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Disruption of the PDGFB gene in a 1;22 translocation patient does not cause Costello syndrome.
Genomics - 1 May 2004
Sutajová Markéta, Neukirchen Ursula, Meinecke Peter, Czeizel Andrew E, Tímár László, Sólyom Enikö, Gal Andreas, Kutsche Kerstin
Abstract excerpt
We studied a female patient initially diagnosed with Costello syndrome who carries an apparently balanced translocation, t(1;22) (q24.3;q13.1). Molecular characterization of the translocation revealed a mosaic of two derivative chromosomes 1 in her peripheral blood lymphocytes, in one of which the coding region of the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGFB; chromosome 22q13.1) gene was disrupted. Both the initial...
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