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Mutations in the PAX3 gene causing Waardenburg syndrome type 1 and type 2.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 1993
Tassabehji M, Read A P, Newton V E, Patton M, Gruss P, Harris R, Strachan T
Abstract excerpt
Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is a combination of deafness and pigmentary disturbances, normally inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. The pathology involves neural crest derivatives, but WS is heterogeneous clinically and genetically. Some type I WS families show linkage with markers on distal 2q and in three cases the disease has been attributed to mutations in the PAX3 gene. PAX3 encodes a paired domain, a...
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