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While the medical community continues to recognize the contributions of disordered sleep to the burden of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), the medical literature lacks characterization of the patient burden of sleep disorders by people living with PWS and their caregivers. We developed and fielded a 72-question survey to the online PWS community, to query caregivers about their experiences with sleep symptoms. Respondents for all age groups reported sleep-disordered breathing (40 %), cataplexy-like symptoms (28.4 %), and insomnia (43.5 %). The presentation of cataplexy-like symptoms tended to change as children aged, presenting initially (ages 0–4 years) as head bobbing while eating, then transitioning to knee buckling between the ages of 5–12 years. Finally, loss of generalized tone associated with extreme emotions became more common in the teenage years. Frequent screening for potentially treatable sleep disorders should be considered the standard of care for individuals with PWS.

The relationship between fetal fraction and birth weight in twin gestations is poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between first-trimester cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fetal fraction and birth weight <10th percentile in twin gestations.This is a planned secondary analysis of the Twin cfDNA Study, a 17-center retrospective cohort of twin pregnancies screened for aneuploidy using cfDNA in the first trimester from December 2011 to February 2022, excluding those with positive screen results for chromosomal aneuploidy. cfDNA testing was performed by a single laboratory using massively parallel sequencing. Baseline characteristics and birth weight of pregnancies with normal fetal fraction were compared with those with low (<5%) and high (>95%) fetal fraction using univariable analyses and multivariable regression.A total of 1,041 twin pregnancies were included. Chronic hypertension, elevated body mass index, and self-identified Black race were associated with fetal fraction <5th percentile. There was no difference in median fetal fraction between those with birth weight <10th percentile in at least one twin (median [interquartile range (IQR)] fetal fraction: 12.2% [9.8, 14.8] vs. those with normal birth weight (≥10th percentile) in both twins (median [IQR] fetal fraction: 12.3% [9.7, 15.2] for normal birth weight, p = 0.49). There was no association between high or low fetal fraction and birth weight <10th percentile for one (p = 0.45) or both (p = 0.81) twins, and there was no association between high or low fetal fraction and birth weight <5th percentile for one (p = 0.44) or both (p = 0.74) twins. The results were unchanged after adjustment for potential confounders.In this large cohort, there was no association between the extremes of cfDNA fetal fraction and birth weight <10th percentile, suggesting that first-trimester fetal fraction may not predict impaired fetal growth in twin gestations. · No association between fetal fraction and small for gestational age birth weight in twins.. · Results suggest that fetal fraction does not predict birth weight in twin gestations.. · These results differ from the relationship between fetal fraction and birth weight in singletons..

Determine current analytical methods and number of cell-free (cf) DNA prenatal screening tests performed for common trisomies. The College of American Pathologists 2022-B Noninvasive Prenatal Testing exercise was distributed in December 2022 to 93 participants in 22 countries. Supplemental questions included the number of tests performed in a recent month and the proportion of samples originating outside the United States (US). Eighty-three participants from three continents returned results; 74 (89%) were suitable for the analyses. Nine manufacturer/platform combinations were identified, most commonly Illumina/Nextseq (55%). The most common methodology was whole genome sequencing (76%). Annualized cfDNA tests were 2.80 million, with Asian, European and North American participants representing 10.6%, 6.5% and 82.9% of tests, respectively. When restricted to US in-country tests, the annualized rate was 2.18 million, with four of 20 participants testing 79.2%. Among 73 respondents, 63 (86%) were for-profit, eight (11%) were non-profit academic or government supported and the remaining two included hospital-based and private non-profit. Eighteen (25%) supported relevant academic training. In 2011, screening for common trisomies was based on serum/ultrasound markers with an estimated 2.96 million US pregnancies screened in 131 laboratories. In 2022, cfDNA-based screening was offered by 20 laboratories testing 2.18 million US pregnancies.

&lt;div&gt;Abstract&lt;p&gt;Estrogen imprinting is used to describe a phenomenon in which early developmental exposure to endocrine disruptors increases breast cancer risk later in adult life. We propose that long-lived, self-regenerating stem and progenitor cells are more susceptible to the exposure injury than terminally differentiated epithelial cells in the breast duct. Mammospheres, containing enriched breast progenitors, were used as an exposure system to simulate this imprinting phenomenon &lt;i&gt;in vitro&lt;/i&gt;. Using MeDIP-chip, a methylation microarray screening method, we found that 0.5% (120 loci) of human CpG islands were hypermethylated in epithelial cells derived from estrogen-exposed progenitors compared with the non–estrogen-exposed control cells. This epigenetic event may lead to progressive silencing of tumor suppressor genes, including &lt;i&gt;RUNX3&lt;/i&gt;, in these epithelial cells, which also occurred in primary breast tumors. Furthermore, normal tissue in close proximity to the tumor site also displayed &lt;i&gt;RUNX3&lt;/i&gt; hypermethylation, suggesting that this aberrant event occurs in early breast carcinogenesis. The high prevalence of estrogen-induced epigenetic changes in primary tumors and the surrounding histologically normal tissues provides the first empirical link between estrogen injury of breast stem/progenitor cells and carcinogenesis. This finding also offers a mechanistic explanation as to why a tumor suppressor gene, such as &lt;i&gt;RUNX3&lt;/i&gt;, can be heritably silenced by epigenetic mechanisms in breast cancer. [Cancer Res 2008;68(6):1786–96]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

This release brings to you a whole new Zettlr experience – we have fixed so many things the changelog will keep you scrolling for quite some time! This also means that Zettlr 1.8 demarcates a quantum jump from the 1.7 series, so make sure to check it out! At a glance, here's the most important improvements: Introducing the Typewriter mode macOS builds are now resource-friendly – always Windows and Linux now feature completely reworked application menus The sidebar now features a Table of Contents The Quicklook windows have received a paint job You can now change the levels of your headings at the press of a button Citations are now rendered if you copy text as HTML The contents of table cells are now pre-rendered Code blocks are now autocompleteable … and much, much more! Make sure to check out our blogpost and also read the changelog below to get to know all the changes we've implemented! Do you enjoy Zettlr? We would like to encourage you to support our development over at Patreon or PayPal to cover hardware and software expenses as well as the occational coffee. Even a symbolic dollar per month will keep Zettlr free for everyone. &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=18115838" data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button"&gt;&lt;img width="300" src="https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button@2x.png" alt="Become a Patron"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Changeloog Breaking Changes Renamed the <strong>sidebar</strong> to <strong>file manager</strong>. We finally decided on better terminology for distinguishing the right from the left sidebar. This means: The left sidebar, formerly known only as "sidebar," is now the "file manager." The right sidebar, formerly known as "attachment sidebar," is now "the" sidebar. This change was introduced to reduce user confusion and provide a better user experience. The shortcut for opening the developer tools on Windows and Linux is now <code>Ctrl+Alt+I</code> (was: <code>Ctrl+Shift+I</code>) to resolve a conflict with the shortcut <code>Ctrl+Shift+I</code> (insert images). Renamed <strong>Root Directories</strong> to <strong>Workspaces</strong>. The term "root" is rather technical, and for most people, it makes most sense to think of those roots as workspaces, albeit other than being opened at the root level of the application, they have no difference to regular directories. The shortcut <code>Cmd/Ctrl+O</code>, which previously would let you open <em>workspaces</em>, now opens files. To open a workspace, use <code>Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+O</code>. This is now in line with many other programs. GUI and Functionality <strong>New Feature</strong>: Typewriter mode. By pressing <code>Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+T</code>, you can activate the typewriter mode, which will keep the current line in the editor always centered so that you have to move your eyes less while editing a text. This also works in combination with the distraction free mode so that you can fully focus on what you're editing right at the moment. <strong>New Feature</strong>: The sidebar (formerly attachment sidebar) is now tabbified. That means you have three distinct tabs to choose from with regard to displaying important information: the non-markdown files in your currently selected directory, the references in the current file, and the table of contents of the current file. <strong>New Feature</strong>: When hovering over links, they now appear in a separate tooltip to click them without holding down Ctrl/Cmd. <strong>New Feature</strong>: The QuickLook windows now share the main editor including its appearance. The same options apply for Quicklook windows as they are set in the global preferences (e.g. if you turned off image previewing, images would also not be displayed in the Quicklooks, etc). <strong>New Feature</strong>: Now you have an additional option in the "Advanced" preferences to choose between a "native" appearance of all Zettlr Windows (that is, a frameless window with inset traffic lights on macOS, and standard window decorations on Windows and Linux) or a custom built-in appearance (that is, for all platforms a frameless window with custom drawn menu and window control buttons, which mimick the Windows 10 design). <strong>New Feature</strong>: The heading tag elements (those <code>h1</code> to <code>h6</code>-tags replacing the Markdown heading characters) finally serve a purpose: Clicking on them reveals a small menu which lets you quickly choose a different heading level. <strong>New Feature</strong>: Improvement in the citation rendering capabilities: Both when copying Markdown as HTML, and when viewing footnote tooltips, any citation will be correctly rendered by the citeproc provider. <strong>New Feature</strong>: The TableEditor now pre-renders table cells so that it looks more like it will when you export it! <strong>New Feature</strong>: A selection of notifications will now be displayed using your operating system's notification service (if available), for instance export messages, errors, and updates. All notifications will still be displayed in the main window, so if you do not like this behaviour, you can turn notifications off for Zettlr within your operating system settings. <strong>New Feature</strong>: Whenever you begin a code block (<code>\</code>```), Zettlr now offers you to autocomplete the syntax highlighting language. Added syntax highlighting modes (with keywords): <strong>diff</strong>: <code>diff</code> <strong>Dockerfile</strong>: <code>docker</code>/<code>dockerfile</code> <strong>TOML</strong>: <code>toml</code>/<code>ini</code> Fixed the fold-gutter being too close to the text. The editor link autocompletion now respects the setting to use headings level 1 instead of YAML frontmatter titles where possible. The paste image dialog now also provides the original image size as a default value, so that you simply can use the arrow buttons on the field to adjust the image size. Fixed a rare bug where changes would be discarded if you renamed the modified file quickly enough. HTML export should now centre both figures and figure captions. Sorting files by name now takes into account possible settings such as using headings of level 1 or YAML frontmatter titles so that sorted files now correspond to their display again. You can now select rendered references from the right sidebar. The file tabs now have their own, dedicated menu, containing a new "Close all tabs" command to close all open file tabs (thanks to @anoopengineer for implementing). The file info now displays the selection information, if there is any. The popup that opens when you click the counter then lists all selections within your document. When you initiate a keyword search from the tag cloud by clicking on a tag, it'll be automatically enclosed in quotes, enabling searches for keywords with spaces in them. The image paste dialog now shows you the resolved path of the directory into which the image you are about to paste will be saved to. Fixed a missing translatable string from the paste image dialog. Fixed the width of the word counter in order to make the toolbar more "stiff." Enabled Dart syntax highlighting (thanks to @Kangie for implementing). Reduced the added margins for overflowing dialog windows from 15 % to 2 %, making the visible gap on smaller screens smaller. Remove the intermediary <code>.ztr-project</code>-migration code, which means you should update to Zettlr 1.7.x before updating to 1.8.x, if you still use an older version of Zettlr. Fixed (= monkeypatched) a weird bug that would cause selections on specially indented lines (e.g. wrapped blockquotes, list items, etc.) to be padded by precisely four pixels, making the selection not look like a box. Double clicks on file tabs now make files intransient (if they were transient before). The editor is now in a non-editable mode if no file is open. If the editor is read-only, the Zettlr logo will display in the background to indicate that fact. Empty files, on the other hand, will not yield the feather logo anymore. This should now meet up with users' expectations about file editing better. The last opened file will now reliably open whenever you start the application again. File loading (especially on boot) is now much faster, because the opened tabs won't be switched through during load anymore. Only the relevant, last file will be opened and displayed. Fixed a bug that would prevent you from exporting standalone files. Non-breaking spaces (NBSP) are now considered word delimiters in the spellchecker. Fixed a bug that would not close all tabs when the corresponding entry was selected from the tab context menu. Fixed a bug where checkboxes of tasks would be strangely hidden on undo/redo operations that checked/unchecked those checkboxes. Fixed a bug that would throw errors and not actually remove the file if said file was a root. Fixed broken shortcuts <code>Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E</code> (focus the editor) and <code>Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T</code> (focus the file list). Markdown links to local files that are absolute are now attempted to be opened internally, without recurring to external programs. The various rendering methods now only update anything that is within the viewport, thereby increasing the performance vastly. This is especially noticable for large documents. Fixed a bug that led to the exporter ignoring custom templates and always reverting to the default. Fixed the date formatter, as the moment.js locales are not found when compiling using <code>electron-forge</code>. Fixed a bug that would mess up the tag-tooltip on files under certain circumstances. Fixed a bug that would throw errors instead of exporting, if the export-directory is set to the current working directory and a non-root file is being exported. Fixed a bug which would not let you create duplicates of root files. Now, you can and the duplicate is being placed in the currently selected directory. Fixed a rendering edge condition where if you wanted to retain multiple single-line breaks wi

BackgroundThe Xq22.2 q23 is a complex genomic region which includes the genes MID2 and PLP1 associated with FG syndrome 5 and Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease, respectively. There is limited information regarding the clinical outcomes observed in patients with deletions within this region.MethodsWe report on a male infant with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) who developed head titubation and spasticity during his postnatal hospital course.ResultsChromosome microarray revealed a 6.7 Mb interstitial duplication of Xq22.2q22.3. Fluorescence in situ hybridization showed that the patient's mother also possessed the identical duplication in the Xq22.3q22.3 region. Among the 34 OMIM genes in this interval, the duplication of the PLP1 (OMIM# 300401) and MID2 (OMIM# 300204) appears to be the most significant contributors to the patient's clinical features. Mutations and duplications of PLP1 are associated with X‐linked recessive Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease (PMD). A single case of a Xq22.3 duplication including the MID2 has been reported in boy with features of FG syndrome. However, our patient's clinical features are not consistent with the FG syndrome phenotype.ConclusionOur patient's clinical features appear to be influenced by the PLP1 duplication but the clinical effect of other dosage sensitive genes influencing brain development cannot be ruled out.