A 5-year-old white girl with Prader-Willi syndrome and a submicroscopic deletion of chromosome 15q11q13

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-141

  Butler, Merlin G ^a   Christian, Susan L ^b   Kubota, Takeo ^b   Ledbetter, David H ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

FISH; genotype phenotype correlations; Prader Willi syndrome; submicroscopic deletion

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0029907150     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961016)65:2<137::AID-AJMG11>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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