1. Genetic testing and risk assessment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

   • Shuji Ogino
   • Robert B. Wilson

   Review Article Pages: 477 - 500

2. Intronic mutations outside of Alu-repeat-rich domains of the LDL receptor gene are a cause of familial hypercholesterolemia

   • Sabine Amsellem
   • Dorothée Briffaut
   • Pascale Benlian

   Original Investigation Pages: 501 - 510

3. A novel approach for identifying candidate imprinted genes through sequence analysis of imprinted and control genes

   • Xiayi Ke
   • Simon N. Thomas
   • Andrew Collins

   Original Investigation Pages: 511 - 520

4. Population variation in linkage disequilibrium across the COMT gene considering promoter region and coding region variation

   • Mellissa M. DeMille
   • Judith R. Kidd
   • Kenneth K. Kidd

   Original Investigation Pages: 521 - 537

5. Hereditary haemochromatosis: only 1% of adult HFE C282Y homozygotes in South Wales have a clinical diagnosis of iron overload

   • Anne C. McCune
   • Layla N. Al-Jader
   • Mark Worwood

   Original Investigation Pages: 538 - 543

6. Autosomal recessive renal glucosuria attributable to a mutation in the sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT2)

   • L. van den Heuvel
   • K. Assink
   • L. Monnens

   Original Investigation Pages: 544 - 547

7. Unusual deep intronic mutations in the COL4A5 gene cause X linked Alport syndrome

   • Kathy King
   • Frances A. Flinter
   • Peter M. Green

   Original Investigation Pages: 548 - 554

8. Nonsense-mediated RNA decay in the TSC1 gene suggests a useful tool pre- and post-positional cloning

   • Dharini Jeganathan
   • Margaret F. Fox
   • Sue Povey

   Original Investigation Pages: 555 - 565

9. Markers that discriminate between European and African ancestry show limited variation within Africa

   • Heather E. Collins-Schramm
   • Rick A. Kittles
   • Michael F. Seldin

   Short Report Pages: 566 - 569

10. Association found between the promoter region polymorphism in the apolipoprotein A-V gene and the serum triglyceride level in Japanese schoolchildren

    • Kazue Endo
    • Hisako Yanagi
    • Shigeo Tomura

    Short Report Pages: 570 - 572

11. Positive results in association studies are associated with departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium: hint for genotyping error?

    • Jianfeng Xu
    • Aubrey Turner
    • Deborah A. Meyers

    Food for Thought Pages: 573 - 574

12. Evidence against the long-term persistence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma after pregnancy

    • Chanda N. Johnson-Hopson
    • Carol M. Artlett

    Letter to the Editors Pages: 575 - 575

13. Presence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma decades after pregnancy: further comments

    • Pietro Invernizzi
    • Pier Battezzati
    • Giuseppe Simoni

    Letter to the Editors Pages: 576 - 576

14. Sequence polymorphism at the human apolipoprotein AII gene (APOA2): unexpected deficit of variation in an African-American sample

    • Stephanie M. Fullerton
    • Andrew G. Clark
    • Deborah A. Nickerson

    Erratum Pages: 577 - 578

15. Jan Klein, Naoyuki Takahata: Where do we come from? The molecular evidence for human descent

    • Trefor Jenkins

    Book Review Pages: 579 - 581

16. Bioinformatics – from genomes to drugs (2 volumes)

    • Nigel K. Spurr

    Book Review Pages: 582 - 582