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Recurrent SOX9 deletion campomelic dysplasia due to somatic mosaicism in the father.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Apr 2007
Smyk M, Obersztyn E, Nowakowska B, Bocian E, Cheung S W, Mazurczak T, Stankiewicz P
Abstract excerpt
Haploinsufficiency of SOX9, a master gene in chondrogenesis and testis development, leads to the semi-lethal skeletal malformation syndrome campomelic dysplasia (CD), with or without XY sex reversal. We report on two children with CD and a phenotypically normal father, a carrier of a somatic mosaic SOX9 deletion. This is the first report of a mosaic deletion of SOX9; few familial CD cases with germline and...
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