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Intersitial deletion of 20p: new candidate region for Hirschsprung disease and autism?
American journal of medical genetics - 22 Aug 1997
Michaelis R C, Skinner S A, Deason R, Skinner C, Moore C L, Phelan M C
Abstract excerpt
We describe a patient with Hirschsprung disease and autism. High-resolution karyotyping indicated that the patient has an interstitial deletion of 20p11.22-p11.23. Microsatellite analysis showed a deletion involving a 5-6 cM region from the maternally derived chromosome 20. The deleted region is proximal to, and does not overlap, the recently characterized Alagille syndrome region. This region of 20p has not yet...
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