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Broadening the phenotypic spectrum of pathogenic LARP7 variants: two cases with intellectual disability, variable growth retardation and distinct facial features.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2016
Hollink Iris H I M, Alfadhel Majid, Al-Wakeel Anwar S, Ababneh Farough, Pfundt Rolph, de Man Stella A, Jamra Rami Abou, Rolfs Arndt, Bertoli-Avella Aida M, van de Laar Ingrid M B H
Abstract excerpt
In 2012 Alazami et al. described a novel syndromic cause of primordial dwarfism with distinct facial features and severe intellectual disability. A homozygous frameshift mutation in LARP7, a chaperone of the noncoding RNA 7SK, was discovered in patients from a single consanguineous Saudi family. To date, only one additional patient has recently been described. To further delineate the phenotype associated with...
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