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Phenotypic variation in Waardenburg syndrome: mutational heterogeneity, modifier genes or polygenic background?
Human molecular genetics - 1 Apr 1996
Pandya A, Xia X J, Landa B L, Arnos K S, Israel J, Lloyd J, James A L, Diehl S R, Blanton S H, Nance W E
Abstract excerpt
We have identified 11 mutational changes in the PAX3 gene in patients with type 1 Waardenburg syndrome (WS1) including three in the paired domain, six within or immediately adjacent to the homeodomain and two previously described polymorphic variants in exons 2 and 6. The affected members of one family carried substitutions involving two base pairs separated by one unaltered codon. Two of the deleterious...
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