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A follow-up study of a Chinese family with Waardenburg syndrome type II caused by a truncating mutation of MITF gene.
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine - 1 Dec 2020
Yang Shuzhi, Wang Cuicui, Zhou Chengyong, Kang DongYang, Zhang Xin, Yuan Huijun
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BACKGROUND: Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is a highly clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease. The core disease phenotypes of WS are sensorineuronal hearing loss and pigmentary disturbance, which are usually caused by the absence of neural crest cell-derived melanocytes. At present, four subtypes of WS have been defined, which are caused by seven genes. Waardenburg syndrome type 2 (WS2) is one of the most...
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