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Bloom syndrome: an analysis of consanguineous families assigns the locus mutated to chromosome band 15q26.1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Jul 1994
German J, Roe A M, Leppert M F, Ellis N A
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By the principle of identity by descent, parental consanguinity in individuals with rare recessively transmitted disorders dictates homozygosity not just at the mutated disease-associated locus but also at sequences that flank that locus closely. In 25 of 26 individuals with Bloom syndrome examined whose parents were related, a polymorphic tetranucleotide repeat in an intron of the protooncogene FES was...
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