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Genotype-phenotype correlation in 21 patients with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome using high resolution array comparative genome hybridisation (CGH).
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Maas N M C, Van Buggenhout G, Hannes F, Thienpont B, Sanlaville D, Kok K, Midro A, Andrieux J, Anderlid B-M, Schoumans J, Hordijk R, Devriendt K, Fryns J-P, Vermeesch J R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is usually caused by terminal deletions of the short arm of chromosome 4 and is phenotypically defined by growth and mental retardation, seizures, and specific craniofacial manifestations. Large variation is observed in phenotypic expression of these features. In order to compare the phenotype with the genotype, we localised the breakpoints of the 4 pter aberrations...
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