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Phenotype analysis impacts testing strategy in patients with Currarino syndrome.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2016
Cuturilo G, Hodge J C, Runke C K, Thorland E C, Al-Owain M A, Ellison J W, Babovic-Vuksanovic D
Abstract excerpt
Currarino syndrome (OMIM 175450) presents with sacral, anorectal, and intraspinal anomalies and presacral meningocele or teratoma. Autosomal dominant loss-of-function mutations in the MNX1 gene cause nearly all familial and 30% of sporadic cases. Less frequently, a complex phenotype of Currarino syndrome can be caused by microdeletions of 7q containing MNX1. Here, we report one familial and three sporadic cases...
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