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[Uniparental disomy 7 in the pathogenesis of Silver-Russell syndrome].
Orvosi hetilap - 22 Jul 2001
Mergenthaler S, Dobos M, Wollmann H, Eggermann K, Schwanitz G, Eggermann T
Abstract excerpt
The authors report the frequency and the clinical signs of uniparental disomy of chromosome 7 in Silver-Russell syndrome patients. A cohort of 73 families were typed with Short Tandem Repeat markers from chromosomes 7. In 6 patients maternal uniparental disomy 7 (UPD7) was detected. Summarising their data and those from the literature, an overall frequency of maternal uniparental disomy 7 of approximately 10% can...
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