The Roma people, living throughout Europe and West Asia, are a diverse population linked by the Romani language and culture. Previous linguistic and genetic studies have suggested that the Roma… (More)
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by expansion of the CTG trinucleotide repeat in the DMPK gene. Our study focuses on the effect of recently described unusual sequence interruptions inside… (More)
We performed a complex analysis of the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene in Slovakia based on direct cDNA sequencing supplemented by multiple ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA) analysis.… (More)
We investigated the mutation spectrum of the phenylalanine hydroxylase gene (PAH) in a cohort of patients from 135 Slovak PKU families. Mutational screening of the known coding region, including… (More)
Pharmacogenomics aims to correlate inter-individual differences of drug efficacy and/or toxicity with the underlying genetic composition, particularly in genes encoding for protein factors and… (More)
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a common neuromuscular disorder comprising at least two genetically different forms. DM1 is caused by expansion of a (CTG)(n) repeat in the DMPK gene, while DM2 is caused… (More)
Say-Barber-Biesecker-Young-Simpson syndrome (SBBYSS) and genitopatellar syndrome (GTPTS) are clinically similar disorders with some overlapping features. Although they are currently considered to be… (More)
Enzymatic loss in alkaptonuria (AKU), an autosomal recessive disorder, is caused by mutations in the homogentisate 1,2 dioxygenase (HGD) gene, which decrease or completely inactivate the function of… (More)
Bacterial gene therapy - bactofection is a simple and effective method to deliver plasmid DNA into target tissue. We hypothesize that oral in vivo bactofection can be an interesting approach to… (More)
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Non-syndromic hearing loss is one of the most common genetically determined diseases in human. The incidence is approximately 1:700 and most of the cases are caused by mutations in… (More)