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Carrier Testing in Known Autosomal Recessive Intellectual Disability Genes in an Iranian Healthy Individual Using Exome Sequencing.
Archives of Iranian medicine - 1 Oct 2015
Mehrjoo Zohreh, Akbari Mohammad Reza, Abedini Seyedeh Sedigheh, Vaziri Saeideh, Kahrizi Kimia, Najmabadi Hossein
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Intellectual Disability (ID) is one of the most common disabling impairments worldwide. Autosomal recessive ID (ARID), a genetically heterogeneous disorder, is more common in countries such as Iran where the rate of consanguineous marriages is high. Considering the social-economic burden of ARID in our country, it is crucial to find out whether couples who are cousins are carriers for disease causing...
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