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Opitz G/BBB syndrome, a defect of midline development, is due to mutations in a new RING finger gene on Xp22.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 1997
Quaderi N A, Schweiger S, Gaudenz K, Franco B, Rugarli E I, Berger W, Feldman G J, Volta M, Andolfi G, Gilgenkrantz S, Marion R W, Hennekam R C, Opitz J M, Muenke M, Ropers H H, Ballabio A
Abstract excerpt
Opitz syndrome (OS) is an inherited disorder characterized by midline defects including hypertelorism, hypospadias, lip-palate-laryngotracheal clefts and imperforate anus. We have identified a new gene on Xp22, MID1 (Midline 1), which is disrupted in an OS patient carrying an X-chromosome inversi...
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