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Expanding the phenotypic and mutational spectrum in microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jun 2012
Abdel-Salam Ghada M H, Abdel-Hamid Mohamed S, Issa Mahmoud, Magdy Ahmed, El-Kotoury Ahmed, Amr Khalda
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the RNU4ATAC gene cause microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I. It encodes U4atac, a small nuclear RNA that is a component of the minor spliceosome. Six distinct mutations in 30 patients diagnosed as microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I have been described. We report on three additional patients from two unrelated families presenting with a milder phenotype of...
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