Molecular medicine

Articles

• laminopathies
  15 September 2003

  ’Laminopathies’ are associated with defects in proteins of the nuclear envelope. Most laminopathy mutations have been mapped to the A-type lamin gene, which is expressed in most adult cell types.
  Laminopathies comprise a group of inherited diseases with variable clinical phenotypes, caused by mutations in the lamin A/C gene (LMNA).
  A prominent feature in several of these diseases is muscle wasting, as seen in Emery Dreifuss muscle dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy and limb-girdle muscular (...)

• molecular pathology
  19 July 2003

  Molecular medicine began with Pauling’s seminal work, which recognized sickle-cell anemia as a molecular disease, and with Ingram’s demonstration of a specific chemical difference between the hemoglobins of normal and sickled human red blood cells.
  Part I. Pathology of molecules
  1. Pathology of DNA
  DNA mutations
  DNA replication
  DNA repair
  molecular checkpoints
  polyglutamine diseases
  2. Pathology of RNA
  transcription and RNA synthesis
  RNA processing, RNA splicing, RNA (...)

• haploinsufficiency
  22 September 2003

  Definition: A gene dosage effect that occurs when a diploid requires both functional copies of a gene for a wild-type phenotype. An organism that is heterozygous for a haploinsufficient locus does not have a wild-type phenotype.
  Thus, it cam be considered as a phenotypic state that results from loss of one functional allele of any given gene in diploid cells. Sometimes also called allelic insufficiency.
  See also
  mutations genic (...)

• molecular lesions
  11 March 2006

  A molecular lesion is damage to the structure of a molecule that results in reduction or absence of normal function. Pertains to biological molecules such as DNA, enzymes, and proteins.
  Types
  DNA lesions (DNA damage)
  protein lesions
  lipid lesions
  See also
  Lesions

• molecular medicine
  6 March 2004

  genomic medicine

• ribosomopathies
  30 March 2010

  Ribosomopathies comprise a collection of disorders in which genetic abnormalities cause impaired ribosome biogenesis and function, resulting in specific clinical phenotypes.
  Congenital mutations in RPS19 and other genes encoding ribosomal proteins cause Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a disorder characterized by hypoplastic, macrocytic anemia.
  Mutations in other genes required for normal ribosome biogenesis have been implicated in other rare congenital syndromes:
  Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (...)

• ciliopathies
  25 October 2006

  cilia-related diseases

• disease susceptibilities
  20 April 2004

  genetic susceptibility to human diseases

• molecular oncology
  2 December 2003

  molecular oncogenesis

• molecular psychiatry
  16 June 2003

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  Lehrmann E, Hyde TM, Vawter MP, Becker KG, Kleinman JE, Freed WJ. The use of microarrays to characterize neuropsychiatric disorders: postmortem studies of substance abuse and schizophrenia. Curr Mol Med. 2003 Aug;3(5):437-46. PMID: #12942997#
  Voshol H, Glucksman MJ, van Oostrum J. Proteomics in the (...)

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