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A Recurrent Mosaic Mutation in SMO, Encoding the Hedgehog Signal Transducer Smoothened, Is the Major Cause of Curry-Jones Syndrome.
American journal of human genetics - 2 Jun 2016
Twigg Stephen R F, Hufnagel Robert B, Miller Kerry A, Zhou Yan, McGowan Simon J, Taylor John, Craft Jude, Taylor Jenny C, Santoro Stephanie L, Huang Taosheng, Hopkin Robert J, Brady Angela F, Clayton-Smith Jill, Clericuzio Carol L, Grange Dorothy K, Groesser Leopold, Hafner Christian, Horn Denise, Temple I Karen, Dobyns William B, Curry Cynthia J, Jones Marilyn C, Wilkie Andrew O M
Abstract excerpt
Curry-Jones syndrome (CJS) is a multisystem disorder characterized by patchy skin lesions, polysyndactyly, diverse cerebral malformations, unicoronal craniosynostosis, iris colobomas, microphthalmia, and intestinal malrotation with myofibromas or hamartomas. Cerebellar medulloblastoma has been described in a single affected individual; in another, biopsy of skin lesions showed features of trichoblastoma. The...
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