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Association of Syndromic Mental Retardation and Autism with 22q11.2 Duplication
1 Aug 2009
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We describe a 5.3-year-old girl with autism, mental retardation, hypotonia, marked speech delay, and mild dysmorphic features with a 22q11.2 duplication. Her mother carries the same duplication and presents cleft palate, and normal intelligence. The clinical and behavioural phenotype of this relatively new syndrome is very heterogeneous, with high variability also in the familiar cases. Up till now, about 50...
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