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Maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 14 in a boy with intrauterine growth retardation.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 1998
Miyoshi O, Hayashi S, Fujimoto M, Tomita H, Sohda M, Niikawa N
Abstract excerpt
Maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) for chromosome 14 [upd(14)mat] may cause a characteristic phenotype with growth and developmental deficiency and precocious puberty. We report the case of a Japanese infant with an isochromosome 14 [i(14q)] and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). The infant is one of triplets comprising a boy (the patient) and two karyotypically normal girls. We analyzed parent-child...
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