This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Department of Pathology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA ...

Background Dandy-Walker malformation features agenesis/hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle and enlargement of posterior fossa. Although Dandy-Walker ...

Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA Correspondence to: Dr V P Sybert, Box 356524, Division of Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine ...

Angelman syndrome ( AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by severe learning difficulties, ataxia, a seizure disorder with a characteristic EEG, subtle dysmorphic facial features, and a ...

4 Department of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Correspondence to Dr Si Houn Hahn, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle ...

Unité de Recherches sur les Handicaps Génétiques de l'Enfant, INSERM U-393, IFREM, Institut Necker, Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Paris, France. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is characterised by ...

1 National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 49, Room 4B75, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4472, USA 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s National ...

Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK Professor M Steel, Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TS, UK; cms4{at}st-and.ac.uk Aim: To establish health ...

One of the strongest predictors of colorectal cancer risk is carrying a germline mutation in a DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene. Once identified, mutation carriers can be recommended for intensive ...

Correspondence to Professor Orly Elpeleg, The Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel; ...

Objectives Speech and language impairments are core features of the neurodevelopmental genetic condition Kleefstra syndrome. Communication has not been systematically examined to guide intervention ...