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Periventricular nodular heterotopia and Williams syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Jun 2006
Ferland Russell J, Gaitanis John N, Apse Kira, Tantravahi Umadevi, Walsh Christopher A, Sheen Volney L
Abstract excerpt
We report here on the first case of a child with bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) and Williams syndrome. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses demonstrated a deletion of the elastin gene in the Williams syndrome critical region (WSCR). Further mapping by loss of heterozygosity analysis both by microsatellite marker and SNP profiling demonstrated a 1.5 Mb deletion beyond the...
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