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Partial paternal uniparental disomy (UPD) of chromosome 1 in a patient with Stargardt disease.
Molecular vision - 26 Jan 2007
Riveiro-Alvarez R, Valverde D, Lorda-Sanchez I, Trujillo-Tiebas M J, Cantalapiedra D, Vallespin E, Aguirre-Lamban J, Ramos C, Ayuso C
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Stargardt disease (STGD) is the most common juvenile macular dystrophy, characterized by central visual impairment. All recessively inherited cases are thought to be due to mutations in the ABCA4 gene, mapped to 1p21-p13. METHODS: To describe a form of non-mendelian inheritance in a patient with STGD identified through the course of a conventional mutational screening performed on 77 STGD families. DNA...
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