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Exploring genotype-phenotype relationships in Bardet-Biedl syndrome families.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 2015
Castro-Sánchez Sheila, Álvarez-Satta María, Cortón Marta, Guillén Encarna, Ayuso Carmen, Valverde Diana
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a pleiotropic autosomal recessive ciliopathy that displays retinal dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, cognitive impairment, urogenital anomalies and renal abnormalities as primary clinical features. To date, 19 causative genes (BBS1-19) have been involved, whose mutations would explain over 80% of patients. The overlapping phenotypes among ciliopathies, in addition to the...
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