Interstitial deletion of chromosome 7q in a patient with Williams syndrome and infantile spasms

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-181

  Mizugishi, Kiyomi ^a,c   Yamanaka, Keiko ^a   Kuwajima, Katsuko ^a   Kondo, Ikuko ^b  

^a Ibaraki Children's Hospital   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA polymorphic markers; Elastin gene; Infantile spasms; Interstitial deletion of 7q; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPASMS, INFANTILE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0031608062     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100380050064     Document Type: Article

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