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Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome: clinical and molecular overview.
Expert reviews in molecular medicine - 20 Aug 2007
Roelfsema Jeroen H, Peters Dorien J M
Abstract excerpt
Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome is characterised by mental retardation, growth retardation and a particular dysmorphology. The syndrome is rare, with a frequency of approximately one affected individual in 100,000 newborns. Mutations in two genes - CREBBP and EP300 - have been identified to cause the syndrome. These two genes show strong homology and encode histone acetyltransferases (HATs), which are transcriptional...
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