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Identification of Copy Number Variants in a Southern Chinese Cohort of Patients with Congenital Scoliosis.
Genes - 5 Aug 2021
Lai Wenjing, Feng Xin, Yue Ming, Cheung Prudence W H, Choi Vanessa N T, Song You-Qiang, Luk Keith D K, Cheung Jason Pui Yin, Gao Bo
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Congenital scoliosis (CS) is a lateral curvature of the spine resulting from congenital vertebral malformations (CVMs) and affects 0.5-1/1000 live births. The copy number variant (CNV) at chromosome 16p11.2 has been implicated in CVMs and recent studies identified a compound heterozygosity of 16p11.2 microdeletion and TBX6 variant/haplotype causing CS in multiple cohorts, which explains about 5-10% of the...
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