Familial Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome resulting from a cryptic translocation: A clinical and molecular study

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-202

  Reid, Evan ^a   Morrison, Norma ^a   Barron, Lilias ^b   Boyd, Elizabeth ^a   Cooke, Alexander ^a   Fielding, David ^c   Tolmie, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Health and Community Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical region; Cryptic complex chromosomal rearrangement; Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MONOSOMY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; WOLF HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME;

EID: 0030070977     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.33.3.197     Document Type: Article

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