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Routine screening for microdeletions by FISH in 77 patients suspected of having Prader-Willi or Angelman syndromes using YAC clone 273A2 (D15S10).
Human genetics - 1 Jun 1996
Erdel M, Schuffenhauer S, Buchholz B, Barth-Witte U, Köchl S, Utermann B, Duba H C, Utermann G
Abstract excerpt
About 70% of patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) have a common interstitial de novo microdeletion encompassing paternal (PWS) or maternal (AS) loci D15S9 to D15S12. Most of the non-deletion PWS patients and a small number of non-deletion AS patients have a maternal or paternal uniparental disomy (UPD) 15, respectively. Other chromosome 15 rearrangements and a few smaller atypical...
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