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SNP genotyping to screen for a common deletion in CHARGE syndrome.
BMC medical genetics - 14 Feb 2005
Lalani Seema R, Safiullah Arsalan M, Fernbach Susan D, Phillips Michael, Bacino Carlos A, Molinari Laura M, Glass Nancy L, Towbin Jeffrey A, Craigen William J, Belmont John W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: CHARGE syndrome is a complex of birth defects including coloboma, choanal atresia, ear malformations and deafness, cardiac defects, and growth delay. We have previously hypothesized that CHARGE syndrome could be caused by unidentified genomic microdeletion, but no such deletion was detected using short tandem repeat (STR) markers spaced an average of 5 cM apart. Recently, microdeletion at 8q12 locus...
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