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Chromosomal rearrangements in patients with clinical features of Silver-Russell syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jun 2014
Fokstuen Siv, Kotzot Dieter
Abstract excerpt
Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is characterized by pre- and postnatal growth retardation, relative macrocephaly, asymmetry, and a triangular facial gestalt. In 5-10% of the patients the phenotype is caused by maternal UPD 7, and 38-64% of the patients present with hypomethylation at the imprinting center region 1 (ICR1) on 11p15.5. The etiology of the remaining cases is so far not known and various...
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