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Impact of genotype-first diagnosis: the detection of microdeletion and microduplication syndromes with cancer predisposition by aCGH.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 May 2009
Adams Sara Anne, Coppinger Justine, Saitta Sulagna C, Stroud Tracy, Kandamurugu Manikum, Fan Zheng, Ballif Blake C, Shaffer Lisa G, Bejjani Bassem A
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BACKGROUND: The use of microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization has allowed the genetic diagnosis of some conditions before their full clinical presentation. This "genotype-first" diagnosis has the most clinical implications for genomic alterations that confer an elevated risk of cancer. In these cases, diagnosis before the manifestation of the patient's full phenotype dramatically impacts genetic...
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