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Ullrich-Turner syndrome is not caused by haploinsufficiency of RPS4X.
Human genetics - 1 Jan 1996
Geerkens C, Just W, Held K R, Vogel W
Abstract excerpt
Ullrich-Turner syndrome (UTS) is frequently associated with monosomy X but may also occur with structural aberrations of the X and the Y chromosomes. It has been hypothesized that the ribosomal protein genes RPS4X and RPS4Y play a critical role in the prevention of UTS. Individual patients with a 46,X,i(Xq) karyotype cannot be differentiated phenotypically from 45,X UTS patients and carry three gene copies of...
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