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Compound heterozygosity for mutations in PAX6 in a patient with complex brain anomaly, neonatal diabetes mellitus, and microophthalmia.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2009
Solomon Benjamin D, Pineda-Alvarez Daniel E, Balog Joan Z, Hadley Donald, Gropman Andrea L, Nandagopal Radha, Han Joan C, Hahn Jin S, Blain Delphine, Brooks Brian, Muenke Maximilian
Abstract excerpt
We report on a patient with trisomy 21, microophthalmia, neonatal diabetes mellitus, hypopituitarism, and a complex structural brain anomaly who was a member of a large bilineal family with eye anomalies. The patient inherited a different mutation in PAX6 from each parent and is the only known living and second reported patient with compound heterozygosity for mutations in PAX6. PAX6 is a transcription factor...
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