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Genotype-phenotype correlations of 39 patients with Cornelia De Lange syndrome: the Dutch experience.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2006
Bhuiyan Z A, Klein M, Hammond P, van Haeringen A, Mannens M M A M, Van Berckelaer-Onnes I, Hennekam R C M
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BACKGROUND: Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterised by a distinctive facial appearance, prenatal and postnatal growth deficiency, psychomotor delay, behavioural problems, and malformations of the upper extremities. Recently mutations in NIPBL, the human homologue of the Drosophila Nipped-B gene, were found to cause CdLS. Mutations have been found in 39% of...
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