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unusual facts about Denys–Drash syndrome


Denys–Drash syndrome

The cause of DDS is most commonly (96% of patients) an abnormality in the WT1 gene (Wilms tumor suppressor gene).


Anthony McCowan

Sir Anthony James Denys McCowan (12 January 1928 – 3 July 2003) was a British barrister and judge of the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal best known for trying the case of Clive Ponting in 1985.

Bicton, Devon

The younger daughter Margaret Denys (d.1649) married Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

Charles Rollier

He finds answers by the Christian mystics like Gregoire Palamas or Denys l’Aréopagite, and in some traditions coming from classical India, like Shaktism and tantric Buddhism.

Denys Cazet

Denys Cazet (1938-) is the French-American author of 25 picture books, including the Minnie and Moo series.

Denys Corbet

Denys Corbet (22 May 1826 – 21 April 1909) was a Channel Islands poet, Naïve painter, and school master.

Denys Johnson-Davies

Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

Denys Sokolovskyi

Denys Sokolovskyi (born 26 March 1979 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian professional football player who played for several clubs in Europe, including FC Metalurh Donetsk and FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League, Panionios FC in the Greek Superleague and Pogoń Szczecin the Polish Ekstraklasa.

Graham Leonard

Leonard was the brother-in-law to the late academic Michael Swann (Lord Swann of Coln St Denys) and Hugh Swann, cabinet maker to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, having married their sister, Priscilla Swann, in 1943.

Holcombe Burnell

Margaret Denys (d. 1649), married in 1623 Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

Jean-Baptiste Denys

Denys' third patient to undergo a blood transfusion was Swedish Baron Gustaf Bonde.

L'Infini

The magazine has published work by Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and other notable writers and young authors such as Marc-Edouard Nabe, Pierre Bourgeade, François Meyronnis, Yannick Haenel, Frédéric Berthet, David di Nota, Clément Rosset, Alexandre Duval-Stalla, Chantal Thomas, Thomas Ravier, Cécile Guilbert, Bernard Sichère, Raphaël Denys, Alessandro Mercuri, Steven Sampson...

Manor of Dyrham

The first of the Denys family to have resided at Dyrham rather than at the Denys ancestral manor of Siston, appears to have been Sir William Denys(1470–1533), son of Sir Walter Denys(d.1505), who is depicted on the Denys monumental brass in the Church of Olveston, which manor was also held by the family, and Agnes Danvers.

Maurice Denys

In 1546 Denys acquired Wye College, Kent, from Walter Bucler, who had been granted it by the crown following the Dissolution.

Nicolas Denys

Denys' daughter, Marguerite, married her cousin, James Forsyth, who was a captain in naval and land expeditions.

Pierre-Andre Fournier

From 1998 to 2003, he was parish priest of Notre-Dame-de-Foy, Saint-Denys, Sainte-Geneviève, and Saint-Mathieu.

Red Alligator

Owned by Mr J Manners, he was trained by Denys Smith in County Durham and ridden by Brian Fletcher.

Robert Denys

Anne Denys, who married Sir Henry Rolle (d.1616) of Stevenstone in Devon, an ancestor of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842) and Barons Clinton, the latter of whom restored Livery Dole after the WWII bomb damage.

Thomas Tenison

The arms were originally those of the Norman de Cantilupe family, whose feudal tenants the Denys family probably were in connection with Candleston Castle in Glamorgan.

Victor Winding

At the age of 34 in 1963 Winding acted in James Saunders' play called "Next Time I'll Sing To You," at the Criterion Theatre in London, England with actor Barry Foster, Liz Fraser, Peter McEnery, and Denys Graham in the cast.

Waterton, Bridgend

Sir Gilbert Denys(d.1422) of Siston, Gloucestershire was probably born in about 1350 in Glamorgan, probably the son of John Denys of Waterton.


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