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Mutation of Gtf2ird1 from the Williams-Beuren syndrome critical region results in facial dysplasia, motor dysfunction, and altered vocalisations.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Mar 2012
Howard Monique L, Palmer Stephen J, Taylor Kylie M, Arthurson Geoffrey J, Spitzer Matthew W, Du Xin, Pang Terence Y C, Renoir Thibault, Hardeman Edna C, Hannan Anthony J
Abstract excerpt
Insufficiency of the transcriptional regulator GTF2IRD1 has become a strong potential explanation for some of the major characteristic features of the neurodevelopmental disorder Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS). Genotype/phenotype correlations in humans indicate that the hemizygous loss of the GTF2IRD1 gene and an adjacent paralogue, GTF2I, play crucial roles in the neurocognitive and craniofacial aspects of the...
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