We describe here a fetus with holoprosencephaly and signs of caudal deficiency sequence. Chromosome examination showed a de novo balanced reciprocal translocation (7;22) (q36;q11) with loss of the derivative chromosome 22 in 50% of the cells examined. The present report and available published data indicate that the terminal region of the long arm of chromosome 7 contains genes implicated in th...

According to the Gα subunit amino acid sequence homology, G proteins divide into four families that can couple to different GPCRs. To investigate the combination of interaction between G proteins (Gs, Gi/Go, q11 and 12/13) and A2A, D2R, or A2A/D2 respectively, Föster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays, with the advantage to analyze protei...

According to the Gα subunit amino acid sequence homology, G proteins divide into four families that can couple to different GPCRs. To investigate the combination of interaction between G proteins (Gs, Gi/Go, q11 and 12/13) and A2A, D2R, or A2A/D2 respectively, Föster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays, with the advantage to analyze protei...

We present an algebraic-geometric approach for devising a deterministic polynomial time blackbox identity testing (PIT) algorithm for depth-4 circuits with bounded top fanin. Using our approach, we devise such an algorithm for the case when such circuits have bounded bottom fanin and satisfy a certain non-degeneracy condition. In particular, we present an algorithm that, given blackboxes to P1 ...

BACKGROUND T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia is a rare aggressive lymphoproliferative disease with a mature T-cell phenotype and characteristic genomic lesions such as inv(14)(q11q34), t(14;14)(q11;q32) or t(X;14)(q28;q11), mutation of the ATM gene on chromosome 11 and secondary alterations such as deletions of chromosome 8p and duplications of 8q. DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed malignant cells ...

Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome (9;22)(q34;q11) is well established in more than 90% of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients, and the remaining 5-8% of CML patients show variant and complex translocations, with the involvement of third, fourth, or fifth chromosome other than 9;22. However, in very rare cases, the fourth chromosome is involved. Here, we found a novel case of four-way Ph+ chromos...