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Development of diagnostic tools for the analysis of 5p deletions using interphase FISH.
Cytogenetics and cell genetics - 1 Jan 1997
Gersh M, Grady D, Rojas K, Lovett M, Moyzis R, Overhauser J
Abstract excerpt
Cri-du-chat syndrome is associated with a deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. Through the phenotypic and molecular analyses of individuals with a subset of the features associated with the syndrome, the genes involved in the syndrome have been mapped to two distinct critical regions. Deletion of a critical region in 5p15.2 results in the distinct facial features associated with the syndrome as well as the...
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