Mild phenotypic manifestations of terminal deletion of the long arm of chromosome 4: Clinical description of a new patient

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 116-119

  Caliebe, Almuth ^a,b   Waltz, S ^b   Jenderny, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Department of Human Genetics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome 4; del(4)(q34); Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME DELETION 4; CYTOGENETICS; FACE DYSMORPHIA; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 0030801475     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1997.tb02528.x     Document Type: Article

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