Bardet-Biedl syndrome in two unrelated patients with identical compound heterozygous SCLT1 mutations.

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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy characterized by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), truncal obesity, cognitive impairment, hypogonadism in men, polydactyly, and renal abnormalities with severe renal dysfunction. Twenty-two causative genes have already been reported for this disorder. In this study, we identified two unrelated Japanese patients with clinical diagnoses of BBS associated...

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