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Volume 90(3);  March 9, 2012

Editors' Corner

This Month in The Journal
Sara B. Cullinan
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 381–382. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.014
PMCID:
PMC3309203
This Month in Genetics
Kathryn B. Garber
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 383–384. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.016
PMCID:
PMC3309202

ASHG Awards and Addresses

2011 ASHG Awards and Addresses
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 385–386. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.004
PMCID:
PMC3309193
2011 Presidential Address: From Classroom to Courtroom to Clinic—Closing the Gaps in Human Genetics Education
Lynn B. Jorde
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 387–389. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.001
PMCID:
PMC3309198
2011 William Allan Award Introduction: John M. Opitz
Maximilian Muenke
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 390–391. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.011
PMCID:
PMC3309199
2011 William Allan Award: Development and Evolution
John M. Opitz
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 392–404. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.025
PMCID:
PMC3309190
2011 Introduction to Curt Stern Award
Aravinda Chakravarti
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 405–406. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.015
PMCID:
PMC3309201
2011 Curt Stern Award Address
David Altshuler
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 407–409. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.017
PMCID:
PMC3309200

Articles

Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci
Richa Saxena, Clara C. Elbers, Yiran Guo, Inga Peter, Tom R. Gaunt, Jessica L. Mega, Matthew B. Lanktree, Archana Tare, Berta Almoguera Castillo, Yun R. Li, Toby Johnson, Marcel Bruinenberg, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Benjamin F. Voight, Ashok Balasubramanyam, John Barnard, Florianne Bauer, Jens Baumert, Tushar Bhangale, Bernhard O. Böhm, Peter S. Braund, Paul R. Burton, Hareesh R. Chandrupatla, Robert Clarke, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Errol D. Crook, George Davey-Smith, Ian N. Day, Anthonius de Boer, Mark C.H. de Groot, Fotios Drenos, Jane Ferguson, Caroline S. Fox, Clement E. Furlong, Quince Gibson, Christian Gieger, Lisa A. Gilhuijs-Pederson, Joseph T. Glessner, Anuj Goel, Yan Gong, Struan F.A. Grant, Diederick E. Grobbee, Claire Hastie, Steve E. Humphries, Cecilia E. Kim, Mika Kivimaki, Marcus Kleber, Christa Meisinger, Meena Kumari, Taimour Y. Langaee, Debbie A. Lawlor, Mingyao Li, Maximilian T. Lobmeyer, Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee, Matthijs F.L. Meijs, Cliona M. Molony, David A. Morrow, Gurunathan Murugesan, Solomon K. Musani, Christopher P. Nelson, Stephen J. Newhouse, Jeffery R. O'Connell, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Jutta Palmen, Sanjey R. Patel, Carl J. Pepine, Mary Pettinger, Thomas S. Price, Suzanne Rafelt, Jane Ranchalis, Asif Rasheed, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Ingo Ruczinski, Sonia Shah, Haiqing Shen, Günther Silbernagel, Erin N. Smith, Annemieke W.M. Spijkerman, Alice Stanton, Michael W. Steffes, Barbara Thorand, Mieke Trip, Pim van der Harst, Daphne L. van der A, Erik P.A. van Iperen, Jessica van Setten, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, Taylor Young, M. Hadi Zafarmand, Joseph M. Zmuda, the Look AHEAD Research Group, DIAGRAM consortium, Michael Boehnke, David Altshuler, Mark McCarthy, W.H. Linda Kao, James S. Pankow, Thomas P. Cappola, Peter Sever, Neil Poulter, Mark Caulfield, Anna Dominiczak, Denis C. Shields, Deepak L. Bhatt, Li Zhang, Sean P. Curtis, John Danesh, Juan P. Casas, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, N. Charlotte Onland-Moret, Pieter A. Doevendans, Gerald W. Dorn, II, Martin Farrall, Garret A. FitzGerald, Anders Hamsten, Robert Hegele, Aroon D. Hingorani, Marten H. Hofker, Gordon S. Huggins, Thomas Illig, Gail P. Jarvik, Julie A. Johnson, Olaf H. Klungel, William C. Knowler, Wolfgang Koenig, Winfried März, James B. Meigs, Olle Melander, Patricia B. Munroe, Braxton D. Mitchell, Susan J. Bielinski, Daniel J. Rader, Muredach P. Reilly, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Danish Saleheen, Nilesh J. Samani, Eric E. Schadt, Alan R. Shuldiner, Roy Silverstein, Kandice Kottke-Marchant, Philippa J. Talmud, Hugh Watkins, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Paul I.W. de Bakker, Jeanne McCaffery, Cisca Wijmenga, Marc S. Sabatine, James G. Wilson, Alex Reiner, Donald W. Bowden, Hakon Hakonarson, David S. Siscovick, Brendan J. Keating
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 410–425. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.022
PMCID:
PMC3309185
Revertant Somatic Mosaicism by Mitotic Recombination in Dyskeratosis Congenita
Marjolijn C.J. Jongmans, Eugene T.P. Verwiel, Yvonne Heijdra, Tom Vulliamy, Eveline J. Kamping, Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa, Ernie M.H.F. Bongers, Rolph Pfundt, Liesbeth van Emst, Frank N. van Leeuwen, Koen L.I. van Gassen, Ad Geurts van Kessel, Inderjeet Dokal, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Marjolijn J.L. Ligtenberg, Roland P. Kuiper
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 426–433. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.004
PMCID:
PMC3309184
Common SNP-Based Haplotype Analysis of the 4p16.3 Huntington Disease Gene Region
Jong-Min Lee, Tammy Gillis, Jayalakshmi Srinidhi Mysore, Eliana Marisa Ramos, Richard H. Myers, Michael R. Hayden, Patrick J. Morrison, Martha Nance, Christopher A. Ross, Russell L. Margolis, Ferdinando Squitieri, Annamaria Griguoli, Stefano Di Donato, Estrella Gomez-Tortosa, Carmen Ayuso, Oksana Suchowersky, Ronald J. Trent, Elizabeth McCusker, Andrea Novelletto, Marina Frontali, Randi Jones, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Samuel Frank, Marie-Helene Saint-Hilaire, Steven M. Hersch, Herminia D. Rosas, Diane Lucente, Madaline B. Harrison, Andrea Zanko, Ruth K. Abramson, Karen Marder, Jorge Sequeiros, Marcy E. MacDonald, James F. Gusella
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 434–444. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.005
PMCID:
PMC3309179
Genetically Determined Partial Complement C4 Deficiency States Are Not Independent Risk Factors for SLE in UK and Spanish Populations
Lora Boteva, David L. Morris, Josefina Cortés-Hernández, Javier Martin, Timothy J. Vyse, Michelle M.A. Fernando
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 445–456. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.012
PMCID:
PMC3309188
Syndrome of Hepatic Cirrhosis, Dystonia, Polycythemia, and Hypermanganesemia Caused by Mutations in SLC30A10, a Manganese Transporter in Man
Karin Tuschl, Peter T. Clayton, Sidney M. Gospe, Jr., Shamshad Gulab, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Pratibha Singhi, Roosy Aulakh, Reinaldo T. Ribeiro, Orlando G. Barsottini, Maha S. Zaki, Maria Luz Del Rosario, Sarah Dyack, Victoria Price, Andrea Rideout, Kevin Gordon, Ron A. Wevers, W.K. “Kling” Chong, Philippa B. Mills
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 457–466. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.018
PMCID:
PMC3309187
Mutations in SLC30A10 Cause Parkinsonism and Dystonia with Hypermanganesemia, Polycythemia, and Chronic Liver Disease
Marialuisa Quadri, Antonio Federico, Tianna Zhao, Guido J. Breedveld, Carla Battisti, Cathérine Delnooz, Lies-Anne Severijnen, Lara Di Toro Mammarella, Andrea Mignarri, Lucia Monti, Antioco Sanna, Peng Lu, Francesca Punzo, Giovanni Cossu, Rob Willemsen, Fabrizio Rasi, Ben A. Oostra, Bart P. van de Warrenburg, Vincenzo Bonifati
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 467–477. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.017
PMCID:
PMC3309204

Reports

Lavinia Paternoster, Alexei I. Zhurov, Arshed M. Toma, John P. Kemp, Beate St. Pourcain, Nicholas J. Timpson, George McMahon, Wendy McArdle, Susan M. Ring, George Davey Smith, Stephen Richmond, David M. Evans
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 478–485. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.021
PMCID:
PMC3309180
The Basque Paradigm: Genetic Evidence of a Maternal Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region since Pre-Neolithic Times
Doron M. Behar, Christine Harmant, Jeremy Manry, Mannis van Oven, Wolfgang Haak, Begoña Martinez-Cruz, Jasone Salaberria, Bernard Oyharçabal, Frédéric Bauduer, David Comas, Lluis Quintana-Murci, The Genographic Consortium
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 486–493. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.002
PMCID:
PMC3309182
Multicentric Carpotarsal Osteolysis Is Caused by Mutations Clustering in the Amino-Terminal Transcriptional Activation Domain of MAFB
Andreas Zankl, Emma L. Duncan, Paul J. Leo, Graeme R. Clark, Evgeny A. Glazov, Marie-Claude Addor, Troels Herlin, Chong Ae Kim, Bruno P. Leheup, Jim McGill, Steven McTaggart, Stephan Mittas, Anna L. Mitchell, Geert R. Mortier, Stephen P. Robertson, Marie Schroeder, Paulien Terhal, Matthew A. Brown
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 494–501. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.003
PMCID:
PMC3309183
De Novo Pathogenic SCN8A Mutation Identified by Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Family Quartet Affected by Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy and SUDEP
Krishna R. Veeramah, Janelle E. O'Brien, Miriam H. Meisler, Xiaoyang Cheng, Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, Stephen G. Waxman, Dinesh Talwar, Santhosh Girirajan, Evan E. Eichler, Linda L. Restifo, Robert P. Erickson, Michael F. Hammer
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 502–510. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.006
PMCID:
PMC3309181
Germline Mutation in ATR in Autosomal- Dominant Oropharyngeal Cancer Syndrome
Akio Tanaka, Sarah Weinel, Nikoletta Nagy, Mark O'Driscoll, Joey E. Lai-Cheong, Carol L. Kulp-Shorten, Alfred Knable, Gillian Carpenter, Sheila A. Fisher, Makiko Hiragun, Yuhki Yanase, Michihiro Hide, Jeffrey Callen, John A. McGrath
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 511–517. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.007
PMCID:
PMC3309191
Infantile Cerebellar-Retinal Degeneration Associated with a Mutation in Mitochondrial Aconitase, ACO2
Ronen Spiegel, Ophry Pines, Asaf Ta-Shma, Efrat Burak, Avraham Shaag, Jonatan Halvardson, Shimon Edvardson, Muhammad Mahajna, Shamir Zenvirt, Ann Saada, Stavit Shalev, Lars Feuk, Orly Elpeleg
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 518–523. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.009
PMCID:
PMC3309186
Use of a Multiethnic Approach to Identify Rheumatoid- Arthritis-Susceptibility Loci, 1p36 and 17q12
Fina A.S. Kurreeman, Eli A. Stahl, Yukinori Okada, Katherine Liao, Dorothée Diogo, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Jan Freudenberg, Yuta Kochi, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, Namrata Gupta, CLEAR investigators, Cynthia Sandor, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Leonid Padyukov, Akari Suzuki, Kathy Siminovitch, Jane Worthington, Peter K. Gregersen, Laura B. Hughes, Richard J. Reynolds, S. Louis Bridges, Jr., Sang-Cheol Bae, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Robert M. Plenge
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 524–532. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.010
PMCID:
PMC3309197
Mutations in LOXHD1, a Recessive-Deafness Locus, Cause Dominant Late-Onset Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy
S. Amer Riazuddin, David S. Parker, Elyse J. McGlumphy, Edwin C. Oh, Benjamin W. Iliff, Thore Schmedt, Ula Jurkunas, Robert Schleif, Nicholas Katsanis, John D. Gottsch
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 533–539. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.013
PMCID:
PMC3309196
Mutations in CTC1, Encoding the CTS Telomere Maintenance Complex Component 1, Cause Cerebroretinal Microangiopathy with Calcifications and Cysts
Anne Polvi, Tarja Linnankivi, Tero Kivelä, Riitta Herva, James P. Keating, Outi Mäkitie, Davide Pareyson, Leena Vainionpää, Jenni Lahtinen, Iiris Hovatta, Helena Pihko, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 540–549. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.002
PMCID:
PMC3309194
Bent Bone Dysplasia-FGFR2 type, a Distinct Skeletal Disorder, Has Deficient Canonical FGF Signaling
Amy E. Merrill, Anna Sarukhanov, Pavel Krejci, Brian Idoni, Natalia Camacho, Kristine D. Estrada, Karen M. Lyons, Hannah Deixler, Haynes Robinson, David Chitayat, Cynthia J. Curry, Ralph S. Lachman, William R. Wilcox, Deborah Krakow
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 550–557. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.005
PMCID:
PMC3309195
Exome Sequencing Reveals Mutations in TRPV3 as a Cause of Olmsted Syndrome
Zhimiao Lin, Quan Chen, Mingyang Lee, Xu Cao, Jie Zhang, Donglai Ma, Long Chen, Xiaoping Hu, Huijun Wang, Xiaowen Wang, Peng Zhang, Xuanzhu Liu, Liping Guan, Yiquan Tang, Haizhen Yang, Ping Tu, Dingfang Bu, Xuejun Zhu, KeWei Wang, Ruoyu Li, Yong Yang
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 558–564. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.006
PMCID:
PMC3309189
Haploinsufficiency of ARID1B, a Member of the SWI/SNF-A Chromatin-Remodeling Complex, Is a Frequent Cause of Intellectual Disability
Juliane Hoyer, Arif B. Ekici, Sabine Endele, Bernt Popp, Christiane Zweier, Antje Wiesener, Eva Wohlleber, Andreas Dufke, Eva Rossier, Corinna Petsch, Markus Zweier, Ina Göhring, Alexander M. Zink, Gudrun Rappold, Evelin Schröck, Dagmar Wieczorek, Olaf Riess, Hartmut Engels, Anita Rauch, André Reis
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 565–572. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.007
PMCID:
PMC3309205

Erratum

Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians
Matthew C. Dulik, Sergey I. Zhadanov, Ludmila P. Osipova, Ayken Askapuli, Lydia Gau, Omer Gokcumen, Samara Rubinstein, Theodore G. Schurr
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 March 9; 90(3): 573. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.003
PMCID:
PMC3309192

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