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A family with Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome and four variants in two genes of the telomerase core complex.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Jun 2013
Vogiatzi Paraskevi, Perdigones Nieves, Mason Philip J, Wilson David B, Bessler Monica
Abstract excerpt
We describe an African American family with Hoyeraal-Hreidarrson syndrome (HHS) in which 2 TERT mutations (causing P530L and A880T amino acid changes) and two in the DKC1 variants (G486R and A487A) were segregating. Both genes are associated with dyskeratosis congenita and HHS. It was important to determine the importance of these mutations in disease pathogenesis to counsel family members. From genetic analysis...
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