Clinical and genetic studies on 12 preaxial polydactyly families and refinement of the localisation of the gene responsible to a 1.9 cM region on chromosome 7q36

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 32-40

  Zguricas, Julia ^a   Heus, Henk ^a   Morales Peralta, Estela ^b   Breedveld, Guido ^a   Kuyt, Bertus ^c   Mumcu, Ethem F ^d   Bakker, Wendela ^a   Akarsu, Nurten ^e   Kay, Simon P J ^f   Hovius, Steven E R ^a   Heredero Baute, Luis ^b   Oostra, Ben A ^a   Heutink, Peter ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b National Center of Medical Genetics   (Cuba)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Social Security Hospital   (Turkey)

^e HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome 7q36; Localisation; Preaxial polydactyly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BONE DYSPLASIA; CHROMOSOME 7Q; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS APLASIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032961403     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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