three gene polymorphisms relating to allergic rhinitis
Sarka Sebelova, Lydie Izakovicova-Holla, Andrea Stejskalova, Marcel Schüller, Vladimir Znojil and Anna Vasku
J Hum Genet 52: 152-158; advance online publication, January 25, 2007; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0093-2
CYP17 gene polymorphism and its association with high-risk north Indian breast cancer patients
Anurupa Chakraborty, N S Murthy, Chintamani Chintamani, D Bhatnagar, R S Mohil, P C Sharma and Sunita Saxena
J Hum Genet 52: 159-165; advance online publication, January 18, 2007; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0095-0
Genetic polymorphisms associated with adverse events and elimination of methotrexate in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and malignant lymphoma
Hiroyuki Imanishi, Noboru Okamura, Mariko Yagi, Yukari Noro, Yuka Moriya, Tsutomu Nakamura, Akira Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Takeshima, Toshiyuki Sakaeda, Masafumi Matsuo and Katsuhiko Okumura
J Hum Genet 52: 166-171; advance online publication, December 19, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0096-z
Glucocorticoid-induced alternative promoter usage for a novel 5' variant of granzyme A
Yoshinao Ruike, Susumu Katsuma, Akira Hirasawa and Gozoh Tsujimoto
J Hum Genet 52: 172-178; advance online publication, December 19, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0099-9
A genomewide linkage analysis of Kawasaki disease: evidence for linkage to chromosome 12
Yoshihiro Onouchi, Mayumi Tamari, Atsushi Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Mayumi Yashiro, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Yanagawa, Keiko Wakui, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Tomisaku Kawasaki, Yusuke Nakamura and Akira Hata
J Hum Genet 52: 179-190; advance online publication, December 8, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0092-3
Short Communications
Haplotype analysis at the alcohol dehydrogenase gene region in New Zealand M
ori
David A Hall, Geoffrey K Chambers and Rodney A Lea
J Hum Genet 52: 191-194; advance online publication, December 19, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0094-1
A novel intronic mutation that may affect genotyping result of CYP2C8 by polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP) is strongly associated with CYP2C8*3 in a South American population
Heydy Varinia Bravo-Villalta, Koujirou Yamamoto, Katsunori Nakamura, Ana Bayá and Ryuya Horiuchi
J Hum Genet 52: 195-199; advance online publication, December 14, 2006; doi:10.1007/s10038-006-0097-y
