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Auxological evaluation in patients with DiGeorge/velocardiofacial syndrome (deletion 22q11.2 syndrome).
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Digilio M C, Marino B, Cappa M, Cambiaso P, Giannotti A, Dallapiccola B
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PURPOSE: Patients with microdeletion of chromosome 22q11.2 (del22q11) were studied, in order to evaluate auxological parameters and to correlate growth patterns with the presence of main clinical characteristics of the syndrome. METHODS: Between January 1995 and March 2000, auxological parameters (weight, height, head circumference, and bone age) of 73 patients with del22q11 were collected. Five subgroups of...
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