Collaborative Innovation Project of Zhengzhou (Zhengzhou University)(No. 18XTZX12004)
To the Editor:Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans.There is one case of congenital deafness among every 1000 newborns,and in 50%of cases,the deafness is hereditary.Deafness exhibits high genetic ...
funded by the Technological Innovation Research and Development Projects,Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau,Chengdu,Sichuan(No.2019-YF05-00464-SN,Liu Hao).
To the Editor:Cervical disc degenerative disease(CDDD)is a common clinical spinal disease,which has a great impact on the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly patients.[1,2]Although it is challenged by advanced ...
To the Editor: Hong Kong is a place with a high standard of medical and obstetrical cares. One of the major indicators of health care standard is the rate of maternal death. Over the past few decades, the maternal mor...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.82072271,81772165,and 81974303);the National 13th Five-Year Grand Program on Key Infectious Disease Control(Nos.2017ZX10202101-004-001,2017ZX10202102-005-003);the NSFC-NIH Biomedical collaborative research program(No.81761128001);the Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research(No.BZ0089)。
A massive depletion of CD4+T lymphocytes has been described in early and acute human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)infection,leading to an imbalance between the human microbiome and immune responses.In recent years,a gro...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81671237,81974193).
To the Editor:Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2(FSHD2)is an epigenetic myopathy caused by variants in genes encoding chromatin regulators,such as SMCHD1:these variants lead to derepression of the D4Z4-enco...
This work was supported by the grants &om the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81530029);the International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.8171001156);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81771007);the National Natural Science Foundation of the State Youth Fund (No.81800919).
To the Editor: POU domain class 3 transcription factor 4 or BRN-4 (POU3F4) is a causative gene of non-syndromic X-linked hearing loss (HL), which is characterized by inner ear anomalies. To date, six X-linked non-synd...
This study was supported by grants from Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission Youth Project (No. 20144Y0210) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81400388).
To the Editor: Reduced vision impacts not only the individual but also the family, community, and public health. It leads to a significant economic burden, including increased education cost, reduced personal income,...
This work was supported by a grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81771358).
Background: Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) syndrome is characterized by myoclonus, generalized epilepsy, cerebellar ataxia, and ragged red fibers (RRFs) in the muscle. T-to-C transition at nucl...
This study was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81125009), and the research foundation for distinguished scholar of Zhejiang University (No. 188020-193810101/089).
Background:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy.A great number of causative genes have been described in CMT,and among them,the heterozygous duplication of peripheral...
This study was supported by a grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81471185).Acknowledgments We thank the patient and her family for their participation in this study. We also thank the MyGenome Institute for their kind administrative assistance.
The C12orf65 gene is a nuclear gene that encodes a mitochondrial matrix protein contributing to mitochondrial translation. C12orf65 gene-related diseases are rare and present with large heterophenotypes. Most of the r...