Telomeres, hidden mosaicism, loss of heterozygosity, and complex genetic traits A. AvivHana Aviv Food for Thought Pages: 2 - 4
Coping with complexity: lessons from the mathematical sciences Alejandro A. Schäffer Food for Thought Pages: 5 - 10
MTHFR association with arteriosclerotic vascular disease? Olivia FletcherA. M. Kessling Review Article Pages: 11 - 21
A single mutation that results in an Asp to His substitution and partial exon skipping in a family with congenital contractural arachnodactyly Darcie BabcockCheryll GasnerC. Maslen Original investigation Pages: 22 - 28
Histone H4 acetylation analyses in patients with polysomy X: implications for the mechanism of X inactivation C. A. LealM. L. Ayala-MadrigalC. Medina Original investigation Pages: 29 - 33
Familial aggregation of heart rate variability based on short recordings – the kibbutzim family study R. SinnreichYechiel FriedlanderJeremy D. Kark Original investigation Pages: 34 - 40
No evidence of expansion of CAG or GAA repeats in schizophrenia families and monozygotic twins J. B. VincentG. KalsiJ. L. Kennedy Original investigation Pages: 41 - 47
Elite endurance athletes and the ACE I allele – the role of genes in athletic performance George GayagayBing YuR. J. Trent Original investigation Pages: 48 - 50
Microphthalmia with linear skin defects syndrome in a mosaic female infant with monosomy for the Xp22 region: molecular analysis of the Xp22 breakpoint and the X-inactivation pattern T. OgataKeiko WakuiYoshimitsu Fukushima Original investigation Pages: 51 - 56
Negative association between asthma and variants of CC16(CC10) on chromosome 11q13 in British and Japanese populations P.-S. GaoX.-Q. MaoJ. M. Hopkin Original Investigation Pages: 57 - 59
Genetic linkage of progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia to a 3-cM interval of chromosome 6q22 J. FischerJon Andoni UrtizbereaJean Weissenbach Original investigation Pages: 60 - 64
A missense Glu298Asp variant in the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene is associated with coronary spasm in the Japanese Michihiro YoshimuraH. YasueKazuwa Nakao Original Investigation Pages: 65 - 69
Molecular and clinical study of 183 patients with conotruncal anomaly face syndrome R. MatsuokaMisa KimuraKazuo Momma Original investigation Pages: 70 - 80
Direct evidence of autosomal recessive inheritance of Arg24 to termination codon in purine nucleoside phosphorylase gene in a family with a severe combined immunodeficiency patient Y. SasakiMikiro IsekiRyoko Yamashita Original investigation Pages: 81 - 85
Polymorphic tetranucleotide repeat site within intron 7 of the β-amyloid precursor protein gene and its lack of association with Alzheimer’s disease Ling LiRodney PerryK. Fukuchi Original investigation Pages: 86 - 89
The 3′ breakpoint of the Yunnanese (Aγδβ)0-thalassemia deletion lies in an L1 family sequence: implications for the mechanism of deletion and the reactivation of the Gγ-globin gene Xue-Qing ZhangJ.-W. Zhang Original investigation Pages: 90 - 95
The H-cadherin (CDH13) gene is inactivated in human lung cancer Masami SatoYuriko MoriA. Horii Original investigation Pages: 96 - 101
Mutation of the start codon in the FRDA1 gene: linkage analysis of three pedigrees with the ATG to ATT transversion points to a unique common ancestor C. ZühlkeFranco LacconeEberhard Schwinger Original investigation Pages: 102 - 105
Identification, localization and characterization of the human γ-synuclein gene Christian LavedanElisabeth LeroyM. H. Polymeropoulos Rapid communication Pages: 106 - 112