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Paternally inherited deletion of CSH1 in a patient with Silver-Russell syndrome.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Sept 1998
Eggermann T, Eggermann K, Mergenthaler S, Kuner R, Kaiser P, Ranke M B, Wollmann H A
Abstract excerpt
In a continuing study on the aetiology of Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS), we detected a patient with a heterozygous deletion in the growth hormone gene cluster (17q22-q24). The deletion of the chorionic somatomammotrophin hormone 1 (CSH1) gene was inherited from the patient's father. The patient shows typical symptoms of SRS. Though deletions of CSH1 have been reported without any phenotypic consequences, the...
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