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Typical renal-coloboma syndrome phenotype in a patient with a submicroscopic deletion of the PAX2 gene.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jun 2012
Laimutis Kucinskas, Jackson Craig, Xu Xinjie, Warman Berta, Sarunas Rudaitis, Andriuskeviciute Irena, Birute Pundziene, Schimmenti Lisa A, Raca Gordana
Abstract excerpt
We present a patient with optic nerve hypoplasia, secondary strabismus, mild deafness, abnormal external ear helices, and renal hypoplasia. The clinical phenotype was consistent with renal-coloboma syndrome, but no point mutation in the PAX2 gene could be identified. High-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) analysis showed that this patient has a submicroscopic deletion on chromosome 10,...
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