Information provided by pairs of distantly affected relatives to search for genes involved in rare autosomal dominant diseases.

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When dominant mutations of different genes may lead to the same disease, it is often difficult to detect in a particular patient which gene is involved. A strategy is to make genealogical extensions to find affected relatives that should have inherited the same mutation. In particular, for diseases with late age of onset or short survival time, only poor information may be obtained from close relatives of...

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