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Subtelomeric screening in Serbian children with dysmorphic features and unexplained developmental delay/intellectual disabilities.
The Turkish journal of pediatrics - 1 Jan 2000
Damnjanovic Tatjana, Cuturilo Goran, Maksimovic Nela, Dimitrijevic Nikola, Mitic Vesna, Jekic Biljana, Lukovic Ljiljana, Bunjevacki Vera, Varljen Tatjana, Dobricic Valerija, Jovanovic Ida, Kostic Vladimir, Novakovic Ivana
Abstract excerpt
Developmental delay and intellectual disabilities (DD/ID) are significant health problems affecting 3% of the human population. Submicroscopic chromosomal rearrangements involving subtelomeric regions are often considered to be the cause of unexplained DD/ID. Screening of subtelomeric regions was performed in 80 unrelated patients with DD/ID and normal GTG-banded chromosomes using the MLPA method with two kits...
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