HUM-MOLGEN archive: CALL: various; August 1996

New CALLs! The CALL section is open for CALLs for collaboration, offers of assistance; CALLs for information on a.o. lost books, references, general topics as well as persons in the field of Human Genetics. The August CALL contains requests for comments on New Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy WWW pages, requests for collaboration and info on genes on chromosme 11, 17 and 22; ibid collaboration on the TIMP gene (Sorsby's) in the BIOMED-2 program; ibid on thrichothyodystrophy; and much more! Only high quality messages will be processed and offered to the 4000 HUM-MOLGEN subscribers and > 50.000 HUM-MOLGEN WWW users. Good CALLs! Arthur Bergen (owner HUM-MOLGEN) *********************************************************************** Subject: (Fwd) CALL: chromosome 17 This message was originally submitted by tgonda@IMMUNO.IMVS.SA.GOV.AU to the HUM-MOLGEN list at NIC.SURFNET.NL. Does anyone have the address of the human chromosome 17 web site (it was announced through MOLGEN some time ago but I managed to lose it!)? Thanks in advance Tom Gonda ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Tom Gonda PhD Hanson Centre for Cancer Research Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science Frome Road, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS: Ph. +61-8-8222-3305 FAX +61-8-8232-4092 I would also be most grateful to hear from anyone who has or knows of a chromosome 17 specific cosmid library. We have a novel gene on this chromosome and would like to obtain cosmids in its vicinty for mapping, identifying polymorphic repeats etc. Thanks in advance to any respondents. Tom Gonda PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS: Ph. +61-8-8222-3305 FAX +61-8-8232-4092 ************************************************************************ Reply-to: Human Molecular Genetics Editors <ED-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> From: Alex Levin <avlevin@SICKKIDS.ON.CA> Subject: trichothyodystrophy Is anyone doingor know of someone who is doing hair sulfur studies or fibroblast stidies of DNA repair (as in xeroderma pigmentosa Group C) either of which would help us confirm the diagnosis of trichothiodystrophy? Thankyou. Alex V. Levin, M.D., FRCSC avlevin@sickkids.on.ca Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Departments of Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, and Genetics Co-Director, Ocular Genetics Programme The Hospital for Sick Children phone (416) 813-6524 Department of Ophthalmology - M158 Fax (416) 813-6261 #555 University Ave., Toronto, Ont, M5G 1X8 ************************************************************************ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:42:02 MET-1 Reply-to: R.deGroot@hli.azu.nl From: "Rolf P. de Groot" <R.deGroot@hli.azu.nl> Subject: Question This message was originally submitted by R.deGroot@HLI.AZU.NL to the HUM-MOLGEN list at NIC.SURFNET.NL. Dear everybody, We are trying to clone the promoter of a gene located on human chromosome 22 for some time now. However, we are still unsuccessfull. I wonder whether anybody could help us with a chromosome 22 specific genomic library (phage or cosmid). We would be happy to cooperate with anybody who could supply us with such a library. Thanks, Rolf P. de Groot Rolf P. de Groot Tel: (31)30 2507134 / 6754 Dept. Pulmonary Diseases Fax: (31)30 2542155 Room G03.550 Email: R.deGroot@hli.azu.nl University Hospital Utrecht Email2: pvlangen@worldaccess.nl PO Box 85500 3508 GA Utrecht The Netherlands ************************************************************************ From: Ivo.Barta@LF3.CUNI.CZ Subject: collaboration X-To: HUM-MOLGEN@nic.surfnet.nl To: Multiple recipients of list ED-MOLGEN <ED-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> We are interested in mutagenicity of natural toxin / mycotoxins/ Dept. Gen. biology, 3rd Medical School, Charles University, Prague ************************************************************************ From: Offer Harari <oharari@netvision.net.il> Subject: CALL oharari@netvision.net.il (Offer Harari) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ Could you please update me about Human Y chromosome deletions and male infertility. thanks ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: ts007p7.pop4a.netvision.net.il Remote IP address: 194.90.3.135 ************************************************************************ From: "Bernhard H. F. Weber" <bweb@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> Subject: Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3) To: Multiple recipients of list ED-MOLGEN <ED-MOLGEN@nic.SURFnet.nl> bweb@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (Bernhard H. F. Weber) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ We have recently identified the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3) as the disease-causing gene in Sorsby fundus dystrophy (SFD) (Nature Genetics 8:352-356, 1994). SFD is a macular dystrophy with onset in the 3rd or 4th decade of life. We are now interested to learn more about the molecular pathology of the known mutations in SFD. By studying the mechanisms in SFD we also hope to obtain new insigths into the pathogenic processes of the maculopathies in general. We would like to perform these studies (using available techniques in molecular genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, electrophysiology) in collaboration with a European partner (preferably from Spain, Italy, Greece) and are planning to submit a EU grant proposal (deadline December 15, 1996). If you are interested to join our efforts please contact me directly via e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: Remote IP address: 132.187.20.185 ************************************************************************ Reply-to: Rachmat Hidajat <hidajat@tambora.parokinet.org> From: Rachmat Hidajat <hidajat@tambora.parokinet.org> Organization: ParokiNet at Surabaya Subject: Looking for e-mail addresses X-To: hum-molgen@nic.surfnet.nl To: Multiple recipients of list ED-MOLGEN <ED-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> This message was originally submitted by hidajat@TAMBORA.PAROKINET.ORG to the HUM-MOLGEN list at NIC.SURFNET.NL. Could somebody inform me the current e-mail addresses of the following professors? 1. Jacob Sade, MD. Department of Otolaryngology University of Tel Aviv Sackler Medical School Tel Aviv, Israel 2. Patricia Jean McNicol, PhD. Department of Medical Microbiology University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 3. Michael Rinaldi, PhD. San Antonio, Texas Thank you in advance. -- Rachmat Hidajat, MD., MSc. <hidajat@tambora.parokinet.org> Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine Airlangga University Surabaya, INDONESIA ************************************************************************ I am writing yet another article for The Scientist, this time on image analysis systems. Is anyone using image analysis to look at karyotypes or FISH analyses, to detangle neurons, or anything else in life science? If so, please tell me briefly about your application, and perhaps some general comments about the value of image analysis. Need your title and affiliation. Many many thanks! Ricki Lewis 76715.3517@compuserve.com ************************************************************************ >From a.bergen@ioi.knaw.nlTue Sep 17 13:21:00 1996 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:20:39 +0100 (MET) From: Arthur Bergen <a.bergen@ioi.knaw.nl> To: A.A.Bergen@AMC.UVA.NL Subject: (Fwd) what european response to usa patenting of genes, etc. From: "gene o'regon" <gene@SQN.COM> Subject: what european response to usa patenting of genes, etc. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (10 lines) ------------------ hi wondered what feeling in european academic and industrial circles is about u.s. patent office handling of patent applications for molecular/gene discoveries. can you steer me to a non-legal current article on what's happening. thanks, gene || Sci-Fi! Caroline's reviews of all-time-best science fiction movies. || Current : ANDROMEDA STRAIN [1971] --virus threat! || Open "http://sqn.com" or email "review@sqn.com". Enjoy! ************************************************************************ From: Johan den Dunnen <ddunnen@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl> ddunnen@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl (Johan den Dunnen) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ The Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy Data Pages http://ruly70.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl/~duchenne/ Currently, we are in the middle of setting up an Internet site for Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy (DMD/BMD). Although the site is still under construction, we believe it already contains a considerable set of information, making it worthwhile to announce it. We hope the "Duchenne/Backer muscular dystrophy pages" will serve as an informational resource and reference point for all people involved in DMD/BMD-diagnosis. The site now displays information on: the dystrophin gene (exons, their position in the cDNA, their numbering, sizes and genomic spacing), order of markers in and around the dystrophin gene, a listing of all genomic dystrophin sequences in GenBank, Southern blotting and cDNA-hybridizations (sizes and exon content of hybridizing restriction fragments, annotated images of cDNA hybridizations), haplotyping (PCR-able CA-repeats), and a list of all known DMD/BMD (point) (including a list of polymorphisms in the dystrophin coding region and a list of primer pairs to amplify specific exons). In the near future we aim to transform the "list of DMD/BMD point mutations" into a real DMD/BMD mutation database. The value of the pages will partly lie in researchers providing data which is not (yet) published. We hope it will stimulate many researchers to comment on the data supplied, to send updates and to submit unpublished data. Many laboratories will have valuable data sets which will never make it into print, often because of limited time and/or because the sum is considered too small to justify the effort. Please, when you have information which might be interesting to other researchers and which could be linked to these page, send it to us. Depending on the interest in the site, the feed-back obtained and the opinions gathered, we plan to extend the site by adding more general information which should be understandable for interested non-scientific people. Looking forward to your reactions: Dr. Johan T. den Dunnen, (E-mail: ddunnen@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl) Dr. Egbert Bakker, (E-mail: bakker@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl) MGC-Dept. Human Genetics, Leiden University, LEIDEN, the Nehterlands ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: ruly7i.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl Remote IP address: 132.229.2.73 ************************************************************************ Reply-to: Offer Harari <oharari@netvision.net.il> From: Offer Harari <oharari@netvision.net.il> Subject: CALL To: Multiple recipients of list ED-MOLGEN <ED-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> oharari@netvision.net.il (Offer Harari) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ Could you please update me about Human Y chromosome deletions and male infertility. thanks ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: ts007p7.pop4a.netvision.net.il Remote IP address: 194.90.3.135 ************************************************************************ rsaad@einstein.br (Rogerio Saad Vaz) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. Blood Bank / Molecular Biology Lab. Av. Albert Einstein 627/701 . Morumbi Sao Paulo - SP Brazil 05651-901 . Send Information about Molecular Biology (diagnostics) related to cancer and infectious diseases transmitted by blood. Names of Institutions and Researchers (Hospital/Institutions/Universities) . Thanks !! ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: Remote IP address: 200.19.86.120 *************************************************************************** Subject: (Fwd) Who has information on Pena Shokeir Syndrome? I am looking for information on the Pena Shokeir Syndrome. Who can help me with that? Thanks, Sandra Kest (Netherlands) SKest@Robeco.nl ***************************************************************************** From: gilles DANDEL <gdandel@citi.lyonnaise.fr> Subject: SPEC To: Multiple recipients of list ED-MOLGEN <ED-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> gdandel@citi.lyonnaise.fr (gilles DANDEL) sent the following comments: ------------------------------------------------------------ I wolud like to know where I could find basic informations about heredity aspects, such as : Blood group, Colour of eyes, Hairs, Etc, ... for a non genetic specialist !!! Thanks Gilles ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: Remote IP address: 193.106.88.159 ************************************************************************