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Spectrum of NSD1 gene mutations in southern Chinese patients with Sotos syndrome.
Chinese medical journal - 20 Sept 2005
Tong Tony M F, Hau Edgar W L, Lo Ivan F M, Chan Daniel H C, Lam Stephen T S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sotos syndrome is an overgrowth syndrome with characteristic facial gestalt and mental retardation of variable severity. Haploinsufficiency of the NSD1 gene has been implicated as the major cause of Sotos syndrome, with a predominance of microdeletions reported in Japanese patients. This study was conducted to investigate into the spectrum of NSD1 gene mutations in southern Chinese patients with Sotos...
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