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Synpolydactyly and HOXD13 polyalanine repeat: addition of 2 alanine residues is without clinical consequences.
BMC medical genetics - 11 Dec 2007
Malik Sajid, Girisha K M, Wajid Muhammad, Roy Akhilesh K, Phadke Shubha R, Haque Sayedul, Ahmad Wasim, Koch Manuela C, Grzeschik Karl-Heinz
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BACKGROUND: Type II syndactyly or synpolydactyly (SPD) is clinically very heterogeneous, and genetically three distinct SPD conditions are known and have been designated as SPD1, SPD2 and SPD3, respectively. SPD1 type is associated with expansion mutations in HOXD13, resulting in an addition of >...
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