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Phenotypic differences among patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome linked to three different chromosome loci.
American journal of medical genetics - 6 Nov 1995
Carmi R, Elbedour K, Stone E M, Sheffield V C
Abstract excerpt
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal-recessive disorder of mental retardation, obesity, retinal dystrophy, polydactyly, and hypogenitalism. Renal and cardiac abnormalities are also frequent in this disorder. Previous clinical suggestions of heterogeneity of BBS were confirmed recently by the identification of four different chromosome loci linked to the disease. In this study we compared clinical...
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