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A novel deletion mutation in the TUSC3 gene in a consanguineous Pakistani family with autosomal recessive nonsyndromic intellectual disability.
BMC medical genetics - 22 Apr 2011
Khan Muzammil Ahmad, Rafiq Muhammad Arshad, Noor Abdul, Ali Nadir, Ali Ghazanfar, Vincent John B, Ansar Muhammad
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Intellectual disability (ID) is a serious disorder of the central nervous system with a prevalence of 1-3% in a general population. In the past decades, the research focus has been predominantly on X-linked ID (68 loci and 19 genes for non syndromic X linked ID) while for autosomal recessive nonsyndromic ID (NSID) only 30 loci and 6 genes have been reported to date. METHODS: Genome-wide homozygosity...
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