Concurrent Sessions

Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 10.45 - 12.15 hrs - Room N-N1-O-O1

C12. Molecular dysmorphology

C70. Cranio-lenticulo-sutural dysplasia is caused by a SEC23A mutation disrupting ER-to-Golgi trafficking
S. A. Boyadjiev
1, J. Fromme2, C. Nauta1, W. Eyaid3, R. Schekman2,4, L. Orci5;
1McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, 2Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, 3Department of Pediatrics, King Fahad Hospital, Khasim Alaan, 11426 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States, 5Department of Morphology, University of Geneva Medical Center, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.

C71. The transmembrane protein meckelin (MKS3) is mutated in Meckel-Gruber syndrome
U. M. Smith
1, S. Pasha1, S. M. Sharif2, P. A. Batman3, C. P. Bennett2, C. Woods4, C. McKeown5, P. Cox6, T. Attie-Bitach7, C. A. Johnson1;
1Section of Medical and Molecular Genetics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2Clinical Genetics, St. James’ Hospital, United Kingdom, 3Department of Histopathology, Bradford Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom, 4Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 5Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital, United Kingdom, 6Department of Histopathology, Birmingham Women's Hospital, United Kingdom, 7Département de Génétique et INSERM U-393, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, France.

C72. Germline mutations of proto-oncogenes in the RAS-RAF-ERK pathway cause Costello syndrome and cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome
Y. Aoki
1, T. Niihori1, Y. Narumi1, H. Kawame2, K. Kurosawa3, H. Ohashi4, M. Filocamo5, G. Neri6, H. Cavé7, A. Verloes7, N. Okamoto8, R. C. M. Hennekam9,10, G. Gillessen-Kaesbach11, D. Wieczorek11, M. I. Kavamura12, L. Wilson13, S. Kure1, Y. Matsubara1;
1Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, 2Nagano Children’s Hospital, Nagano, Japan, 3Pathology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan, 4Saitama Children’s Medical Center, Saitama, Japan, 5IRCCS. G.Gaslini, Genova, Italy, 6Istituto di Genetica Medica, Rome, Italy, 7Hôpital Robert Debré (APHP), Paris, France, 8Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Osaka, Japan, 9Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, 10Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Antilles, 11Universitaet Essen, Essen, Germany, 12Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 13Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

C73. Mutations in different components of FGF-signalling in LADD syndrome
B. Wollnik
1,2,3, H. G. Brunner4, H. Kayserili3, O. Uyguner3, G. Nürnberg5,6, E. D. Lew7, A. Dobbie8, V. P. Eswarakumar7, A. Uzumcu3, M. Ulubil-Emeroglu9, J. G. Leroy10, Y. Li1,2, C. Becker5,6, K. Lehnerdt11, C. W. Cremers12, M. Yuksel-Apak3, P. Nürnberg1,5,13, C. Kubisch1,2,13, J. Schlessinger7, H. van Bokhoven4, E. Rohmann1,2;
1Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany, 2Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 3Medical Genetics Department, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 5Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 6RZPD Deutsches Ressourcenzentrum für Genomforschung GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 7Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States, 8Genetic Service, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom, 9Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 10Department of Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, 11HNO-Abteilung, Klinikum Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 12Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 13Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

C74. Further evidence and functional proof of the pathogenic relevance of TBX1 missense mutations
A. Rauch
1, C. Zweier1, C. Campbell2, H. Sticht3;
1Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2Department of Biochemistry, University at Buffalo, NY, United States, 3Department of Bioinformatics of the Institute of Biochemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

C75. Branching and nucleokinesis defects in migrating interneurons derived from doublecortin knockout mice
C. Kappeler1, Y. Saillour1, J. Baudouin2, F. Phan Dinh Tuy1, C. Alvarez2, C. Houbron3, P. Gaspar2, G. Hamard3, J. Chelly1, C. Metin2, F. Francis1;
1INSERM U567, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, 2INSERM U616, Paris, France, 3Homologous recombination laboratory, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.