Pitt-Rogers-Danks syndrome and Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome are caused by a deletion in the same region on chromosome 4p16.3

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 569-572

  Kant, Sarina G ^a   Van Haeringen, Arie ^a   Bakker, Egbert ^b   Stec, Ingrid ^b   Donnai, Dian ^d   Mollevanger, Paul ^a   Beverstock, Geoffrey C ^a   Lindeman Kusse, Miriam C ^c   Van Ommen, Gert Jan B ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Inst Mentally Disabled H/O   (Netherlands)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4p deletion; 4p ; Pitt Rogers Danks syndrome; Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 4P; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; MOUTH MALFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PITT ROGERS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLF HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME;

CANIS;

EID: 0030746880     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.34.7.569     Document Type: Article

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