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Paternal origin of the chromosomal deletion resulting in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1991
Quarrell O W, Snell R G, Curtis M A, Roberts S H, Harper P S, Shaw D J
Abstract excerpt
DNA samples were obtained from children with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and their parents to assist with gene mapping studies of 4p16.3 (the region known to contain the Huntington's disease gene). A panel of seven families was studied, using polymorphic DNA markers, to determine the parental origin of the chromosome abnormality resulting in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. All seven cases were the result of de novo...
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