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A Stickler syndrome gene is linked to chromosome 6 near the COL11A2 gene.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1994
Brunner H G, van Beersum S E, Warman M L, Olsen B R, Ropers H H, Mariman E C
Abstract excerpt
Stickler syndrome (hereditary arthro-ophthalmopathy) is caused by mutations in the structural gene for collagen type II (COL2A1) in approximately 50% of cases. In the other families with this syndrome, the genetic defect is unknown. We have performed linkage analysis in a large Dutch kindred with a Stickler syndrome phenotype that was unlinked to COL2A1. As an initial strategy, we tested polymorphisms that are...
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