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A case report of two brothers with ATR-X syndrome due to low maternal frequency of somatic mosaicism for an intragenic deletion in the ATRX.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2014
Shimbo Hiroko, Ninomiya Shinsuke, Kurosawa Kenji, Wada Takahito
Abstract excerpt
In clinical practice, it is important to diagnose the carrier state of female patients with X-linked diseases for genetic counseling to calculate the recurrent risk of offspring. Because some X-linked diseases show high rates of gonadal mosaicism, this diagnosis is sometimes difficult, when there are few offspring in a family and no mutation is detected in the maternal genomic DNA. Here, we report two male...
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