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"Molecular rulers" for calibrating phenotypic effects of telomere imbalance.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2002
Martin C L, Waggoner D J, Wong A, Uhrig S, Roseberry J A, Hedrick J F, Pack S D, Russell K, Zackai E, Dobyns W B, Ledbetter D H
Abstract excerpt
As a result of the increasing use of genome wide telomere screening, it has become evident that a significant proportion of people with idiopathic mental retardation have subtle abnormalities involving the telomeres of human chromosomes. However, during the course of these studies, there have also been telomeric imbalances identified in normal people that are not associated with any apparent phenotype. We have...
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