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Genotypes and phenotypes in children with short stature: clinical indicators of SHOX haploinsufficiency.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 May 2007
Rappold Gudrun, Blum Werner F, Shavrikova Elena P, Crowe Brenda J, Roeth Ralph, Quigley Charmian A, Ross Judith L, Niesler Beate
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Short stature affects approximately 2% of children, representing one of the more frequent disorders for which clinical attention is sought during childhood. Despite assumed genetic heterogeneity, mutations or deletions of the short stature homeobox-containing gene (SHOX) are found quite frequently in subjects with short stature. Haploinsufficiency of the SHOX gene causes short stature with highly...
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