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Frameshift mutation hotspot identified in Smith-Magenis syndrome: case report and review of literature.
BMC medical genetics - 8 Oct 2010
Truong Hoa T, Dudding Tracy, Blanchard Christopher L, Elsea Sarah H
Abstract excerpt
Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a complex syndrome involving intellectual disabilities, sleep disturbance, behavioural problems, and a variety of craniofacial, skeletal, and visceral anomalies. While the majority of SMS cases harbor an ~3.5 Mb common deletion on 17p11.2 that encompasses the retinoic acid induced-1 (RAI1) gene, some patients carry small intragenic deletions or point mutations in RAI1. We present...
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