A gene for FG syndrome maps in the Xq12-q21.31 region

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-90

  Briault, Sylvain ^a   Hill, Ruth ^b   Shrimpton, Antony ^c   Zhu, Danping ^d   Till, Marianne ^e   Ronce, Nathalie ^a   Margaritte Jeannin, Patricia ^f   Baraitser, Michael ^b   Middleton Price, Helen ^b   Malcolm, Sue ^b   Thompson, Elizabeth ^b   Hoo, Joe ^c   Wilson, Golder ^g   Romano, Corrado ^h   Guichet, Agnès ^a   Pembrey, Marcus ^b   Fontes, Michel ^f   Poustka, Annemarie ⁱ   Moraine, Claude ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^f INSERM   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

ⁱ GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

FG syndrome; Genetic heterogeneity; Linkage; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XQ; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MACROCEPHALY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME FG;

GENETTA;

EID: 0030671266     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19971128)73:1<87::AID-AJMG17>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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