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Cleft palate, retrognathia and congenital heart disease in velo-cardio-facial syndrome: a phenotype correlation study.
International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology - 1 Sept 2011
Friedman Marcia A, Miletta Nathanial, Roe Cheryl, Wang Dongliang, Morrow Bernice E, Kates Wendy R, Higgins Anne Marie, Shprintzen Robert J
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OBJECTIVE: Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS) is caused by a microdeletion of approximately 40 genes from one copy of chromosome 22. Expression of the syndrome is a variable combination of over 190 phenotypic characteristics. As of yet, little is known about how these phenotypes correlate with one another or whether there are predictable patterns of expression. Two of the most common phenotypic categories,...
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