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Aicardi Syndrome Associated with Autosomal Genomic Imbalance: Coincidence or Evidence for Autosomal Inheritance with Sex-Limited Expression?
1 Jan 2013
Abstract excerpt
Aicardi syndrome (AIS), a rare neurodevelopmental disorder thought to be caused by an X-linked dominant mutation, is characterized by 3 main features: agenesis of corpus callosum, infantile spams and chorioretinal lacunae. A genome-wide study of a girl with AIS lead us to identify a 6q deletion;12q duplication, derived from a maternal 6q;12q translocation. The two intellectually impaired brothers of the proband...
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