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Somatic mosaicism in Cornelia de Lange syndrome: a further contributor to the wide clinical expressivity?
Clinical genetics - 1 Dec 2010
Castronovo P, Delahaye-Duriez A, Gervasini C, Azzollini J, Minier F, Russo S, Masciadri M, Selicorni A, Verloes A, Larizza L
Abstract excerpt
Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a rare, congenital syndrome characterized by growth retardation, dysmorphic face, mental retardation and limb reduction defects. Clinical manifestations of CdLS can be extremely variable. Mutations in NIPBL, SMC1A and SMC3 genes, encoding for a regulator and two subunits of the cohesin complex, respectively, are found in 60-65% of CdLS patients. We report on a male with CdLS...
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