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Complete paternal isodisomy for chromosome 8 unmasked by lipoprotein lipase deficiency.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1996
Benlian P, Foubert L, Gagné E, Bernard L, De Gennes J L, Langlois S, Robinson W, Hayden M
Abstract excerpt
Uniparental disomy (UPD)-the inheritance of two homologous chromosomes from a single parent-may be unmasked in humans by the unexpected appearance of developmental abnormalities, genetic disorders resulting from genomic imprinting, or recessive traits. Here we report a female patient with familial chylomicronemia resulting from complete lipoprotein-lipase (LPL) deficiency due to homozygosity for a frameshift...
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