Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994): father of modern genetics.

Love, Violence, Prejudice, And Decay; Displaying Various and Contradictory Aspects of Modern Humankind A Review of Un dieu un animal by Jérôme Ferrari

 This article is an attempt to review Un dieu un animal written by the French author Jérôme Ferrari, translated into Farsi and published by Cheshmeh Publication in 1396. The main goals of this article are to achieve the distinguishing features of the book as well as examining its strengths and weaknesses. The most prominent features of this book are: the confrontations of the past vs. present, ...

A case of paternally inherited congenital myotonic dystrophy.

We report two sisters with congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM) born to a normal mother and an affected father. The congenitally affected daughters had symptoms from birth. The age of onset of DM in the father was 39 years. Analysis of the CTG trinucleotide expansion in this family showed increase in the repeat length with increasing severity, with the smallest expansion in the grandfather and t...

Recurrence of Pallister-Hall syndrome in two sibs.

We report the first definite sib recurrence of Pallister-Hall syndrome in a family without a cytogenetically visible chromosome abnormality. The father of these two sibs was born with nearly identical digital abnormalities and could represent either mild expression or gonosomal mosaicism for a dominant gene.

A further patient with Pai syndrome with autosomal dominant inheritance?

We report a patient with median cleft of the upper lip, cutaneous facial polyps, and lipoma of the corpus callosum who represents a further case of Pai syndrome. The father of the patient showed coloboma of the right iris and shared some facial dysmorphism with his son, thus raising the question of autosomal dominant inheritance.

Portfolio choice and investor preferences : A semi ‐ parametric approach based on risk horizon by Georges Hübner and Thomas Lejeune