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Letters to the editor

• Anderson-Fabry disease: clinical manifestations and impact of disease in a cohort of 60 obligate carrier females (1 November, 2001)

  K D MacDermot, A Holmes, A H Miners
• Thrombophilic polymorphisms in pre-eclampsia: altered frequency of the functional 98C>T polymorphism of glycoprotein IIIa (1 November, 2001)

  Kevin M O'Shaughnessy, Beiyuan Fu, Sarah Downing, Nicholas H Morris
• Cystic fibrosis patients with the 3272-26A>G splicing mutation have milder disease than F508del homozygotes: a large European study (1 November, 2001)

  Margarida D Amaral, Paula Pacheco, Sebastian Beck, Carlos M Farinha, Deborah Penque, Paulo Nogueira, Celeste Barreto, Beatriz Lopes, Teresa Casals, Javier Dapena, Silvia Gartner, Carlos Vásquez, Javier Pérez-Frías, Casilda Olveira, Rodrigo Cabanas, Xavier Estivill, Maria Tzetis, Emmanuel Kanavakis, Stavros Doudounakis, Thilo Dörk, Burkhard Tümmler, Emmanuelle Girodon-Boulandet, Cécile Cazeneuve, Michel Goossens, Martine Blayau, Claudine Verlingue, Isabel Vieira, Claude Féréc, Mireille Claustres, Marie des Georges, Christine Clavel, Philippe Birembaut, Dominique Hubert, Thierry Bienvenu, Michèle Adoun, Jean-Claude Chomel, Kris De Boeck, Harry Cuppens, João Lavinha
• Maternal gene effect in neurofibromatosis 2: fact or artefact? (1 November, 2001)

  Michael E Baser, J M Friedman, D Gareth R Evans
• Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma and prominent corneal nerves associated with the germline V804M and V778I mutations on the same allele of RET

  (1 November, 2001)

  Lidia Kasprzak, Serge Nolet, Louis Gaboury, Carles Pavia, Carles Villabona, Francisca Rivera-Fillat, Josep Oriola, William D Foulkes
• Comprehension of cancer risk one and 12 months after predictive genetic testing for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (1 November, 2001)

  Katja Aktan-Collan, Ari Haukkala, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Antti Uutela, Helena Kääriäinen
• Population prevalence and estimated birth incidence and mortality rate for people with Prader-Willi syndrome in one UK Health Region (1 November, 2001)

  J E Whittington, A J Holland, T Webb, J Butler, D Clarke, H Boer
• Mosaicism for 45,X cell line may accentuate the severity of spermatogenic defects in men with AZFc deletion (1 November, 2001)

  Jadwiga Jaruzelska, Aleksandra Korcz, Alina Wojda, Piotr Jedrzejczak, Joanna Bierla, Tatiana Surmacz, Leszek Pawelczyk, David C Page, Maciej Kotecki
• Alternative centromeric inactivation in a pseudodicentric t(Y;13)(q12;p11.2) translocation chromosome associated with extreme oligozoospermia (1 November, 2001)

  Jean Pierre Siffroi, Brigitte Benzacken, Roxani Angelopoulou, Corine Le Bourhis, Isabelle Berthaut, Samia Kanafani, Asmae Smahi, Jean Philippe Wolf, Jean Pierre Dadoune