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Refining the phenotype associated with MEF2C haploinsufficiency.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 2010
Novara F, Beri S, Giorda R, Ortibus E, Nageshappa S, Darra F, Dalla Bernardina B, Zuffardi O, Van Esch H
Abstract excerpt
Recently, submicroscopic deletions of the 5q14.3 region have been described in patients with severe mental retardation (MR), stereotypic movements, epilepsy and cerebral malformations. Further delineation of a critical region of overlap in these patients pointed to MEF2C as the responsible gene. This finding was further reinforced by the identification of a nonsense mutation in a patient with a similar phenotype....
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