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A small homozygous microdeletion of 15q13.3 including the CHRNA7 gene in a girl with a spectrum of severe neurodevelopmental features.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2011
Liao Jun, DeWard Stephanie J, Madan-Khetarpal Suneeta, Surti Urvashi, Hu Jie
Abstract excerpt
A broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders with variable expressivity has been reported to be associated with 15q13.3 heterozygous microdeletions. Using oligonucleotide-based array-CGH analysis, we identified a small homozygous 15q13.3 deletion in a 6-year-old girl with significant global developmental delay, severe hypotonia, cortical visual impairment, staring spell seizure, and abnormal...
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