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Three patients with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome carrying a satellited chromosome 4p.
Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology - 1 Jul 2012
Liang Desheng, Zhou Zhongmin, Meng Dahua, Du Juan, Wen Juan, Niikawa Norio, Wu Lingqian
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BACKGROUND: Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is caused by a deletion involving the 4p16.3 region. Approximately 70% of WHS patients have a de novo isolated deletion and 22% involve unbalanced translocations. However, WHS with unbalanced rearrangements involving the short arm of an acrocentric chromosome are infrequently reported. METHODS: Cytogenetic and molecular analyses by using standard G-banding, argyrophilic...
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