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Bardet-Biedl syndrome associated with novel compound heterozygous variants in BBS12 gene.
Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology - 1 Apr 2023
Morohashi Tamaki, Hayashi Takaaki, Mizobuchi Kei, Nakano Tadashi, Morioka Ichiro
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BACKGROUND: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy characterized by 6 primary features of rod-cone dystrophy, central obesity, polydactyly, cognitive impairment, hypogonadism and/or genitourinary malformations, and kidney abnormalities. At least 21 genes associated with BBS have been reported. To date, BBS associated with BBS12 variants has never been described in the Japanese...
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