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CATCHing putative causative variants in consanguineous families.
BMC bioinformatics - 28 Sept 2015
Santoni Federico Andrea, Makrythanasis Periklis, Antonarakis Stylianos E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Consanguinity is an important risk factor for autosomal recessive (AR) disorders. Extended genomic regions identical by descent (IBD) in the offspring of consanguineous parents give rise to recessive disorders with identical (homozygous) pathogenic variants in both alleles. However, many clinical phenotypes presenting in the offspring of consanguineous couples are still of unknown etiology. Nowadays...
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