Marijke J. van Baren

TL;DR: It is shown that DJ-1 mutations are associated with PARK7, a monogenic form of human parkinsonism, and these findings indicate that loss ofDJ-1 function leads to neurodegeneration.

TL;DR: A translocation breakpoint in a PPD patient and a transgenic insertion site in the polydactylous mouse mutant sasquatch reveals that the Lmbr1 gene is incidental to the phenotype and that the mutation directly interrupts a cis-acting regulator of Shh, most likely the target for generating PPD mutations in human.

TL;DR: A detailed physical map of the preaxial polydactyly candidate region is constructed and the homeobox gene HLXB9, a putative receptor C7orf2, and two transcripts of unknown function map in the refined candidate region.

TL;DR: The web application PCR Suite is an extension of the primer design program Primer3 that allows the design of primer sets encompassing single nucleotide polymorphisms, all exons of a single gene, all open reading frames in a list of cDNAs or the creation of overlapping PCR products.

TL;DR: The RING domain is a cysteine-rich zinc-binding motif, which is found in a wide variety of proteins, among which are several proto-oncogenes and the gene implicated in autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism, Parkin.