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Maternal uniparental disomy 14 as a cause of intrauterine growth retardation and early onset of puberty.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Jun 1999
Fokstuen S, Ginsburg C, Zachmann M, Schinzel A
Abstract excerpt
Uniparental disomy for particular chromosomes is increasingly recognized as a cause of abnormal phenotypes in humans either as a result of imprinted genes or, in the case of isodisomy, homozygosity of mutated recessive alleles. We report on the occurrence of maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 14 (matUPD 14) in a 25-year-old woman with a normal karyotype, normal intelligence but low birth weight, short...
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