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Novel ATRX gene damaging missense mutation c.6740A>C segregates with profound to severe intellectual deficiency without alpha thalassaemia.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Jan 2016
Bouazzi Habib, Thakur Seema, Trujillo Carlos, Alwasiyah Mohammad Khalid, Munnich Arnold
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: ATRX is a recessive X-linked intellectual deficiency (X-LID) gene causing predominately alpha-thalassaemia with a wide and clinically heterogeneous spectrum of intellectual deficiency syndromes. Although alpha-thalassaemia is commonly present, some patients do not express this sign despite the ATRX gene being altered. Most pathological mutations have been localized in two different major...
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