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Identification of a novel Bardet-Biedl syndrome protein, BBS7, that shares structural features with BBS1 and BBS2.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Badano José L, Ansley Stephen J, Leitch Carmen C, Lewis Richard Alan, Lupski James R, Katsanis Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder, the primary features of which include obesity, retinal dystrophy, polydactyly, hypogenitalism, learning difficulties, and renal malformations. Conventional linkage and positional cloning have led to the mapping of six BBS loci in the human genome, four of which (BBS1, BBS2, BBS4, and BBS6) have been cloned. Despite these advances, the protein...
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