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Letters to JMG

• Missense mutations of ACTA1 cause dominant congenital myopathy with cores

  (1 November, 2004)

  A M Kaindl, F Rüschendorf, S Krause, H-H Goebel, K Koehler, C Becker, D Pongratz, J Müller-Höcker, P Nürnberg, G Stoltenburg-Didinger, H Lochmüller, A Huebner
• A novel locus for autosomal recessive form of hypotrichosis maps to chromosome 3q26.33–q27.3 (1 November, 2004)

  M Aslam, M H Chahrour, A Razzaq, S Haque, K Yan, S M Leal, W Ahmad
• Putative functional alleles of DYX1C1 are not associated with dyslexia susceptibility in a large sample of sibling pairs from the UK

  (1 November, 2004)

  T S Scerri, S E Fisher, C Francks, I L MacPhie, S Paracchini, A J Richardson, J F Stein, A P Monaco
• A new locus for a childhood onset, slowly progressive autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia maps to chromosome 11p15 (1 November, 2004)

  G J Breedveld, B van Wetten, G D te Raa, E Brusse, J C van Swieten, B A Oostra, J A Maat-Kievit
• The ser9gly SNP in the dopamine D₃ receptor causes a shift from cAMP related to PGE₂ related signal transduction mechanisms in transfected CHO cells

  (1 November, 2004)

  M Hellstrand, E A Danielsen, V M Steen, A Ekman, E Eriksson, C L Nilsson
• A gene responsible for autosomal dominant auditory neuropathy (AUNA1) maps to 13q14–21 (1 November, 2004)

  T B Kim, B Isaacson, T A Sivakumaran, A Starr, B J B Keats, M M Lesperance
• Increased recurrence risk in congenital disorders of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) due to a transmission ratio distortion (1 November, 2004)

  E Schollen, S Kjaergaard, T Martinsson, S Vuillaumier-Barrot, M Dunoe, L Keldermans, N Seta, G Matthijs