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First HPSE2 missense mutation in urofacial syndrome.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2012
Mahmood S, Beetz C, Tahir M M, Imran M, Mumtaz R, Bassmann I, Jahic A, Malik M, Nürnberg G, Hassan S A A, Rana S, Nürnberg P, Hübner C A
Abstract excerpt
Urofacial syndrome (UFS) describes the combination of urological problems and an inverted facial expression upon attempts to smile. Seventeen independent familial cases from different ethnicities have been described so far. Some of these have been linked to chromosome 10q. Very recently, homozygous loss-of-function mutations affecting the gene HPSE2 were identified in nine cases. Here, we describe a...
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