Publications by authors named "Saima Mustafa"

Diagnosing and finding the disease in medical sciences is a complex procedure. The basic steps involved in finding starts with signs, symptoms, and test. This study is based on the diagnosis of a skin disorder.

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Background: Brachyolmia is a skeletal disorder with an autosomal mode of inheritance (both dominant and recessive) in which the patients have a short height, scoliosis and a reduced trunk size.

Methods: From the Muzaffargarh District in Pakistan, a consanguineous family with multiple Brachyolmia-affected subjects were enrolled in the present study. Basic epidemiological data and radiographs were collected for the subjects.

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Background: Acromesomelic dysplasia, type Maroteaux (AMDM) is a rare skeletal dysplasia following autosomal recessive mode of inheritance and characterized by abnormal growth plates, short and abnormal bones in the extremities and spine.

Objective: Present study was designed to report the molecular basis of AMDM in enrolled consanguineous family from Pakistan.

Methods: A consanguineous family from Vehari District in Pakistan having multiple siblings suffering from AMDM was enrolled in present study.

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Spondylo-epimetaphyseal dysplasia Matrilin 3 type (SEMD) is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia characterized by short stature, abnormalities in the vertebral bodies and long bones, especially the lower limbs. We enrolled a consanguineous family from Pakistan in which multiple siblings suffered from severe skeletal dysplasia. The six affected subjects ranged in heights from 100 to 136 cm (~-6 standard deviation).

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In the present article, fractional-order diffusion equations are solved using the Natural transform decomposition method. The series form solutions are obtained for fractional-order diffusion equations using the proposed method. Some numerical examples are presented to understand the procedure of the Natural transform decomposition method.

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Objective: To find out a correlation between the single nucleotide polymorphisms in cluster of differentiation 28 and cluster of differentiation 40 genes with Graves' disease, if any.

Methods: This case-control study was conducted at the Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, Multan, Pakistan, and comprised blood samples of Graves' disease patients and controls. Various risk factors were also correlated either with the genotype at each single-nucleotide polymorphism or with various combinations of genotypes studied during present investigation.

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Disease-associated variants in the human genome are continually being identified using DNA sequencing technologies that are especially effective for Mendelian disorders. Here we sequenced whole genome to high coverage (>30×) of 6 members of a 7-generation family with dwarfism from a consanguineous tribe in Pakistan to determine the causal variant(s). We identified a missense variant rs111033552 (c.

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Purpose: Age-related cataract (ARC) is a multifactorial disease and different risk factors, including genetic and environmental, are responsible for the development of its various types. The aim of this study was to find out a correlation, if any, between ARC and the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA repair genes XRCC1 (X-ray repair cross-complementary-1) [Arg194Trp (rs1799782)] and XPD (xerodermapigmentosa complementation group D) [Lys751Gln (rs13,181].

Method: The genotype at these two SNPs was analyzed in 260 subjects (125 control and 135 patients) from Southern Punjab population (Pakistan) by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method.

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