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A novel familial 11p15.4 microduplication associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, and obesity with involvement of the ZNF214 gene.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jan 2012
Sofos Elvera, Pescosolido Matthew F, Quintos Jose B, Abuelo Dianne, Gunn Shelly, Hovanes Karine, Morrow Eric M, Shur Natasha
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated a patient with mild intellectual disability, obesity, overgrowth, and dysmorphic features. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) analysis showed a single copy number increase of a BAC clone in the 11p15.4 region. Oligonucleotide aCGH refined the duplication to approximately 2.29 megabases (Mb) in size. Testing the parents revealed that the father, who had learning disabilities and...
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