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A syndrome of short stature, microcephaly and speech delay is associated with duplications reciprocal to the common Sotos syndrome deletion.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Feb 2010
Franco Luis M, de Ravel Thomy, Graham Brett H, Frenkel Stephanie M, Van Driessche Jozef, Stankiewicz Pawel, Lupski James R, Vermeesch Joris R, Cheung Sau Wai
Abstract excerpt
Genomic rearrangements are an increasingly recognized mechanism of human phenotypic variation and susceptibility to disease. Sotos syndrome is characterized by overgrowth, macrocephaly, developmental delay and advanced osseous maturation. Haploinsufficiency of NSD1, caused by inactivating point mutations or deletion copy number variants, is the only known cause of Sotos syndrome. A recurrent 2 Mb deletion has...
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