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Identification of a major recombination hotspot in patients with short stature and SHOX deficiency.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Schneider Katja U, Sabherwal Nitin, Jantz Karin, Röth Ralph, Muncke Nadja, Blum Werner F, Cutler Gordon B, Rappold Gudrun
Abstract excerpt
Human growth is influenced not only by environmental and internal factors but also by a large number of different genes. One of these genes, SHOX, is believed to play a major role in growth, since defects in this homeobox-containing gene on the sex chromosomes lead to syndromal short stature (Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis, Langer mesomelic dysplasia, and Turner syndrome) as well as to idiopathic short stature. We...
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