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A 13-year-old boy with cognitive impairment, retinoblastoma, and Wilson disease.
Neurology - 10 Jul 2001
Riley D, Wiznitzer M, Schwartz S, Zinn A B
Abstract excerpt
A developmentally delayed child manifested retinoblastoma at age 4 years and Wilson disease at age 11, a previously unreported association. Cytogenetic and molecular analysis showed an interstitial deletion in the long arm of the paternally derived homologue of chromosome 13 (13q14.2-13q22.2), which encompasses the retinoblastoma and Wilson disease loci. The authors postulate that the co-occurrence of...
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