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A rare case of a boy with de novo microduplication at 5q35.2q35.3 from central Brazil.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 23 Jan 2017
Reis F G, Pinto I P, Minasi L B, Melo A V, Cunha D M da C, Ribeiro C L, da Silva C C, Silva D de M, da Cruz A D
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Genomic disorders are genetic diseases that are caused by rearrangements of chromosomal material via deletions, duplications, and inversions of unique genomic segments at specific regions. Such rearrangements could result from recurrent non-allelic homologous recombination between low copy repeats. In cases where the breakpoints flank the low copy repeats, deletion of chromosomal segments is often followed by...
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