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Obesity and developmental delay in a patient with uniparental disomy of chromosome 2.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Dec 2016
Yu T, Li J, Li N, Liu R, Ding Y, Chang G, Chen Y, Shen Y, Wang X, Wang J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Uniparental disomy (UPD) is an unusual situation wherein two homologous chromosomes are inherited from the same parent. UPDs can cause clinical abnormalities owing to the aberrant dosage of genes regulated by epigenetic imprinting or homozygosity of variants for recessive phenotypes. The aim of this study was to identify the genetic cause of the obesity and developmental delay phenotype in a 3-year-old...
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