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Genomic analysis of primordial dwarfism reveals novel disease genes.
Genome research - 1 Feb 2014
Shaheen Ranad, Faqeih Eissa, Ansari Shinu, Abdel-Salam Ghada, Al-Hassnan Zuhair N, Al-Shidi Tarfa, Alomar Rana, Sogaty Sameera, Alkuraya Fowzan S
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Primordial dwarfism (PD) is a disease in which severely impaired fetal growth persists throughout postnatal development and results in stunted adult size. The condition is highly heterogeneous clinically, but the use of certain phenotypic aspects such as head circumference and facial appearance has proven helpful in defining clinical subgroups. In this study, we present the results of clinical and genomic...
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