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TBX6 as a cause of a combined skeletal-kidney dysplasia syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Dec 2022
Li Guozhuang, Strong Alanna, Wang Haojun, Kim Ji-Sun, Watson Deborah, Zhao Sen, Vaccaro Courtney, Hartung Erum, Hakonarson Hakon, Zhang Terry Jianguo, Giampietro Philip F, Wu Nan
Abstract excerpt
TBX6 encodes transcription-factor box 6, a transcription factor critical to paraxial mesoderm segmentation and somitogenesis during embryonic development. TBX6 haploinsufficiency is believed to drive the skeletal and kidney phenotypes associated with the 16p11.2 deletion syndrome. Heterozygous and biallelic variants in TBX6 are associated with vertebral and rib malformations (TBX6-associated congenital scoliosis)...
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