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Molecular basis of Sotos syndrome.
Hormone research - 1 Jan 2004
Niikawa Norio
Abstract excerpt
This paper describes the isolation of a novel human gene, NSD1, from the 5q35 breakpoint of t(5;8)(q35; q24.1) in a patient with Sotos syndrome, and NSD1 mutation analysis. Of 112 (95 Japanese and 17 non-Japanese) patients analyzed, 16 (14%) had a heterozygous NSD1 point mutation (10 protein truncation types and six missense types) and 50 (45%) a approximately 0.7-Mb microdeletion involving NSD1. The results...
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