Williams-Beuren Syndrome: More or less? Segmental duplications and deletions in the Williams-Beuren syndrome region provide new insights into language development

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 507-508

  Tassabehji, May ^a   Donnai, Dian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DYSPRAXIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMITH MAGENIS SYNDROME; SYNDACTYLY; SYNOSTOSIS; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE DELETION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 33646066566     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201597     Document Type: Note

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