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Autosomal recessive variations of TBX6, from congenital scoliosis to spondylocostal dysostosis.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2017
Lefebvre M, Duffourd Y, Jouan T, Poe C, Jean-Marçais N, Verloes A, St-Onge J, Riviere J-B, Petit F, Pierquin G, Demeer B, Callier P, Thauvin-Robinet C, Faivre L, Thevenon J
Abstract excerpt
Proximal 16p11.2 microdeletions are recurrent microdeletions with an overall prevalence of 0.03%. In patients with segmentation defects of the vertebra (SDV), a burden of this microdeletion was observed with TBX6 as a candidate gene for SDV. In a published cohort of patients with congenital scoliosis (CS), TBX6 haploinsufficiency was compound heterozygous with a common haplotype. Besides, a single...
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