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Paternal uniparental isodisomy of the entire chromosome 3 revealed in a person with no apparent phenotypic disorders.
Human mutation - 1 Feb 2006
Xiao Peng, Liu Pengyuan, Weber James L, Papasian Christopher J, Recker Robert R, Deng Hong-Wen
Abstract excerpt
Uniparental disomy (UPD) is a rare genetic abnormality. During a whole genome linkage study we identified a case of paternal uniparental isodisomy 3 serendipitously. This is the first ascertained human paternal UPD for chromosome 3 (UPD3pat). The finding of this paternal UPD case of the entire chromosome 3 with no apparent phenotypic disorders suggests that there are no paternal imprinted genes causing rare...
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