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Global analysis of uniparental disomy using high density genotyping arrays.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Nov 2005
Bruce S, Leinonen R, Lindgren C M, Kivinen K, Dahlman-Wright K, Lipsanen-Nyman M, Hannula-Jouppi K, Kere J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Uniparental disomy (UPD), the inheritance of both copies of a chromosome from a single parent, has been identified as the cause for congenital disorders such as Silver-Russell, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes. Detection of UPD has largely been performed through labour intensive screening of DNA from patients and their parents, using microsatellite markers. METHODS: We applied high density single...
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