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An international collaboration of scientists including researchers of the Institute of Human Genetics Göttingen have determined specific mutations in POLR3A as the genetic cause of [...]

Mutations causing Bloom syndrome have been identified in two new genes by an international collaboration of scientists including also researchers of the Institute of Human Genetics Göttingen. [...]

During translation, a number of obstacles have the potential to arrest the ribosomal movement. In yeast, several studies revealed that the evolutionarily conserved Pelota (Pelo) recognizes [...]

The 11th Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness Conference will be held from May 16th to 19th, 2018, at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. This international [...]

An international group of researchers have revealed de novo mutations in SLC25A24 as the genetic cause of Gorlin-Chaudry-Moss syndrome (GCMS) in five affected children. This congenital disease [...]

Autosomal recessive mutations of the CDK10 gene have been revealed as causing a newly described syndrome characterized by a combination of severe growth retardation, dysmorphic facial features, [...]

Researchers led by Dr Silke Kaulfuß at the Institute of Human Genetics Göttingen have uncovered a new approach that may increase the efficacy of the standard therapy to treat colorectal cancer [...]

It is an acute and life-threatening functional disturbance of the heart with symptoms similar to a heart attack, and it really is not so rare: Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is also called [...]

Mutations in the TELO2 gene were recently described as causing a syndrome characterized by developmental delay, microcephaly and dysmorphic features, which was then termed You-Hoover-Fong [...]

Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome (WRS) is a neonatal progeroid disorder that is difficult to diagnose clinically. The main features of this very rare syndrome include growth retardation, [...]