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Amish brittle hair syndrome gene maps to 7p14.1.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 30 Apr 2005
Seboun Eric, Lemainque Arnaud, Jackson Charles E
Abstract excerpt
The brittle hair syndrome (BHS) is characterized by short stature, intellectual impairment, brittle hair, and decreased fertility in 20 members from a large Amish consanguineous kindred previously reported affected with this syndrome. We mapped the BHS gene by genome scan to chromosome 7p14.1. Evidence of linkage was supported by a maximum multipoint LOD score of 6 obtained with GENEHUNTER for the linkage...
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