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Potocki-Shaffer deletion encompassing ALX4 in a patient with frontonasal dysplasia phenotype.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Feb 2014
Ferrarini Alessandra, Gaillard Muriel, Guerry Frederic, Ramelli Gianpaolo, Heidi Fodstad, Keddache Caroline Verley, Wieland Ilse, Beckmann Jacques S, Jaquemont Sébastien, Martinet Danielle
Abstract excerpt
Frontonasal dysplasia (FND) is a genetically heterogeneous malformation spectrum with marked hypertelorism, broad nasal tip and bifid nose. Only a small number of genes have been associated with FND phenotypes until now, the first gene being EFNB1, related to craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS) with craniosynostosis in addition, and more recently the aristaless-like homeobox genes ALX3, ALX4, and ALX1, which have...
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