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CHD7 mutations in patients initially diagnosed with Kallmann syndrome--the clinical overlap with CHARGE syndrome.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2009
Jongmans M C J, van Ravenswaaij-Arts C M A, Pitteloud N, Ogata T, Sato N, Claahsen-van der Grinten H L, van der Donk K, Seminara S, Bergman J E H, Brunner H G, Crowley W F, Hoefsloot L H
Abstract excerpt
Kallmann syndrome (KS) is the combination of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia or hyposmia, two features that are also frequently present in CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE syndrome is caused by mutations in the CHD7 gene. We performed analysis of CHD7 in 36 patients with KS and 20 patients with normosmic idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (nIHH) in whom mutations in KAL1, FGFR1, PROK2 and PROKR2 genes were...
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